Theory of Photon Acceleration
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Theory of Photon Acceleration
    J.T Mendonca
    Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Hardcover

    Astrophysics & Space ScienceAstrophysics & Space Science | Astronomy | Science | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
    Plasma PhysicsPlasma Physics | Solid-State Physics | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
    Astrophysics & Space ScienceAstrophysics & Space Science | Astronomy | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Physics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
    ASIN: 0750307110

    Book Description

    Photo acceleration has dominated the theoretical plasma physics area in recent years and has found application in all subjects where waves in continuous media are studied - plasma physics, astrophysics, and optics. This theory will provide a modern understanding of photon interaction with matter, helping to develop novel accelerators based on laser-plasma interactions, new radiation sources, and even new models for astrophysical objects. Written by a major player in the field, this book describes the general theory of photo acceleration, which allows fluid, kinetic, quantum, and classical electrodynamical approaches to be formulated. It includes examples from plasma physics, cosmology, fiber optics, mathematical physics, particle accelerator physics, and radiation physics.

    The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • A Quirky Good Read
    • Gritty, heart-breaking historical thriller..........
    • All are victims
    • Disappointment
    • Engaging and well written
    The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    Sheri Holman
    Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

    United StatesUnited States | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books | 18th Century | 19th Century | 20th Century | African American | Asian American | Classics | Collections & Readers | Drama | General | Hispanic | History & Criticism | Humor | Jewish American | Letters & Correspondence | Native American | Poetry | Short Stories | Women Writers
    ContemporaryContemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    HistoricalHistorical | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Thrillers | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
    Similar Items:
    1. Slammerkin Slammerkin
    2. A Factory of Cunning A Factory of Cunning
    3. Mirabilis Mirabilis
    4. LIFE MASK. LIFE MASK.
    5. The Crimson Petal and the White The Crimson Petal and the White

    ASIN: 0345436911
    Release Date: 2001-01-02

    Amazon.com

    The Dress Lodger is engrossing historical fiction. As in the best of its genre, Sheri Holman's atmospheric, miasmic tale set in cholera-stricken Sunderland, England, circa 1831 is based on fact. Its epigraph from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary--"Grave: A place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student"--casts the novel's thematic lodestone, steering the reader into a deathly plot pursued through streets emanating the sounds, insufferable smells, humor, adversities, and disease of an early-19th-century industrial city.

    Fifteen-year-old Gustine--the dress lodger--is a potter's assistant by day, prostitute by night. Her overbearing pimp and landlord has her permanently shadowed by an indefatigable, mysterious old woman "called Eyeball or Evil Eye or Gray Sister by boys who have read their Homer, but mostly called just plain Eye." Otherwise how could he guard his investment in the startling blue dress in which Gustine rents herself? Her trade, he explains, "works on this basic principle: a cheap whore is given a fancy dress as a higher class of prostitute, the higher the station of the clientèlle; the higher the station, the higher the price." Gustine's garment beckons Henry Chiver, an ambitious young surgeon who has fled Edinburgh, having been implicated in the convictions of infamous pioneer anatomists Burke and Hare for murder and grave robbing. For this doctor, desperate to reestablish his tarnished reputation through medical discovery, the heart is the favorite organ, "the singular fascination of his life." But to further his researches, and quell the increasing demands of his paying students--who are restless for induction into the arts of the scalpel--Henry requires dead bodies for dissection, to the horror of his naïve, philanthropic fiancée. But the Anatomy Act, which allows doctors to obtain corpses legally, has yet to pass through Parliament, and a suspicious public is terrifying itself with stories of murderous "burkers."

