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In 2008, Marion Coutts’ husband, the art critic Tom Lubbock, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told that he had not more than two years to live. Tom was 53 when he died, leaving Marion and their son Eugene, just two years old, alone. In short bursts of beautiful, textured prose, Coutts describes the eighteen months leading up to her partner’s death; an account of a family unit under assault, and how the three of them fought to keep it intact.
Set against a backdrop of dangerous political games, Olen Steinhauer’s explosive conspiracy thriller explores a jigsaw puzzle of marriage, loyalty and betrayal.
This is a thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt, and the secret game to control the Middle East.
In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amidst chaos.
Steven Parissien examines the impact, development and significance of the automobile over its turbulent and colourful 130-year history. He tells the story of the auto, and of its creators, from its earliest appearance in the late nineteenth century to the global mergers of the 1990s and the bail-outs of the early twenty-first century.
At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk 1,100 miles of the west coast of America – from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington State – and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise – a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.
Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to write Clare’s biography. As Sam and Clare turn over the events of her life, she begins to seek absolution. But in the stories she weaves and the truth just below the surface, lie Sam’s own ghosts.
A drug dealer is found battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. A few days later a lawyer is found shot to death.
‘Snowdrops’ is a chilling story of love and moral freefall – of the corruption, by a corrupt society, of a corruptible young man. It is taut, intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants, then threatens to overwhelm, its narrator.
Christopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, and a career as a public intellectual, wit and controversialist. He provides vivid accounts of his friendships and famous feuds, as well as his attacks on Mother Teresa and the Almighty Himself.
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