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The discovery of a body in a quarry creates a baffling case for Detective Superintendent Wycliffe Simon Meagor was a lonely middle-aged man. With a broken marriage behind him, his life was centred on his antiquarian bookshop. In his past was the memory of a murder trial where his evidence had...

From the author of A PALER SHADE OF RED -- Memoirs of a Radical; FLIGHT FROM EIN SOF and THE INVENTOR comes this collection of gritty, satirical, chilling, iconoclastic, always ferocious and unrepentant dystopias. Death and virgin birth, immortality and cannibalism, paradise and hell, the cosmos, bigotry...

Book 2 of the Cowboy Trilogy Cowboy did not find Ray Patterson in Cowtown. His old pal was two years dead. Without Ray's help, he would struggle to find Brother Van, the itinerant preacher, wherever that man might be in this wide open land. Locating the wandering evangelist was the only chance Cowboy...

For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as a fraud for his work on behalf of his fellow Palestinians, Said’s importance extends far beyond his political activism. In this volume a...

Includes:•Charles River Editors original history of Ancient Athens •Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War•Plutarchs Life of Pericles, Life of Alcibiades, Life of Nicias, Life of Demosthenes, Life of Themistocles•Plutarchs Comparison of Fabius Maximus with Pericles, Crassus with Nicias,...

Never before published, A Business Career is the story of Stella Merwin, a white woman entering the working-class world to discover the truth behind her upper-class father's financial failure. A "New Woman" of the 1890s, Stella joins a stenographer's office and uncovers a life-altering secret that...

EMP Year 1: ‘Desperado’ by W.Wm.Mee. Meet Sheriff Wayland Crow, a modern day ‘cowboy’ living in a Post Apocalyptic world. In the first half of the 21st century, extreme jihadist created a mega EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse), that knocked out every motor, electronic chip and digital device in...

Fallen Angels: 2 A.C. In 'Ever Onward', the first book in W. Wm. Mee's epic Ragnok Series, an accident in a U.S. chemical warfare plant unleashed a world wide plague that killed off most of the human race. Civilization died soon after. The few that survived, did so by much 'older rules'.'Fallen...

In the style of Tolkien and Martin with a dash of King, W. Wm. Mee has crafted an epic quest around a cursed sword. Various races of the land known as Oma-Var become entangled in the many schemes and plots to find, capture and use Shard, the evil sword forged long ago by a malignant force that seeks...

Come and read it again, but for the first time in MacBeth's own words! Through a mixture of verse and prose, W.Wm.Mee makes Shakespeare's most hated villain come to life! MacBeth himself comes back to tell his own version of 'the wickedest play ever penned', giving reasons why he did what he did and...

‘The Book of Fairies’ is another children’s story by W.Wm.Mee dealing with magical beings and make-believe. Like ‘The Book of Elves’ and ‘Fairyland’, the beautiful drawings of several talented artists and the author’s simple but touching story transport both parent and child to a world of wonder and imagination.

W.Wm.Mee’s ‘LEAR’ is a fresh look at a very old story; ‘the foolish old king that gives his kingdom away to his grasping, money grubbing children.’ A tale that seems right out of today’s ‘Fake News’ or the ‘Dr. Phil’ show --- BUT WITH A TWIST! The main character tells the tale...

A mysterious death ... an eccentric family living on the edge of Dartmoor ... And Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has one of his most complex cases to date. The Beales are an odd, reclusive family living in Ashill House, on the edge of Dartmoor: old Simon has withdrawn from active life; Nicholas...

This is a new and revised edition of Robert W. Fuller's analysis of how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal relationships, and our politics.