Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth a tropical paradise for the planters a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962. Jamaica is now a country in despair. It has become a cockpit of gang warfare drug crime & poverty. Haunted by the legacy of imperialism its social & racial divisions seem entrenched. Its extraordinary musical tradition & physical beauty are shadowed by casual murder police brutality & political corruption. Ian Thomson shows a side of Jamaica that tourists rarely see. He met ordinary Jamaicans in their homes & workplaces; & his encounters with the white elite who still own most of Jamaica's businesses & newspapers are unforgettable. Thomson brings alive the country's unique racial & ethnic mix; the all-pervading influence of the USA; & the increasing disillusionment felt by its people who can't rely on the state for their most basic security. At the heart of the book is Jamaica's tense uneasy relationship with Britain to whom it remains politically & culturally bound. ...

The two things that conjured up that horrible night were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune & the mask.. . Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long long time in cold limbo. When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancee has met someone else. & Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in mens souls. Hes had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic power-hungry & dangerous man.. . ...

Carrie Ryans sensational new novel reveals more of the secrets of the world after the return of the Unconsecrated & introduces a new heroine who must tangle with her mothers secrets. Gabry lives a quiet life secure in her town next to the sea & behind the Barrier. Shes content to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. Home is all shes ever known & & all she needs for happiness. But life after the Return is never safe & there are threats even the Barrier cant hold back. Gabrys mother thought she left her secrets behind in the Forest of Hands & Teeth but like the dead in their world secrets dont stay buried. & now Gabrys world is crumbling. One night beyond the Barrier.. . One boy Gabrys known forever & one veiled in mystery.. . One reckless moment & half of Gabrys generation is dead the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry knows only one thing: if she has any hope of a future she must face the forest of her mothers past. ...

Bay Tremayne heir to a viscountcy & manager of his fathers Dorset estate has one burning ambition
- to be selected to ride on the
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Weakened by events in Darujhistan the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion of Seven Cities in the Holy Desert Raraku the seer Sha'ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size & savagery it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism & bloodlust that will shape destinies & give birth to legends... In the Otataral mines Felisin youngest daughter of the disgraced House of Paran dreams of revenge against the sister who sentenced her to a life of slavery. Escape leads her to raraku where her soul will be reborn & her future made clear. The now-outlawed Bridgeburners Fiddler & the assassin Kalam have vowed to return the once god-possessed Apsalar to her homeland & to confront & kill the Empress Laseen but events will overtake them too. Meanwhile Coltaine the charismatic commander of the Malaz 7th Army will lead his battered war-weary troops in a last valient running battle to save the lives of thirty thousand refugees & in so doing secure an illustrious place in the Empire's chequered history. & into this blighted land come two ancient wanderers Mappo & his half-Jaghut companion Icarium bearers of a devastating secret that threatens to break free of its chains... Set in a brilliantly-realized world ravaged by anarchy & dark uncontrollable magic Deadhouse Gates is the thrilling brutal second chapter in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. A powerful novel of war intrigue & betrayal it confirms Steven Erikson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill imagination & originality
- a new master of epic fantasy.
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Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team DI Joe Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released con he brutalised in prison? Or is his death a legacy of a wider more savage violence from twenty years before? Coughlin was an ex-petty officer in the Royal Navy. Not much liked he served on HMS Accolade a Type 21 frigate sunk during the Falklands war with the loss of 19 men. If Faraday is to solve the murder he must first penetrate the wall of silence thrown up by the Navy. But as he digs deeper he uncovers a disturbing connection to a crime that has waited twenty years to be avenged... ...

' We've got your daughter.' It's evening you're back late from work
- & the house is in darkness. You step inside & the phone rings.
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Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organisation he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has. But when a researcher from the Centre for Disease Control fakes her own death & appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow Shaun's relieved to find a new purpose in life. Because this researcher comes bearing news: the monster who attacked them may be destroyed but the conspiracy is far from dead. Now Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun. ...

When Cetin Ikmen is invited to a murder mystery evening at Istanbul's famous Pera Palas Hotel he finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of life imitating art. Walking in the steps of the great Agatha Christie Ikmen experiences fear & hatred which have echoes deep in his own past. ...

Whore you working for then Warshawski? My cousin. Boom Boom? Hes dead. I know. Thats why Im working for him. Boom Booms body was found floating near the docks chewed up & spat out by a ships propeller. More like brother & sister than cousins Vic & Boom Boom looked out for each other. Boom Boom grew up to be an ice hockey hero & Vic a private eye. & now V.I. Warshawski would like to know how exactly her cousin died.. . ...