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This is an adult tale of dark deeds, greed, murder and howling ineptitude in an advertising agency.
You are certainly going to laugh; you may even cry.
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| | Celebrate Myself
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Celebrate Myself penetrates the hallowed halls of business school academia to reveal a simmering world of unbridled lust and unchecked ambition. When tragedy strikes during a riotous evening on the town, the students� entangled lives become irreversibly altered. Amidst the recrimination and despair surrounding unfolding events, powerful lessons are learned that could never be taught in any classroom.
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| | Ramona
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How did a little girl come to be abandoned in the orange scented square of the Andalusian City of Seville? Find out, when the course of her life is resumed at age seventeen.
"Ramona" is a literary work that deals with Europe in transition and the relationships that form an ususual life.
Nominated for the Booker Prize 2002.
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As the Blitz rages, a Nazi sleeper is activated in London with an assignment direct from Hitler. It is Churchill himself who appoints Michael Fenn, newly recruited to the British Secret Service, to stalk this spy without a name whose assignment is too horrific to guess.
What is the link to Governor of the Bahamas, Edward Duke of Windsor, and his wife Wallis Simpson?
By Harry Howell ISBN 1-904433-61-8
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| | Over a Barrel
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Nicole Devereux, a beautiful young lawyer, fights her corner in a man�s world, using her wiles to great effect. Ed Burke, her American CEO, is smitten, but is unsure of her loyalty, yet succumbs to her charms, as do others. While President Saddam Hussein prepares to invade Kuwait, Ed�s world seems to be falling apart, not knowing who to trust in the fevered atmosphere of Middle Eastern oil. |
Are his fears about his daughter Louise in Saudi Arabia well founded? Is Nicole on his side or against him? With so much to play for, Ed battles on, jetting into Baghdad when the going gets tough.
�Over a Barrel� is an exciting thriller with a tense plot, diverse characters, extensive love interest, perversity, and human stoicism. It�s too good to miss.
| | Tobin Goes Cuckoo
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RUSS TOBIN IS BACK! The phenomenon created by Stanley Morgan returns his nineteenth hilarious escapade.
When the JobCentre suggest they have just the thing for Russ � co-managing CUCKOO COURT, a five-star retirement home � he is sceptical. Why? Because Russ has never managed anything in his life � including himself! |
Enter the gung-ho American manager Pete O�Shea with a list of tantalising rewards � including the nurses next door � and Russ plunges headlong into a world of genteel chaos.
In Tobin Goes Cuckoo Stanley Morgan gives Russ a run for his hard-earned money � with a parade of weird and wonderful characters hot on his heels.
Russ Tobin is a genuine original by a first rate story teller.
Bryan Forbes.
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Sabra's Soul
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From the heart of the California rock music scene comes this story of much more than just love and betrayal.
Does Sabra know who she is? She thinks she is a loving mother and a trusting wife, but her husband Logan, a powerful figure in rock music, seems consumed by commitments to his latest band, 23 Mystique. |
Sabra begins to feel that something is missing, to feel a yearning for something more. Is she too trusting and too slow to spot Logan�s lapses in behaviour?
When Sabra meets the pop idol of her sub-teen daughters, things begin to change. She can�t believe the attraction growing in her for this youthful figure, her junior by several years.
Lisa Reed paints a picture of virtue and vice in this tale of love, lust, betrayal and drug-induced psychosis, set amidst the glitter of the rock scene. It is not fate that leads these people on but their own actions. Can they help it and where does it lead?
Who better than Lisa Reed, with her access to the centre of rock, to weave this tense plot as it descends from the social whirl into the deadly serious. If you are a successful rock star, this is a book for you, and if not ... well, read on and dream.
Health warning: this book contains salacious sex scenes demanded by its setting.
By Lisa Reed ISBN 1-904433-07-3 
| | Ember's Flame
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�He could focus on her intelligent conversations and the way her aqua blue eyes lit up when they were amused and turned almost gray when they were sad. It was easier to admire the strength she carried in her soul and the light she carried in her walk. Now, seeing her in five inch heels and hot pants�� |
Ember Ty is majoring in journalism. Graced with stunning looks, she finances her studies by dancing in a strip club. She has a hot boyfriend in a rock band, a future writing about the music world, and yes, she�s working hard to achieve it.
But it all starts to go wrong. There is a predator on the loose, and Ember is sucked into a nightmare that none of us would care to dream, let alone live.
Vulnerable and threatened, Ember is drawn into a love triangle that might never have been, with the man she is to marry and the man she knows she can never have.
