Results for: books tagged ‘Deception’

  1. The Apartment

    The Apartment: I. A. L. Diamond

    Billy Wilder won two Oscars - as co-screenwriter and director - for this mordant comedy about getting ahead in the corporate world. Jack Lemmon played the 'schnook' who lends out ... More

  2. Back to Bologna

    Back to Bologna: Michael Dibdin

    When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called ... More

  3. The Bad Girl

    The Bad Girl: Mario Vargas Llosa

    A mysterious romance featuring a man who seems to keep falling in love with the same woman over and over again. More

  4. Churchill's Wizards

    Churchill's Wizards: Nicholas Rankin

    The true story of how the British really won WWII - by hoodwinking Hitler, misleading Mussolini and hoaxing Hirohito. More

  5. A Closed Book

    A Closed Book: Gilbert Adair

    An isolated cottage deep in the heart of the Cotswolds. A writer's den, as dusty, gloomy and full of exotic objets d'art as the cell of a medieval monk. Two ... More

  6. The Ern Malley Affair

    The Ern Malley Affair: Michael Heyward

    In October 1943, the young and successful Australian literary editor, Max Harris, received a package of poems by a recently deceased poet, Ern Malley, forwarded to him by his sister ... More

  7. Family Matters

    Family Matters: Rohinton Mistry

    Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition ... More

  8. The Forger

    The Forger: Paul Watkins

    Paris, 1939. Europe is on the brink of a second World War. David Halifax, a young American art student, is arrested for forgery. Unbeknownst to Halifax, an unscrupulous art dealer ... More

  9. Headlong

    Headlong: Michael Frayn

    Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, suddenly sees opening in front of him the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a great public service, and at the ... More

  10. Illywhacker

    Illywhacker: Peter Carey

    Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 139-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with ... More

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