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Friday August 20th:
Organik Trio - Funky Hammond organ with laid back jazz guitar and delicious drums...
Wendy Kirkland, Pat Sprakes and Ian Beestin make up the dynamic Organik Trio! I'm not due to work this Friday but may stay awhile to catch the first...
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Extensively revised and up-dated it includes a gripping account of a visit to a Trident submarine in which you are made to feel you are going with him....
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Friday August 13th:
Denny Goodwin Duo - smooth jazz guitar from Newark's favourite jazz musician...
Jazz Guitar and Muted Trumpet make for a wonderful evening of Jazz standards from these two long standing musicians - requests are usually played too!
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Z was the name the British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett gave to the principal city of a lost civilization that he believed was to be found in the Amazon jungle. He and his son died in their search for it. Many followed - some died, others simply disa...
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Transition has several meanings in this kaleidoscope thriller - from life to death, body to body, between historical moments. Dizzyingly slippery and well worth a read....
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What we have here is among the best spy stories ever written - and it's all true! A meticulous and extensive authorised history of MI5. Andrew has captured every important detail - from penetrating fascist groups to spying on communists. This book is the ...
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More raising the dead. One of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field has a new book out - "Bullet". Another fast-moving, tough-edged supernatural thriller featuring Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Non-stop action....
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1. One Day by David Nicholls
2. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel.
3. Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
4. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
5. Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
6. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
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Brilliantly funny. A scream on behalf of every person who has been generally disrespected, passed over at work, who is in thrall to his or her ungrateful children. Funny, profane, insightful....
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A BRILLIANT thriller. An innocent man on the run from an unknown adversary - no phone, no credit cards, no bank account, no identity. The depiction of London's underbelly is so real you can almost smell it! If you enjoy a really well written thriller comp...
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A textured tapestry of everyday life in the 50's - a world at once instantly recognizable and yet impossibly distant....
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Follows Charles II's reign between 1660 and 1670 opening at the very moment of restoration. A lively, imaginative and constantly engrossing account of an intriguing figure and an absorbing decade....
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Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie ....... some of the Nazis who survived the second world war have become almost as famous as their one-time masters in Berlin. They were hunted down in the end - but rarely with the determination their crimes war...
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If you enjoyed Cormac Mccarthy's "The Road" you'll love this. Another post-apocalyptic world but with perhaps a touch more humanity and hope. Really engrossing if you like that sort of thing....
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Refreshingly different biography of Eveyln Waugh and the origins of Brideshead Revisited....
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The blurb describes it as a wonderful book - IT IS! A big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable book. The best weird love story since The Time Traveller's Wife....
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"The Kingdom (Saudi Arabia) is not a logical world, and besides logic is not an ornament of young ladies." A BRILLIANT book choice for any book club (and an outstandingly good book for anybody)....
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In the slave ships to hear your own name spoken was momentous - it affirmed your humanity...... A hugely impressive historical novel centred on the slave trade - vivid characters and fascinating detail....
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A new take on the life of Robin Hood. Richly enjoyable on many levels - including Thorpe's usual lustrous prose and exuberant inventiveness. A strange and lovely book....
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This is THE great novel of the German resistance. The rediscovered masterpiece presents a vivid picture of what it must have been like to live in Berlin during World War 2. Hardcore reading at it's very best -
bleak & gripping...
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