Books by Tony Parsons and Complete Book Reviews
Tony Parsons, Author , read by Colin Buchanan. Simon & Schuster Audio $18 (, abridged, two cassettes, 3 hrs., $18 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-7435-2058-4
Novels written in the first person lend themselves especially well to audio, and Parsons's debut—a sort of Kramer vs. Kramer
à la Nick Hornby—is no exception. British narrator Buchanan is amiable and engaging as Harry, a...
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Tony Parsons, Author . Atria $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5665-4
Parsons is the author of Man and Boy,
a sentimental tale of a savvy London TV producer learning to come to terms with his small son after a divorce. That book was a runaway success in the author's native land and scored a large paperback sale in
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Tony Parsons, Author Sourcebooks Landmark $21 (353p) ISBN 978-1-57071-725-3
The theme of this alternately wry and maudlin debut from London writer Parsons ""love means knowing when to let go"" won't make Love Story's mantra obsolete, but this novel shimmers with a sentimentality that could appeal widely to those who enjoyed
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Tony Parsons, Author . Atria $24 (345p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5664-7
This third novel from the author of the immensely appealing Man and Boy
is the amusing story of sad sack Alfie, who has returned to London from Hong Kong following the death of his wife, Rose, the one and only true love of his life, in a scuba...
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Tony Parsons. Minotaur, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-05232-2
Parsons (Man and Boy) targets the snobbery of the British upper classes in his entertaining first foray into crime fiction. Maverick Det. Constable Max Wolfe becomes a hero after he disobeys orders and takes out a suicide bomber headed for a London...
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Tony Parsons. Minotaur, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-05270-4
Det. Constable Max Wolfe investigates the slaughter of all but one member of the Wood family, at their mansion within a gated community, in Parsons’s exciting but uneven second contemporary crime novel featuring the London police officer (after 2014’
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Tony Parsons. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-05271-1
In Parsons’s solid third novel featuring London Det. Constable Max Wolfe (after 2015’s The Slaughter Men), Wolfe and his Murder Investigation Team view a video of a group of masked individuals abducting and hanging Mahmud Irani, a taxi driver whom...
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