Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. Trigger Mortis, Anthony Horowitz, Isbn 9781409159131 (Orion) BD10.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Literary legend James Bond returns to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
It’s 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end.
Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back.
The Soviet counter-intelligence agency plans to sabotage a grand prix race at the most dangerous track in Europe. But it’s Bond who finds himself in the driving seat and events take an unexpected turn when he observes a suspicious meeting between SMERSH’s driver and a sinister Korean millionaire, Jai Seong Sin.
Soon Bond is pitched into an entirely different race with implications that could change the world. Thrown together with American agent, Jeopardy Lane, Bond uncovers a plan that will bring the West to its knees in a heart-stopping climax.
Welcoming back familiar faces, including M and Miss Moneypenny, international bestselling author Horowitz ticks all the boxes: speed, danger, strong women and fiendish villains, to reinvent the golden age of Bond in this brilliantly gripping adventure. Trigger Mortis is also the first James Bond novel to feature previously unseen Ian Fleming material.
This is James Bond as Fleming imagined him.
Read it now in paperback
A Spool Of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler, ISBN 9780099598480 (Vintage) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
This Sunday Times best seller is one to keep an eye on, being currently on the short list for the Man Booker Prize 2015 as well as being shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction prize.
‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’
This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer’s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.
From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red’s father and mother, newly-arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the 21st Century – four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly-worn Baltimore house that has always been their home.
DS McRae fans will enjoy this new novel which is a worthy addition to the excellent crime series – a gutsy page turner of a read!
My favourite read of the week
The Splendid Spotted Snake, Bett Anne Schwartz & Alexander Wilensky, ISBN 9780761163602 (Workman) BD5.300 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
This is not a recent publication but is one of my all-time favourite books for pre-schoolers and young children which I still regard as magical and enjoy sharing with young friends and customers time after time without ever getting bored; which to me is not only crucial but a real indicator of a great book.
So welcome to The Splendid Spotted Snake; a board book with a difference, which is sure to be loved by both parents and children alike.
It’s a marvellous rhyming ‘magic ribbon’ book all about colours: The little yellow snake grew and grew ... his spots turned purple, red and blue! (And lots of other colours, too!)
This magical book follows the adventures of a little spotted snake who not only grows bigger when you turn the page, but also grows more colourful.
What colour spots will the splendid snake have next? Turn the page and see for yourself; my very favourite page is right at ‘The Ended’!
