Five words from the blurb: funeral home, death, mother, deaf, brother A Trick I Learned From Dead Men is a short, but interesting book about two brothers – one of whom works at a funeral parlour. The brothers are adjusting to life on their own after the sudden death of their mother. Ned is deaf [...]
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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Five words from the blurb: prediction, errors, immune, social, economic A few years ago I read The Black Swan and was impressed by the number of thought provoking ideas it contained; so I jumped at the chance to read a review copy of Taleb’s new book, Antifragile, which is more impressive in many ways. ‘Antifragile’ [...]
The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
Winner of the 2010 Kenzaburo Oe Prize Translated from the Japanese by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates Five words from the blurb: pickpocket, strangers, past, tangle, escape The Thief is a short, engaging book about a pickpocket who targets rich people on the streets of Tokyo. It vividly captures the roller-coaster of emotion that the [...]
Doppler by Erlend Loe
Translated from the Norwegian by Don Shaw and Don Bartlett Five words from the blurb: father, live, forest, elk, existence Doppler is a lovely little book. It gripped me from the very first page and I read the entire thing in a single day. It was unusual in that it was both powerful and entertaining; [...]
People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
Five words from the blurb: Tokyo, hostess, dismembered, fate, family Lucie Blackman was just 21-years-old when she disappeared in June 2000. She had been working as a hostess in Tokyo and for months no-one knew what had happened to her. It was suggested that she’d joined a cult or run away with a boyfriend, but [...]
The Human Part by Kari Hotakainen
Translated from the Finnish by Owen F Witesman Winner of France’s Prix du Courrier International and Finland’s Runeburg Prize Five words from the blurb: author, sell, life, family, stories The Human Part begins with an author approaching an elderly woman at a book fair. The author has writer’s block and with no idea what to [...]
![A SUITABLE BOY [A Suitable Boy ] BY Seth, Vikram(Author)Paperback 01-Oct-2005](http://images2.farmlanebooks.co.uk/2012/12/suit.jpg "A SUITABLE BOY [A Suitable Boy ] BY Seth, Vikram(Author)Paperback 01-Oct-2005")
