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Minette Walters
The Shape of Snakes is Minette Walters' latest novel following on from 1998's international bestseller, The Breaker. Her books are familiar to audiences worldwide through television adaptions of the Scold's Bridle, The Echo and The Dark Room.
Minette began her writing career as a sub-editor on the British Women's Weekly, then switched to writing romance novels, produced by the magazine. She then married, had two children and wrote her first crime novel aged 40. Minette lives in Hampshire, England. She writes for 12 hours a day and has a vast library of books about criminology and psychology for research purposes. She has also been a voluntary prison visitor since 1989.
* Content Quoted from Wikipedia Available Books by Minette Walters
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The Chameleon's Shadow
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741755985
RRP: $19.95
Could severe head injuries turn a man into a killer? When an injured soldier returns from Iraq, he appears to undergo a complete change in personality in the latest dark, complex thriller from the Queen of Crime now in paperback....
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The Devil's Feather
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148114
RRP: $19.95
The stunning new thriller from Britain's no.1 crime writer.
With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuter's correspondent, Connie Burns, questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens...
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Acid Row
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148435
RRP: $19.95
Minette Walters' stature is growing faster than any other crime writer and this stunning massmarket edition of her latest crime novel will delight and enthrall those who have fallen under her spell.
'Acid Row' is the name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their housing estate. It is a no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children-where angry, alienated youth control th...
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Disordered Minds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148442
RRP: $19.95
In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence - and a retracted confession - of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he were innocent?
More than a quarter of a century later,...
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Fox Evil
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148404
RRP: $19.95
Minette Walters at her best, returning to the country and village life of her earlier work. This brings to work her matchless insight into village secrets, squabbles, life . . . and sudden death.
When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's in...
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The Breaker
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148428
RRP: $19.95
A woman's brutally damaged body washes up on a lonely beach. Twelve hours later, her three-year-old daughter is found, wandering abandoned twenty miles away from her mother.
Why was Kate Sumner murdered, yet her child, a witness, allowed to live? Police investigation centres on a young actor, a loner who lies about his relationship with Kate. And what of her? Is she the "respectable" ...
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The Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148411
RRP: $19.95
Why did Billy Blake die of starvation in one of the wealthiest parts of London? A gripping tale of intrigue and obsession.
'Walters ties up the loose ends tighter than a hangman's knot.' SUN HERALD
Who was Billy Blake - an alcoholic vagrant who quoted poetry and preached redemption - and why did he die? Mike Deacon, a cynical, somewhat discredited journalist, wants to know. He'...
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The Scold's Bridle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148374
RRP: $19.95
Mean, bitter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days - wrists slashed, pills spilled, body cold in the bath. Her death shouts suicide, but would even Mathilda have been crazy enough to force over her own head a rusted metal cage grotesquely laced with nettles and daisies?
In her third brilliant psychological thriller, Minette Walters takes us on a compelling and unpredictable tour of the tensi...
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The Shape Of Snakes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148398
RRP: $19.95
It is 1978 London - the winter of discontent. Strikes are an everyday occurrence and the Ranelaghs' neighbour, Mad Annie, is discovered dying in the gutter, almost obscured by piles of rubbish.
The other residents of Graham Road do little to disguise their satisfaction at her death, and in this environment of growing racial and class unrest, M Ranelagh, the narrator, takes up a solitary, and...
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The Tinder Box
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148329
RRP: $12.95
A chilling tale of prejudice, ambition and cunning as villagers react to a brutal double murder, this was Minette's first - and to date only - novella.
'Few crime writers are in the same league as Minette Walters.' CANBERRA TIMES
In a small Hampshire village, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordan has been arrested for the brutal murder of elderly Lavinia Fanshaw and her live-in nur...
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The Sculptress
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330330374
RRP: $19.95
'It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed . . . Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely wary in your dealings with her.'
The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname "The Sculptress". This much journalist Rosalind ...
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Ice House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330327916
RRP: $19.95
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The Chameleon's Shadow
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277084
RRP: $19.95
Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British Lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly reclusive, suspicious, and aggressive, until he finds himself the prime suspect in a series of recent killings. Reprint....
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The Shape of Snakes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277114
RRP: $18.95
Twenty years after stumbling upon a black woman--an unpopular recluse known as "Mad Annie"--dying in the gutter, Mrs. Ranelagh continues to believe that the woman had been murdered and spends two decades trying to uncover the truth. Reprint....
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The Devil's Feather
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277077
RRP: $18.95
When five women are found brutally killed in Sierra Leone, journalist Connie Burns suspects that a British mercenary is acting out his sadistic fantasies, but her efforts to expose him are complicated when, traumatized by her experiences as a hostage in Baghdad, she retreats to a remote, hidden house where her nightmares threaten to become all too real. Reprint. 35,000 first printing....
