Bluff

BluffThe magician's job is to create a mystery an unbridgeable gap between cause and effect. Michael Kardos brilliantly constructs his new novel Bluff as a magician would, delivering a perfectly calibrated performance of intrigue and, ultimately, astonishment. At twenty seven, magician Natalie Webb is already a has been. A card trick prodigy, she started touring at seventeen, took first place at the World of Magic competition at eighteen, and never reached

and discover the contemplative power of this age-old symbol

and a young girl is caught between them

and a fate worse than death

and identify the 'murderer'

In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium

From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love

Pincus invented a drug that would stop women ovulating

But it is much more than a celebrity biography

all the while maneuvering the changing landscape of work

" It is human nature to try to understand

Drax battles Thanos and Thor in two classic tales

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