Vanity Fair

Literature & Fiction

Thackeray, William

Literary

Pan Books

Pan, 1977. British mass market paperback. Alfred Bester was one of the best SF authors to emerge post- WWII, and this collection of some of his shorter works will delight the reader. Includes: Time Is the Traitor (1953); The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958); Out of This World (1964); The Pi Man (1959); The Flowered Thundermug (1964); Will You Wait? (1959); They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (1963).

The Dark Side of the Earth

Alfred Bester

Contemporary

Managing people at work: A manager's guide to behaviour in organizations

Business & Money

Hunt, John W.

Management & Leadership

Enemy Coast Ahead

History

Gibson, Guy

Europe

THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF CHARLES SOBHRAJ ( Film Tie-in )

Politics & Social Sciences

NEVILLE, RICHARD & CLARKE, JULIE

Social Sciences

australian Gardening Calendar

No Author Credited

A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales-a former university professor, wealthy historian, and archaeologist who loved his adopted village. It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleagues-by everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmer's field.    Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks left the violence of London behind for what he hoped would be the peaceful life of a country policeman. But the brutality of Steadman's murder only reinforces one ugly, indisputable truth: that evil can flourish in even the most bucolic of settings. There are dangerous secrets hidden in the history of this remote Yorkshire community that have already led to one death. And Banks will have to plumb a dark and shocking local past to find his way to a killer...before yesterday's sins cause more blood to be shed.

A Dedicated Man

ROBINSON, PETER

Classics

On December 7th 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Moscow's avowed enemy ... Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonised death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from home. Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBC's Moscow correspondent, and contact with the key London-based Russians, to dissect Alexander Litvinenko's murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over six years; a war that has pitted some of Russia's strongest, richest men against the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin. The Litvinenko File is a gripping, powerful inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russia's war with itself spilled over onto the streets of London and made the world take notice.

The Litvinenko File

MARTIN SIXSMITH

Politics & Government

<p>It is 1385 and master mason Simon of Kineton is building his magnum opus—a great college to rival any in England. But the Bishop of Salter, hostile to free education, is determined to sabotage Simon's project. When rumors spread that the mason's son is cursed, the bishop sees an opportunity to undermine both Simon and the college. 600 years later, in the same city, Damia Miller has been employed to promote penniless Kineton and Dacre college. She soon realizes that a grotesque wall painting uncovered during renovations may hold the key to the ancient college's survival. A startling feat of imaginative skill, this debut novel is a heartbreaking reminder of what it is that makes us human—no matter what era we are born into.</p>

Testament (Macmillan New Writing)

Hawkins, Alis

In modern-day Lander, Canaan Phillips has fled her abusive husband and returned to her fierce Southern Baptist grandmother—the woman who raised her after her mother's suicide. Canaan's one friend during her childhood was her grandmother's simple brother, Luke. Now frail and elderly, Luke is still living in the corncrib shack that has been his home for 30 years. In early 20th-century Lander, Emma Scott took an instant and violent dislike to her new child—a white-skinned boy named Luke. Abused and neglected, Luke eventually befriends Squeaky, a black boy whose family farms nearby. When tragedy strikes, Luke takes to the railroad, and as he enters manhood on the rails, we begin to discover the truth behind the events that led to his birth. In the 20th-century, Canaan is also slowly coming to terms with her painful past and, with the help of her adored Uncle Luke, she is learning to love again. This is a heartrending and luminous story about loyalty, hardship, love, and friendship. It is also a reminder that goodness can prevail even through the cruelest hardships.

Carry Me Home: A Novel (Macmillan New Writing)

Wiltshire, Terri

Genre Fiction

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