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A Darker Shade of Blue by John Harvey
Category: Fiction
John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in "A Darker Shade of Blue" he has collected together some of his very best writing. From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East An ...Show more
Ash & Bone by John Harvey
Category: Fiction
Detective sergeant Maddy Birch will never see thirty again. Nor forty. And, after a lifetime on the force, all she has to show for it are a couple of hundred pounds in the bank and a mortgaged flat.
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can be Saved by Peter Andrews; John Williams (Foreword by); Gerry Harvey (Foreword by)
Category: Animals & Nature
Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He ...Show more
Body and Soul by John Harvey
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Frank Elder Ser.
'John Harvey is one of the all-time greats and remains one of my favourite writers.' - Ian Rankin _____________________ Frank Elder's last case could be the one that breaks him for good. The heavy manacles around the girl's wrists, perhaps not surprisingly, looked very much like the ones that had been ...Show more
Clothes by John Harvey
Category: Fiction | Series: Art of Living
When we choose our own clothes, we know the choice is a sensitive matter and far from being merely superficial. "Clothes" considers the overlapping values that clothes have for us. Clothes both cover and advertise the bodies within them. They help make us the men and women we are, and help us to attract ...Show more
Cold in Hand by John Harvey
Category: Crime and Thrillers
It's Valentine's Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl's father seeks to lay the blame on Resnick's partner, DI Lynn Kellogg, Resni ...Show more
Darkness, Darkness: (Resnick 12) by John Harvey
Category: Fiction | Series: Resnick
The final DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Cold in Hand. Thirty years ago, the Miners' Strike threatened to tear the country apart, turning neighbour against neighbour, husband against wife, father against son - enmities which smould ...Show more
Darkness, Darkness: (Resnick 12) by John Harvey
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Resnick
"A war between the past and the present, in a place wracked by guilt and vengeance, a country torn into pieces. A brilliant, important and moving book about the legacy of 1984, and where and who we are now". (David Peace). The final DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Su ...Show more
Darkness and Light by John Harvey
Category: Fiction
She wore a gold dress, short-sleeved, its skirt full-length and slightly flared. He could see the faint indentation on her left hand, a pale circle of skin giving away the fact that, until recently, a wedding ring had been there. She looked peaceful, lying there on the bed, her arms resting easily toget ...Show more
EARLY COLD WAR SPIES by HAYNES JOHN EARL & KLEHR HARVEY
Category: History
Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy trials ...Show more