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Smith, AliSmith, AndrewSummerscale,KateThe AccidentalArresting and wonderful, “TheAccidental” pans in on the Norfolkholiday home of the Smart family onehot summer. There, a beguiling strangercalled Amber appears at the door bearingall sorts of unexpected gifts, tramplingover family boundaries and sendingeach of the Smarts scurrying from thedark into the light. A novel about theways that seemingly chance encountersirrevocably transform our understandingof ourselves.MoondustTwelve men walked on the Moon.Privately they refer to themselves as theOrder of the Ancient Astronauts. As timepasses, what they did seems ever morebizarre. Today, the lunar journey seemsas strange as stuffing fraternity brothersinto phone booths, eating goldfish, orlistening to the 1910 Fruitgum Company.The mission itself seems as pointless (butalso as heroic) as walking solo to theSouth Pole.The Suspicions of Mr Whicher‘A pacy analysis of a true British murdercase from 1860, the unravelling of whichinvolved one of the earliest ScotlandYard detectives and inspired sensationnovelists such as Dickens and WilkieCollins by exposing the dark secrets of theVictorian middle-class home.75