Suzette Shard, a celebrity English model thinking to get away from it all in fetid French Guyana, finds herself prey to the locals & their arcane, mysterious SM rituals. But the gifted employees of the French space programme have foibles that make the locals look like rank amateurs in the ways of corporal punishment. Against the forbidding background of Devil ...

THE COMPANY BUILDS PLANETS.

Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, & with

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In 1934, Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris & already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. Stravinsky: The Second Exile follows Stravinsky through the remainder of his long life, which he would spend largely in the United States. These are the years during which he would compose such masterworks as The Rake's Progress & Symphony in C, & achieve a new level of fame as a conductor & concert pianist in his own right.

In this second & final volume of Stephen Walsh's comprehensive biography, the author traces & illuminates Stravinsky

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In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris & already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation. Stravinsky: The Second Exile follows Stravinsky through the remainder of his long life, which he would spend largely in the United States. These are the years during which he would compose such masterworks as The Rake's Progress & Symphony in C, & achieve a new level of fame as a conductor & concert pianist in his own right. In this second & final volume of Stephen Walsh's acclaimed biography, the author traces & illuminates Stravinsky ...

Liverpool: Christmas Day 1924.

When twelve-year-old Sara Cordwainer, the unloved child of rich & fashionable parents, sees

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Every day the population of Ireland wakes up to reports of another horror case of crime. The streets have become unsafe to walk upon & yet nothing seems to be done about it. Politicians make noises voicing their disgust while the police make arrests only to have the perpetrators walk free. Despite all the media hype, no one seems to be any nearer to solving the problem. Streetwise reveals what is really happening on the streets. The stories contained here are told by prisoners: those who have been involved in crime & are now paying their debt to society, allowing the reader to enter the minds of criminals & begin to understand the circumstances behind their actions. Meet Chang, who started joyriding at eight years old & was infamous among police & legendary among fellow law-breakers by the age of 12; Mucka, a once saintly schoolboy who was abandoned by both his family & society so took to robbing as a form of revenge; PJ, man of the house & breadwinner at 11, alcoholic by 12; & Tommy, the divorc who was refused social welfare so robbed the Co-op of a million Euros & soon found the local wing of the IRA knocking at his door. An exhilarating, emotional roller coaster, Street Wise contains frank accounts from those who have succumbed to crime through boredom, poverty or desperation. It shows how men from different backgrounds have fallen into similar crime traps & what has finally placed them on the path to redemption. ...