Opulence. Invasion. Terror. & forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore. They were the golden days when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy its future as assured as it was busy. & those days were made even better when as was inevitable I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong & against all unwritten canons of Singapore life we became lovers. ...

Half-African half-Indian & beautiful Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked & violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid & consumed by hatred for the white man Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind & extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship
- & a white man. & in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.
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The rightful High Druid of Shannara has been banished to the harsh world called the Forbidding by a treasonous fellow druid. Her only hope for rescue is her nephew Pen
- but Pen is under seige as well. Both he & his parents are sought by the druids who want to make sure that their magic will never help the real leader to return. Yet there is worse to come. For the dark magic that banished the High Druid into the Forbidding allowed the simultaneous transference of a fearsome denizen of the Forbidding back into the druids world. & now there is a terrible peril in the Four Lands
- a creature that can take on any shape can kill at will & is only the harbinger of a much greater devastating invasion to come.. .

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An edge city poised at the northernmost tip of Africa just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic Tangier is more than a destination it is an escape & the Interzone as William Burroughs called it has attracted spies outlaws outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time the most prominent being Burroughs' Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky. The list of edge" writers who were drawn to Tangier is long among them Ibn Battuta Samuel Pepys Alexandre Dumas Mark Twain Edith Wharton Walter Harris Jean Genet Paul & Jane Bowles Tennessee Williams William Burroughs Brion Gysin Patricia Highsmith Jack Kerouac Truman Capote Gore Vidal Allen Ginsberg Alfred Chester Joe Orton & Mohamed Choukri."
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Horris Kew conjuror & confidence-trickster has returned to the Magic Kingdom of Landover & a chorus of disapproval immediately assaults Ben Holidays ears. Both Questor Thews the Court Wizard & Abernathy the Court Scribe (currently magically transformed into a dog) urge Ben to lock him up or exile him. Fair as ever Ben decides to consider the problem rather than act immediately. Alas this leads to disaster for Horriss return is not what it seems & Ben soon finds himself in deadly peril. Only his lady Willow holds the means to save him. But Willow has disappeared on a mysterious mission of her own... ...

Adria wolf changeling & resilient soldier has made a break with the past. Now comes a new territory & a devastating new complication: Riaz a Snow Dancer lieutenant already sworn to someone else. For Riaz the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle. Their coming together is an inferno.. .and a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment no ties no bonds. Only pleasure. Too late they realise that they have more to lose than they ever imagined. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself they must make a decision that might just break them both. ...

Lizzie Delancey is happily married in her early 50s with three grown children. But Lizzie guards a dark secret. At age 18 she had a baby boy & gave him up for adoption. She still thinks of him every day. Then out of the blue she receives an official-looking letter from Kent Social Services. Her son Daniel wants to make contact. On one hand she is overjoyed
- she longs to meet him. On the other she has never told her children that they have another sibling. Tangled Lives follows the effect this revelation has on her family as with Daniel as the catalyst a few small tears in the family fabric suddenly gape wide.
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Annie Delancey is happily married with three grown children. But she guards a secret. Aged eighteen she had a baby boy & gave him up for adoption. Out of the blue she receives an official-looking letter from Social Services. Her son wants to make contact. As the son she has never known comes back into her life his presence begins to expose the cracks in the family that Annie now has to try desperately to hold together. ...

In my world the word hero is way over-used. In the real world its the absolute minimum requirement for PC David Rathb&. ALAN SHEARER This is PC David Rathbands own very personal account of his wounding by gunman Raoul Moat in the summer of 2010. PC Rathband police call sign Tango 190 was blinded when Moat shot him in the face at point blank range as he sat in his patrol car on 4th July 2010. Twenty-four hours earlier Moat had shot his ex-partner Samantha Stobbart 22 & killed her lover Chris Brown in Gateshead. The shootings sparked the largest police manhunt in British history dominated the headlines & became one of the biggest & most controversial news stories of 2010. It ended with a st&-off between Moat & armed police on a river bank in the small Northumberland town of Rothbury & the death of the former night club doorman. This book is Rathbands personal account of the attack & the events surrounding it including his attendance at the trials of Moats henchmen. It is also the story of his physical recuperation & the gradual & courageous rebuilding of his life with the help of his family in the wake of terrible injuries sustained in the line of duty. The story becomes even more poignant in the light of PC Rathband s death & his ultimate failure to recover mentally from what had happened to him despite his heroic efforts. Tragically he took his own life on 29 February 2012. ...

In different parts of London three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Polices training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. Their brief? To become criminals; to work their way up through whatever criminal organisations they can get access to & to collate evidence against the criminals they come across. Their target? One of the worlds biggest drug dealers Den Donovan alias Tango One
- number one on HM Customs & Excises List of most wanted criminals. Three years later all the recruits are getting close to their target. Too close perhaps to remember the rules.. .
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