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Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
Published March 2010 by Weidenfeld at £7.99
ISBN: 0297858777
"These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story." - Elmore Leonard For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with simplicity and clarity. From adjectives and exclamation points to dialect and what he calls 'hooptedoodle', Elmore Leonard explains what to avoid, what to aspire to, and what to do when it sounds like "writing" (rewrite). Beautifully designed, filled with free-flowing, elegant illustrations, and specially priced, ELMORE LEONARD'S 10 RULES OF WRITING is the perfect writer's - and reader's - guide.
Elmore Leonard has written 41 books during his highly successful career, including the bestsellers UP IN HONEYS' ROOM, MR PARADISO and THE HOT KID. Many of his books have been made into movies, including GET SHORTY, OUT OF SIGHT and BE COOL.
Elmore Leonard has written 41 books during his highly successful career, including the bestsellers UP IN HONEYS' ROOM, MR PARADISO and THE HOT KID. Many of his books have been made into movies, including GET SHORTY, OUT OF SIGHT and BE COOL.
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Walter Mosley
Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery
Published March 2010 by Weidenfeld at £18.99
ISBN: 0297860461
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Bernard Knight
ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
A mystery caller sends Leonid McGill to an uptown address 'just to check a girl's okay'. There's no explanation - just a name - Angelique - a reward, and the chilling knowledge that he's working for Rinaldo Alphonse, the most feared man in New York. What LT finds is a crime scene. A girl lies with her face blown off, her assassin felled by a knife. But the dead girl isn't the one LT was sent to find, and her killer's injuries don't make sense. The next day Alphonse comes calling: LT must find Angelique before the assassin's assassin tracks her down. Alphonse isn't the only one who wants a bit of LT's time - the NYPD, finding his appearance too convenient, think they can finally put away the thorn in their side. But why do so many people want a piece of the apparently normal, clean-living Angelique? And why is the mafia coming after McGill, linking his sons - shy Dmitri and streetwise Twill - to the escape of a sex trafficked Belarussian girl? As both plots career towards a thrilling finale, McGill must put his street know-how and book of lethal contacts to the test, while haunted by the re-appearance of a face from his crooked past and his wife Katrina's continued infidelities.
WALTER MOSLEY, recipient of the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, is the author of 25 books, among them the bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series. Born in Los Angeles, he currently lives in New York.
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Andrew Pepper
The Detective Branch: A Pyke Mystery (Pyke Mystery 4)
Published February 2010 by Weidenfeld at £18.99
ISBN: 0297855271
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Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
A robbery at a pawnbroker's. Three people murdered. A headache for the new head of the Detective Branch....Now part of the Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch, Pyke must find the culprit and quickly, especially as the identity of one of the victims threatens to expose his own criminal past. A valuable religious artefact appears to have motivated the robbery but when the main suspect commits suicide in police custody, the investigation falters. A few months later, the rector of a wealthy parish is brutally murdered and the manhunt that follows seems to implicate an former prisoner, now looking for redemption. But Pyke's suspicions take him in another direction and lead him to a dissolute former Catholic priest and rumours of Devil worshipping. And when a City Alderman dies in suspicious circumstances, the trail of blood leads first to a charismatic mesmerist and an alluring painter and then to the murders of two boys five years earlier.With time running out and the murderer thereating to kill again, Pyke must face up to forces within the police and the church who would rather the secrets of the past remained buried forever.
Andrew Pepper is 36 and lives in Belfast where he is a lecturer in English at Queen's University.
