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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Amanda LeesPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Robinson Dimensions: Width: 12.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.253kg ISBN: 9781472143297ISBN 10: 1472143299 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 23 July 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for the author: Sparklingly funny and painfully sharp throughout. - The Times Praise for the author: A charming turn of phrase that gets you giggling out loud. - Best Praise for the author: Great fun and easy to read. - B magazine Praise for the author: You can guarantee that Amanda Lees's books, like her own life, will never be boring. - Hello Praise for the author: The author succeeds in engaging the reader, both through some page-turning suspense but also via a lightness of touch in the writing. - Lovereading US gang slang, UK prison slang, spy jargon, acronyms and more - From Aconite to Zodiac Killer: A Dictionary of Crime was perhaps conceived as a useful reference volume where facts could be checked with speed and efficiency (which they can), but I found myself rolling around in it for hours, like a gangster's moll on a bed full of money. Sheer delight! Catriona McPherson Where was this book when I started writing? From Aconite to the Zodiac Killer is the essential companion for any serious reader or writer of crime. A fascinating compendium of crime facts which should be on the shelves of every crime writer - and every crime reader. Praise for the author: Sparklingly funny and painfully sharp throughout. - The Times Praise for the author: A charming turn of phrase that gets you giggling out loud. - Best Praise for the author: Great fun and easy to read. - B magazine Praise for the author: You can guarantee that Amanda Lees's books, like her own life, will never be boring. - Hello Praise for the author: The author succeeds in engaging the reader, both through some page-turning suspense but also via a lightness of touch in the writing. - Lovereading Praise for the author: The author succeeds in engaging the reader, both through some page-turning suspense but also via a lightness of touch in the writing. * Lovereading * Praise for the author: You can guarantee that Amanda Lees's books, like her own life, will never be boring. * Hello * Praise for the author: Great fun and easy to read. * B magazine * Praise for the author: A charming turn of phrase that gets you giggling out loud. * Best * Praise for the author: Sparklingly funny and painfully sharp throughout. * The Times * Author InformationAMANDA LEES was born in Hong Kong. She is the author of the bestselling satirical novels Selling Out and Secret Admirer (Pan) which have both received critical acclaim and have been translated into several languages. Her major YA thriller trilogy, Kumari, Goddess of Gotham, was nominated for the Guardian Children's Book Prize and the Doncaster Book Award. It also featured as Redhouse Book of The Month and Lovereading4kids Book of the Month. Amanda appears regularly on BBC radio and LBC and was a contracted writer to the hit series Weekending on Radio 4. She has written for, or contributed to, the Evening Standard, The Times, New Woman, US Cosmopolitan and Bulgaria's Vagabond magazine. Amanda has conducted a love coaching phone-in from the sofa of Richard & Judy and wooed the viewers on Channel 5 Live. She won an award at the Hungarian Gyor Film Festival for a short film she produced, a psychological thriller called Pros and Cons. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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