Naw Much of a Talker (17 page)

The Falling Sky

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Jeanette is a young, solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university
department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs, she travels to a mountain-top observatory in Chile to focus on her research. There Jeanette
stumbles upon evidence that will challenge the fundamentals of the universe, drawing her into conflict with her colleagues and the scientific establishment, but also casting her back to the tragic
loss that defined her childhood.

The Hairdresser of Harare

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Vimbai is the star hairdresser of her salon, the smartest in Harare, Zimbabwe, until the enigmatic Dumisani appears. Losing many of her best customers to
this good-looking, smooth-talking young man, Vimbai fears for her job, vital if she’s to provide for her young child. But in a remarkable reversal the two becomes allies. Soon they are
running their own Harare salon, attracting the wealthiest and most powerful clients in the city. But disaster is near, as Vimbai soon uncovers Dumi’s secret, a discovery that will result in
brutality and tragedy, testing their relationship to the very limit.

All the Little Guns Went Bang Bang Bang

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Pearse Furlong and May-Belle Mulholland are two normal eleven year-olds meeting one summer in small town Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the early 1980s. They
have little in common except a shared experience of violent, abusive parents. They form an unlikely alliance and as their games and shared fantasies spin out of control their friendship becomes
something much darker, with theft, arson, sickening brutality — and eventually murder — all lying ahead
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Four New Words for Love

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Christopher is a decent, elderly, suburban Londoner learning to live again after his release from a loveless marriage following the death of his wife. By
chance he meets Gina, a young homeless women from Glasgow, on Waterloo Bridge. Four New Words for Love is a beautifully crafted portrait of two damaged lives from different ends of the social
spectrum who are both seeking release from the mistakes and thwarted potential of the past. Michael Cannon demonstrates a masterful restraint and boundless empathy in his development of two
unforgettable characters attempting to change their lives.

Call of the Undertow

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When Maggie Thame, a childless forty-something from Oxford, relocates to a remote village at Scotland’s most northern edge, it’s clear
she’s running away. But to the villagers the question remains, from what? In this, her debut novel, award-winning writer Linda Cracknell explores themes of motherhood, guilt, myth and the
elemental forces of nature in a lyrical, taut and haunting account of damaged lives seeking redemption.