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Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information.
This rapid change has imperiled the way we think. Without pausing to consider the cost, the world has rushed to embrace the products and services of four titanic corporations. We shop with Amazon; socialize on Facebook; turn to Apple for entertainment; and rely on Google for information. These firms sell their efficiency and purport to make the world a better place, but what they have done instead is to enable an intoxicating level of daily convenience.
As these companies have expanded, marketing themselves as champions of individuality and pluralism, their algorithms have pressed us into conformity and laid waste to privacy. They have produced an unstable and narrow culture of misinformation, and put us on a path to a world without private contemplation, autonomous thought, or solitary introspection–a world without mind. In order to restore our inner lives, we must avoid being coopted by these gigantic companies, and understand the ideas that underpin their success.
Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer science–from Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand and the hippie origins of today’s Silicon Valley–Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology. The corporate ambitions of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, he argues, are trampling longstanding liberal values, especially intellectual property and privacy. This is a nascent stage in the total automation and homogenization of social, political, and intellectual life. By reclaiming our private authority over how we intellectually engage with the world, we have the power to stem the tide.
At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become. There have been monopolists in the past but today’s corporate giants have far more nefarious aims. They’re monopolists who want access to every facet of our identities and influence over every corner of our decision-making. Until now few have grasped the sheer scale of the threat. Foer explains not just the looming existential crisis but the imperative of resistance.
Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of How Soccer Explains the World, which has been translated into 27 languages and a winner of a National Jewish Book Award. For seven years, he edited The New Republic magazin
Franklin Foer:
World Without Mind.
The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Hardcover
272 pages
Published September 2017
Penguin Press
ISBN 1101981113
ISBN13: 9781101981115
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer . Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence.
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February 9, 1942. Disgraced Southern cop Woodrow Cain arrives in New York City for a new position with the NYPD and is greeted with smoke billowing out from the SS Normandie, engulfed in flames on the Hudson.
On Cain’s first day on the job, a body turns up in the same river. Unfamiliar with the milieu of mob bosses and crooked officials in the big city, Cain’s investigation stalls, until a strange man who calls himself Danziger enters his life. Danziger looks like a miscreant, but speaks five languages, has the manners of a gentleman, and is the one person who can help Cain identify the body. A letter writer for illiterate European immigrants, Danzinger has a seemingly boundless knowledge of the city’s denizens and networks—and possesses information that extends beyond the reach of his clients, hinting at an unfathomable past. As the body count grows, Cain and Danziger inch closer toward an underground web of possibly traitorous corruption . . . but in these murky depths, not even Danzinger can know what kind of danger will await them.
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR
DAN FESPERMAN‘s travels as a journalist and novelist have taken him to thirty countries and three war zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers’ Association of Britain’s John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantánamo won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers.
“Fesperman is a skillful, unpretentious writer who deftly incorporates his extensive knowledge of the period.” Anna Mundow, Boston Globe
The Letter Writer
A Novel
By Dan Fesperman
Category: Historical Fiction
Paperback
384 Pages
Publ.: Mar 21, 2017 |
Penquin Random House
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An elegant Everyman’s Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller and a perpetually strong backlist title, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and an introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the “great gentleman,” Lord Darlington.
But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness,” and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s books have won him wide renown and numerous honors. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.
Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro’s other work includes Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.
Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017.
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
Introduction by Salman Rushdie
Everyman’s Library
Contemporary Classics Series
Hardcover, Deckle Edge,
2012, 248 Pages
978 1 84159 349 4
£ 10.99
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Museum Meermanno toont meer dan driehonderd miniatuurboekjes in de kleine, maar fijne tentoonstelling ‘Xtra small’.
Miniatuurboekjes passen in je handpalm, soms zelfs op de top van je vinger. Voor boekbinders en drukkers is het kleine formaat een uitdaging. Het is een manier om hun kunde en handvaardigheid te etaleren. En dan vereist een echt mooi miniatuurboekje naast heel veel vakmanschap ook veel creativiteit, smaak en verfijning in ontwerp en de gebruikte motieven en materialen.
