The Bullet Trick
7 best books like The Bullet Trick (Louise Welsh): Bangkok Tattoo, He, She and It, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot, The Siege of Trencher's Farm, Reality, Reality, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times on Television
| Author | John Burdett |
| ISBN | 1400032911 |
Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.A farang–a foreigner–has been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchai’s mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make...
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0449220605 |
In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah,...
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.
To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...
| Author | Ken McGoogan |
| ISBN | 0786711566 |
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snowshoes; and 6,700 miles navigated in small...
| Author | Gordon M. Williams |
| ISBN | 0857681192 |
The original novel on which Sam Peckinpah's controversial movie Straw Dogs was based, and the inspiration behind a brand-new movie by Rod Lurie, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Kate Bosworth - due for release in September 2011.
American professor George Magruder, his wife Louise and...
Of Scottish author Jackie Kay's work, I have to date read two poetry collections, Bantam and The Adoption Papers. I liked the core ideas of both collections, but was ultimately disappointed by them. For me, neither quite came together as well as I was expecting. I was still keen, however,...
Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times on Television
| Author | Louis Theroux |
| ISBN | 1509880364 |
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat...
