In May 1947 a Jewish teenager was mysteriously abducted in Jerusalem. He was never seen alive again. A grey felt hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, a highly decorated ex-SAS officer leading a covert counter-terrorist squad. Farran was acquitted after a sensational court martial & came home to a hero ...

In May 1947 Alexander Rubowitz, a Jewish teenager, was mysteriously abducted in Jerusalem. He was never seen again. Rubowitz was active in a Zionist underground group fighting British rule in Palestine. Witnesses said he was seized by British policemen. A grey felt hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, a highly decorated ex-SAS officer leading a covert counter-terrorist squad.

As evidence of murder grew Farran fled to Syria. He was persuaded to return & was acquitted after a sensational court martial. He came home to a hero

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Because her black boyfriend Kamon Gilbert was killed in a city street before the birth of their child, Jenny Templin moved out of the city. Because she lived so far away, she bought a car, & because she had a car she took a job. Because she had a job she gave her boy to his black grandparents to care for most of the time. Because she worked so hard she liked to relax with a few drinks after work before she picked up the boy. & because she'd had too many drinks one night & because she was dead tired, her car spun on the road & rolled, leaving the boy orphaned at the age of three, with two sets of grandparents, one white & one black, each determined to raise the boy their own way. Told from various perspectives, & in language that soars, Make Believe is a brilliant, devastating, yet ultimately redemptive exploration of the ways in which human beings use imagination to build barriers against the random nature of existence. ...

A Ruth Rendell mystery, first published in 1979.

Alan Groombridge is married to a woman he doesn't like, is a bank manager

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Claire Sawyer is a PR queen with the breasts of the Venus di Milo & the morals of Attila the Hun. At the sharp end of the celebrity food chain she is amoral yet pragmatic. When the opportunity arises to make a star out of James
- a scruffy sociology student
- Claire & her friend Santosh waste no time in giving the young man the make-over of his life. He soon becomes the beau of the London celeb circuit, fraternising with louche young rock stars & models. What Claire & Santosh don't bank on is their living boy toy having a strong mind & sexuality of his own.

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Claire Sawyer is a PR queen with the breasts of the Venus di Milo & the morals of Attila the Hun. At the sharp end of the celebrity food chain she is amoral yet pragmatic. When the opportunity arises to make a star out of James
- a scruffy sociology student
- Claire & her friend Santosh waste no time in giving the young man the make-over of his life. He soon becomes the beau of the London celeb circuit, fraternising with louche young rock stars & models. What Claire & Santosh don't bank on is their living boy toy having a strong mind & sexuality of his own.

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Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl & a boy. Her new book, Making Babies, ...