Angus: 416 books

This is a must-read for every citizen of the world that desires a free, stable, and prosperous democracy. It's not a long book but it's packed full of wonderful ideas that are based on ancient Greece. The ideas are based on a  participative democracy in which all citizens have say over all matters...

In a bar, a down-and-outer relates a tale from his former life in order to win the sympathy of another patron, who plies him with drinks. The arc of his story aims downward, until the other patron, thoroughly depressed, leaves money for the down-and-outer as he leaves the bar. Afterwards, the narrator, the bartender and the down-and-outer frankly analyze the effects of his tale.

Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge correspondence, with his diplomatic despatches...

Research suggests that between 60-75% of all information security incidents are the result of a lack of knowledge and/or understanding amongst an organization's own staff. And yet the great majority of money spent protecting systems is focused on creating technical defences against external threats....

Dara would have been arrested the first time she'd driven a police car screaming through town in the middle of the night if her uncle hadn't been the Sheriff. Years later, she's still a trouble-maker, still a rebel, and now a deputy sheriff in a more than slightly corrupt Georgia County....

McKenna Lynch has never felt particularly at home in life. She's gone from being an overweight teenager with an antisocial personality, to a sleekly framed, narcissistic slut, to an insouciant tomboy police officer out for adventure. Now, fired from the Boston Police Department, and somewhat...

A coup d'état in the United States is simply not possible.The country wouldn't stand for it. The military wouldn't stand for it.Of course, if they didn't know about it...Logan Black thought she wanted to be an FBI agent, until she became one. But as a friend...

Lannie Morgan is a small time PI and part-time drummer trying to make it in the big city - and trying to forget about her tall, blonde, beautiful, rich, successful actress sister Crystal. But then Crystal calls in a panic after a secretly taken sex video is used to blackmail her. Lannie reluctantly...

144 civilians were slaughtered 20 years ago, when a Serb unit wiped out their village. Overshadowed by the genocide at Srebrenica, it was just another tragedy in a dirty little war where brutality was the norm. Major Josef Durakovic, commander of the Red Wolves, escaped from The Hague and has...

"A personality per day keeps the assassins at bay." One of many quotations embossed along the walls of the secretive 'Next You' Intelligence Division Operators academy on Cassius. Every government needs operators and they promise awesome compensation. They can because they normally don't...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins. Table of Contents Just Five Minutes – George Allen Miller The Lost Heirs of Rose McAlder – Kate Lechler Bad News from the Future –...

From Angus Wells comes a stirring tale of magic, adventure, and passion as only he could imagine it — the saga of two ancient peoples, long divided by a bloody past, and the courageous young man who must save them both or die with the woman he loves.... Long ago the Kandarians seized the...

Angus Wells has imagined a magnificent new novel of vengeance, courage, and adventure--an electrifying tale of a noble warrior willing to lay down his life in the name of honor.... Aided by the dark magic of an evil sorcerer, a merciless army seeks to conquer the peaceful province of Chaldor....

On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After 'a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards'. Angus Wilson's first novel is concerned with the hypocrisies of middle-class society. The protagonist, Bernard Sands,...