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The High Window
Author: Raymond Chandler
The High Window is a classic novel by the master of hard-boiled crime Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around- Published on 2011
- 288 pages
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Author: John Le Carré
A wonderful, classic le Carre now reissued in a stunning new package.- Published on 2009
- 422 pages
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The Light Fantastic
Author: Terry Pratchett
As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world... THE FUNNIEST AND MOST UNORTHODOX FANTASY IN THIS OR ANY OTHER GALAXY- Published on 1986
- 284 pages
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The Player of Games
Author: Iain M. Banks
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game ... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of- Published on 1988
- 309 pages
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The War of the Worlds
Author: H. G. Wells
The first modern tale of alien invasion, H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published. The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naïve locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is unde- Published on 2019
- 240 pages
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Playback
Author: Raymond Chandler
Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King.- Published on 2011
- 208 pages
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Redshirts
Author: John Scalzi
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.- Published on 2013
- 320 pages
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I Can Make You Hate
Author: Charlie Brooker
In his latest collection of screeds, scrawls, hastily spluttered articles and scarcely literate ravings, Charlie Brooker proves there is almost nothing in this universe, big or small, that can't reduce a human being to a state of bewildered hatred. It WON'T help you lose weight, feel smarter, sleep soundly or stop doing that thing where you accidentally bite the inside of your own mouth occasionally while chewing. It WILL provide you with literally hours of distraction and merriment. But then soin Non-Fiction
- Published on 2013
- 432 pages
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A Natural History of Dragons
Author: Marie Brennan
The story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, her prospects, and her fragile flesh and bone to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana. -
Factotum
Author: Charles Bukowski
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. "Factotum" follows Charles Bukowski's bestselling "Post Office", his highly autobiographical first novel.- Published on 2009
- 163 pages
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