Jake Arnott

• Sep-1999
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• Jan-2002
• / Suspense
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August 1966--the long hot summer of World Cup victory euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. The bewilderingly senseless crime shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself, and brings an end to t...

• Sep-2004
• / Mystery
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“Funny, fast, witty, and brutal.” -- David Bowie

Jake Arnott’s brilliant trilogy of criminal life in England forms a kind of Godfather-like history of Britain’s gangland, spanning 40 years. The first, The Long Firm (1999), caught ever...

• Mar-2013
• / Literary
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Spies, science-fiction writers, and new wave icons populate this dazzling novel, which U.K. critics have already compared to such modern classics as Don DeLillo’s Underworld. According to the Guardian: “The House of Rumour perhaps most resembl...

• Apr-2014
• / Science Fiction
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The TARDIS is diverted to England in 1572, and the Sixth Doctor and Peri meet John Dee �" ‘mathematician, astrologer, alchemist, magician, and the greatest mind of our time’. (‘Only of your time?’, the Doctor asks, unimpressed.) But what bro...

• Apr-2017
• / Historical
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'A work of dazzling imagination and linguistic inventiveness' ObserverNewgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London:Cru...