    Street-smart Gustine, a pragmatist trapped in unrelenting poverty, is all heart for her nameless little son who wears--literally--his heart on the outside. His rare case of ectopia cordis is just the sort of anatomical anomaly whose study would make a name for the doctor. Amid the gathering momentum of the cholera epidemic, Henry and Gustine strike up a fatal pact: life for her son in exchange for a fresh supply of dead bodies for Henry's dissection. With mordant Dickensian wit and Elizabeth Gaskell's deft touch for gutsy outcast women seizing control of their destiny, Sheri Holman carves out a rich, imaginative adventure as incisive and as gruesomely fascinating as a 19th-century operating theater. --Rachel Holmes

    Book Description

    In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-teen-year old beauty in an elegant blue dress makes her way between shadow and lamp light. A potter's assistant by day and dress lodger by night, Gustine sells herself for necessity in a rented gown, scrimping to feed and protect her only love: her fragile baby boy. She holds a glimmer of hope after meeting Dr. Henry Chiver, a prisoner of his own dark past. But in a world where suspicion of medicine runs rampant like a fever, these two lost souls will become irrevocably linked, as each crosses lines between rich and destitute, decorum and abandon, damnation and salvation. By turns tender and horrifying, The Dress Lodger is a captivating historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice. . . .

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars A Quirky Good Read.......2007-08-14

    Like a patchwork quilt, Holman takes bits of seemingly disparate lives and threads them together into a tapestry where nothing is as it appears. The device of the third person narrator reminds me a little of the movie "Moulin Rouge"; a story within a story, or the book as a theater. There is always one story line that cycles around to the next. I'm willing to give a lot of lattitude to the plot if I'm enjoying the ride, and while that was usually true, there were also parts where the writing was just tedious, or lines of action that seemed to almost crescendo but then fizzle. Still, I certainly enjoyed it enough to keep going. I mean, where else are you going to find a character who is a ferret named Mike, on the same level of importance as his human counterparts?

    5 out of 5 stars Gritty, heart-breaking historical thriller.................2007-07-01

    In this well drawn historical novel, we find a young lady with raw courage, resolve and cunning amid filthy, horrible, dire conditions.
    A mere 14 year girl when she first takes to the street life of prostitution to survive, her character is almost impossible not to care about and feel genuine empathy for...the situation is so painfully bleak.

    The novel takes place in Sunderland, England in 1831 and it is here that cholera is about to first strike in Britain in an alarming and deadly epidemic. Once it 'jumps ship', Gustine becomes an unwitting vehicle of the transmission of the infection.

    She turns her tricks at night `lodged' in a beautiful blue dress that a fine lady would wear, thus charming her clients into believing her to be of a higher social stature. She is wise beyond her years, possessing all the skills of surviving the mean back streets and evil that surround her.

    The narration is captivating and surprisingly elegant given the bleakness of the scene. It is reminiscent of a modern Greek tragedy infused with body-snatching , Gothic puzzles and psychological dramas!

    It is also a love story; the love of a desperate mother nurturing a fragile infant. She will do anything to help and protect her baby.

    Enter a physician anatomist, Dr Henry Chiver, aged 32 and greedy for freshly dead bodies on which he may teach his students the art of surgery and dissection.

    As secrets unravel and deceptions prevail, surprises surface and this novel stuns!

    If you like historical thrillers......you'll probably really enjoy this book!

    5 out of 5 stars All are victims.......2007-05-30

    A novel where everyone, in one way or another, falls victim to a cholera plague spreading across the globe, and now entering the lives & politics of Sunderland, England. Through superb writing & masterful story-telling, the rough life of the underclass and the intentions of the wealthy--good or bad--are thoroughly examined. I wasn't turned off by the graphics of the novel--it only helps to contribute to the medical history that provides a backbone for the story. More disturbing was the vulgar about-face made by Dr. Chiver (a sympathetic character at the novel's outset) balanced by the emotional flowering of the Eye and personal growth of Gustine. Overall, a captivating novel that I absolutely could not put down, especially towards the end--loved every bit of it!

    1 out of 5 stars Disappointment.......2007-05-22

    The book had an interesting premise, characters that I thought I would care about. I dragged myself through the first half of the book thinking it would grab me. Never did. I found the rambling stream of conciseness writing style a distraction and the subject matter too grim, between the two I lost interest. The book was filled with ugliness, not a glimmer of hope for the characters or alas the poor reader. The best part was when I gave myself permission to skim the last 80 pages.

    Overwhelmingly a non-hit with the book club.

    3 out of 5 stars Engaging and well written.......2007-05-21


    I enjoyed this book while I was reading it. I thought the story was engaging and it's unraveling moved me. I liked the main character Gustine, a hard working and devoted mother.

