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In this haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party. Dav...

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'A modern Graham Greene' - Sunday Times David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends' home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring from the roadside, the c...

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'I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis, a private curiosity... I am curious to see how no...

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The best intentions can be deadly During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another's lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for ...

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Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe's name written all over it. Is it enough to bring him back for one last adventure? The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is l...

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Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second...

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Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day.Osborne...

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Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day. Osborn...

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Booze is mankind's premier drug of choice, the most popular mind-altering substance ever devised, and it plays a furtive, celebrated and subversive role in nearly every culture on earth. In The Wet and the Dry, Lawrence Osborne explores the cultur...

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'I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.' His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game: bac...

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Thomas Jefferson may have had it. The pianist Glenn Gould almost certainly had it. There are even those who insist (probably incorrectly) that Albert Einstein had it. Whether it is called "e;geek syndrome,"e; "e;high-functioning autism...

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Asperger's Syndrome, often characterized as a form of "high-functioning autism," is a poorly defined and little-understood neurological disorder. The people who suffer from the condition are usually highly intelligent, and as often as no...

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Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that ...

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"Let's not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down... sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking." - Lionel Shriver, Washington Post "Startlingly good...Osborne has been described as an ...

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Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death have formed a theological equation known as "sexual pessimism"--an aversion to the carnal which consequently elevates the virginal and the chaste. Here, Osborne gives a bracing account o...

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A riveting tale of risk and obsession set in the alluring world of Macau's casinos, by the author of the critically acclaimed The Forgiven. As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle - "Lord ...

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Develops a Christian environmental ethic, based on an understanding of the natural order as a dimension of God's good creation. Contains suggestions for the practical action to conserve and care for the environment.

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Enchanting, delightful, entertaining, and, above all, down to earth, this wine book is like no other, as a journalist takes readers on a personal voyage through a little-known world.

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A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, this volume is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of "The Accidental Connoisseur," praised by "The New York Times Book Review" as &quo...

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I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis, a private curiosity I am curious to see how non-dr...

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Asperger's Syndrome, often characterized as a form of "high-functioning autism," is a poorly defined and little-understood neurological disorder. The people who suffer from the condition are usually highly intelligent, and as often as no...

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'A modern Graham Greene' - Sunday TimesDavid and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring from the roadside, the car...

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I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine. His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game: bacca...

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'A modern Graham Greene' Sunday TimesRobert Grieve pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new...

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The best intentions can be deadlyDuring a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another s lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for d...

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne, read by Ray Porter. Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe's name written all over it. Is it enough to bring him back for one ...

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* A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 2018 * * A NPR Best Book of 2018* Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. The year is 1988. The plac...

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The dark side of The Lion City is explored in a thrilling anthology that gives ';plenty of new and unfamiliar voices a chance to shine' (San Francisco Book Review). The island city-state of Singapore harbors unique customs and traditions largely u...

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Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe's name written all over it. Is it enough to bring him back for one last adventure? The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe - no...

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