Man of secrets
[Books]
Compiled by SHARIL DEWA
The Cryptographer
Author: Tobias Hill
Publisher: Faber and Faber
JOHN Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer or the Code Maker.
Law is mysterious and charming. He is the world’s first quadrillionaire, and the inventor of an unbreakable code of a new form of electronic money. As a man, he is admired – and distrusted – more than most.
Tax inspector Anna Moore’s talent is for getting clients to talk, and in the Inland Revenue, she’s one of the best.
So when the Revenue assigns John Law as Anna’s new client, her first task is to discover just what it is he’s trying to hide.
However, it is not long before client and inspector get to know each other on a more intimate plateau.
Tobias Hill is the author of two highly acclaimed novels, Love of Stones and Underground, and three poetry collections including Zoo, Midnight In The City of the Clocks and Year of the Dog.
The Whole Story and Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin
THIS book is a collection of 12 drolly-written tales that reflect the everyday.
It starts with The Universal Story, a story about a man who buys up used copies of The Great Gatsby for his sister who plans to use them to build a paper boat.
In May, a woman falls in love with a tree on a neighbour’s property that becomes a rival for her husband’s affection, while in Gothic, a bookstore clerk has to deal with a series of odd and occasionally threatening customers.
Elsewhere, in Being Quick, Death, dressed in a business suit, mingles with the rush hour crowd on a station platform and is recognised by the homeward-bound narrator whose cell phone goes dead: her commute becomes a strangely sinister odyssey while her anxious lover waits for her.
Ali Smith is the author of three collections of short stories, Free Love, Like, and Other Stories and Other Stories, and a novel Hotel World.
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
Author: John Dickie
Publisher: Coronet
THIS book vividly reconstructs the stories of the men and women who have lived and died in the Mafia’s shadow.
It explains how the Sicilian Mafia began in the 1860s, how it responds to threats and challenges, and how it maintains its grip on the society where it was born.
The book explores the thought processes of the Mafia’s leaders and foot soldiers, its friends and its foes.
Its cast of characters includes Antonino Giammona, the first man with a claim to the title “boss of bosses”; Emanuele Notarbartolo, the honest and courageous banker who in 1893 became the Mafia’s first “eminent corpse”; New York policeman Joe Petrosino who underestimated the Sicilian Mafia and paid dearly with his life for this; and Bernardo “The Tractor” Provenzano, the current boss of bosses who has been in hiding in Sicily since 1963.
The Science of Cold Case Files
Author: Katherine Ramsland
Publisher: Penguin
THE files reveal the absorbing true stories behind the pioneering A&E television series, and the intrepid detectives whose investigations resulted in the resolution of the most baffling crimes, sometimes decades after they were committed.
From handwriting analysis, facial reconstruction, fingerprints and K-9 detectives, state-of-the-art DNA technology, and old-fashioned perseverance and police work, The Science of Cold Case Files presents a detailed look at the methods used in forensic detection.
Featuring the most fascinating crimes on record, some of these cases have never been seen on television and the book offers an inside look at the intriguing clues found in cases that have remained unsolved for decades.
Katherine Ramsland is the author of The Forensic Science of CSI and has written biographies of authors Anne Rice and Dean Koontz.
Compiled by SHARIL DEWA
The Cryptographer
Author: Tobias Hill
Publisher: Faber and Faber
JOHN Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer or the Code Maker.
Law is mysterious and charming. He is the world’s first quadrillionaire, and the inventor of an unbreakable code of a new form of electronic money. As a man, he is admired – and distrusted – more than most.
Tax inspector Anna Moore’s talent is for getting clients to talk, and in the Inland Revenue, she’s one of the best.
So when the Revenue assigns John Law as Anna’s new client, her first task is to discover just what it is he’s trying to hide.
However, it is not long before client and inspector get to know each other on a more intimate plateau.
Tobias Hill is the author of two highly acclaimed novels, Love of Stones and Underground, and three poetry collections including Zoo, Midnight In The City of the Clocks and Year of the Dog.
The Whole Story and Other Stories
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Penguin
THIS book is a collection of 12 drolly-written tales that reflect the everyday.
It starts with The Universal Story, a story about a man who buys up used copies of The Great Gatsby for his sister who plans to use them to build a paper boat.
In May, a woman falls in love with a tree on a neighbour’s property that becomes a rival for her husband’s affection, while in Gothic, a bookstore clerk has to deal with a series of odd and occasionally threatening customers.
Elsewhere, in Being Quick, Death, dressed in a business suit, mingles with the rush hour crowd on a station platform and is recognised by the homeward-bound narrator whose cell phone goes dead: her commute becomes a strangely sinister odyssey while her anxious lover waits for her.
Ali Smith is the author of three collections of short stories, Free Love, Like, and Other Stories and Other Stories, and a novel Hotel World.
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
Author: John Dickie
Publisher: Coronet
THIS book vividly reconstructs the stories of the men and women who have lived and died in the Mafia’s shadow.
It explains how the Sicilian Mafia began in the 1860s, how it responds to threats and challenges, and how it maintains its grip on the society where it was born.
The book explores the thought processes of the Mafia’s leaders and foot soldiers, its friends and its foes.
Its cast of characters includes Antonino Giammona, the first man with a claim to the title “boss of bosses”; Emanuele Notarbartolo, the honest and courageous banker who in 1893 became the Mafia’s first “eminent corpse”; New York policeman Joe Petrosino who underestimated the Sicilian Mafia and paid dearly with his life for this; and Bernardo “The Tractor” Provenzano, the current boss of bosses who has been in hiding in Sicily since 1963.
The Science of Cold Case Files
Author: Katherine Ramsland
Publisher: Penguin
THE files reveal the absorbing true stories behind the pioneering A&E television series, and the intrepid detectives whose investigations resulted in the resolution of the most baffling crimes, sometimes decades after they were committed.
From handwriting analysis, facial reconstruction, fingerprints and K-9 detectives, state-of-the-art DNA technology, and old-fashioned perseverance and police work, The Science of Cold Case Files presents a detailed look at the methods used in forensic detection.
Featuring the most fascinating crimes on record, some of these cases have never been seen on television and the book offers an inside look at the intriguing clues found in cases that have remained unsolved for decades.
Katherine Ramsland is the author of The Forensic Science of CSI and has written biographies of authors Anne Rice and Dean Koontz.
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