Triffids Beard 2 - The Bearded Triffid

passages twice a day to keep them calm and relatively mucous-free). However the less than lucid
diagnosis of chronic non-specific rhinitis simply means that I sneeze a lot and nobody really knows why.
Auckland is apparently notorious for this sort of thing, though again the reasons are mysterious.
Perhaps the atmosphere is full of volcanic dust. I would imagine that ground sufficiently fine (which it
probably would be) the conditions would be right to form a nice colloidal suspension which means that it
would never settle out. Hence those of us prone to these things get almost permanent dew drops and
constant leakages.
John Le Carré is at the peak of his form with The Tailor of Panama. Gossipy Harry Pendel, the tailor of
the title, clothes everyone who is anybody in Panama. To his shop comes Andrew Osnard, a spy with a
secret agenda who is also privy to the dark mystery of Harry Pendel's past. The stage is set for
masterful political manoeuvrings and deep corruptions. Le Carré has never done it better.
The late Anthony Boucher was best known to SF fans as the founding editor of the Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction, one of the most influential of the SF magazines. But he was also a
masterful writer of detective stories, and a great Sherlock Holmes fan and in the recently republished
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars he combines the two interests to great effect. This is a
classic detective novel in the strict sense, and while the deductions may be a bit far fetched and the plot
(and motivations) utterly unrealistic, nonetheless it has its charm because of its adherence to the
customs of the form, though you probably have to be a bit of a Holmes aficionado to appreciate it
properly. Fortunately I am.
Ring-a-ring-a-roses
A pocket full of posies.
Atishoo! Atishoo!
All fall down
Robert Rankin Sprout Mask Replica Doubleday
Tom Holt Open Sesame Orbit
Poems by Tom Holt Michael Joseph
Charles Pellegrino
Return to Sodom and
Gomorrah
Avon
Dave Langford The Silence of the Langford NESFA Press
C. M. Kornbluth His Share of the Glory NESFA Press
Orson Scott Card Pastwatch Tor
Paul di Fillipo The Steampunk Trilogy Four Walls, Eight Windows
Jonathan Lethem
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall
of the Eye
Harcourt & Brace
Alan Dean Foster Jed the Dead Ace
John Le Carré The Tailor of Panama Coronet
Anthony Boucher
The Case of the Baker Street
Irregulars
Carroll & Graf