Museum Meermanno bezit van oudsher een grote collectie van deze boekjes, waarvan het Bloemhofje uit 1673 wel heel bijzonder is. Maar ook veel moderne exemplaren maken deel uit van de collectie. Deze werd in 2012 drastisch uitgebreid met de Bibliotheca Thurkowiana Minor. Dat is een miniatuurbibliotheek die ook nog eens 1.550 boekjes herbergt, waaronder zelfs een miniatuurkleitablet uit 1800 voor Christus.
In de tentoonstelling ‘Xtra small’ toont het museum deze collectie waaraan zeer recent nog eens 120 unieke exemplaren zijn toegevoegd. Dat zijn de inzendingen voor de International Minature Bookbinding Competition 2017 die de Stichting Handboekbinden samen met Uitgeverij de Buitenkant en Museum Meermanno eind 2016 uitschreef. De deelnemers ontvingen daarvoor de katernen van het door Liz Waters in het Engels vertaalde verhaal ‘The Island’ van Geert Mak. De Amsterdamse kunstenaar Max Kisman maakte de illustraties. De boekjes moesten voldoen aan de zogenaamde Bondy-norm, dat wil zeggen dat ze maximaal 76.2mm hoog, breed en dik mochten zijn.
De inzendingen zijn staaltjes van toewijding en vakmanschap en ze komen uit alle delen van Europa, Canada en Noord-Amerika, China, Japan, Australië en Nieuw Zeeland.
Publicatie: Bij deze tentoonstelling verschijnt een gelijknamige Engelstalige catalogus waarin onder andere alle inzendingen voor de wedstrijd in kleur en op ware grootte zijn afgebeeld. Het door Peter Verheul vormgegeven boekje verschijnt 1 oktober bij Uitgeverij de Buitenkant. Het boekje kost € 12,50 en is te koop in Museum Meermanno of kan besteld worden via Uitgeverij de Buitenkant (www.uitgeverijdebuitenkant.nl)
Xtra small
Miniature books in Museum Meermanno
Anne C. Bromer
€ 12,50 / catalogus / 11 x 16 cm / 128 pagina’s
genaaid overlijmd met stofomslag
vormgeving: Peter Verheul
uitgave Uitgeverij de Buitenkant
ism Museum Meermanno en
de Nederlandse Stichting Handboekbinden
ISBN 978 94 90913 78 6
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Tentoonstelling ‘Xtra small. Miniatuurboekjes in Museum Meermanno’
Van 3 oktober 2017 t/m 7 januari 2018
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1936: Dmitri Shostakovich, just thirty years old, reckons with the first of three conversations with power that will irrevocably shape his life.
Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has suddenly denounced the young composer’s latest opera. Certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, his daughter—all of those hanging in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, he will twice more be swept up by the forces of despotism: coerced into praising the Soviet state at a cultural conference in New York in 1948, and finally bullied into joining the Party in 1960. All the while, he is compelled to constantly weigh the specter of power against the integrity of his music. An extraordinary portrait of a relentlessly fascinating man, The Noise of Time is a stunning meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society.
Julian Barnes is the author of twenty previous books. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in France, the Prix Médicis and the Prix Femina; and in Austria, the State Prize for European Literature. In 2004 he was named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.
One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle
“This story is truly amazing . . . an arc of human degradation without violence (the threat of violence, of course, everywhere). . . . The whole Kafka madhouse brought to life.”—Jeremy Denk, The New York Times Book Review
The Noise of Time
A Novel
By Julian Barnes
Part of Vintage International
Literary Fiction
Paperback
Publisher Penguin Random House
June 2017,
224 Pages
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“Wie viel Leben steckt in vier Wänden? Welche Erinnerungen haften an Böden, Fenstern und Türen?