By Lisa Reed ISBN 1-904433-15-4
| | Fifteen Years
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To the world at large Samantha has it all: marriage to her high school boyfriend Jason, now a wealthy entrepreneur, a fifteen-year-old son and a residence in the smart part of town.
But Sam has managed to survive her marriage only by suppressing the dark secret that she was forced into a marriage she never wanted and obliged to sacrifice the love of her life.
On a visit to her hometown she meets for the first time in fifteen years the man who should have been hers, Kelly Ty. The onetime schoolboy nerd has turned into a handsome, bronzed surfer of international acclaim. Sam realizes that the pain of losing her, which drove him to success, was ironically the best thing that ever happened to him…but the indefinable sense of emptiness within her continues to grow.
Lisa Reed takes us back to Sam’s school days, interspersing past and present, as the story unfolds. The tension between Sam and Jason mounts, and she lights the fuse…
By Lisa Reed ISBN 978-1-904433-23-1
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| | The Planter's Wife
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Post War Malaya: in the wreckage of Japanese occupation, the world which the British knew had gone. Some return trying to rebuild their old lives, others to start anew. But British trained, Chinese jungle soldiers armed with weapons cached at the end of WW2 seek a different, communist future for Malaya: and so begins the ‘Emergency’, the bitter, bloody war waged for nine years against both the British and the Malays.After surviving three years in the camps in wartime Malaya, Dorothy returns from a grey, post war England to try and find the life which she knows can no longer really be. She meets steady, inglorious Harry who has jumped at the chance to build a life as a planter.
SG Simmons brings to life this extraordinary period of change to weave upon it a very human tale.
By SG Simmons ISBN: 978-1-904433-73-6
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| | The Affairs of State
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A philandering president. Rumors about The First Lady. Public lies about private lives. Talk about impeachment. Unstable world events that could lead to war.
In 1941, soon after Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term and before the US entered World War II, the Betz Radio Network aired scandalous and previously unreported stories about the First Family. |
Michael Audray, the network�s high-profile host of the most listened-to radio program in the country, asked the question that set off a chain of events that changed modern history before and after Pearl Harbor.
The Affairs of State is about power politics, broadcasting, private lives and the public�s right to know. History and fiction combine to question what is the greater good and to illuminate its moral ambiguity.
By Tim Steele ISBN 1-904433-17-0
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Colin Fisher is long-divorced with two grown-up children and an ageing mother in care. He is not getting any younger. Perhaps it is time to get married again. |
There are hordes of mature, nubile, attractive, solvent (hopefully) women out there, and marriage would provide regular sex and companionship, and someone to take care of the tedious domestic details that can make a man late for his golf and tennis matches.
All Colin needs to do is smarten up a bit, get out more and select the lucky woman from amongst the numerous postulants. What could be easier?
| | California, here I am
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William Lock is in L.A., trying to use his boozy, womanising father�s shrinking band of contacts to gain a foothold in the movie business. Not easy at the best of times, but when a rental car disappears into a canyon and Will bumps into an old school chum and loses his heart to beautiful, enigmatic Rashmi, his life will never be the same again. |
With Will and his dangerously unpredictable father we survive in Beverly Hills, attempt to hack it in Hollywood, party in salubrious Santa Barbara, hit the slopes in sophisticated Sun Valley and succumb to a date with destiny on a strange Caribbean island where a dark secret from the past and a present mystery await their resolution.
�A very funny, shrewd and horribly accurate novel about the movie business ... written with sustained brio and mordant intelligence. �California here I am� is also an affecting and moving chronicle of a son�s rackety relationship with his father.�
William Boyd.
This is the funniest and shrewdest Hollywood novel I�ve ever read, and it�s a cliffhanger of a story too ... will become one of the great classics of Hollywood fiction ...�
Frances Doel, Concorde - New Horizons Corporation.
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Do you have a dream? Most of us do and Luke Marshall is no exception. Writing music is his hobby, but could it also be his ticket out of a South London backwater, his escape from a dead-end job.
Kenny English, the most successful lyricist of his generation, has lived the dream. |
Now, several platinum discs and three multi-million pound divorces later, Kenny faces bankruptcy unless he can find a new composer. Putting Luke and Kenny together seems the obvious answer: a leg up for Luke and a new start for Kenny.
If only life were that simple. When fate intervenes and Luke disappears, Kenny teams up with the young musician's sister to try and track him down. As they criss-cross the capital they realise that things taken for granted may not always be true.
This is a story of dreams and aspirations, talents and promise, apprehension and perhaps tragedy. This is a book that shows how chance encounters really can change lives.
By Peter Yirrell ISBN 978-1-904433-71-2 |
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