A tale of police corruption, underworld power struggles & killers with an insatiable lust for violence... All the Devils are here. Crime journalist Doug Mc Gregor is struggling to recover from a clash with a psychotic killer. A dead-of-night encounter with a seedy blackmailer is enough to send Doug feral. With his demons threatening to engulf him, he & DS Susie Drummond are tested to the limit as they uncover a conspiracy that reaches deeper than even they can imagine. ...

David Seabrook takes the reader on a deranged exploration of the coast towns of Thanet & the Medway. He fuses his observation of these depressing landscapes, city centres full of unemployed men & asylum seekers & dodgy characters, with literary & historical associations that seem through his eyes more like bad dreams than heritage advertisements for the local tourist board. ...

Twenty years ago, in a series of mysterious, incandescent writings, David Seabrook told of the places he knew best: the declining resort towns of the Kent coast. The pieces were no advert for the local tourist board. Here, the ghosts of murderers & mad artists crawl the streets. Septuagenarian rent boys recall the good old days & Carry On stars go to seed. Clandestine fascist networks emerge. & all the time, there is Seabrook himself
- desperate perhaps, & in danger. Dark, strange & immediate, this is a classic work of sui generis British literature. There are devils here, & the reader will remember them.
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All the King`s Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise & fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey ” Kingfish” Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success. ...

”I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [ Putin`s court is the] real House of Cards.” --Lev Lurie, writer & historian All the Kremlin`s Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king & a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin`s inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power & politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted-if not controlled-by the men who at once advise & deceive him. The regional governors & bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects, far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself. So are the gatekeepers-those officials who guard the pathways to power-on whom Putin depends as much as they rely on him. The tenuous edifice is filled with all of the intrigue & plotting of a Medici court, as enemies of the state are invented & wars begun to justify personal gains, internal rivalries, or one faction`s biased advantage.A bestseller in Russia, All the Kremlin`s Men is a shocking revisionist portrait of the Putin era & a dazzling reconstruction of the machinations of courtiers running riot. ...

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up by chance. She imagines their future together... Stories about people who have lost out in life & in love, & about their hopes for one really big win, the chance to make something of their lives. In silent apartments, desolate warehouses, prisons & down by the river, Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, & finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark. ...

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- 12/09/2018. Celebrated yacht designer Ron Holland drew his first yacht at 19 years of
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John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren & beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. ” All the Pretty Horses” is an acknowledged masterpiece & a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence & a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge & survival. ...

”I am in exactly the right place, thinking, doing & feeling exactly the right things.” This was the affirmation that Brad Newsham repeated daily as he cycled alone across the Japanese Alps to Mount Fuji in 1984, free to wander wherever he chose. But back home in San Francisco, life hadn`t been so rosy: his wife of ten years had met someone else & wanted a divorce. He tried everything to change her mind, eventually leaving his job & buying a one-way ticket to Asia in the hope that she would miss him. It worked
- & then he met someone else on a bus in Hong Kong. One of the first wave of Western backpackers to blaze a trail through China & Russia, Brad Newsham travelled from the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the epic prairies of Mongolia in a journey that took him across Asia by bicycle, boat, bus & the Trans-Siberian railway.
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All the Truth that`s in Me is many things. It is a true romance, a story of desperate yearning & unrequited love. It`s a page-turning mystery full of twists & turns that will keep you guessing until the very end. But most of all, it`s an empowering drama about a girl`s journey from victim to hero. Judith can`t speak. Ever since the horrifying trauma that left her best friend dead & Judith without her tongue, she`s been a pariah in her close-knit community of Roswell Station; even her own mother won`t look her in the eye. All Judith can do is silently pour out her thoughts & feelings to the love of her life, the boy who`s owned her heart as long as she can remember
- even if he doesn`t know it
- her childhood friend, Lucas. But when Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, long-buried secrets come to light...and Judith`s world starts to shift on its axis. Before she knows it, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice, even if what she has to say might change her world, & the lives around her, forever.

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