Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest
After taking a bullet to the head, Lisbeth Salander is under close supervision in intensive care. If and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders and one attempted murder. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, she will not…
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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It’s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about…
Read MoreLives of Girls and Women
Lives of Girls and Women is the intensely readable, touching, and very funny story of Del Jordan, a young woman who journeys from the carelessness of childhood through an uneasy adolescence in search of love and sexual experience. As Del dreams of becoming famous, suffers embarrassment about her mother, endures the humiliation of her body’s…
Read MoreLove and Friendship
‘They flew into each other’s arms – It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myself – We fainted Alternately on a Sofa’ This sparkling collection of Austen’s early writings – some penned when she was just eleven years old – is playful, subversive and shot through with wit. Here are bawdy sketches,…
Read MoreMy Best Stories – Alice Munro
In her Introduction, Margaret Atwood says, “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time … Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.” My Best Stories is a dazzling selection of stories-seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the…
Read MoreThe Pickwick Papers
An asteroid has hit the Earth: the end of the world is just beginning. Billy and his companions have been taking refuge in outer space to avert this catastrophe. But what will it take to survive? This dramatic second book in an electrifying duology will have readers at the edges of their seats as they…
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The Devil’s Kingdom
Explosive follow up to STAR OF AFRICA. Ben is being held hostage by the bloodthirsty General Khosa who threatens his family if Ben refuses to train his rabble of inexperienced boys into a lethal army of skilled soldiers. Which ever way Ben chooses, innocents will die, unless he can defeat Khosa himself.
Read MoreMitzi Bytes
Sarah Lundy has a secret online life, and it might all come crashing down. Back at the beginning of the new millennium, when the Internet was still unknown territory, Sarah Lundy started an anonymous blog documenting her return to the dating scene after a devastating divorce. The blog was funny, brutally honest and sometimes outrageous.…
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