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If someone told you, you were destined to save the Universe, could you rise to the challenge? Teenagers Seth, Con and Zelda must do just that. Brought together by the seer, X, a man with his own cross to bear, they are The Triangle of Alliance. And it falls to them to prevent the takeover of the Universe by arch nemesis the Insidious Force.

How would you like a six-figure marketing job at the hallowed record label that signed everyone who counts in the last fifty years of pop music? With cameos by ageing rock stars, dinosaur music-biz kingpins, hip-hop thugs and Iggy Pop, Rock On is an achingly funny tale of rock and roll, office life, and what happens when the suits take control.

Once a great falconer and environmentalist, Malone has entered middle age a broken man, devoid of the passion and promise of his youth. And now the developers are threatening to build condominiums on his beloved Brendan prairie.

Features 18 witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces, this book is a collection which includes: tales of a body double - mistaken for the film's star - kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious writer forced to work on the novelisation of a "Three Stooges" film; and, a nanny secretly writing an expose of her Manhattan employers.

Based on a true story, mystery and intrigue in pre-Civil War New York.

Set just after the Normandy invasion, this novel tells the story of Heck, an American GI. Utterly inexperienced as a soldier, Heck is paralyzed with fear during his first firefight. Desperate to get away from the front line, he deliberately allows himself to be shot. It shows how ordinary lives are transformed by extraordinary events.

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It is 1868 and the Imperial Cabinet of Russia is proposing an international agreement to forbid the use of certain projectiles in time of war - the St Petersburg Declaration.

This book came about as the result of personal research it uncovered a middle class crime fraud and the establishment help in covering that up as the percentage of white collar crime that is examined by the police is exceptionally low and the percentage that goes before the courts even lower. There is ...

Redolent with the sights, smells, and tastes of Paris, "Chez Moi" is a profound and tender novel about a woman's troubled past--and her enduring love of cooking.

Presenting a portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, this work charts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility and literary fame.

Explores the experiences of the adolescent David, son of a Spanish Republican family. Throughout the novel, various members of the family are still recovering from defeat in Spain's harrowing Civil War, while the rest of the world is turned upside down by World War Two.

In Repatriated the world is a dangerous place and the bomb is ticking - at home and abroad. As the radio broadcasts news of H bomb tests, Mr Java writes letters of complaint to the authorities, dreams of horses, and stands at the front window, on the look out for special security spies and nuclear holocaust.

Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel