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Description: Release date 3/7/06

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Authors: Lynne Truss Lynne Truss

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Description: Funny, true

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Author: Joe Nickell

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Description: Book #2

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Author: Chris Cleave

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Description: A heartbroken woman's mournful lament to the husband and son she lost when al-Qaeda destroysA heartbroken woman's mournful lament to the husband and son she lost when al-Qaeda destroys Arsenal's Emirates Stadium during a premiership football match. Moving, both for plot and the almost stream-of-conscious writing style. Also slightly futuristic, as it imagines London following a major terrorist attack that creates something resembling an Orwellian society.

In a horrible coincidence, Incendiary was released in the U.K. on July 7, 2005, the day of the terrorist attacks on the London transportation network. Another irony: The book's narrator seems unaware that Osama bin Laden, to whom she address the letters that form this novel, did spend time living in London and was, apparently, a fan of Arsenal.

(Information about bin Laden shamelessly cribbed from The Global Game, linked below.)...

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Author: Barbara Vine

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Description: A terrific book by author Ruth Rendell writing under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. For my money,A terrific book by author Ruth Rendell writing under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. For my money, a better London Underground story than Gaiman's *Neverwhere*....

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Author: Paul Martin

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