    I felt that Sheri Holman's depiction of the characters was realistic and many faceted. No one was all good or all bad, she showed us the strength and weakness, good and evil in each of them.

    The story is a richly detailed narrative told from an unusual perspective and only revealed to the reader at the end of the book. Gustine is a young mother who works two jobs to care for her infant son; one of which is selling herself as a prostitute and doing so in a beautiful gown she rents from her landlord. A handsome young doctor, Dr Henry Chiver has secrets from his past and an obsessions of his own. He is engaged to be married to Audrey Place. Their connections are woven during the time of an epidemic of cholera in Sunderland, England, 1831.

    I enjoyed the commentary on class and the politics of public policy. I thought the Reader's Guide and conversation with Sheri Holman was a nice bonus to this novel. I liked hearing how she took real people from history and wove them together with her own fiction.

    This could be a good one for a book club.

    The Lodger (Oxford Popular Fiction)
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • I just finished this overlooked little gem...
    • atmospheric
    • A well written story of moral turmoil
    • A Great Read
    • Scariest book I ever read!
    The Lodger (Oxford Popular Fiction)
    Marie Belloc Lowndes
    Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

    GeneralGeneral | Horror | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    20th Century20th Century | British | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    BritishBritish | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
    British DetectivesBritish Detectives | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
    True CrimeTrue Crime | True Accounts | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
    Similar Items:
    1. Malice Aforethought Malice Aforethought
    2. Trent's Last Case (Dover Mystery Classics) Trent's Last Case (Dover Mystery Classics)
    3. A Moveable Feast A Moveable Feast
    4. Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles (The World's best reading) Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles (The World's best reading)
    5. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics) The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)

    ASIN: 019282371X

    Book Description

    In 1888, a series of prostitutes were brutally murdered in the East End of London. These gruesome crimes filled the press and shook England with fear and intrigue. Marie Belloc Lowndes established her considerable reputation as a crime writer through her fictional account of these murders.
    Dealing with not only the psychology of "The Avenger"--her version of Jack the Ripper--but also with that of his landlady, Mrs. Bunting, who never gives away his secret, Lowndes creates an atmosphere of suspense, fear, and horror.
    The only paperback edition of this classic available, The Lodger is a chilling page-turner from first to last.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars I just finished this overlooked little gem..........2005-06-19

    It is a GREAT book and will go on my 'special' bookshelf of superior things. "The Lodger" is written,1900-ish, by Marie Belloc Lowndes, who is the sister of vaguely famous Hillaire Billoc. I had assumed from the name Hillaire that he was some French writer I had missed, but he turned out to be just a right wing English politician who thought women shouldn't get the vote, even though, obviously, his sister could write rings around him. Anyway, the plot is this: (Don't read this is you fear exposure to a few plot details)

    Robert and Ellen Bunting were an ex butler and his wife, a lady's maid who after a business failing had fallen on very hard times, and were reduced to such straights that the husband's purchase of a penny newspaper to read about the details of the horrendous, "Avenger" (aka Jack The Ripper), serial killings in London nearly precipitated an argument between them, despite the fact that they were a very nice couple who cared for each other in their restrained English way. At the moment of their greatest despair, their prayers are answered as a 'gentleman' comes knocking in answer to the sign in their window of 'rooms to let'.

    ""On the top of the three steps which led up to the door, there stood
    the long, lanky figure of a man, clad in an Inverness cape and an
    old-fashioned top hat. He waited for a few seconds blinking at her,
    perhaps dazzled by the light of the gas in the passage. Mrs.
    Bunting's trained perception told her at once that this man, odd as
    he looked, was a gentleman, belonging by birth to the class with
    whom her former employment had brought her in contact.

    "Is it not a fact that you let lodgings?" he asked, and there was
    something shrill, unbalanced, hesitating, in his voice.

    "Yes, sir," she said uncertainly--it was a long, long time since
    anyone had come after their lodgings, anyone, that is, that they
    could think of taking into their respectable house.

    Instinctively she stepped a little to one side, and the stranger
    walked past her, and so into the hall.

    And then, for the first time, Mrs. Bunting noticed that he held a
    narrow bag in his left hand. It was quite a new bag, made of strong
    brown leather.

