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Chivers Audio - BBC Audio Books
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December 2006
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Bill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of
six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the front was a golden
thunderbolt. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved to
Bryson that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle
of America to fly, become invisible and shoot guns out of people's hands
from a distance. In this deeply funny new memoir, Bill Bryson travels
back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was and the curious
world of 1950s America. Bryson's story of growing up will speak
volumes to anyone who has ever been young.
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Truman Capote
Summer Crossing
Thought to be lost for over fifty years, this is Truman Capote's first novel, begun at the age of nineteen. Beautiful, rich, defiant, Grady is the sort of girl people stare at across a room, a girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But the privileged society life leaves her wanting more. Excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Jewish parking attendant. And when her parents leave her alone in New York one summer, their secret affair intensifies. Soon Grady will be forced to make decisions - choices that will forever affect her future.
• Summer Crossing's wit, atmosphere and moving denouement show all the qualities that made Capote one of America's greatest writers.
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G.M. Ford
A Blind Eye
The rules never mattered much to true-crime writer Frank Corso. So when the Texas police release a warrant with his name on it, he runs. Accompanied by former lover Meg Dougherty, Corso heads straight into a furious blizzard that sends his car crashing to the bottom of an icy hill. The pair are forced to seek shelter in an abandoned house. But in their retreat Corso and Meg make a horrific discovery - the grisly remains of Eldred Holmes and his family. Corso begins a murder hunt that will carry him through a chilling history of bloodshed, rendering him the target of a rage-driven master of reinvention. And in this isolated community, no law protects the innocent.
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