Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama…

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ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours.The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier’s son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor…

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A Perfect Spy

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In his first new novel since The Secret Pilgrim, le Carre brilliantly creates a new era of intrigue where the rules forged in the Cold War are put to even more terrifying use. It is the world of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, whose unfathomable ruthlessness is matched only by their limitless hunger for…

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist…

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The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The fierce heart of this novel is Lisbeth Salander: the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who teamed up with crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This time, Lisbeth is implicated in a murder: her fingerprints found on…

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In the third volume of the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head.But she’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she’ll need to identify those…

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This is a Puffin paper back published in 1973. Often used for home schooling curriculum.

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Laura King, a single woman, childless, mid-40s, has just been told she has a year to live. She decides to hold a party, inviting the dozen men who have played a significant role in her past. Most are ex-lovers, some just good friends but to all of them she makes the most unorthodox suggestion.

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In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants – people who feared an apocalypse and people who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark forests and Viking adventures in which fear was real…

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