A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna. The killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon, his deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age.

Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann, for assistance. But to understand the killer's behaviour, Liebermann must make a journey into uncharted regions of the human mind, tracking a monster whose modus operandi combines both exquisite precision & savage cruelty.

As the investigation continues, Liebermann & Rheinhardt find themselves drawn into the worlds of art & couture, worlds in which glamorous appearances mask the most sinister of secrets...



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Violence is escalating, & spilling onto the streets of Montreal.

A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire

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Violence is escalating, & spilling onto the streets of Montreal.

A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire

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Violence is escalating, & spilling on to the streets of Montreal.

A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her

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Glasgow, 1989. James Addison, aka Addie, has been a very busy man. Wanted for every type of crime for over a decade, there is only one hitch
- he has never been seen, let alone caught. So, who or what is Addie? Does he even exist? When a small-time moneylender pimp is shot down on a Glasgow street, it seems to be just another gangland murder. But not for Andy Grimes, overseer of much of the city's prostitution, drug dealing & protection rackets
- & the dead man's brother. When word leaks out that Addie is the killer, Grimes calls in his police allies & musters his troops. On the case is DCI Alex Birse, & old-time cop, as crooked as he is vicious. He has been after Addie for years & never got close. As the streets of GLaasgow heave with police & gangsters, over in Berlin the Wall in coming down. It is a time of great change, opportunity & uncertainty. Who is the American turning up in the city at all the right sites? CIA, vengeful ex-pat or just a very, very lost tourist? The link between the two cities is loot. Back in Glasgow, while pulling a scam on an old Jewish couple, one of Grimes' men, Angie the Gopher, finds a biscuit tin full of Bearer Bonds issued in Germany before the Second World War. Angie smells money, the bonds could be worth millions & he scuttles back to tell his boss. Now the chase is on. Who gets the Bonds? How much are they worth? Who perished along the way? For answers you'll have to rely on Addie. But who is he? The last line will reveal all....maybe.

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When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, & has lost his appetite for research.

His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort & househusb&, while the rejuvenation of her appearance makes him uneasily conscious of the age gap between them. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father, an ex dance musician who stubbornly refuses to move from the house he is patently unable to live in with safety.

But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction & social embarrassment. In the popular imagination, he observes, deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic, but for the deaf person himself it is no joke. It is through his deafness that Desmond inadvertently gets involved with a young woman whose wayward & unpredictable behaviour threatens to destabilise his life completely.

Funny & moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a brilliant account of one man's effort to come to terms with deafness & death, ageing & mortality, the comedy & tragedy of human lives.





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Only rarely does a TV show capture the public's imagination, & this has truly been the year of Deal or No Deal. With record-breaking ...

Two months after his eleventh birthday, on 9 July 1944, the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp closed behind Ladislaus Lob. Five months later, with the Second World War still raging, he crossed the border into Switzerl&, cold & hungry, but alive & safe. He was not alone, but part of a group of some 1, 670 Jewish men, women & children from Hungary, who had been rescued from the Nazis as a result of a deal made by a man called Rezso Kasztner ...

Frank & funny, unorthodox, liberated & quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright & novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, The Hundred & One Dalmations & I Capture the Castle. One of the most successful dramatists of her generation, she spent the war years in America, befriended Christopher Isherwood &, through Walt Disney's film, became a household name. ...

Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries & challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eventually establish her as a perhaps unlikely, but nevertheless genuine, national treasure.

Dawn began her career as part of the groundbreaking alternative comedy group, the Comic Strip, marking a radical departure from the more traditional comedy acts of the time. Later came the all-female Girls On Top, which teamed Dawn with Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax & Tracy Ullman & firmly established women in British comedy.

As part of the wildly successful & much loved duo French & Saunders, Dawn helped create a repetoire of brilliantly observed characters, parodying popular culture & impersonating everything from Madonna & Harry Potter to The Exorcist. Dawn's more recent role in the Vicar of Dibley showcased not only her talent but also her ability to take a controversial & topical issue & make it mainstream
- & very funny.

From her early years as an RAF child & her flat-sharing antics with Jennifer Saunders, to her outspoken views on sizism & her marriage to Lenny Henry, Dear Fatty will chronicle the extraordinary, hilarious rise of a complex, dynamic & unstoppable woman.






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