More books than you can shake a stick at, another tub.......
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| Tub 55! |
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| Ben Elton, Colin Cotterill, Mark Watson, Adam Hall, Pieke Biermann, |
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| Quiller espionage series book! |
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| German crime from the 90s! |
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| Series set in Laos - not yet tried Cotterill. |
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| Gil Scott-Heron, Geoffrey Homes, Peter Temple, Sjowall and Wahloo, Peter Wahloo on his own, |
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| Australian crime. |
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| 40s crime! |
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| Richard Currey, Colin Cotterill, Abraham Rodriguez, David Benioff, Chris Bunch-Allan Cole, |
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| Cormac McCarthy, Peter Temple, Richard Stark, Don Winslow, Mark McNay, |
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| Savages - also a film - I hope the book is better! |
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| Parker 22! |
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| Aussie Great Peter Temple! |
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| Woody Haut, Colin Bateman, Rusty Young, Robert McLiam Wilson, Giampiero Rigosi, |
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| Italian crime! |
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| Woody Haut crime fiction study! |
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| Sports autobiography - Journeyman Footballer - I think he was a bit better than that actually. |
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| Lex McAulay, John Gardner, Rowland Morgan, Martin Cruz Smith, Garry Nelson, |
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| Rowland Morgan, |
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| Gardner and Boysie Oakes! |
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| MacDonald Lloyd, Herbert Lieberman, Stuart Pawson, Terry Pratchett-Neil Gaiman, Robert Leininger, |
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| Amazing cover! Great title! |
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| Herbert Lieberman - 80s reading favourite of mine! |
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| Don Winslow under a pseudonym! |
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| Peter Robinson, George V. Higgins, Mike Ripley, John Harvey, Paul McGrath, |
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| Angel series book! |
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| Alexander Baron, John Le Carre, William Kowalski, Davis Miller, J. R.Creech, |
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| William Kowalski - been compared to John Irving! |
From Goole books....
Eddie's Bastard spins the warm, endearing tale of William Amos Mann IV and of the inhabitants of his eponymous small upstate New York town, Mannville.
Related in flashback by the adult Billy, the story begins with him being deposited as an infant on the doorstep of his grandfather's home in a simple wicker basket with a plain two-word message pinned to his shawl reading 'Eddie's Bastard'. Eddie had been killed in Vietnam three months earlier - his father, Thomas Mann Jnr, had given up on life, having lost his only son and, he thought, his only heir. But now, suddenly, Thomas has a grandson and an heir - if not to the once-vast Mann fortune (for Thomas had recklessly squandered that in a foolhardy enterprise just after his heroic return from WWII), then at least to the long legacy of the Mann family stories, stretching back to the Civil War.
Eddie's Bastard is filled with episodes of madcap adventure and resonates with the power of lifelong friendship. By turns hilarious, thrilling and heart-breaking, here is a début that stays in the mind long after the reading is over.
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| George Smiley in action! |
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| Alexander Baron - London Crime! |
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| Robert Ludlum/Gayle Lynds, Colin Bateman, Val McDermid, John Gardner, Marcus Sakey, |
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| Another Boysie Oakes! |
HIGHLIGHTS..... Peter Temple, Don Winslow, John Gardner, Martin Cruz Smith,
LOWLIGHTS....... nothing especially - an alright tub with not too many standouts, but on the face of it, nothing to be too upset about either
FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:
| AUTHOR |
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TITLE |
YEAR |
SERIES |
| BARON |
ALEXANDER |
THE LOWLIFE |
1963 |
LF1 |
| BATEMAN |
COLIN |
ORPHEUS RISING |
2008 |
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| BATEMAN |
COLIN |
TITANIC 2020 |
2007 |
T1 |
| BENIOFF |
DAVID |
CITY OF THIEVES |
2008 |
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| BIERMANN |
PIEKE |
VIOLETTA |
1990 |
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| BUNCH/COLE |
CHRIS/ALLAN |
A RECKONING FOR KINGS |
1987 |
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| COTTERILL |
COLIN |
ANARCHY AND OLD DOGS |
2007 |
DSP4 |
| COTTERILL |
COLIN |
DISCO FOR THE DEPARTED |
2006 |
DSP3 |
| CREECH |
J. R. |
MUSIC AND CRIME |
1989 |
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| CRUZ SMITH |
MARTIN |
NIGHTWING |
1977 |
