Thurber worked hard in the 1920's, both in the U.S.A. and in France, to establish himself as a professional writer. However, unique among major American literary figures, he became equally well known for his simple, surrealistic drawings and cartoons.
Ustinov was born in London. His father, Iona (Jona) von Ustinov, known to his friends as "Klop" was of Russian and German descent, and had served as a German fighter pilot in World War I. In 1935 he began working for the British intelligence service MI5 and became a British citizen, thus avoiding internment or deportation during the war.
Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in LondonAfter a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted carpark ten storeys below, then they start dropping other things;
Two children accompany their father to the shopping Centre. They enter different shops and buy several item. They get out, but they can't see the car. Where did they park?
Christine Scavello's life is transformed into a nightmare when her son becomes the target of a group of religious fanatics who claim that the child is the Antichrist and will stop at nothing in their efforts to destroy him.
Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her lover/partner.
