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The Quality of Mercy

Barry Unsworth

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It is the spring of 1767, two years after the events of Barry Unsworth's Booker Prize-winning novel...

Murder Most Fowl

Edith Maxwell

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Spring may be around the corner, but organic farmer-turned-sleuth Cam Flaherty will have to set...

Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic

Jill Leovy

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This is The International Bestseller - As Read on BBC Radio 4. Why would you kill your neighbour?...

Stir Crazy: 100 Deliciously Healthy Wok Recipes

Ching-He Huang

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In Stir Crazy, Ching explains the techniques behind making a good stir fry, with tips on controlling...

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The Bandini Quartet

John Fante | 2014 | Contemporary

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"A collection of, yes, four works by John Fante. Rereading this at the moment. Fante is the man who inspired Bukowski and it'd be hard not to see how great that influence is as Bukowski said: "Fante was my God." Anyway it was that comment by CB that led me to Fante who I prefer as a writer if I had to pick. The crab-shooting passage of The Road to Los Angeles will stay with me for ever and Ask the Dustcorrect, a doomed Los Angeles romance is just fantastic. Robert Towne directed a film version of this a little while back. It's an admirable misfire but he did use the novel previously as a template for the LA of his Chinatown screenplay. The quartet also includes Wait Until Spring, Bandini and Dreams of Bunker Hill."

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