Results tagged “books”
BOOK
Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh
Quercus, £17.99
2/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Cops on the Hollywood beat don't come face to face with your average crim, as this eccentric procedural reveals.
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Little Hands Clapping, by Dan Rhodes
Canongate, £10.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Dan Rhodes presents a modern grim fairytale that takes the reader to a blackly comic world peopled by eccentrics, romantics and monsters.
BOOK
The Unnamed, by Joshua Ferris
Viking, £12.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Author's follow-up to an impressive debut offers an ambling narrative.
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The Secret History Of Georgian London
by Dan Cruickshank
Random House, £25
IN A NUTSHELL
The TV historian assesses how the wages of sin percolated through the London economy
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Retromancer, by Robert Rankin
Gollancz, £14.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
More far fetched fiction from the prodigious inventor of curious anomalies and their bonkers consequences.
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Ordinary Thunderstorms, by William Boyd
Bloomsbury, £11.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Boyd explores the nature of identity in this thriller about a man hidden in plain sight on the streets of London.
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Child's Play by Kia Abdullah
Revenge Ink, £7.99
1/5
IN A NUTSHELL
East London author's second novel centres on paedophiles and a secret organisation set up to catch them.
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Lennie by Lennie Lawrence
Green Umbrella Publishing, £14.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Former Charlton and Middlesbrough boss Lennie Lawrence revisits the good and bad times, but refuses to dig up the skeletons.
BOOK
A Week In December
by Sebastian Faulks
Hutchinson, £12.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
In an authoritative and biting state of the nation novel, the author aims to capture turbulent times through the eyes of seven characters that typify the times, including a Muslim extremist, a hedge fund manager and a Premiership footballer.
Cricket fans hoping to meet Andrew Strauss next week need to check their diaries.
England's Ashes winning captain is heading to Canary Wharf to promote his new book, Testing Times: On and Off the Field, but the signing has been moved to next Tuesday at Waterstone's in Jubilee Place mall.
ESSAYS
Who's Afraid Of Jane Austen? by Henry Hitchings
Published by John Murray, £7.99
2/5
IN A NUTSHELL
The author aims to bring the big beasts of literature down to a size snug enough to fit in your frontal lobe.
Waterstone's have netted one of Britain's best-known cooks as part of a shoal of signings this autumn.
Rick Stein, famed for his fish and seafood cookery, will be at the store in Jubilee Place Mall to sign copies of his latest book Far Eastern Odyssey on Monday, September 14.
BOOK
One Day by David Nicholls
Hodder & Stoughton, £12.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Catching up with Emma and Dexter on the same day each year for 20 years as their lives separate and collide.
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The Ascent Of Money, Niall Ferguson
Penguin, £9.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Niall Ferguson traces the history of war, peace and everything inbetween through the prism of money.
Television cooks all have their own particular schtick, whether it's potty-mouthed ranting, barely concealed sexual innuendo or just a propensity to get hammered on screen.
For Ainsley Harriott, presenter of BBC's Ready Steady Cook, that means being possibly the most cheerful man currently on the telly.
Ainsley Harriott will be bringing a taste of summer to Canary Wharf on Monday.
The popular television chef, famed for his barbecue recipes, will be signing copies of his latest book, Just Five Ingredients, at Waterstone's in Jubilee Place Mall.
Silks
Dick Francis with Felix Francis
Michael Joseph, £6.99
3/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Barrister and amateur jockey Geoffrey Mason investigates the murder of a top rider and finds himself implicated in the case.
Spycraft
Robert Wallace and H Keith Melton
Penguin, £12.99
4/5
IN A NUTSHELL
Comprehensive inside story of the CIA unit which turned madcap ideas into lethal weapons.
The Tide Of War
Seth Hunter
Headline Review, £19.99
4/5
"Not adequately restrained by such a challenge, Peake garners more along the way - including encounters with pirates, rebels and the seductive Sabine Delatour."