    "I am looking for some quiet rooms," he said; then he repeated the
    words, "quiet rooms," in a dreamy, absent way, and as he uttered
    them he looked nervously round him.

    Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully
    furnished, and was very clean.

    There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary
    feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which
    matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

    A very superior lodging-house this, and evidently a superior
    lodging-house keeper.

    "You'd find my rooms quite quiet, sir," she said gently. "And just
    now I have four to let. The house is empty, save for my husband
    and me, sir."

    Mrs. Bunting spoke in a civil, passionless voice. It seemed too
    good to be true, this sudden coming of a possible lodger, and of a
    lodger who spoke in the pleasant, courteous way and voice which
    recalled to the poor woman her happy, far-off days of youth and
    of security.

    "That sounds very suitable," he said. "Four rooms? Well, perhaps
    I ought only to take two rooms, but, still, I should like to see
    all four before I make my choice."

    How fortunate, how very fortunate it was that Bunting had lit the
    gas! But for that circumstance this gentleman would have passed
    them by.

    She turned towards the staircase, quite forgetting in her agitation
    that the front door was still open; and it was the stranger whom
    she already in her mind described as "the lodger," who turned and
    rather quickly walked down the passage and shut it.

    "Oh, thank you, sir!" she exclaimed. "I'm sorry you should have
    had the trouble."

    For a moment their eyes met. "It's not safe to leave a front door
    open in London," he said, rather sharply. "I hope you do not often
    do that. It would be so easy for anyone to slip in.""

    Ellen Bunting becomes even more sure the shy new lodger is a gentleman because his manners are so odd. He arrives with no luggage but a brown leather bag he clutches continually. Ellen is reassured because from her years of service in Regent's Park households, she knows peculiarity of behavior is a sign of good breeding. The lodger who's name is Mr. Sleuth, borrows a bible and pays the months rent in advance. He's a vegetarian, which shocks the conservative Bunting's, but they cook prepare his eggs and cheese with as good a face as they can't put on it. Mr. Sleuth is so glad there is a sink and gas stove in his room on which to conduct his 'scientific experiments'. He rents the entire two floors above the couples apartment. The couple are able to repay a loan they got from a young policeman who has romantic intentions toward Mr. Bunting's daughter Daisy from a first marriage, who lives with a rich aunt. The tired policeman visits often, and Mrs. Bunting gives him tea as he tells of the failure or success of the police in their search for the man who is committing horrendous crimes which have enthralled all wintery London. The murders start to occur closer and closer to the couples home, as the gentle Mr. Sleuth sits upstairs during the daytime reading aloud all the sections of the bible which are most unflattering to women. Ellen, polishing the banisters, listens to his voice. At night he goes out in rubber soled shoes. Quickly, Ellen begins to suspect her lodger is a notorious murderer, but she doesn't turn him in because, understandably, he stands between them and starvation. Not to mention the fact that she's become oddly attached to him. He's such a gentle gentleman.

    What a rare great book! It's so well written. Wonderful, thoughtful characters. I restrain myself from giving away the end, although of course, as is my way, I read the last chapter first... sigh. A book this good is like being in love.

    Now I'm reading "Castle In The Carpathians" by Jules Verne. It's not very scary though. His bats, I understand, all turn out to be mechanical. I must find more ghost stories to read, it's such a dark and rainy summer. (I haven't finished Tristam Shandy yet, but am plugging along in the odd hour.)

    4 out of 5 stars atmospheric.......2003-09-30

    This is the suspenseful best-seller by Hillaire Belloc's sister that inspired Hitchcock's first talkie and the 1940s-era remake that won its star, Laird Cregar, an Oscar. The motivation of the murderess lodger's landlady may be hard for moderns to swallow. Her crisis comes from, on the one hand, guessing that her lodger is a serial killer, and, on the other, needing his rent money as well as harboring the working-class Victorian's deeply ingrained aversing to informing to the coppers -- this even though a young detective is a constant visitor and supportive friend. This conflict is never resolved. By accident only are the landlady and her husband saved from "The Avenger." Despite the protagonists' moral cowardice, the deus ex machina ending and considerable over-writing, this is a gripping, atmospheric page-turner, redolent with fine detail of every-day life in the London of the period. Their character warts don't prevent Mr. and Mrs. Bunting from being sympathetic. Indeed, those flaws help the book rise above its genre.

