The Coward's Tale
10 best books like The Coward's Tale (Vanessa Gebbie): Gingerbread, The Inverted World, Crocodile Tears, The Graces, Mystery in the Channel, Scorpia Rising, Carbonel: The King of the Cats, The 12:30 from Croydon, Sold as a Slave, The Cobra's Heart (Penguin Great Journeys)
| Author | Helen Oyeyemi |
| ISBN | 1984882899 |
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.
Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0060134216 |
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move,...
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| ISBN | 0399250565 |
It's just another day in the life of an average kid. If you're Alex Rider, that is. A con artist has realized there is big money in charity: the bigger the disaster, the greater the money flow! So that is what he will produce: the biggest disaster known to man, all thanks to genetically modified corn that...
| Author | Laure Eve |
| ISBN | 0571326803 |
Everyone said the Graces were witches.
They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair.
They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different.
All I had to do was show...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 0712356517 |
Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, and on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members...
| Author | Anthony Horowitz |
| ISBN | 0399250573 |
Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to con Alex into turning traitor, and they just keep coming back with more power. Now the world's most dangerous terrorist organization is playing with fire in the world's most combustible land: the Middle...
| Author | Barbara Sleigh |
| ISBN | 1590171268 |
Back in print in the U.S. for the first time in over 30 years.
Rosemary's plan to clean houses during her summer break and surprise her mother with the money hits a snag when an old lady at the market talks her into buying a second-rate broom and a cat she can't even afford to keep. But appearances...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 1842323776 |
We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living...
| Author | Olaudah Equiano |
| ISBN | 0141025441 |
In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but...
The Cobra's Heart (Penguin Great Journeys)
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
| ISBN | 0141025557 |
This book in the Penguin Great Journeys series is an excerpt (or excerpts) from Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sun. It reads more like a number of separate essays rather than a cohesive narrative, but that is likely a result of the excerpt selection.
I was impressed with the writing which I found...
| Author | James Grippando |
| ISBN | 0062657828 |
From the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today’s headlines.
When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's...
How to Argue with a Cat: A Human's Guide to the Art of Persuasion
| Author | Jay Heinrichs |
| ISBN | 1846149576 |
If you can persuade a cat ... you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your way.
Jay Heinrichs, award-winning author of Thank You for Arguing and advisor to the Pentagon, NASA and Fortune 500 companies, distils a lifetime of negotiating and rhetoric to show you how to win...
