Razor Girl

Razor Girl*SHORLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2017* A book of the month in The Times A thriller of the week in the Mail on Sunday One of the Guardian Readers' Books of the Year Key West is a small place, but there are criminal secrets buried everywhere . . . When jumped up reality TV star Buck Nance aggravates the crowd in a Key West bar, he incites a riot and vanishes in the melee. His hapless agent Lane Coolman should have been by Buck's

Written in a warm

By considering the Earth's history over millions of years

and is supplemented by numerous box features

Annie Jump Cannon

it looks like Amber's cooked up a recipe for disaster

By focusing on the relationship of language to culture and the world of ideas

are often supervised by classroom assistants

backward-looking country and fallen headlong into an era of modernity and optimism

a man whose forceful nature matches her own

Malcolm changes

Interspersed throughout are nuggets of science explaining the positive effect kindness has on the brain and on the heart

He will not speak of what happened to him and his family