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Akhtar, Nasreen Catch a Fish from the Sea(Using the Internet)Akunin, Boris‘Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using theInternet)’ is the memoir of one boldPakistani woman who decided that shewould find her own suitable boy bytravelling the World Wide Wed. She’syoung, good-looking and professional,but still potential suitors seem to be inshort supply. She tries the conventionalapproach when they come home andscrutinise her over tea: she tries to avoidsending her picture to men on emailhoping they will like her for what she isnot just her looks, but this doesn’t workeither! Then Akhtar meets a man whoshe falls in love with, but he wants tochange her and forever compares herto his past love, before finally leavingher heart broken. However, the intrepidyoung woman is not to be deterred andfinds solace in her Islamic faith. She picksherself up and continues with her quest.The Death of AchillesInternational intrigue, professionalrivalry, the criminal underworld ofnineteenth-century Moscow, and anirresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorinwas hoping for a quiet homecoming,he is about to be disappointed. His oldfriend General Sobolev, the famous‘Russian Achilles’ has been found dead ina hotel room, and Fandorin suspects foulplay. Our eccentric and ingenious heromust endeavour to discover not so muchwhodunit, as why.