Kennedy, A. L
Summary: A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. A man of conscience. Meg Williams is 'a bankrupt accountant - two words you don't want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV'. She's 45 and shakily sober, living on Telegraph Hill, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2016
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Summary: Collection of stories that captures contemporary social and spiritual malaise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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Summary: "From one of the U.K.'s most dazzling authors comes a brutal and funny novel about a pair of fraudulent psychic mediums that is itself an elaborate con game between fact and fiction, life and death"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Publisher description: Here the sport is death: matadors (literally "killers") are men and, increasingly, women who, not unlike the Roman gladiators before them, provide a spectacle to the crowd, a dance in which their own death is as present as that of the bull. Wonderfully relaying the elements of the sport, from the breeding of the bulls and the training of the matadors to the intricate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 798 KENSummary: Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by eleven international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015