John Bernard Books has found out he has terminal prostate cancer.Books is an aging but notorious gunman, who is known across the frontier for being dangerously quick on the draw, for loving women, and for killing over thirty men. So it comes to his dismay that he is destined to die an undignified an...
bookshelves: play-dramatisation, published-1975, western, under-500-ratings, autumn-2014, medical-eew, lifestyles-deathstyles, serial-killer, film-only, fradio Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from October 23 to 27, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m7btvDescription: Classic West...
Lovely with a dash of wow. Part mystery, part spy-thriller, all inner journey in the head of Smilla Jaspersen, herself part Inuit, part Danish, never belonging anywhere, only within herself. I loved the whole science, the science of ice being her tie to the world. How she doesn't connect to anyone b...