John Gardner

• Feb-1976
• / Literary
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An iconic collection that showcases Gardner as a master craftsman navigating an uncertain world

In this exceptional book, author John ...

• Jun-1989
• / Thriller
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• 2009
• / Literary
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The Life and Times of Chaucer is a boldly imaginative reconstruction of the poet and his age. Bringing to bear his own considerable literary gifts, John Gardner allows us to experience Chaucer’s life from close quarters: his childhood in Lo...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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Licence Renewed is first of 'master storyteller' John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent. Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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James Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond's hand, is determined to make it the holiday to die for. Or perhaps to kill for. With a price on his head, Bond must evade the world'...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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James Bond is on a mission that will become an obsession. It starts the night Flight 229 is torn apart at Washington airport, killing 435 passengers. But the victim who matters to Bond is the Principessa Sukie Tempesta: once his lover, still his frie...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Gerald Rawlings with his movie star looks and no money worries is the product of a good, middle-class family. He is head art teacher at a decent comprehensive school and life is just peachy - all that is except his wilting marriage. His stick insect ...

• Feb-2016
• / General Fiction
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A raw, gritty, sometimes funny, tale spanning twenty-four tragic hours in the lives of five people on the lower rung of the Scottish drugs scene. As the Garden City dresses itself up to greet the tourist invasion, life for some of the residents is ab...

• Feb-2016
• / Historical
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Geoffrey has struggled to be accepted as a writer but life has been cruel. His wife walked out with their two children and, at fifty-three, he’s no longer sure the game of life is worth the candle. The Amazonian Amy, his second cousin, is despe...

• Feb-2016
• / Erotica
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• Jul-2016
• / Mystery
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Two former investigator reporters for a major news network gave up their jobs to become sales hostesses for American Home Shopping. Life was good. Katie Morgan, known as only Morgan at AHS, got married to Katie's old boyfriend. Katie Richard did some...

• Aug-2017
• / Mystery
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Two former investigator reporters for a major news network gave up their jobs to become sales hostesses for American Home Shopping. Life was good. Katie Morgan, known as only Morgan at AHS, got married to Katie's old boyfriend. Katie Richard did s...

• Nov-2020
• / Historical
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Geoffrey Bolting, a dysfunctional librarian in his fifties, has, much to his surprise, finally become a successful writer. Netflix loved his very unconventional view of the cause of The Great Fire of London and bought his book, Conspiracy of Fire, an...

• Nov-2020
• / Thriller
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• Nov-2020
• / Thriller
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An Australian secret service agent, on secondment to the British, and her Irish partner discover a small red note book with some coded entries in the safe of a Brazilian political gangster they killed. The discovery sets off a chain of events that qu...

• Feb-2021
• / General Fiction
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The life of young Alford Morrison, an accountant with a reputable firm, was swinging along just fine till he was charged with conspiracy to defraud the Revenue. Al was the sort of man who was forever being accused of things but was always innocent. A...

• Mar-2023
• / Contemporary Romance
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Tidy Rawlins was blessed with the kind of looks that got her noticed in a crowded room. She saw herself in a fancy office with a boss who called her “his girl” and bought her chocolates for her birthday. But the war with Germany brought h...

• / Historical
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Geoffrey Bolting, a librarian in his fifties, has much to his surprise become a successful writer. Netflix loved his very unconventional view of history and bought his books. But he’s unhappy with the idea of fame and struggling to stay in the ...

• / Literary
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On Moral Fiction set off a firestorm of controversy when it was first published in 1978. With a daring not obscured by the author’s extraordinary humaneness of spirit, the book argued that contemporary literature suffers first and foremost from...

• / Thriller
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Official, original James Bond from a writer described by Len Deighton as a ''master storyteller''.

''People notice things and word around Whitehall is that Commander Bond is living a shade dangerously - gambling, the new Bentley, er ... ladi...