{"product_id":"white-city","title":"White City","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035416783\u003cbr\u003eFormat: B-format paperback\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Headline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026lt;h3\u0026gt;THE BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024 - THE TIMES \u0026lt;\/h3\u0026gt;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026lt;h3\u0026gt;BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2024 - SUNDAY TIMES \u0026lt;\/h3\u0026gt;\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026lt;h3\u0026gt;BOOKS OF THE MONTH - THE GUARDIAN \u0026lt;\/h3\u0026gt;\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year' IAN RANKIN\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'The best crime novel I've read this year' THE TIMES\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Quite breathtaking' DAILY MAIL\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Superb' THE GUARDIAN\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer' CHRIS WHITAKER\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A truly excellent crime novel' MAIL ON SUNDAY\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoung Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClaire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband's disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy 'Mother' Nunn, a sociopath","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41858664661125,"sku":"PR431529","price":39.9,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG1KXDLOLBQ.jpg?v=1789090632","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/white-city","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}