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Gray, AlexGray, SimonThe RivermanWhen the dead body of a man is fishedout of Glasgow’s River Clyde the morningafter an office celebration, it looks like acase of accidental death. An anonymoustelephone call and a forensic toxicologytest, however, give DCI Lorimer reasonto think otherwise. Probing deeper intothe life and business of the deceasedaccountant, Duncan Forbes, a seeminglyupright member of the community,Lorimer finds yet more unansweredquestions.The Smoking DiariesWhen he turned sixty-five, the playwrightSimon Gray began to keep a diary: not acareful honing of the day’s events witha view to posterity but an account ofhis thoughts as he had them, honestly,turbulently, digressively expressed. TheSmoking Diaries is the result, in whichone of Britain’s most amusing andoriginal writers reflects on a life filledwith cigarettes (continuing), alcohol(stopped), several triumphs and manymore disasters.Gregory, Philippa The Constant PrincessTudor history lives in Gregory’scompelling novels, no more so than herewith Katherine of Aragon’s early life inEngland as first the wife of Prince Arthurand then of Henry VIII.31