The town of Unity sits perched on the edge of a yawning ravine where, long ago, a charisma of angels provided spiritual succour to a fledgeling human race. Then mankind was granted the gift of free will and had to find its own way, albeit with the guidance of the angels.
The mountains and waters of Ivundé, in the Indian Ocean, contain something of immense value. To gain control of the Island, a shadowy Middle East group uses the cover of a madrassas-building project to arrange what at first sight is a local extremist takeover.
This book is directed at the sort of raw utilitarian approach to making hard choices in public life which uses in one form or another the idea of the cash... Læs mere
We live in times of unprecedented turbulence and uncertainty and we are losing faith in our ability to organise ourselves to deal with it.
For every player that makes it into the ranks of professional football there are many thousands of others that don’t. Many drift into semi-professional football, or ‘non-league’ as it is known.
How To Get That Job! is a no-nonsense guide, providing much-needed support when it comes to job hunting.
Natalia Popov-Fitzcock, a Russian-British art historian in her mid-fifties, is trapped in a sexless marriage with Brian, a wealthy businessman, who hardly even notices her presence, with now their son has left home.
Monisha Bastikar is twenty-seven years old and has just finished medical school in Vermont. She has three shining goals: to become a wife, a mother and a board-certified Physician. But... Læs mere
Runcorn in the 1950s. An industrial town in the North of England. A man from this town, James Cooke, claims to have travelled with aliens to a distant planet.
Barely fourteen, Ceci Prejean is a tomboy running wild in the hot Louisiana summer. After breaking the nose of a local boy, her father decides to enlist the aid of Hecubah, a beautiful Creole woman, with a secret past, who takes Ceci in hand and turns her into a lady.
I'm not normally stuck for words, but I do know now what they mean by tongue-tied. And when you have to contend with an encumbrance like that, what could actually be a knot in your tongue