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Chris Skidmore
Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley - Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart
Published February 2010 by Weidenfeld at £20.00
ISBN: 0297846507
Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 a 25-year-old virgin - the most prized catch in Christendom. For the first ten years of her reign, one matter dominated above all others: the question of who the queen was to marry and when she would produce an heir. Elizabeth's life as England's Virgin Queen is one of the most celebrated in history. Christopher Skidmore takes a fresh look at the familiar story of a queen with the stomach of a man, steadfastly refusing to marry for the sake of her realm, and reveals a very different picture: of a vulnerable young woman, in love with her suitor, Robert Dudley. Had it not been for the mysterious and untimely death of his wife, Amy Robsart, Elizabeth might have one day been able to marry Dudley, since Amy was believed to be dying of breast cancer. Instead, the suspicious circumstances surrounding Amy Robsart's death would cast a long shadow over Elizabeth's life, preventing any hope of a union with Dudley and ultimately shaping the course of Tudor history. Using newly discovered evidence from the archives, Christopher Skidmore is able to put an end to centuries of speculation as to the true causes of her death. This is the story of a remarkable and frenetic period in Elizabeth's life: a tale of love, death and tragedy, exploring the dramatic early life of England's Virgin Queen.
Chris Skidmore was born in Bristol in 1981. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. He graduated in 2002 with a double first and was awarded the GIBBS PRIZE. He also convened a graduate seminar at the university into the culture and politics of Tudor society. He was a research assistant to Robert Lacey for his GREAT TALES OF ENGLISH HISTORY series. He currently works as a special adviser to Michael Gove MP.
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Rebecca Stott
The Coral Thief
Published January 2010 by Weidenfeld at £14.99
ISBN: 0297851373
It's a hot August night in 1815, a few weeks after Napoleon's surrender to the Allied Forces at Waterloo. Daniel Connor, a brilliant and ambitious student from Edinburgh Medical School, is travelling to Paris by mail coach carrying rare historical specimens and letters of introduction to the illustrious Professor Cuvier at the Jardin des Plantes, a botanical and zoological garden on the banks of the Seine. In the coach he encounters a strikingly tall dark-haired woman with heretical ideas about transmutation and the origins of life. When Daniel wakes at dawn, she has disappeared, taking his precious gifts with her. Arriving in Paris, Daniel makes friends with a fellow medical student, Fin. Gradually Paris works its spell on Daniel so that he begins to feel that he is metamorphosing into someone he no longer recognises. He discovers that the mysterious woman who stole his belongings is Lucienne Bernard, a jewel thief and philosopher who is on the run from Pierre Jagot, the notorious Head of the Paris Security Police. When Lucienne re-enters Daniel's life they embark on a passionate affair. But time is running out for Lucienne. Daniel joins her salon of thieves to execute one last breathtakingly bold robbery.
Rebecca Stott is a writer and broadcaster. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, is affiliated to the Cambridge history of science department and is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. Her work, in radio writing, fiction and non-fiction, weaves together history, literature and the history of science. She is the author of the non-fiction book DARWIN AND THE BARNACLE and the novel GHOSTWALK.
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Paul Torday
The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers
Pbk published February 2010 by Weidenfeld at £12.99
ISBN: 0297855263
Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army after a rather nasty moment in Colombia. From a privileged background, he is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs an investment fund company and business is booming. Bilbo persuades Eck to join the company as a 'greeter', for a person with Eck's list of contacts is an easy route to a rich seam of moneyed clients. All Eck has to do is supply the contacts with entertainment and large G&Ts and then the fund managers will do the rest. Soon Eck is able to buy himself a luxury sports car and decadent flat in the city. All that is missing in his life is a woman. It is on a golfing trip to France with his friend Henry Newark that Eck first meets Charlie Summers, a fly-by-night entrepreneur who is hiding out in France after a 'misunderstanding with Her Majesty's Customs and Revenue'. Charlie's latest scheme is to import Japanese dog food into the UK. Henry casually mentions that Charlie should 'look us up' if he is ever in Gloucestershire. Not only does Charlie Summers look Henry up, he arrives with his suitcase, intent on staying with the Newarks and relaunching his dog food business in their area. But with the financial crash looming, Eck begins to ask himself if they are so very different...
Paul Torday was born in 1946 and read English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. He spent the next 30 years working in engineering and in industry, after which he scaled back his business responsibilities to fulfil a long-harboured ambition - to write. He burst on to the literary scene in 2006 with his first novel, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate bestseller that has been sold in 22 countries. He is married with two sons by a previous marriage and has two stepsons and lives close to the River North Tyne.
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