    4 out of 5 stars A well written story of moral turmoil.......1999-12-03

    Our reading group read this book and the six people present all enjoyed it - some more than others. The consensus - it was more of a period piece dealing with moral conflict rather than a horror story (although we all agreed it was quite disturbing). Almost all of us were disappointed in the ending. Still, we were all glad we read this very well written book.

    4 out of 5 stars A Great Read.......1999-12-03

    I loved this book. It was not the horror story that I was expecting, but more of the classic tale of suspense and spine tingling situations. If you need a lot of "blood and guts", this is not the book for you. If you want a great book to read, cozied up the the fire with a cup of tea, prepare to enjoy!

    5 out of 5 stars Scariest book I ever read!.......1999-08-28

    This is a literate, well-written thriller in the Poe tradition. What happens to the landlords when a strange lodger insists on paying handsomely for simple lodging? And what about the terrible murders that just begin as he moves in? Could they be related? But he is so nice. And he pays so well! The plot is simple. The setting and characters are tightly drawn. But readers are in for a frightening ride!
    Madame Castels Lodger
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Madame Castels Lodger
      Keyes
      Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giraux
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover
      ASIN: B000JFA6LO
      The Paradine Case/Foreign Correspondent/The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock Collection)
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        The Paradine Case/Foreign Correspondent/The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock Collection)
        Alfred Hitchcock
        Manufacturer: Radio Spirits
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Audio Cassette

        MysteryMystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Books on Cassette | Audiobooks | Formats | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Books on Cassette | Audiobooks | Formats | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
        ASIN: 1570194025
        Release Date: 2002-07-30
        The Dress Lodger
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          The Dress Lodger
          Sheri Holman
          Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press Boston 1985
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback
          ASIN: B000NSKR7K
          Madame Castel's Lodger
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            Madame Castel's Lodger
            Keyes & Cushman
            Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Co
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover
            ASIN: B000K6E15E
            The Lodger
            Average customer rating: Not rated
              The Lodger
              Marie Belloc Lowndes
              Manufacturer: Wildside Press
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback

              British DetectivesBritish Detectives | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
              GeneralGeneral | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
              Similar Items:
              1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
              2. Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics)
              3. The Hobbit The Hobbit

              ASIN: 1592243304

              Book Description

              The Lodger was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, and a remarkable film it is. But the story Hitchcock tells -- of young love and mistaken identity (and is that a mistake, or malicious accusation by a rival. . . ?) -- is very different from Lowndes's tale, a story of an elderly couple with a strange and unsettling tenant -- a man with peculiar habits who may be the Ripper himself. . . .
              The Lodger
              Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
              • Astounding
              • Makes You Want to Get a Lodger
              • Suspiciously over-rated...
              • Pure Entertainment
              • You WILL love this book!
              The Lodger
              Drew Gummerson
              Manufacturer: GMP Publishers
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback

              ContemporaryContemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
              GayGay | Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Gay & Lesbian | Subjects | Books
              GayGay | Mystery & Thrillers | Gay & Lesbian | Subjects | Books
              GeneralGeneral | Mystery | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
              GeneralGeneral | Mystery & Thrillers | Subjects | Books
              Similar Items:
              1. Adagio Adagio
              2. A Bit of Rough A Bit of Rough
              3. The Tin Star The Tin Star
              4. Discreet Young Gentleman Discreet Young Gentleman
              5. IM IM

              ASIN: 1902852400

              Book Description

              Honza takes in a lodger, Andy, who seems like his opposite-a coarse straight guy who comes home drunk every night to fart happily in front of the TV. But when, in a drunken stupor, Andy confesses to murder, Honza refuses to believe him. Then one weekend Andy disappears, only to return with his face rearranged. This black comedy of misunderstandings is a deft debut with huge crossover potential.

              ??

              Drew Gummerson, 30, is based in England's Midlands, and has lived in the States, Australia, the Czech Republic and Japan. This is his first novel and he is working on a second.

              ?

