Ambush at Fort Bragg

Business & Money

Tom Wolfe

Business Culture

Unknown

The Richest Man in Babylon

Literature & Fiction

GEORGE S. CLASON

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Poster Field of Thirteen

Dick. Francis

Imprint unknown

The Doomsday Conspiracy

sidney-sheldon

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey / Maturin)

O’Brian, Patrick

British & Irish

W.W.Norton&Company

Matarese Circle

Unknown, Author

The Kindness of Women

The fascinating, and largely autobiographical, sequel to J. G. Ballard’s prize-winning Empire of the Sun, that follows Jim to post-war England. The Kindness of Women continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese-occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in Empire of the Sun, it sets those traumatic events within the context of a lifetime as we follow the narrator, Jim, to England and suburban Shepperton after the war.Jim tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. Then, after settling happily into family life, his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social, and sexual revolution. All this and much more, we see as the attempt of a bruised mind to make sense of the upheaval around it.J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 best seller, Empire of the Sun, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.

BALLARD,J.G.

To Porterhouse College, Cambridge, famous for rowing, low academic standards. and a proud cuisine, comes a new Master, an ex-grammar-school boy, demanding Firsts, women students, a self-service canteen, and a slot-machine for contraceptives. There is considerable opposition to this challenge to the established order, in the form of Skullion, the intransigent porter at Porterhouse, who is determined that the hallowed traditions of the College will never change.

Porterhouse Blue

TOM SHARPE

HarperCollins Audio

The Tartan Ringers (Lovejoy)

GASH, Jonathan

Grantham, Leslie

By the author of "Jade Woman", this is a novel featuring Lovejoy in an attempt to rob the British Museum.

The Very Last Gambado (A Lovejoy Mystery)

JONATHAN GASH

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