Books: A Manifesto E.O. Chirovici there are tensions in the

there are tensions in the Cherry Gardens community

Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and attorney Carmen Garcia

His star looks set to rise when he stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate

He brings wisdom distilled from a life lived in relentless pursuit of Truth

and star-crossed lovers' Sue Lynn Tan

Books: A Manifesto E.O. Chirovici there are tensions in theThis is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden age detective novels to avant garde