Vincent: 2487 books

“You do not sound happy, Herr Carson,” a voice behind me said with a marked German accent. Startled, I jerked around to see Sigmund Freud in the prime of his life. After being astounded by how holographic technology's resurrected scores of celebrities and historical figures, Professor Alex...

35 Healthy Recipes using Flaxseed shows how to eat lots more flaxseed so that you get all of the healthy goodness from its omega 3 fats, lignans, fibre and all of its other healthy content. Whole flaxseeds, roasted flaxseeds, flaxseed meal and flaxseed oil are dealt with so that you will know how...

An Empire intent on flexing its powerAs an elite vessel plunges itself into the unknownAnd all of it, pinned on a rescue of frail hopeNone would ever questioned the fact that deep space travel is a dirty business. Interplanetary trade is the driver for conquering new worlds and is the reason...

Distilling the work of Father Vincent McNabb's years of preaching in London's Hyde Park, this challenging and entertaining book examines urbanized and industrialized life. The arguments claim that urban life has a deleterious effect on nature, community, family, and the spirit and offer a challenge...

Farewell to Innocence is a novel in which multiple plots unfold sinuously in a world where the boundaries between race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender and sexuality start collapsing almost inexorably as a new age sweeps away all ancient verities and customs. It is also an exotic story of love...

In the dying days of apartheid a Communist detained by the security police finds herself in a world of shadows, smoke and mirrors, where truth and falsehood seemed to merge seamlessly. It was also a world in which men and women lied shamelessly, and betrayal became the reality of not only the counter insurgency game but also the ultimate inexorable destiny of the revolution.

At twelve I was personally experiencing an intimate state of bodily strangeness. My sense of otherness increased my moodiness. My dark moods and adolescent sullenness were due to the fact that I was in the throes of a dramatic psychosexual metamorphosis orchestrated by a surging flood of oestrogen...

The short story involves a retelling of an ancient Jewish parable from medieval European times. Ironically the re-telling of the story takes place in a historical building called 'The Elephant Trading Store' and the trigger that led to the actual re-telling of the Jewish Parable was the discovery...

Literary post-mortem of the 'Raghavee' novella . On the surface this a remarkably simple love story - but this is a deception! This novella is also in a way a sister story to my 'Waterlandsridge'. They are both 'poetic narratives', For those who are interested in reading ‘Raghavee – The Immoral...

The Journal Writings written by an enigmatic lesbian anarchist intellectual, in that free-flowing engaging style which fills notebooks with all kinds of erotic and erudite commentary on a mind blowing diversity of topics representing her literary attempt to make sense of the infinite mass of undifferentiated...

After a chance meeting with the incurably fickle but exquisitely beautiful Helena Lathbury, Julian Bogart finds himself on a roller-coaster journey which takes him from the orphan city of Germiston to the streets of Paris. While in the Louvre after being warned by a stranger they discover that they...

A successful and wealthy artist in the autumn of his life who while living as a recluse meets a stranger one night at his regular watering hole in the bar of the Masonic Hotel in Boksburg. The stranger becomes intrigued by the eccentric artist and ends up spending the night listening to a strange...

During the brutal and dark days of Apartheid in the 1960s Aaron Finnegan a white teenager from a relatively wealthy upper middle class Boksburg family was stunned to learn from his sister Hillary and her best friend Gillian that none of the fundamental questions of philosophy had ever been solved....

On a chance meeting on a flight to Paris a professor of philosophy tells a young fashion model an intriguing story of love triangles, infidelities, betrayal, forgiveness which revolve around a desirable young woman who could have been a character out of a Luis Bunuel movie as the one called 'That obscure object of desire'.