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Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind (Harper Perennial) ISBN 978-0-06-143046-6 Former Czech President Vaclav Havel once stated: Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. This captures the challenge of the first

by Toni Morrison (Random House) ISBN 9780701186074 As a big fan of the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Price-winner Toni Morrison, I was excited to get hold of her newest book. Morrison has succeeded, again, in creating a beautiful novel, or rather a novella with its 145 pages. It is rich in allegories and her sentences

by Alan Hollinghurst (Picador) ISBN 978-0-330-48321-6 The title of this 2004 Man Booker Prize winner refers to the aesthetics theory by William Hogarth on the Line of Beauty, the S-shaped curved line that signifies liveliness and activity and excites the viewer. In the early eighties middle class Nick Guest moves in with Tory MP Gerald