The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer.
A brilliant tale about a young female agent recruited and dropped into the France during WW2 to extract an important scientist from occupied Paris....
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer.
A brilliant tale about a young female agent recruited and dropped into the France during WW2 to extract an important scientist from occupied Paris....
'The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared' by Jonas Jonasson.
Fabulous. Funny, charming and as daft as a box of frogs. Simply delightful.
'Sexually, I'm more of a Switzerland' by David Rose. A collection of some of the funniest personal ads from the London Review of Books. A laugh out loud book if ever there was one.
RJ Ellory: A Simple Act of Violence.
I picked it up in Miami Airport thinking that it said Elmore Leonard on the front (yes, dopey...but I was rushing) and what an amazing surprise. Enthralling,...
Henning Mankell: A Troubled Man.
For fans of the Wallander books (and I am one) this is a real treat. Longer and more atmospheric even than usual, it goes deep into the mind of the fading, ageing...
I read Cloud Atlas a while ago and came away with the same impression. An interesting idea but ultimately let down by an underlying storyline that was not strong enough to tie the book together.
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