Wer in einer Wohnung lebt, lebt immer auch in einem Erinnerungsort, in einem Geschichtsraum. Und wenn schon eine Wohnung so viel Geschichten bietet, was hat dann erst ein ganzes Haus zu sagen? In ihrem Debütroman „Eine kurze Chronik des allmählichen Verschwindens“ ringt Juliana Kálnay um einen anderen, einen fantastischen Blick auf die Welt. Ein Mann wird zu einem Baum, eine alte Frau spürt wie sich die Räume bei Kälte zusammenziehen, ein ganzes Haus lebt unter dem Gesetz des Unwirklichen. In feinen, leicht verschwommenen Vignetten erzählt Kálnay auf den Spuren des magischen Realismus vom Wundern und Träumen dieser Hausbewohner. Es ist ein Buch, in dem man sich herrlich verlieren kann. Und das große Lust macht auf die Welt des Surrealen.”
So begründet die Jury – Jana Hensel (Autorin), Ursula März (Die Zeit), Daniel Fiedler (Redaktionsleiter ZDF Kultur Berlin) Simon Strauß (FAZ) und Volker Weidermann (Das Literarische Quartett, Der Spiegel – ihre Entscheidung.
Juliana Kálnay erzählt mit Aberwitz und aus vielen Perspektiven, es ist ein Stimmengewirr, ein Puzzle, das sich nach und nach zu einem dichten Bild fügt. Die Charaktere – Bewohner eines rätselhaften Hauses – versuchen, sich einen Reim auf die Dinge des Lebens zu machen, sich selbst und die anderen zu verstehen, tappen aber oft im Dunklen. Kálnays magischer Realismus hält die Handlung in der Schwebe, ohne ins Phantastische abzuheben, das Haus verbindet alle Elemente im Roman.
Der aspekte-Literaturpreis wird in diesem Jahr zum 39. Mal vergeben. Er ist mit 10.000 Euro dotiert und die bedeutendste Auszeichnung für deutschsprachige Erstlingsprosa. Die Preisverleihung findet am Donnerstag, 12. Oktober 2017, 11:30 Uhr im Rahmen der Frankfurter Buchmesse auf dem Blauen Sofa am ZDF-Stand statt.
Juliana Kálnay, geboren 1988 in Hamburg, wuchs zunächst in Köln und dann in Málaga auf. Sie veröffentlichte in deutsch- und spanischsprachigen Anthologien und Zeitschriften und erhielt das Arbeitsstipendium Literatur der Kulturstiftung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein 2016. Sie lebt und schreibt in Kiel. »Eine kurze Chronik des allmählichen Verschwindens« ist ihr erster Roman.
Juliana Kálnay
Eine kurze Chronik des allmählichen Verschwindens
Quartbuch. 2017
192 Seiten. 13 x 21 cm.
Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag
Buch €20,–
ISBN 978-3-8031-3284-0
Klaus Wagenbach Verlag
(www.wagenbach.de)
Ein fantastischer Blick auf die Welt
Der aspekte-Literaturpreis 2017 geht an Juliana Kálnay
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan.The family moved to the United Kingdom when he was five years old; he returned to visit his country of birth only as an adult.
In the late 1970s, Ishiguro graduated in English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, and then went on to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
Kazuo Ishiguro has been a full-time author ever since his first book, “A Pale View of Hills” (1982). Both his first novel and the subsequent one, “An Artist of the Floating World” (1986) take place in Nagasaki a few years after the Second World War. The themes Ishiguro is most associated with are already present here: memory, time, and self-delusion. This is particularly notable in his most renowned novel, “The Remains of the Day” (1989), which was turned into film with Anthony Hopkins acting as the duty-obsessed butler Stevens.
Ishiguro’s writings are marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place. At the same time, his more recent fiction contains fantastic features. With the dystopian work “Never Let Me Go” (2005), Ishiguro introduced a cold undercurrent of science fiction into his work. In this novel, as in several others, we also find musical influences. A striking example is the collection of short stories titled “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall” (2009), where music plays a pivotal role in depicting the characters’ relationships. In his latest novel, “The Buried Giant” (2015), an elderly couple go on a road trip through an archaic English landscape, hoping to reunite with their adult son, whom they have not seen for years. This novel explores, in a moving manner, how memory relates to oblivion, history to the present, and fantasy to reality.
