At "The Hollyhocks" old people's home, the inhabitants are "waiting for the scythe". As they do, Lady Celia runs a blackmail business on the side, Mr Cross keeps a tally of residents' deaths and Mrs Bellamy decides she can't take any more and slits her throat. Two newcomers also cause disturbance.

The waiting game

Literature & Fiction

RUBENS, Bernice

British & Irish

London : Abacus

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Albertson, Chris and Schuller, Gunther

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Flesh and Blood: A History of The Cannibal Complex

Politics & Social Sciences

TANNAHILL, Reay

Social Sciences

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigationThe questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963?Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The New York Times, finally provides many of the answers. Though A Cruel and Shocking Act began as Shenon's attempt to write the first insider's history of the Warren Commission, it quickly became something much larger and more important when he discovered startling information that was withheld from the Warren Commission by the CIA, FBI and others in power in Washington. Shenon shows how the commission's ten-month investigation was doomed to fail because the man leading it – Chief Justice Earl Warren – was more committed to protecting the Kennedy family than getting to the full truth about what happened on that tragic day. A taut, page-turning narrative, Shenon's book features some of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century―Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Chief Justice Warren, CIA spymasters Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, as well as the CIA's treacherous "molehunter," James Jesus Angleton.Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to the surviving commission staffers and many other key players, Philip Shenon's authoritative, scrupulously researched book will forever change the way we think about the Kennedy assassination and about the deeply flawed investigation that followed. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

Biographies & Memoirs

Shenon, Philip

True Crime

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