Book Excerpt for the Day

    The school secretary was like every school secretary that Thorne remembered or had ever imagined.  Maybe they bred them somewhere, taught them how to put their hair in a bun and look down their pointed noses, before sending them out into the world with a pair of big glasses, a fondness for tweed, and something uncomfortable up their backsides.

(from Scaredy Cat, by Mark Billingham)

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