THE MONEYCHANGERS Arthur Hailey
Having tackled hotels in Hotel and airports in, um, Airport, Hailey abandons his Ronseal-style book-naming formula for this novel about banks.
SANDITON Jane Austen and Another Lady
One of several attempts to complete the fragment that Austen left unfinished at her death in 1817.
CIRCUS Alistair MacLean
The CIA enlists a trapeze artist to steal a secret weapon. Multi-tasking, it’s called.
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YESTERDAY’S SPY Len Deighton
A nice fricassee of anti-Nazi espionage and arms-dealing from the former cookery writer.
THE PERSIAN RANSOM Evelyn Anthony
Politics and passion from the author of The Tamarind Seed.
THE DOGS OF WAR Frederick Forsyth
Those bloody dogs — can’t take them anywhere.