Results tagged “books”

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Doughnut
Tom Holt (Orbit)
★★✩✩✩

Tom Holt is better than this. He is the master of the comic conceit played out with outrageous daring and with memorable characters.

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Let The Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
(Quercus)
★★★★✩

IN A NUTSHELL
This collection of chilling short stories will have you wishing your DLR journey was just a few pages longer.

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BOOK
Criminal by Karin Slaughter
(Century)
★★★✩✩

IN A NUTSHELL
Karin Slaughter's grisly crime thriller is an epic sweep across 40 years where two similar murder cases bring up some chilling memories.

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BOOK
Tubes, by Andrew Blum
Penguin
★★★✩✩

IN A NUTSHELL
There is no cloud - there are just lots and lots of wires leading to lots and lots of data centres. Andrew Blum follows his emails down the pipes.

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BOOK
Quiet, by Susan Cain
Viking
★★★★✩

IN A NUTSHELL
Susan Cain argues that Western culture values bravado over contemplation, to the detriment of business, society and creativity.

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