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Astounding.......2003-11-05

              Renting out a room can be hell, especially when you're used to living on your own. There's something very threatening about letting a lodger into your private space, never quite knowing if they are who they say they are. What if they turn out to be a serial killer? Or worse, straight?

              Such a dilemma faces Honza Drobrolowski, a freelance writer whose commissions aren't enough to pay off his mounting credit card bills. Reluctantly he decides to let out his small spare room. After rejecting a dippy hippy and a fellow gay man called David (who, in a brief but graphic sex scene, it becomes clear is of rather Goliath proportions), Honza eventually settles on a skeletally thin haulier called Andy. Unlike the art-house film loving Honza, Andy has simple tastes: he slobs on the sofa in front of soap operas and football, resting a can of beer between his legs and moving occasionally to fart the Match of the Day theme tune.

              Bizarrely, Honza finds himself liking Andy more and more, probably because he's like a grown-up version of the landlord's four-year-old nephew Nicholas, who visits every weekend while his prostitute mother is turning tricks. Nicholas and Andy get on like a house on fire, and Honza finds himself settling into an unexpected life of domesticity, despite having to explain to all and sundry that Andy is just 'the lodger', and not 'the LODGER lodger'. This life of bliss starts to crack when Andy returns from a drunken night out with his "mates", and confesses to Honza that he's killed a man.

              From that point on, one expects the novel to turn into a murder mystery, or one in which the lodger turns out to be exactly the sort of blood-crazed axe man that Honza feared when he first let out the room. It doesn't. Instead, we continue following these two amiable people getting on with their lives, with the mystery of Andy's alcohol-induced half-confession playing only slightly on Andy's mind. It's a brave decision on the part of the author, but a very successful one. We all imagine that our own lives could be more thrilling than they actually are, but to be able to replicate that in a novel without the reader feeling cheated is a rare feat. The thrill, once Andy reveals the true nature of his secret and he and Honza set out to right the wrong, lies not in 'whodunit' style mystery, but the tensions of whether these two likeable characters will be able to emerge with their friendship intact. The subplot about Honza's sister running off to London with her son in tow is deftly handled, and the heartbreak Honza feels at the thought of losing access to Nicholas is all too palpable.

              The Lodger is Drew Gummerson's first novel, and an astounding, deservedly confident one it is too. Combining moments of high class wry comedy with well-observed sideswipes at the nature of being gay in Britain today, it deserves to be on everybody's bookshelf.

              4 out of 5 stars Makes You Want to Get a Lodger.......2003-04-17

              Drew Gummerson's novel "The Lodger" is an enjoyable book. There is a predictable style to it that probably is the author's intent. It's easy to get "involved" with the characters. I found myself waiting for the commute home to immerse myself back into this book. This novel reads very easily and the pages practically turn themselves. I highly recommend it.

              1 out of 5 stars Suspiciously over-rated..........2003-03-07

              ...

              If you like predictable, slow paced cliché riddled gay literature then this is the book for you. If not then save your time and money.

              As soon as The Lodger arrives on the scene then the ultimate ending is not too hard to work out, but takes a long time to arrive. My biggest problem with this book was my dislike for Honza the main character. Why someone who is so self possessed, shallow and vain is so well liked by family, neighbours, shopkeepers and the local drag queen did not make sense. Also irritating was the nephews incessant addressing Honza as Uncle. This is all dished up against the usual background of Steps, drugs and sex in toilets.

              I was looking forward to this book but was sadly disappointed.

