Author Special - Ten Martin Beck Books from Maj Sjowall, Per Wahlöö from Harper Perennial (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK
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Author Special - Ten Martin Beck Books from Maj Sjowall, Per Wahlöö are £0.99 each.
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The Straight Razor Cure (Low Town 1) by Daniel Polansky from Hodder (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "The Straight Razor Cure is a clever fusion of grim fantasy and noir crime and it turns out they make excellent bedfellows."
Here, the criminal is king. The streets are filled with the screeching of fish hags, the cries of swindled merchants, the inviting murmurs of working girls. Here, people can disappear, and the lacklustre efforts of the guard ensure they are never found. Warden is an ex-soldier who has seen the worst men have to offer; now a narcotics dealer with a rich, bloody past and a way of inviting danger. You'd struggle to find someone with a soul as dark and troubled as his. But then a missing child, murdered and horribly mutilated, is discovered in an alley. And then another. With a mind as sharp as a blade and an old but powerful friend in the city, he's the only man with a hope of finding the killer. If the killer doesn't find him first.
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Deborah Goes to Dover: A Novel of Regency England by MC Beaton from Robinson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "An addictive page turning series of very sweet but surprisingly well written historical romances."
Encouraged by an unruly twin brother, tomboyish Lady Deborah Western seems set on dressing and behaving in a most unladylike manner, much to the dismay of her handsome neighbour, the Earl of Ashton.
Fortunately for the Earl, Miss Pym is on hand to make sure the gorgeous girl is introduced to some more feminine pursuits.
Book five in the Travelling Matchmaker series of Regency Romances.
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Romps, Tots and Boffins (The Strange Language of News) by Robert Hutton from Elliott & Thompson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "An excellent insight into why journalists use the language the way they do and what they really mean."
Financial Times Gift Books of the Year
Sunday Times Books of the Year - Humour Roundup
Spectator Books of the Year - chosen by Matthew Parris
You may not recognise the phrase, but if you have ever picked up a paper you’ll have come across ‘journalese’. Essentially, it covers words and phrases that are only found in newspapers – whether tabloid or broadsheet. Without them, how would our intrepid journalists be able to describe a world in which late-night revellers go on booze-fuelled rampages, where tots in peril are saved by have-a-go heroes, and where troubled stars lash out in foul-mouthed tirades? When Rob Hutton began collecting examples of journalese online, he provoked a ‘Twitter storm’, and was ‘left reeling’ by the ‘bumper crop’ of examples that ‘flooded in’. He realized that phrases which started as shorthand to help readers have become a dialect which is often meaningless or vacuous to non-journalese speakers. In a courageous attempt both to wean journalists off their journalese habit, and provide elucidation for the rest of us, Romps, Tots and Boffins will catalogue the highs and lows of this strange language, celebrating the best examples (‘test-tube baby’, ‘mad cow disease’), marvelling at the quirky (‘boffins’, ‘frogmen’) and condemning the worst (‘rant’, ‘snub’, ‘sirs’). It will be a ‘must-read’ ‘page-turner’ that may ‘cause a stir’, ‘fuel controversy’, or even ‘spark’ ‘tough new rules’ in newsrooms.
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