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  • Darkness Falls from the Air

    by Nigel Balchin ...
    The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.Featured on BACKLISTED podcastBill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted at every turn by bureaucracy and the vested interests of big business, the seemingly unflappable Bill is also on the verge of losing his wife ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Small Back Room

    by Nigel Balchin ...
    A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves.The stakes ... Read more

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  • A Way Through the Wood

    by Nigel Balchin ...
    A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable post-war novel.'A superb storyteller' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'd place him up there with Graham Greene' Philippa Gregory'Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart' Ruth Rendell'Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long' Julian FellowesJames Manning is perfectly content. He has a ... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Seen Dimly Before Dawn

    by Nigel Balchin ...
    Walter Parrish is fifteen, handsome, athletic and highly intelligent. But his head is also stuffed full of ideas gleaned from romantic poetry and so, when he spends the summer on his uncle Patrick's fruit farm, it is perhaps not surprising that he quickly becomes besotted with Patrick's bewitching partner, Leonie. And when Leonie reveals that she is not married to Patrick, but is only his mistress ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • In the Absence of Mrs Petersen

    by Nigel Balchin ...
    Katherina Feldic: Yugoslavian typist; young, beautiful, desirable.Jim Petersen: British scriptwriter; lost and lonely, mourning his dead wife.After meeting Katherina at a party in Paris, Jim agrees to travel to Yugoslavia with her to try to smuggle out some valuables from under the eyes of the Communist authorities. But when they reach Belgrade it gradually dawns on Jim that his companion may have ... Read more

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  • Mine Own Executioner

    by Nigel Marlin Balchin ...
    Felix Milne is a London psychoanalyst whose clientele usually consists of bed-wetting children, mousy typists with secret pasts and affluent middle-aged women who are bored with their husbands. But then along comes Adam Lucian, a former Spitfire pilot who has recently tried to murder his wife Molly. With the aid of a narcotic drug, Milne forces Lucian to relive his brutal treatment at the hands of ... Read more

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  • Sundry Creditors

    by Nigel Marlin Balchin ...
    After the works party of Midlands engineering firm Lang's, the Chairman, Gustavus Lang, collapses and dies. His power-crazed half-brother Walter attempts to seize control of the company by purchasing Gustavus's shares but is swiftly rebuffed. Jack Partridge, a lathe operator, begins a romance with Rosamund, Walter's nubile young daughter, after dancing with her at the works party. Walter agrees to ... Read more

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  • Simple Life

    by Nigel Marlin Balchin ...
    Meet Rufus Wade: young, handsome, intelligent and holding down a well-paid job in advertising. All should be well with Rufus, but it is not. Bored with living and working in London, and in search of a simpler, more physical existence in the open air, he chucks in his job, ditches his fiancée and sets off for Wiltshire. At a farm on the edge of Salisbury Plain he meets Pip Mendel and his girlfriend ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    by Neil Gaiman ...
    A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Death In Shanghai (An Inspector Danilov Historical Thriller, Book 1)

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 1 - An Inspector Danilov Historical Thriller
    Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it’s lower half mutilated…and the Chinese character for ‘justice’ carved into the chest.The moment Inspector Danilov lays eyes on the dismembered body, he realises that he has an ... Read more

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  • In A Summer Season

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    Series Book 3 - Virago Modern Classics
    In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic.'You taste of rain', he said, kissing her. 'People say I married her for her money', he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him.Kate Heron is a wealthy ... Read more

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  • A Christmas Tragedy

    by Agatha Christie ...
    If you like suspense and detective stories, don't miss this "Christmas Tragedy" by Agatha Christie. In this story, Agatha Christie reintroduces Miss Marple, the elder lady, famous for her wit and talent for unraveling mysteries. Once again, the Tuesday Night Club will be surprised by Miss Marple, and Agatha Christie will demonstrate that even experts can sometimes fail when it comes to solving a ... Read more

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