Booker-winning novelist & one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time for ...

Primo Verona, a professional magician & soothsayer, is born with a gift of clairvoyance so strong that he is able to predict his own mother's death while still in her womb. He is brought up on a rich diet of astronomy, philosophy & storytelling by his watchmaker father & widowed aunt, both survivors of the death camps in Auschwitz. Primo accurately reads the futures of the local Long Street community of Italians & Jews, who pay him in wads of money, honey cake, tiramisu & other delicacies.

Pasquale Benvenuto, his close friend since childhood & fellow soldier in the Angolan war, is the owner of a bar & delicatessen favoured by local businessmen & gamblers alike. Pasquale is passionate & headstrong, his culinary reputation resting on the recipes for the fruited breads & salamis his father taught him to make

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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It



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In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of the ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken & remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock & horror until her black father acquires an assault rifle & takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses & the crack of sniper fire spreads through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound while young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life.... & then his own. ...

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It



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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the monsters who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It



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When young Jamie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief & torn with guilt & recrimination. In this compassionate & haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way. ...

Detective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory
- & then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing.

Sleepy Denton has never known anything like the crime wave which now threatens to submerge it. A robbery occurs at the town's notorious strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-&-run offence &, to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the loose. Frost is reeling under the strain, his paperwork is still in arrears & now, more than ever, his self-righteous colleagues would love to see him sacked. But the manic Frost manages to assure his superior that all is under control. Now he has only to convince himself...


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Detective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory
- & then, when Frost attempts to join the revels later on, the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing.

Sleepy Denton has never known anything like the crime wave which now threatens to submerge it. A robbery occurs at the town's notorious strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-&-run offence &, to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the loose. Frost is reeling under the strain, his paperwork is still in arrears & now, more than ever, his self-righteous colleagues would love to see him sacked. But the manic Frost manages to assure his superior that all is under control. Now he has only to convince himself...


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