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The Dark Room
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277091
RRP: $16.95
Waking up in a private hospital, unable to remember anything significant about her past, photographer Jinx Kingsley becomes increasingly alarmed as evidence suggests that she has murdered her fianc and best friend, and desperately struggles to put the pieces together to prove her innocence. Reprint. 15,000 printing....
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The Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307277107
RRP: $16.95
When Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, turns up dead from starvation in the garage of wealthy Amanda Powell, Amanda, obsessed with her dead visitor, joins forces with cynical reporter Michael Deacon to uncover the truth. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....
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The Ice House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312951429
RRP: $10.95
Content to live their genteel and sheltered life at Streech Manor, their family estate, sisters Phoebe, Diana, and Anne suddenly find their sanctuary violated by the discovery of a corpse in the estate's ice house...
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Disordered Minds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425199350
RRP: $12.95
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The Dark Room
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780515120455
RRP: $10.95
Waking up in a private hospital, unable to remember anything significant about her past, photographer Jinz Kingsley becomes increasingly alarmed as evidence suggests that she has murdered her fiance+a7 and best friend. Reprint....
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Acid Row
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780333907481
Minette Walters' stature is growing faster than any other crime writer and this stunning mass market edition of her latest crime novel will delight and enthrall those who have fallen under her spell.
'Acid Row' is the name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their housing estate. It is a no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children-where angry, alienated youth control t...
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Acid Row
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865086286
The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their "sink" estate, a no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children, where angry, alienated youth control the streets.
Into this battlefield comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that she is entering the home of a known paedophile . . . and with reports circulating that a torm...
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Acid Row
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865089003
Minette Walters' stature is growing faster than any other crime writer and this stunning massmarket edition of her latest crime novel will delight and enthrall those who have fallen under her spell.
'Acid Row' is the name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their housing estate. It is a no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children-where angry, alienated youth control th...
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Disordered Minds
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741142112
Once again Minette Walters combines gripping psychological drama with memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns until the very last page.
In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later he was dead, driven...
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Disordered Minds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741142129
Once again Minette Walters combines gripping psychological drama with memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns until the very last page.
In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later he was dead, driven...
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Disordered Minds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741144963
In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence - and a retracted confession - of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hatred and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he were innocent?
More than a quarter of a century later,...
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Fox Evil
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741140095
When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with bloodstains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's inquests gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away.
Why? Because he's guilty? Or because res...
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Fox Evil
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741141818
Minette Walters at her best, returning to the country and village life of her earlier work. This brings to work her matchless insight into village secrets, squabbles, life . . . and sudden death.
When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's in...
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Fox Evil
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865089041
When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with bloodstains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's inquests gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away.
Why? Because he's guilty? Or because res...
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Ice House - TV Tie In
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330353342
The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins.
For once they have identified the body, the police are determined to charge her with murder . . .
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The Breaker
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741140460
A woman's brutally damaged body washes up on a lonely beach. Twelve hours later, her three-year-old daughter is found, wandering abandoned twenty miles away from her mother.
Why was Kate Sumner murdered, yet her child, a witness, allowed to live? Police investigation centres on a young actor, a loner who lies about his relationship with Kate. And what of her? Is she the "respectable" ...
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The Breaker
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865081625
A woman's brutally damaged body washes up on a lonely beach. Twelve hours later, her three-year-old daughter is found, wandering abandoned twenty miles away from her mother.
Why was Kate Sumner murdered yet her child, a witness, allowed to live?
Police investigation centres on a young actor, a loner who lies about his relationship with Kate. And what of her? Is she the "respectable...
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The Chameleon's Shadow
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307264633
Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly reclusive, suspicious, and aggressive, until he finds himself the prime suspect in a series of recent killings....
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The Chameleon's Shadow
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741752298
Could severe head injuries turn a man into a killer? When an injured soldier returns from Iraq, he appears to undergo a complete change in personality in the latest dark, complex thriller from the Queen of Crime.
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his personality.
Described a...
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The Chameleon's Shadow
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741753509
Could severe head injuries turn a man into a killer? When an injured soldier returns from Iraq, he appears to undergo a complete change in personality in the latest dark, complex thriller from the Queen of Crime.
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his personality.
Described a...
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The Dark Room
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741148381
When Jane "Jinx" Kingsley, daughter of a ruthless millionaire, emerges from a coma, she remembers nothing of the last few days. Not that she's been jilted by her fiance, Leo, and betrayed by Meg, her best friend, nor her own supposed suicide attempt.
With the disappearance of Leo and Meg, Jinx is haunted by horrifying flashes of memory . . . and the police seem determined to trap her...
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The Dark Room
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781864481488
When Jane "Jinx" Kingsley, daughter of a ruthless millionaire, emerges from a coma, she remembers nothing of the last few days: not that she's been jilted by her fiance, Leo, and betrayed by Meg, her best friend; nor her own supposed suicide attempt.