Apart from his eight books, Ishiguro has also written scripts for film and television.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 to English author Kazuo Ishiguro
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Wat men doorgaans niet weet is dat Heyboer in de jaren 60 en 70 een gevierd kunstenaar was wiens werk werd aangekocht door het MoMA in New York, getoond op de Documenta in Kassel, en met grote tentoonstellingen werd geëerd in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag en het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
In 1975 werd hij zelfs samen met David Hockney en Lucian Freud in LACMA in Los Angeles gepresenteerd als een van de belangrijkste Europese schilders van dat moment. Veertig jaar na zijn laatste grote museale tentoonstelling wil het Gemeentemuseum de internationale kwaliteit van zijn oeuvre opnieuw voor het voetlicht brengen.
De tentoonstelling toont de ontwikkeling van zijn oeuvre met de nadruk op de periode 1956-1977, maar belicht ook het ‘systeem’ waarmee de kunstenaar een manier vond om het leven voor zichzelf dragelijk te maken. Zo wordt duidelijk hoe het leven en werk van Heyboer onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden zijn.
Nog te zien t/m 04 februari 2018
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Stadhouderslaan 41, 2517 HV Den Haag
Publicatie: Bij de tentoonstelling verschijnt een catalogus met teksten van onder meer Kees Keijer.
Anton Heyboer (Sabang, Indonesië, 1924 – Den Ilp, 2005) bekleedt een unieke positie binnen de moderne kunst. Met zijn mysterieuze, mystieke en hoogst persoonlijke beeldtaal plaatste hij zich in de jaren zestig en zeventig lijnrecht tegenover de toen heersende zakelijke kunststromingen zoals popart en minimal art.
In zijn etsen en tekeningen ontwikkelde Heyboer een ‘systeem’ om grip te krijgen op de demonen die hem sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog achtervolgden, en om het leven voor zichzelf draaglijk te maken. Het is de kunst die zijn leven redt. Samen met zijn befaamde ‘vijf bruiden’ leefde Heyboer volgens de regels van zijn systeem, teruggetrokken in een zelfgebouwde, labyrintische woonruimte in Den Ilp. Hij creëerde zo zijn eigen, veilige universum waarin de kunst en zijn leven onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden zijn.
De kracht van Heyboers unieke werk bleef niet onopgemerkt. In de jaren zeventig werd Heyboer in één adem genoemd met kunstenaars als David Hockney en Lucian Freud en werd hij voorgedragen als een van Europa’s belangrijkste schilders van het moment. Hij maakte internationaal naam, maar vanaf 1975 trok hij zich volledig terug uit de kunstwereld en werd vooral zijn excentrieke leven een kolfje naar de hand van de roddelpers . Meer dan veertig jaar later brengt deze publicatie de internationale kwaliteit van zijn werk uit de jaren zestig en zeventig opnieuw voor het voetlicht.
Anton Heyboer
Het goede moment
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192 bladzijden
Hardcover
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Chroniqueur judiciaire, Jack McEvoy ne peut croire au suicide de son frère jumeau.
Si Sean, inspecteur de police, s’est bien tiré une balle dans la bouche, que vient faire ce Hors de l’espace, hors du temps d’Edgar Allan Poe écrit sur le pare-brise de sa voiture ? Et pourquoi Rusher, un indic qu’il devait voir ce jour-là, reste-t-il introuvable ? En s’immisçant dans une base de données du FBI pour les besoins d’un article, McEvoy découvre avec stupéfaction que beaucoup de policiers se suicident et que le FBI mène l’enquête sur la mort de son frère. Il comprend alors que cette affaire est en passe de lui fournir son plus gros scoop sur des meurtres en série. Mais il pressent aussi qu’il est devenu la prochaine cible du suspect…
Le classique absolu pour les fans de romans policiers.