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| CURREY |
RICHARD |
FATAL LIGHT |
1988 |
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| ELTON |
BEN |
BLAST FROM THE PAST |
1998 |
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| GARDNER |
JOHN |
A KILLER FOR A SONG |
1975 |
BO8 |
| GARDNER |
JOHN |
THE AIRLINE PIRATES |
1970 |
BO6 |
| HALL |
ADAM |
THE SCORPION SIGNAL |
1980 |
Q9 |
| HARVEY |
JOHN |
STILL WATER |
1996 |
R9 |
| HAUT |
WOODY |
NEON NOIR |
1999 |
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| HIGGINS |
GEORGE V. |
VICTORIES |
1990 |
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| HOMES |
GEOFFREY |
BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH |
1946 |
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| KOWALSKI |
WILLIAM |
EDDIE'S BASTARD |
1999 |
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| LE CARRE |
JOHN |
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY |
1974 |
S5 |
| LEININGER |
ROBERT |
KILLING SUKI FLOOD |
1991 |
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| LIEBERMAN |
HERBERT |
NIGHTBLOOM |
1984 |
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| LLOYD |
MACDONALD |
A WINTER SPY |
1996 |
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| LUDLUM/LYNDS |
ROBERT/GAYLE |
THE ALTMAN CODE |
2003 |
C1-4 |
| McAULAY |
LEX |
THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN |
1987 |
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| McCARTHY |
CORMAC |
SUTTREE |
1979 |
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| McDERMID |
VAL |
CRACK DOWN |
1994 |
KB3 |
| McGRATH |
PAUL |
BACK FROM THE BRINK |
2006 |
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| McLIAM WILSON |
ROBERT |
RIPLEY BOGLE |
1989 |
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| McNAY |
MARK |
UNDER CONTROL |
2008 |
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| MILLER |
DAVIS |
THE TAO OF MUHAMMAD ALI |
1996 |
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| MORGAN |
ROWLAND |
LOW MEAN MEN |
1992 |
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| NELSON |
GARRY |
LEFT FOOD FORWARD |
1995 |
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| PAWSON |
STUART |
LAUGHING BOY |
2002 |
CP8 |
| PRATCHETT/GAIMAN |
TERRY/NEIL |
GOOD OMENS |
1990 |
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| RIGOSI |
GIAMPIERO |
NIGHT BUS |
2006 |
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| RIPLEY |
MIKE |
ANGEL TOUCH |
1989 |
FMA2 |
| ROBINSON |
PETER |
THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS |
2003 |
IB13 |
| RODRIGUEZ |
ABRAHAM |
SPIDERTOWN |
1993 |
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| SAKEY |
MARCUS |
NO TURNING BACK |
2009 |
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| SCOTT-HERON |
GIL |
THE VULTURE |
1970 |
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| SJOWALL/WAHLOO |
MAJ/PER |
THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN |
1968 |
MB4 |
| STARK |
RICHARD |
NOBODY RUNS FOREVER |
2004 |
P22 |
| TEMPLE |
PETER |
DEAD POINT |
2000 |
JI3 |
| TEMPLE |
PETER |
SHOOTING STAR |
1999 |
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| WAHLOO |
PETER |
THE LORRY |
1962 |
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| WATSON |
MARK |
BULLET POINTS |
2004 |
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| WINSLOW |
DON |
SAVAGES |
2010 |
S2 |
| YOUNG |
RUSTY |
MARCHING POWDER |
2003 |
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Col, someday I'm going to sit with a stack of John le Carre's novels starting with TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER SPY, but we know that's not going to happen.
ReplyDeletePrahsant - you and me both. What's the old saying? Live in hope and die in despair!
DeleteOops - fat fingers, sorry Prashant!
DeleteFat fingers is the reason I use a regular keyboard with my laptop!
DeleteThat's what I was using! ):
DeleteYou do have a nice lot here, Col. Cruz Smith, Winslow, Temple, le Carré, McCarthy.... yes, I'd say you're set. Ooh, and two Cotterills? Definitely you're set.
ReplyDeleteMargot - agreed. I haven't yet tried Cotterill's work, but the setting seems interesting to say the least.
DeleteI remember seeing Killing Suki Flood in Maxim Jakubowski's Murder One bookshop years ago, and thinking it looked good. Never got it it though. Let us know what you think, if you get to it!
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't you "borrow it" from the shelves? I used to love that shop. It used to be a birthday treat going up there with a few quid burning a hole in my pocket. He has new(old) book out soon - Gumshoe from Oceanview.
Deletehttp://www.jasonbovberg.com/rediscovering-robert-leininger/
I am back to envy, again, Col. Several books here I would not mind having. Not that I need more.
ReplyDeleteIf you were local, I'd lend them to you, but then I'd no doubt be borrowing some as well, so the pile would never decrease!
DeleteI like this box - this is the sort of random selection I'd like to find in a hotel room or beach-house.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to pop over and borrow the tub, Vicki!
DeleteVicki has it just right - just what you'd find on the windowsill of the beach-house. I always think I should read more Winslow, because I've really liked him in the past. And Tinker Tailor is an excellent book. (with a TV series and a film to compare it with.)
ReplyDeleteHas Winslow appeared on your blog? I've read a two or three from him but not much lately. Tinker Tailor - I loved the film, but never caught the TV series.
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