| Roadworks | | Gerard Readett | African terrorists hijack a city's transit infrastructure threatening to drop buildings on commuters and world leaders gathered for a NATO conference. After discovering a local crimelord is helping the terrorists can Hugh Ryan, a Transport Authority Controller, still get a grip on the escalating chaos?
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| A Writer's World: Travels 1950-2000 | | Jan Morris | | Some of the author's finest articles are brought together here. Age might now restrict her travels, but her memories of travel are a delight. Her wonderful descriptions evoke the spirit of so many places. For example, Delhi is: the capital of the losing streak, the metropolis of the crossed wire, the missing appointment, the puncture, the wrong number. |  | |
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| The Children of Talavera | | E. Warner Morrell | | When Inés Zaragosa sees the handsome stranger on her doorstep, she can't imagine how his appearance will change her life, but when she discovers her ancestor's journal in a dusty archive, nothing can stop her from fulfilling her destiny, which was foretold by an old mountain woman hundreds of years before. |  | |
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| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | | Mark Haddon | | A murder mystery - told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole! 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted but socially hopeless, taking everything at face value. He resolves to discover who has murdered Wellington the dog. |  | |
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