Category: Books

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0349114986

An enormous bestseller in the US, this was finally published in paperback last week in the UK, and I felt able to pick up a copy for less than four quid in Tesco as a result (I suppose I should write something about supermarkets and their impact on booksales sometime soon, since everyone else is…

If you’re tickled by the prospect that a sportswear company could release a fabulously expensive pair of trainers, but then choose not to market them, until demand reaches fever pitch levels leaving the company to dump thousands of pairs onto the market, thus turning a colossal profit overnight, then this book is for you. Set…

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0765307596

0575074035

0571212182

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0099452138

And so to the latest English translation of Henning Mankell. This is the first Mankell novel that I’ve read which doesn’t feature Inspector Wallander. In this instance we follow Stefan Lindman, a policeman with cancerous tongue, worried about his forthcoming treatment, and on sick leave. When an old boss of his dies in the north…