 | Dead Simple: Four Bodies - One Suspect - No Trace by Peter James
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 The first of the rivetting Inspector Grace books. More addictive than garabaldi,s and sweet tea
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 | The Waking by T. M. Jenkins
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating hybrid of sci-fi, thriller, and dystopian future prediction
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 | City of the Dead by Brian Keene
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £4.32 Entertaining and exciting zombie sequel ...though extremely silly
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 | Scar Night (Deepgate Codex Trilogy): Bk. 1 by Alan Campbell
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Hugely imaginative fantasy epic. Takes some time to warm up but accelerates like a Bugati Veyron when it does.
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 | Deadhouse Gates (Book 2 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen) by Steven Erikson
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £2.00 The second of Erikson,s Malazan magnificent octopus,s ( As Baldrick would put it) Complex , ambitious imaginative and a rewarding read.
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 | Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
Buy used from: £0.41 Green very rarely lets us down and errr he has,nt done here either. Not as good as the Deathstalker series but not far off.
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 | Journeyer, The by Gary Jennings
Buy used from: £14.27 An absolute epic. Will take most of the summer to read but this absorbing historical novel is well worth the effort
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 | Lisa Gardner: Three Great Novels: The Perfect Husband, The Other Daughter, The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £3.96 This will keep you busy for a while as well. Three novels in one .Each a pacy exciting thriller with a lean mean style .Bit like me...except the lean.
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 | Yakking Around the World: A Cricketer's Quest for Love and Utopia by Simon Hughes
Buy used from: £0.01 In lieu of any live cricket to us non-skyers (thank you ECB) this is an old summer favourite. Funny as f***.
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 | The Religion by Tim Willocks
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Magnificent gripping historical novel . Gory as an episode of casualty mind and a tad over -written.
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 | Screen Burn by Charlie Brooker
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.22 Since Charlie Brookers Screenburn column seems to have gone on an extended summer holiday like some lazy MP, this is great to dip in and out of for a misanthropic chuckle or two.
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 | City of the Sun by David Levien
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £0.01 Gripping and hypnotic thriller about a missing child. An unlikely climax and too soapy at times but Jack Behr is a great character.
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 | Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £0.01 A brilliant empirical riposte to the numerous iconaclastic Scott tomes. Not quite as balanced as " A First Rate Tragedy" but still essential for anyone with an interest in Polar exploration
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 | Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World by Harry Thompson
Buy new: £5.64 / Used from: £0.01 Another enjoyable book about cricket in strange climes......better than most actually.
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 | The Cellar by Richard Laymon
Buy new: £4.56 / Used from: £0.01 Pulpy horror but well written pulpy horror .Short (256 pages) but exciting with a cracking villain.
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 | Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Buy used from: £0.01 Blimey...this is a book and a half.....1100 pages , heavier than a breezeblock , but well worth lugging around . A stirring mixture of historical drama & myth with a bit of sci-fi thrown in.
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 | Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
Buy used from: £0.01 An adrenaline fueled hugely exciting novel... if a tad far fetched
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 | Blood Eagle by Craig Russell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Let down slightly by it,s weak ending ...none the less this gruesome thriller set in Hamburg adds a new dimension to the serial killer thriller genre
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 | Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Is there anyone better a creating an actual place and time than Pelecanos? Here he does it agian with the fourth in a series featuring black cop Derek Strange in 1960,s Washington.
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 | Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three: Book Three of the First Law (Gollancz S.F.) by Joe Abercrombie
Buy used from: £1.21 Quality finale to an astounding fantasy trilogy ...chock full of sardonic black humour , political chicanery , visceral violence and vivid characterisation , Everything i,d want in one book really
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 | Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green
Buy used from: £6.49 Another Green , another hugely entertaining romp though this time a brash melding of fantasy and horror ...like Shrek written by Charlie Brooker.
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