              5 out of 5 stars Pure Entertainment.......2003-02-27

              Larry Bailey, The Open Book Ltd, Sacremento
              Drew Gummerson was a delightful discovery. His latest book "The Lodger" is a book to read when you want to read a fun novel, just for the pure pleasure of reading.
              What makes Drew Gummerson's work so enjoyable is his great timing in setting up scenes, situations, and characters well in advance of the punch lines and "troubled" conclusions. This book is really a well-orchestrated comedy, drama, suspense and love story. There were some situations in "The Lodger" that left me laughing and rolling on the floor, while other sections kept me reading as fast as I could, flipping through pages to end the suspense of the immediate story line's subplot.
              "The Lodger" revolves around a main character named Honza Drobrolowski. Honza is gay, a writer by profession, living in Derby, England, but has been a little slow in getting his work published. In order to makes ends meet, he is forced to sub-rent a room to a lodger (room mate to US). Trying to keep his writing on a regular schedule, he picks the applicant (Andy) with the least interest to him: straight, works as a hauler (moving man), keeps to a strict schedule (goes to work, comes home, drinks beer, watches television, and goes to bed). Slowly, Honza's world starts to un-wined: his sister (who we discover is really a whore) and his nephew (who he absolutely adores and keeps on weekends) are moving to London; he can't get his book published; and his lodger, who has become a steady, lovable person through his simplicity, reliable, and unassuming roommate, comes home drunk, very late, one evening and announces while passing out on the bed "he really didn't mean to kill him".
              Drew Gummerson's book, "The Lodger" is pure entertainment; it doesn't get much better than this!

              5 out of 5 stars You WILL love this book!.......2002-12-08

              O.K. I don't want to write this review in too gushing a manner but I really did love it! The characters were intriguing and the story compelling. I read 'The Lodger' over a period of only two evenings (another attack of 'couldn't put it down' syndrome) and even found that the story's main characters (Honza the writer, his nephew Nicholas and his lodger Andy) invaded one of my dreams on the first night after I'd started reading this humorous and emotive tale of a man just looking for an 'easy' life. This book is highly recommended. I'm just trying to work out how many friends and relatives I can get away with buying this for as a gift for Christmas...
              Madame Castel's lodger
              Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
              • An Historical treatise !
              Madame Castel's lodger
              Frances Parkinson Keyes
              Manufacturer: Fawcett Publications
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Unknown Binding
              ASIN: B0007EQ12U

              Customer Reviews:

              2 out of 5 stars An Historical treatise !.......2003-02-26

              Much as I enjoy the Southern works of Frances Parkinson Keyes,I found this one to just too much like a text book work on the Civil War with just a few extraneous characters thrown in to make a story of it.It would probably be of great interest to students of history with its descriptions of battles and military personnel,but,without having a particular interest in the Civil War (or as she always referred to it-The War Between the States ),I found it to be rather heavy going and did a lot of "skipping".
              The Lodger: A Spider Latham Mystery
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • Beautifully Written
              The Lodger: A Spider Latham Mystery
              Liz Adair
              Manufacturer: Deseret Book Company
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback

              ContemporaryContemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
              Similar Items:
              1. After Goliath: A Spider Latham Mystery After Goliath: A Spider Latham Mystery
              2. Snakewater Affair: A Spider Latham Mystery Snakewater Affair: A Spider Latham Mystery
              3. The Mist of Quarry Harbor The Mist of Quarry Harbor

              ASIN: 1570089507

              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Beautifully Written.......2004-05-25

              The Lodger was an exciting murder mystery that kept me guessing until the end. It was a beautifully written novel and was easy to understand. I liked that there were just a few main characters, and that it took place in a small town in Nevada. This book shows real-life struggles of small town people trying to figure out who killed this woman. This book would interest people of all ages and I will definetly be looking forward to reading the second book in the Spider Latham Mystery Series.

              Books:

              1. Theory of Wing Sections: Including a Summary of Airfoil Data (Dover Books on Physics)
              2. Thermal Field Theory
              3. To Save the Phenomena; an Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory From Plato to Galileo
              4. Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, And Meaning (Icon Editions)
              5. Understanding Evolution
              6. Variational Methods for Potential Operator Equations: With Applications to Nonlinear Elliptic Equations (De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics)
              7. Wave Physics: Oscillations - Solitons - Chaos (Advanced Texts in Physics)
              8. Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids (North-Holland Series in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics)
              9. Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks (The Frontiers Collection)
              10. What Makes Airplanes Fly?

              Books Index

              Books Home

              Recommended Books

              1. Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
              2. History: Fiction or Science
              3. Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change
              4. History: Fiction or Science
              5. Flotsam
              6. History: Fiction or Science
              7. Guia Practica De La Salud Emocional
              8. Logo Design Workbook: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Logos
              9. Discoveries: Napoleon: "My Ambition Was Great"
              10. Color Atlas of Post-Harvest Diseases and Disorders of Fruits and Vegetables: General Introduction an