Out of the ashes of doomed ad agency Miller Shanks has risen Meerkat 360, a very 21st century workplace. Staff include David Crutton, an MD with the worst email signature in history; Milton Keane, a definitely-straight PA with a yearning for reality tv fame; Liam O' Keefe, a creative with an online gambling addiction who may be linked with the contents of the stationery cupboard appearing on e Bay; & Harvey Harvey, a creative who politely replies to pornographic spam & who might just have met his future wife online ...

Out of the ashes of doomed ad agency Miller Shanks has risen Meerkat 360, a very 21st century workplace. Staff include David Crutton, an MD with the worst email signature in history; Milton Keane, a definitely-straight PA with a yearning for reality tv fame; Liam O' Keefe, a creative with an online gambling addiction who may be linked with the contents of the stationery cupboard appearing on e Bay; & Harvey Harvey, a creative who politely replies to pornographic spam & who might just have met his future wife online ...

He was head of an international drugs ring, a kidnapper & a ruthless killer. One night British Sea Harriers reduced his Beirut headquarters to rubble & his evil empire to ruins. But Abdul Habib still had money, & hate, enough hate to spare to construct an elaborate plan which would destroy Gibraltar & the British Aircraft carrier which had committed the fatal strike. All he needed was luck to thread a nuclear warhead through the complicated network of the Middle East terrorist rings, get it on a Libyan freighter & head west across the Med-And enough luck to avoid the one man whose hate is even greater than his, Captain Peter Brodrick of the Royal Marines. A man Habib foolishly left alive, though he killed all his friends. A man whose fate is inextricably entwined with his. ...

Second-century Roman Britain is the setting for epic battle, high drama, bravery & romance in these two stories for young readers.

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Earth & Ashes is a story of such spareness & power it leaves the reader reeling. Set during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, it is a fable about war, family, home & tradition. An old man & his grandson sit in a deserted landscape of dusty roads & looming mountains. What are they waiting for? As we watch them we learn their story-Rahimi has managed to condense centuries of Afghan history into his short tale of three very different generations. At the same time, he has created a story that is universal in its power. ...

Native Americans had a close affinity with the earth & an understanding of the natural forces which shaped their environment.



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The Gwynns, a pleasant American couple, have lived outside York for the past fourteen years. Nesta, their only child, was born there & attends the local school. They seem ordinary enough & comfortable in their leafy suburb. But they have an astonishing secret unknown even to Nesta. One evening when she sees her father diminish & disappear into a stone lily pad in the garden pond, Nesta has to be told what she really is. Her parents are visitors from the planet Ormingat, sent to Earth to investigate life there. Now they have been ordered to return home. Nesta can`t take it all in, refuses to accept that she is not earthborn & finally runs away with the help of her best school mate, Amy. ...

For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions & emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life & a marriage gone sour. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, & they head south for Florida in a stoelen car. ...

Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece follows the lives of two men who each represent different kinds of earthly power. Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist, world-famous homosexual, & a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honoured, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, who rises through the Vatican as a subtle negotiator & shrewd manipulator to become the controversial architect of church revolution & a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two men, related to each other not only by family ties but also by sympathy, genius & a deep common understanding of mankind's frailties, Burgess explores the very essence of power. ...