Search Results: Authors starting with J from Petes Loved Books

Orbit, 1998. Used. The theory goes that humiliation, Total Humiliation, is the only state from which True Enlightenment can be achieved. An exponent of this dictum, author Fiona Bowron, shows us how we have been approaching the Enlightenment problem from entirely the wrong angle.

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Hardcover. Used. About the book:Traces the growth of the posters from nineteenth-century circus and music-hall bills to the present day, considering the influences of various art movementsPublisher:Book Sales, 1989Edition:Hardcover

"The Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive. Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head.

GERMANY: Piatkus, 1989. Hardcopy. Used. James Byron Dean was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant.

London: Orion, 2007. Used. Detective and mystery stories. Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer. Despite banding together with his friends as ' The Guardians', he was powerless to prevent more murders - and no one was ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare end when the one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope, with articles from the dead girls around him. Thankfully, the killings finally ceased. But the past won't stay buried - for it seems that the real murderer still lives and is killing again. And the secret of his identity lies in Joseph's own history.

London: Orion, 2013. large size paperback. Used. Internationally bestselling author R.J. Ellory returns with his latest thriller of murder, deceit, and intrigue??an energetic and winning exercise in pulp fiction with a Southern Gothic flavor".On a perfect summer evening in 1954, sixteen-year-old Nancy Denton walked into the woods of her hometown of Whytesburg, Mississippi. She was never seen again. Two decades later, Sheriff John Gaines witnesses a harrowing discovery: A young woman has been unearthed from the riverbank, her body perfectly preserved, yet she bears evidence of a brutal ritualistic killing. Nancy has come home at last, but her return does not bring closure to her family, or to the citizens of Whytesburg. What really happened to the beautiful and vivacious Nancy? And why do her friends refuse to talk? As Gaines closes in on the truth, he is forced to not only confront his own demons, but to unearth secrets that have long remained hidden. And that truth, so much darker than he could… Read More

London: Orion, 2009. large size paperback. Used. The serial killer to end all serial killers is out there and only one person in the whole city knows it... Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, were victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. Nadia was killed instantly. John survived, but withdrew from society, emerging only to work as a crime researcher for a major newspaper. Damaged he may be, but no one in New Jersey knows more about serial killers than John Costello. Then a new spate of murders starts - all seemingly random and unrelated - until John discovers a complex pattern that links them. But could this dark knowledge be about to threaten his life?

London: Orion, 2011. large size paperback. Used. By the author of A Quiet Belief in Angels, praised by Michael Connelly as ?a beautiful and haunting book,? Saints of New York is a powerful new crime novel. NYPD Detective Frank Parrish barely notices the death of a young heroin dealer?just another casualty of the drug war. But when the dealer's sister turns up as the first of many corpses, Frank must try desperately to make sense of the disturbingly uniform deaths?all while battling his own demons. Frank is the son of a legendary NYPD detective and one of the original ?Saints of New York? who cleaned up the Mafia in the 1980s. As the murders accelerate, Frank struggles to fulfill the legacy of his father and piece together not only his case, but also his life. Dark and intense, Saints of New York is a novel of corruption and redemption, of the relentless persistence required to find the truth, and of one man?s search for meaning amidst the ghosts of his own conscience.

London: Orion, 2008. large size paperback. Used. R. J. Ellory's latest paperback is his most timely, menacing serial killer novel yet, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.. As in his globally acclaimed A Quiet Belief in Angels, it is a stunning work of suspense guaranteed to keep the reader awake at night. Set in Washington, embroiled in elections, it follows Detective Robert Miller as he is assigned to an unsettling murder case. He finds a serious complication: the victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths about the corrupt world he lives in --truths so far removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life. As CrimeSquad described it, "this is a book with everything that a fan of modern mystery fiction could hope for: a labyrinthine plot, unbearable tension, controversy, and a social conscience."

