Life - A User's Manual

Georges Perec

This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives ...

Night School (#21 Jack Reacher)

Lee Child

It?s just a voice plucked from the air- 'The American wants a hundred million dollars?.For what? Who from? It?s 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there?s a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big.In the morning they gave Reache...