With the disappearance of Leo and Meg, Jinx is haunted by horrifying flashes of memory . . . and the police seem determined to trap her ...
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The Dark Room
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865086712
When Jane "Jinx" Kingsley, daughter of a ruthless millionaire, emerges from a coma, she remembers nothing of the last few days. Not that she's been jilted by her fiance, Leo, and betrayed by Meg, her best friend, nor her own supposed suicide attempt.
With the disappearance of Leo and Meg, Jinx is haunted by horrifying flashes of memory . . . and the police seem determined to trap her...
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The Dark Room - TV Tie-in
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865080673
When Jane "Jinx" Kingsley, daughter of a ruthless millionaire, emerges from a coma, she remembers nothing of the last few days: not that she's been jilted by her fiance, Leo, and betrayed by Meg, her best friend; nor her own supposed suicide attempt.
With the disappearance of Leo and Meg, Jinx is haunted by horrifying flashes of memory . . . and the police seem determined to trap her ...
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The Devil's Feather
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741146479
The stunning new thriller from Britain's no.1 crime writer.
With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuter's correspondent, Connie Burns, questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens...
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The Devil's Feather
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741147858
The stunning new thriller from Britain's no.1 crime writer.
With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuter's correspondent, Connie Burns, questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens...
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The Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781864486780
Who was Billy Blake? And why did he die of starvation beside a freezer full of food in one of the wealthiest parts of London?
Mike Deacon, a cynical and somewhat discredited journalist, is intrigued by Blake's macabre death and by Amanda Powell, the beautiful woman who found him. Her sudden obsession with Blake's life fuels Deacon's interest but the unlikely connections he finds onl...
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The Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865086750
Who was Billy Blake? And why did he die of starvation beside a freezer full of food in one of the wealthiest parts of London? ;"This is her best book to date." - The Age....
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The Ice House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312427535
Content to live a quiet and reclusive life at Streech Grange, Phoebe Maybury's family estate, Phoebe and her housemates, Diana Goode and Anne Cattrell, suddenly find their sanctuary violated by the discovery of a corpse in the estate's ice house, launching an investigation that threatens to reveal long-hidden secrets. Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award. Reprint....
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The Scold's Bridle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863738729
Mean, bitter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days: wrists slashed, pills spilled, body in the bath. Her death shouts suicide, but would even Mathilda have been crazy enough to force over her own head a rusted metal cage grotesquely laced with nettles and daisies?
Minette Walters takes us on a compelling and unpredictable tour of the tensions between generations, and along a trail of grief m...
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The Scold's Bridle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865086705
Mean, bitter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days - wrists slashed, pills spilled, body cold in the bath. Her death shouts suicide, but would even Mathilda have been crazy enough to force over her own head a rusted metal cage grotesquely laced with nettles and daisies?
In her third brilliant psychological thriller, Minette Walters takes us on a compelling and unpredictable tour of the tensi...
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The Scold's Bridle - TV Tie-In
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781864488807
Mean, butter Mathilda Gillespie has been dead for days - wrists slashed, pills spilled, body cold in the bath. Her death shouts suicide, but would even Mathilda have been crazy enough to force over her own head a rusted metal cage grotesquely laced with nettles and daisies?
A brilliant psychological thriller, 'The Scold's Bridle' takes us on a compelling and unpredictable tour of the...
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The Sculptress
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312427542
Journalist Roz Leigh is drawn into the disturbing world of Olive, a hugely grotesque and menacing woman imprisoned--perhaps wrongly--for the murders of her sister and mother. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Reprint....
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The Sculptress - TV Tie-In
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330355698
The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress'. This much journalist Rosalind Leigh knew before her first meeting with Olive, currently serving a life sentence. How could Roz have foreseen that the encounter was destined to change her life - for ever?...
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The Shape Of Snakes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865083346
Set in the London 1978 winter of discontent, with growing racial and class unrest, the ongoing theme of the book is whether Annie was murdered (the narrator's view) or whether she wasn't. Most of Graham Road do little to disguise their satisfaction at her death, and in this environment of growing racial and class unrest, M Ranelagh, the narrator, takes up a solitary and dangerously unpopu...
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The Shape Of Snakes
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781865084695
Set in the London 1978 winter of discontent, with growing racial and class unrest, the ongoing theme of the book is whether Annie was murdered (the narrator's view) or whether she wasn't. Most of Graham Road do little to disguise their satisfaction at her death, and in this environment of growing racial and class unrest, M Ranelagh, the narrator, takes up a solitary and dangerously unpopu...
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The Shape Of Snakes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865086293
It is 1978 London - the winter of discontent. Strikes are an everyday occurrence and the Ranelaghs' neighbour, Mad Annie, is discovered dying in the gutter, almost obscured by piles of rubbish.
The other residents of Graham Road do little to disguise their satisfaction at her death, and in this environment of growing racial and class unrest, M Ranelagh, the narrator, takes up a solitary, and...
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