A smart imaginative and evocative novel of love betrayal revenge and redemption told with razor-sharp wit and affection in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower?for good or ill?is a properly executed spreadsheet.Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurkingA smart imaginative and evocative novel of love betrayal revenge and redemption told with razor-sharp wit and affection in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower?for good or ill?is a properly executed spreadsheet.Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isnt glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? As a temp shes just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment everything goes very wrong and an...
Reclusive Clare Collins crafts her novels like she crafts her life: perfectly. So the world is stunned when the famous author is found dead on the beach from a self-inflicted gunshot -- the morning after her latest book hits the shelves. Her sister Eileen is at a loss. Clare led a charmed life: success mansions money?why would she throw it all away? But while readingReclusive Clare Collins crafts her novels like she crafts her life: perfectly. So the world is stunned when the famous author is found dead on the beach from a self-inflicted gunshot -- the morning after her latest book hits the shelves. Her sister Eileen is at a loss. Clare led a charmed life: success mansions money?why would she throw it all away? But while reading through her sisters latest?and greatest?novel Eileen discovers a clue that unravels the fiction and reveals the painful truth. Suddenly the life that Eileen had envied doesnt seem so sparkling . . . Her Perfect Life is a page-turning debut that reminds us that ...
Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief and blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chartUtopia Avenue are the strangest British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief and blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success to glory in Amsterdam prison in Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.David Mitchell's new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of dru...
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