Mrs D' Silva and The Lucknow Ransom (Mrs D' Silva's Detective Instincts) by Glen Peters from Parthian Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "A thoroughly enjoyable read and I am now looking forward to the next book in the trilogy."
Beautiful widow Joan D'Silva is at Howrah Station, fleeing Calcutta with her 11-year-old son Errol. Also on the same train is Laxhimi, a notorious hijira prostitute: charismatic, sensual and powerful. They are both running away to Lucknow to escape danger, but soon their lives will become entangled in a web of corruption and blackmail. Who is responsible for the poisoning at the factory? Is it the Workers Revolutionary Movement, the Children of God under the sway of the charismatic Swami Naik, or someone else entirely? If only the police could help. But Detective Inspector Mallothra has based his investigative style on Mickey Spillane novels so it's down to Joan, her friends, and of course Errol, to unmask the perpetrator. With a cast of colourful characters, this new novel by Glen Peters is inspired by his youth in the dwindling Anglo-Indian community. It is a witty, vivid tale of intrigue, immersed in the sights, sounds, smells and especially the tastes of 1960s India and will appeal to readers who've enjoyed Deborah Moggach’s These Foolish Things (the inspiration for the recent critically acclaimed film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).
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Kissing Frogs by Sarah Ingham from Thistle Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "Great fun and just the romp I needed for a light-hearted summer read."
Every woman wants to meet her very own Prince Charming - doesn’t she?
When Luc James heads for a holiday in the Greek Islands with her best friend Ella, all she expects to bring home is a suntan. Little does she know that she’ll end up feeling unwanted and abandoned as Ella sails off over the horizon with a gorgeous Frenchman.
When the impossibly glamorous Lorenzo arrives, Luc’s life is transformed and she finds herself crossing Europe with a sugar-mouse pink hatbox. But as her fairytale romance leads to the sacrifice of years of friendship, is Luc going to get her happily ever after?
A story of love and friendship, Kissing Frogs shows that sometimes you have to be your own Fairy Godmother.
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Economyths: How the Science of Complex Systems is Transforming Economic Thought by David Orrell from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "An accurate and sharp analysis which exposes the lame foundations of neo-classical economics."
From the failure of wealth to make us happier to the catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, Economyths reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us all. Forecasters predicted a prosperous year in 2008 for financial markets – in one influential survey the average prediction was for an eleven percent gain. But by the end of the year major economies were plunging into recession. An even bigger casualty was the credibility of economics, which for decades has claimed that the economy is a rational, stable, efficient machine, governed by well-understood laws. Mathematician David Orrell traces the history of this idea from its roots in ancient Greece to the financial centres of London and New York, shows ten distinct ways in which it is mistaken – and proposes new alternatives. Orrell explains how the economy is the result of complex and unpredictable processes; how risk models go astray; why the economy is not rational or fair; why until very recently no woman had ever won the Nobel Prize for economics; why financial crashes are less Black Swans than part of the landscape; and finally, how new ideas in mathematics, psychology, and environmentalism are helping to reinvent economics.
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