All I Asking for Is My Body

Author	Mark Dunn
ISBN	0385722435

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens...

Author	James Lovegrove
ISBN	1781165416

It's the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, anti-monarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence.  Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide...

Author	James Lovegrove
ISBN	1781165432

This was the second time I read a book by James Lovegrove starring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson after The Stuff of Nightmares.

Set in 1913 and taking place in the surrounding of Sherlock's retirement cottage, Gods of War gives on possible answer of the following question:
How will Sherlock...

Author	James Lovegrove
ISBN	1783295031

March 1895. Hilary Term at Oxford. In the newly built extension to the University Galleries, Professor Quantock has put the finishing touches to a wondrous computational device which, he claims, is capable of analytical thought to rival that of the cleverest men alive. Indeed, his so-called Thinking...

Author	R. Zamora Linmark
ISBN	1885030037

Illuminated by pop fantasies, Donna Summer disco tracks and teen passion, the fiercely earnest characters in Rolling the R's come to life against the background of burning dreams and neglect in a small 1970s Hawaiian community. In this daring first novel, tour-de-force experiments in narrative...

Author	Damon Young
ISBN	0062898221

From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America.

For Damon Young, existing while...