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A fugitive bomb maker dies in a police ambush in Marseille… A global terrorist collective meets in Paris to plan an attack on a European target... The terror cells have been activated and elite bombers from ETA and the Real IRA are already making their move, intent on using a device that will cause...

Far from merely recycling what we already know about certain paradoxes, this book breaks entirely new ground by providing what everyone really wants: solutions. The king of all paradoxes is the Liar ('This statement is false.' If it is true, it is false; if it is false, it is true), which in its earliest...

This is an autobiographical story of growing up in a mining community in the Welsh Valleys in the 1950s. It looks at life in the valleys through the eyes of a child. The reader is taken quickly into the past where the dialogue, written in local dialect, makes the characters live in the reader's mind....

Nate is a young archaeologist who finds himself embroiled in an exciting and, at times, terrifying adventure involving smugglers, Vikings and treasure hunters. He comes face to face with a real 18th century revenue man and his betrothed, Dolly. They become entangled in a race to find a sacred sword...

Last Sardana begins the story of a mother, Maria Martinez, and 12-year-old son Pedro, with modest beginnings in Rosas, a Spanish Costa Brava fishing village. Set in the fifties, Maria was widowed by a tragic disaster at sea. Together they uproot south to be under the wing of her brother-in-law,...

The book combines a travelogue with a semi-fictional story by an established author and journalist who has worked as an epidemiologist there and knows brazil, its people and culture, first-hand.

In 1977, a TV play entitled ‘The None Optional Extra’ was submitted to the BBC. Nothing happened for weeks, but suddenly the young unknown playwright received a surprising letter. The quotes were encouraging: ‘Kept your play a long time… Not for lack of interest - The reverse actually! Thought...

A small mining community on the border of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire becomes the centre of a mystery when a coal miner ‘accidentally’ dies underground… After a standard shift down the Oakwood Hills coal mine, someone notices that Joe Murphy has not checked out. Nobody knows where Joe is,...

Muted Serenades is a collection of poetry that frequently alludes to the works of the greats. Covering a broad range of themes, Frank Dillon refers to poets such as Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas and musicians including The Beatles, Elvis and Bob Dylan throughout his collection. The...

The Flash of Weathercocks: New and Collected Poems is a collection with a difference. Old meets new in The Flash of Weathercocks; an anthology comprising poems that have been previously printed as well as some that are unseen, arranged in fifteen thematic sections, containing landscape poems, portraits...

**An atmospheric murder mystery set in Victorian Swansea in 1880.  ** **Evokes a convincing portrayal of life in a nineteenth century Welsh town. ** **A plot which uses authentic locations and voices. ** The first in a series featuring Inspector Rumsey Bucke. Inspector...

When Jack Ramsden, a cabinet-maker and designer of stage props for magicians, was preparing his annual illusion for his wife’s birthday, he was killed by a shot from a rifle on a stand. The problem was – he was alone in the room when the shot was fired and the door and windows were locked. A verdict...

Struggling, as ever, with the demands of work, family and a precarious love life, Gina Gray finds herself in the world of Scandinavian noir. A trip with students to perform Hamlet in Denmark, at the very castle where Shakespeare sets the play, starts out as an adventure: ‘I like young people, I...

Gina Gray, disappointed by work, love and life, has settled on a bleak stretch of Kent coast, where she walks her surly dog, coaches unpromising A level students and teaches English to asylum seekers in Dover whose stories break her heart.