<p>Sharp-talking, existentially troubled Dodger leads a frenzied life as PA and dogsbody to one of London’s top crime bosses. He dreams of a better, saner existence, but fate has other plans for him. Sent to hire the services of notorious contract killer Bill Kane, little does he suspect that he is about to embark on a wild odyssey through the heart of Rio’s favelas and the sizzling backlands of northeastern Brazil. His orders are simple: to help Kane hunt down and kill Captain America, the organisation’s double-crossing second-in-command. But where Kane is involved, nothing remains simple for long. The instant they set foot in Rio, the unlikely duo are catapulted into a series of confrontations as bizarre as they are frightening, as comical as they are wired. Kane, who believes he is possessed by the soul of an Oglala Sioux shaman, has declared war on modern society and its evils, with cataclysmic results. But even as the mission spirals out of control, Dodger finds himself little by little beginning to share in Kane’s unusual views on life, death and what it means to be human. Part gangster thriller in the Get Carter mould, part wild road-trip romp à la Fear and Loathing, this is a thousand-volt, turbo-paced tale that reads like an acid-fuelled rollercoaster ride through a war zone. The story takes you by the scruff of the neck, hurtles you halfway across the world, flips you upside-down, then drops you off at the end, breathless and reeling. And all told in the juiciest slang-and-expletive-filled mutation the English language has spawned in years.</p>

Mondo Kane

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gould, George

Thrillers & Suspense

Pembury House Publishing

Ed found it difficult to explain why he felt such a strong allegiance to Britain, perhaps because he found it difficult to define what it meant to be British.   British by birth, foreign by descent and agnostic by conviction, Edward Henry Malik is an MI6 agent-runner.   For four years he has been running an agent codenamed Nightingale inside the ISI, Pakistan’s Hydra-headed spying agency. Then, in the aftermath of the death of Osama bin Laden, Nightingale is unmasked and Ed’s world dramatically falls apart.   Dismissed from MI6 and with his reputation in tatters, Ed returns to his roots in the immigrant enclave of Whitechapel in London’s East End. He finds a job at a freight forwarding office and unexpectedly falls in love with the proprietor’s daughter. It seems as if he has finally found respite from his demons.   But you can’t escape your past. Ed knows too much and he has come to the attention of the Hidden Hand – Pakistan’s legendary spy of spies – Major-General Javid Aslam Khan.   From the teeming city of Lahore to the anarchic tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, with a plot to detonate the dirtiest bomb imaginable, The Agent Runner carves a dramatic arc across modern Pakistan and reaches a thunderous climax in the mountains of the Hindu Kush.   Praise for A Loyal Spy:   “It's sprawling, violent and contemporary, with whiffs of authenticity that lift it above the crowd” The Spectator   “Conway has concocted a credible, and wholly cynical, tale of dirt, death and double-dealing” The Times   “A LOYAL SPY is so vivid, so real, that reading it you sense Simon Conway must almost have lived it himself” Jon Snow

The Agent Runner

Conway, Simon

Literature & Fiction

Thimblerigger

Rowbottom, Simon

Genre Fiction

This is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco

In what amounts to a history of the last twenty-five years of popular music, respected music journalist Garry Mulholland has compiled a list of the 500 greatest singles since The Sex Pistols' seminal "Anarchy in the UK". In incisive, outspoken and informative essays, Mulholland challenges the accepted standpoint of music journalism to produce an entertaining, nostalgic and provocative read. Incidentally, the title comes from a 1977 entry in the book by the Rezillos.

Arts & Photography

Mulholland, Garry

Music

Your 60s took place away from London and you experienced the songs in the order they happened, and those times made sense at the speed they occurred. And one other thing - you fell into being a Bob Dylan fan. Bob Dylan, who came out of the folk blues of past America into your life, into the present, into the Beatles and Stones. Bob Dylan who sounded like no one else until everyone else sounded somewhat like him. Bob Dylan who meant so much because of the way he looked, and the way he looked changed and changed so quickly, until the cowboy Beat hobo disappeared and what looked back at us was a tiny rock marionette with Medusa hair. Bob Dylan who changed everything. Bob Dylan who looked at us and made us look at ourselves ever after. "Yes, there are far too many books about Bob Dylan - but this one is long overdue. Roy Kelly, a British poet, has long been, quite simply, among the finest writers about Dylan's canon, and the most thoughtful about being a long-term Dylan fan. Fandom doesn't mar the quality of his meditation on how the past lives inside the present, nor lead him into hagiography. His writing doesn't shout or swagger - but its modesty is part of what makes it essential" Michael Gray, author of the 'Song and Dance Man' series and 'The Bob Dylan Encyclopaedia'.

Bob Dylan Dream: My Life With Bob

Kelly, Roy

Sylvia is a brilliant and successful eye surgeon, who reacts to the discovery that she is pregnant with amazement, despite taking no precautions. Iris is a timid young woman in love with a man from a different social stratum. And Ruby is a 1950s housewife who receives poison pen letters, which she believes she thoroughly deserves. Linking these women is a fascinating thread that weaves their lives together. Peripheral Vision is a powerful novel about love and the lack of it; about loss, mothering, sight and insight, from a prize-winning author. Most recently, Patricia Ferguson’s novel Aren’t We Sisters? Was listed for the 2015 Baileys Prize for Fiction. Patricia’s previous novels have won the Betty Trask, Somerset Maugham and David Higham prizes and she has twice been long-listed for the Orange Prize.

Peripheral Vision

Ferguson, Patricia

Literary

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