Un livre au suspense implacable qui [a placé] Connelly au même niveau que Raymond Chandler ou James Ellroy, et l’[a fait] connaître dans le monde entier. François Busnel, Lire.
Prix Mystère de la critique en 1998.
Le Livre de Poche
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Michael Connelly
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768 pages
Ean: 9782253085867
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From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others—even she has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might finally, fully explain her to herself. Now, when she sees a chance to uncover them once and for all, she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist, the editor of the muckraking, investigative journal Millennium. And she will let nothing stop her—not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as The Registry. Once again, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, together, are the fierce heart of a thrilling full-tilt novel that takes on some of the most insidious problems facing the world at this very moment.
David Lagercrantz was born in 1962 and is an acclaimed author and journalist. He has written numerous biographies (including the internationally best-selling I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, for which he was the ghostwriter) and four novels, including Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and the #1 best-selling The Girl in the Spider’s Web.
“Lagercrantz’s excellent second contribution to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series [is a] complicated, fascinating mystery.” Publisher’s Weekly
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
A Lisbeth Salander novel,
continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series
By David Lagercrantz
Suspense & Thriller – Crime Mysteries
Paperback
Sep 12, 2017
512 Pages
Hardcover
Sep 12, 2017
368 Pages
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In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century.
The first globally notorious instance of air pollution, they remained a constant feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s brought about their demise. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination.
As the city grew, smoke from millions of domestic fires, combined with industrial emissions and naturally occurring mists, seeped into homes, shops, and public buildings in dark yellow clouds of water droplets, soot, and sulphur dioxide. The fogs were sometimes so thick that people could not see their own feet.
By the time London’s fogs lifted in the second half of the twentieth century, they had changed urban life. Fogs had created worlds of anonymity that shaped social relations, providing a cover for crime, and blurring moral and social boundaries.
They had been a gift to writers, appearing famously in the works of Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and T. S. Eliot. Whistler and Monet painted London fogs with a fascination other artists reserved for the clear light of the Mediterranean.
Corton combines historical and literary sensitivity with an eye for visual drama—generously illustrated here—to reveal London fog as one of the great urban spectacles of the industrial age.
Christine L. Corton is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a freelance writer. She worked for many years at publishing houses in London.
London Fog
The Biography
Christine L. Corton
Paperback – 2017
408 pages
28 color illustrations, 63 halftones
Belknap Press / Harvard University Press
ISBN 9780674979819
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Lars Martin Johansson is a living legend. Cunning and perceptive, always one step ahead, he was known in the National Criminal Police as “the man who could see around corners.” But now Johansson is retired, living in the country, his police days behind him.
Or so he thinks.
After suffering a stroke, Johansson finds himself in the hospital. Tests show heart problems as well. And the only thing that can save him from despair is his doctor’s mention of an unsolved murder case from years before. The victim: an innocent nine-year-old girl.
Johansson is determined to solve the case, no matter his condition. With the help of his assistant, Matilda, an amateur detective, and Max, an orphan with a personal stake in the case, he launches an informal investigation from his hospital bed. Racing against time, he uncovers a web of connections that links sex tourism to a dead opera singer and a self-made millionaire. And as Johansson draws closer to solving the crime, he finds that he will have to confront not just a mystery but his own mortality as well.
Leif G.W. Persson’s previous novels include Backstrom: He Who Kills the Dragon, Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End, and Another Time, Another Life. He has served as an adviser to the Swedish ministry of justice and is Sweden’s most renowned psychological profiler. A professor at the Swedish National Police Board, he is considered the country’s foremost expert on crime.
The Dying Detective
A Mystery
By Leif GW Persson
Translated by Neil Smith
Category: Crime Mysteries
Paperback + Hardback
May 2017
432 Pages
Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN10 085752089X
ISBN13 9780857520890
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