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Hey People! Generally what's hot is something new and modern. Well we are opting out for something kind of outdated for a change-Second Hand Bookshops. Yup the stuff here maybe old but they are cheap. Well cheap in comparison to the absurd prices of books sold in the er.. first class book shops these days. Whether you are a book lover who just gobbles up every novel you come across, a collector of teen mags, celebrity mags, sports mags, or just like to have a fun read to pass your time... here is a glimpse of some of the tantalizing novels and juicy mags I came across. What's more each week we will be updating this page with the various secret findings we dig up from around town (usual and unusual books and mags that is) every fortnight. So watch out for little pecks of groovy mags and novels ranging from those soppy love stories, totally unmellow melodramas, thrilling action pack murders to the blood curdling tales of terror as you've never experienced before. Just one last suggestion on my part-try reading late at night while having a soak in your tub. It's really cool (literally). Well anyway you may now look through the menue 1. First of all for starters we have Jenny Colgan's "Talking to Addison" "Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn't exactly seem to be coming up roses..." (oh dear) Fleeing the houseshare from hell, she moves in with Josh, a nice rich boy (hmm) with a terminal case of sexual confusion (???); Kate, a city high-flyer with talons to match (beware beware); and the gorgeous Addison (this one's for me), who spends his days communicating only with his computer (then again may be not) and those who worship at the altar of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (is this guy weird or what?) Holly's desperate to have a one-to one with Addison (Private keep out), but can she drag him away from his monstrously ugly, not to say jealous internet girlfriend Claudia, or will they just continually get their wires crossed? (I wander...) 2. Next comes a serving of "The Front" - a salad made specially for you by Manadasue Heller "Sometimes it's wise to scratch beneath the surface before you make your move" (might take your stomach for a bouncy ride. If-have-delicate- stomach you may skip this and go on to the main meal) "When old school friends Lee, Mal, Ged and Sam decided to make some easy money, nothing could have prepared them for the catalogue of disasters that was soon to follow. (obviously) Robbing a supermarket should have been an easy job, nothing could possibly go wrong-but it did. With one of them wounded and a dead body on their hands, could matters have got any worse? (erm...) They should have known that a small supermarket on a Manchester estate wouldn't make that much money, and they had no idea that as small fish they had unwittingly plunged into a very big pond and were now swimming with the "great whites" of the criminal underworld. (help) The shop they robbed, their ticket to an easy life, was merely The Front for something bigger than they could ever have imagined. 3. A helping of "Leap of Faith" - by Danielle Steel "A compelling story of the power of lies, the misuse of trust and one woman's triumph over a devastating betrayal". (Mmmmm smells interesting) "Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of -freedom, love, and security in a beautiful old French chateau. But when she is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of this idyllic life. (something has to happen right?) Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa (wow), where she is forced to work while dreaming of returning to her beloved chateau. (wake up gal) Only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope (bet this is the guy she will fall in love with). When an unexpected visitor brings some startling news, she returns to France and meets the Chateau's new owner, the Comte Bernard de Beauchamp - a dashing widower who invites her into his home and his heart (no, no, this guy sounds like bad news). For a time they enjoy a magical life together, until Marie-Ange hears a shocking story, so chilling that she can scarcely believe it (told you so). Not even her dear friend Billy can help her now, as the darkness gathers around her she must find the courage to take one last, desperate step to save her loved ones...and herself. (Billy go give her a helping hand). 4. A potion of "The Lucifer Network" - by Geoffrey Archer, to spice things up even more. "MI6 agent Sam Packer watches powerlessly as a trouble-making gunrunner is shot down in front of him on a lonely road in Zambia. As life slips from his grasp the arms smuggler whispers a heart-stopping warning to Sam: a terrorist gang has a horror weapon and means to commit mass murder. But the man dies before naming the gang, its nationality or its cause. Is the weapon nuclear, chemical or biological? The world's intelligence agencies are desperate to know. Packer has his own ideas about how to crack the case and is convinced that Julie, the gunrunner's daughter has been given the answers. In turn, she suspects Packer to be her father's murderer. The two are thrust together in an unlikely pairing as world events threaten to spiral out of control. Packer is convinced the key still lies with Julie. Only by winning her confidence can he break the ring of silence and penetrate to the heart of the sinister organization known as "The Lucifer Network". (I'm hypnotised, no comments on this one) 5. "The Making of Minty Malone" - by Isabel Wolff, as a last drop to fill up that stomach "Everyone likes radio reporter Minty-she's so terribly nice..."(really?) "But being nice doesn't save her from being jilted at the very alter by her attractive but domineering fiance Dominic. (wander why?) Ditched, rather than hitched, a shocked Minty takes stock, and, on her husbandless honeymoon (that's a cool phrase), she vows to become just a little less "Nice" (Cool). Joined by her fiery cousin Amber, whom no one could describe as sweet-nature, Minty sets out on a Quest for the Self, in which she will finally learn how to say "No". (Go Girl) But Dominic's devastating desertion has left her with an unhealed wound. For if the man she loved could do that to her, then how can any man be trusted? (Hmmm?) But then Minty stumbles upon the real reason for Dominic's dreadful defection. Faced with the ugly truth she prepares to move on, let go, and learn how to say "Yes" once more. (Is this a yes no game?) 6. Nothing like a chilling vampire story to cool it all down what? "Interview with the Vampire" - the first volume of the vampire chronicles - by Anne Rice "In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life... the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisitive craving for human blood" (does this leave your mouthwatering or what?) This is more than a mere "horror tale". It is the account of a man gifted with immortality who has lived 200 years as a vampire. He recounts how he departed from human existence and became a vampire, but reluctant to take human life, he sustained himself on the blood of animals. As the years pass, however, he embraces the habits of the vampire - the detachment, the hardened will, the sensual pleasure. He embarks on a perilous journey across Europe to search for others like himself, desperate to discover the ways of survival, more desperate to find out why he has become what he is. At last he comes into intimacy with the whole decadent society of vampires - an intimacy which becomes terror as he is compelled to confront what he fears most. (Just one comment for this one. Don't read this late at night, unless you are out of your mind of course) Oops nearly forgot to mention the most important thing. The restaurant these items are served. Just step into Premadasa Book Shop, No 3 & 4 D. R. Wijewardana Mw, Col 10. Or you can pre-order through the number 685431 Bye, Happy Reading |
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