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Valverde del Camino, 2019. A serial killer leaves a third corpse with the same note in Huelva. It's the police's only lead. Three weeks and nothing. Ángela Ramírez left Valverde after her mother's death, and now, convinced by her partner and her best friend from her youth, she will have to return to face her most difficult case, and not only that, but also her past. A past she thought she had left behind. With the help of the Guardia Civil, An...

Mr. Ben - Chimezie Benedict Ihekuna - is a philosopher of sorts, playing with the words we bandy around in speech, dabbling in the peculiarity of the messages passed across in the form of 'talking', and TALKING THOUGHTS is simply thoughts that are talking! Or rather it isn't just that at all. It's a combination of poetry, inspiration, and stories touching on gender interests, politics, relationships, general knowledge, philosophy, and science....

Help and revenge. They had always come at a price. But redemption? Redemption has a cost of its own. Donaldson's men have been asked to enter the heart of Stalin's Russia to rescue an imprisoned scientist and afterwards a grieving mother gives them a chance to gain what has long escaped them.....redemption. The stunning sequel to 'Mr. Donaldson's Company

Dr Neil Mackenzie's life was boring - well what do you expect if you teach maths and live in Tunbridge Wells? That is until one of his old students needed his help. It wasn't a tricky equation she couldn't do either - no, Grace wanted him to help her steal back the £50, 000 Marc Gilbert had defrauded from her mother. And if that wasn't enough there was Reina, the Greek waitress he couldn't quite forget and Sasha, Gilbert's sexy girlfriend from...

Sammy is thirteen and lives with his mum in Tipton-on-Sea. His dream of deep sea scuba-diving is thwarted when his first lesson is brought to a halt by a commotion. A fishing boat has gone missing. Mrs. Anderson claims the boat has been stolen and she knows who did it putting the town's residents in complete shock - no such crime has been committed in living memory. Sammy and his scuba teacher, Mr Murphy, seem to be the only two who question M...

A tale of two lives One life: Stoker James Jolly - left school hardly able to read and write. Self-educated and eventually enlisted in the Royal Navy. Destined to fight in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 Another life: Olav Peterson - shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland. Destined to find love in a nation for whom his knowledge and talents are vital.

A relationship is a numbers' game. Sometimes positive, sometimes negative, Some multiply, some divide, Mainly odd, rarely even. Life is a magic trick. It comes and then it goes, And no-one knows the solution. A collection of short prose and verses about life and relationships.

The story of M÷, the science fiction author and counter-hero of the illusion of movement and cast away your dreams of darkness, continues in the final volume of Peter Raposo's trilogy. Is Artificial Intelligence the image of the Beast as described in the Bible? Will the Machine be our last invention? Are reptilian shape shifters living amongst us? Is time travelling possible and are time travellers visiting us now? Or are we just characters in...

After the tragic death of manager Gerry Fortuna, America beckons both Pete Peterson and Gerry's widow, Janine. But the land of opportunity is far from plain sailing for musicians or anyone else who's thwarted the expansion of the Rota Bocan drug empire. Violence and extortion follow closely on Pete and Janine's heels. For those who enjoy their drama dark, gritty and brutally honest - the sequel to Des Tong's classic tale of 1960s rock 'n' roll...

After being imprisoned and tortured for 72 days because of his writing and political views, a Chinese dissident turned short-story writer makes his way out of China through the mountains, stops in Vietnam for one day, and then ends up in Frankfurt, and later Brooklyn, where he writes short fragments of his life and of the nightmare he has left behind. This is his story, as told by him and those around him. Are we the lucky ones because we hav...

Pete Peterson has cracked the United States as both a live artist and a recording star but at some personal cost to his health. Meanwhile the former policeman, Ray Law is climbing the greasy pole as a soul singer with a first hit, 'The Love Game' and as part of a revue with two Motown legends. And Janine is juggling her growing abilities as a manager with her complex love life. Having or taking it easy doesn't enter the equation. With special...

In the months leading up to the war in Ukraine, three CIA field agents go missing and a double agent is suspected in the Kyiv embassy or the network of contacts used to gather intelligence. Desperate to uncover the traitor, the CIA commit a top European operative but after narrowing the list of suspects, Brett himself goes missing, and his eight-year-old son Ben is abducted from his Virginia home. What the conspirators haven't reckoned on are ...

Lyrics spanning the last forty years or so, covering many aspects of life and uses of the imagination. They range over a wide list of topics from a haunting thumbnail biography of the French poet, Rimbaud, to the practical no-nonsense resilience of a prostitute. Songs of love, the blues, and rock and roll, sit comfortably side by side with comic song lyrics about trains and spoof Country and Western as well as a collection of themed lyrics abo...

A famous author is invited to a party in the middle of nowhere, a party attended by some of the most powerful people in the world. On the way there, he meets a porn star. Later, when they're already at the party, he watches as the poor woman is taken away because some people want to have fun with her. And why was he invited to that party? Years later, that same writer takes a private flight to New Zealand. One of the passengers on that flight ...

In the sequel to The Big Keep, Neil Mackenzie's last term in teaching is not the end to his career he was expecting. Rocky and Gere rope him into their new pet project, Calverley Investigations and Security Consultants, and then he meets Rachel Wallis, one of the hottest movie stars on the planet. In an action packed, wise-cracking few months, Neil and the boys uncover the secrets of both Rachel's past and the hierarchy at Neil's school with p...

Whitechapel 1888 The anatomy of a bloody murderer... Thirteen year old Thomas Edilstein has ample grounds to seek revenge on any number of his former neighbours in the East End of London, holding them responsible for the deaths of his parents and the good people poised to adopt him but where will following his murderous instincts take him?

The book is a quest to discover what happened to British manufacturing in the decades after the Second World War. People say that we don't make things anymore. Is this true? I try to answer this question by exploring what happened in manufacturing sectors and to major manufacturing companies. I seek out manufacturing heroes, and try to map out where we are with the twenty-first century well underway. In 1951, the Festival of Britain was celebr...

Sophocles, the Greek Dramatist, who lived from 497-406 BC, was one of the great dramatists of all time and his tragedy, Oedipus Rex among the greatest of plays ever written but Sophocles had the benefit of another play, Laius, now long-lost, based on the same mythic story, by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus (525-456 BC). John Wright has now recreated the story of Laius, the king of Thebes, and the father of Oedipus in the form and style of Shake...

The career of Burning Spear - the Rastafarian roots reggae singer otherwise known as Winston Rodney

Martial arts stories are usually about fighting, punching and kicking, but these stories are about how lives can be changed for better or worse, about how not all training is physical and not all of it takes place inside the dojo, dojang or kwoon, and how sometimes it doesn't even look like martial arts training at all! These stories are about the dangers and difficulties posed by martial arts and about the pleasures which keep people practisi...