Melbourne: Pan Macmillan, 2010. Used. The international bestseller now in English! When Giulietta Battin, ballerina at the conservative Berlin opera, falls in love with the dashing Argentinean tango champion, Damian Alsina, she unwittingly embarks on an intoxicating but dangerous journey. Having fled his country's political horrors, Damian has found sanctuary in northern Europe. But is he there for another reason? He is connected to Giulietta's powerful politician father - but neither man will tell her the truth of their association. When Damian bizarrely starts sabotaging his own tango routines and then, without warning, flees to Argentina, Giulietta is determined to unravel the mystery once and for all and follows him. But he is nowhere to be found. In a desperate attempt to track down her lover and unlock her father's dark secrets, Giulietta embarks on an odyssey through the fascinating tango universe of Buenos Aires, where Damian's strange dancing style gradually reveals itself to be an… Read More

Jazzy Lou is back and busier than ever! Sit back and enjoy this fast-paced peek inside the glamorous world of Sydney's hottest PR agency. Queen Bee, Jazzy Lou's fabulous PR firm, is going from strength to strength with an ever-expanding ro…

A deliciously gossipy, fast-paced peek into the real world of publicity.Meet Jasmine Lewis, the smart, young publicist trying to work her way up from the bottom in the city's hottest PRCompany. She's done the coffee runs, the dry cleaning pickups, the 5am starts, the 11pm finishes. But still, her evilboss Diane Wildenstein is never happy. So when Jasmine finds herself being summoned to Diane's office early onemorning, she knows something's got to give. Luckily for Jasmine, faith lends a hand and helps her escape to launch afabulous new career that should be a dream come true—or maybe the start of a whole new world of nightmares

London: Orion, 2010. Used.COOK BOOK FOR GAS BBQKitchen & Cooking ; BBQ;

This is a paperback edition. Puffin print 1993 and illustrated by Alan Langford. No inscriptions or notations on the book and no rips or tears. Some slight creasing on the spine
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The Beast is loose!Rassin Abbey has guarded its arcane treasures for centuries. But when their Black Grimoire is stolen, the land of Ruddlestone is plunged into a crisis of epic proportions. For the ancient book holds the key to the legendary Casket of Shadows - and the Evil imprisoned within it. Should it be opened, the Infernal Beast will be unleashed to wreak its terrible carnage across the Old World.On the night of Shekka?s Moon, scant days away, this will surely come to pass. Unless, that is, one brave hero can retrieve the Black Grimoire in the nick of time

London: Picador, 1997. Hardcover/First Edition/Collec. Used. William John Cavendish Bentinck Scott, the fifth Duke of Portland, who died in 1879, was a singularly eccentric man. What sets him apart from other famous eccentrics is the fact that he had the wealth to indulge his manias to the fullest. Perhaps his greatest achievement was to have a vast network of underground tunnels built beneath his estate, from which, with his horses and carriages, he could secretly escape to the outside world. On a visit to the Duke's establishment, which still more or less stands, Mick Jackson became fascinated not only by the tunnels but by the stories that surrounded the memory of this strange man. He began to embroider them with fictional ideas of his own, and with the tales the local people passed on to him. Some of the characters' names in the book are genuine, as indeed are some of the most bizarre details. The actual narrative is, however, pure invention, filled not only with tales of the Duke, but also with… Read More

London: John Murray, 2007. Used. Almost a hundred years after his railway engineer grandfather embarked on his long, lonely passage to a remote corner of South America, Michael Jacobs sets off to follow in his footsteps.

London: Random House, 2000. Used. From the very beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. At sex, he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, his game improves.

Sydney: Bantam Books, 1984. Used..PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERSefton Goldberg, in his thirties, is trapped teaching English at Wrottesley Polytechnic College; he desperately wants the Disraeli Fellowship at Holy Christ Hall, Cambridge, but is also aware of his drawbacks as an urban Jew in a sea of Anglo-Saxons -- his dislike of beer, nature and sports

London: Bloomsbury, 2010. large size paperback. Used. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing… Read More

London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012. Used. Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy, anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but… Read More