Simon Prebble
4) Echoes
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country...
7) The Gambler
9) Eagle Strike
10) Point blank
11) Proof of guilt
12) The black ascot
13) The red door
14) Ark Angel
15) Bolt
16) All about love
Lucifer Cynster has sworn never to pledge his heart — but fate has other plans...
The last unwed Cynster, Alasdair — known as Lucifer — has escaped to Devon one step ahead of London's matchmaking mamas. Yet, despite his dedication to avoiding the parson's mousetrap, the irresistible Phyllida Tallent — a willful, independent beauty — brings all his masterful Cynster instincts rioting to the fore. Initially Lucifer
...17) 10 lb. penalty
"Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." — The New Yorker
The genome's been mapped. But what does
...19) Come to grief
20) The Jupiter Myth
For Falco, an attempt at relaxing while visiting his wife Helena’s relatives in Britain turns serious when a murder is discovered. King Togidubnus, the renegade henchman of Rome’s vital ally, has been stuffed head-first down a barroom well—leading to a tricky diplomatic situation which Falco...