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|summary= Dorrigo Evans was born in Cleveland, Tasmania, in the years just after the First World War, and overcame his lower-class origins to become a surgeon. In the novel's present day, he is a 77-year-old war hero writing a preface to the sketchbook a fellow POW kept on the Death Railway. 'Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life horror has no more form than it does meaning,' he eventually writes. | |summary= Dorrigo Evans was born in Cleveland, Tasmania, in the years just after the First World War, and overcame his lower-class origins to become a surgeon. In the novel's present day, he is a 77-year-old war hero writing a preface to the sketchbook a fellow POW kept on the Death Railway. 'Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life horror has no more form than it does meaning,' he eventually writes. | ||
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701189053</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701189053</amazonuk> | ||
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| + | |summary= An identity thief is wreaking havoc in the oddest of ways and forcing a dentist to confront his online presence. This is a book like no other you’ll know. | ||
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| + | We were having a discussion the other day about how there are lots of TV shows about doctors and lots about lawyers, but other professions, say accountants or vets or dentists, get less of a look in. Just not as sexy, we thought. Just not as funny. Then this book came along and, in an extremely timely manner, changed my mind entirely. This is the stuff sitcoms could be made of. | ||
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| − | |summary= | + | |summary= Many generations of the Ghosh family live together in a single house in 1960's Calcutta, albeit a very big single house. Life may be materially comfortable but not easy. Jealousy, in-fighting, the struggle to keep the family business going (and, for the younger family members, the struggle to lead the life they'd like) causes more than the odd sleepless night. Son Supratik has succeeded in choosing a different path though. He's tired of the endless consumption and acquisition and leaves home to follow his Marxist beliefs, exchanging family living for discomfort and danger. |
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186291</amazonuk> | |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701186291</amazonuk> | ||
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