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The Hit
Heidi Fraumeister inherited her father's business empire and became a millionairess overnight. While on a sailing holiday around the Canary Isles she is spotted by Jack Towney who assumes the alias of James De Villiers in order to impress her. They become entangled in a passionate relationship and are quickly married. Heidi insists on a pre-nuptial agreement to safeguard her fortune, which Jack gladly signs, but in the months that follow the gloss of the relationship suddenly tarnishes and Jack needs to find a way out without losing the lavish life-style being married to Heidi affords. Divorce would leave Jack back where he started, poor and lonely. He hatches a plan to have Heidi killed by ...
The Company You Keep
When journalist Benjamin Schulberg discovers a link between liberal lawyer Jim Grant and a notorious Vietnam-era fugitive, the world that Jim has carefully built for himself and his daughter collapses. His cover blown, Jim is forced to go on the run after decades living under his false identity. Still wanted for his part in an act of domestic terrorism in 1974, he must travel deep into his past to clear his name and save his young daughter. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, The Company You Keep is an intelligent thriller about political ideals, family loyalties, and the shadowy world of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground.
Neil M. Gunn
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Can I Really Do This?
In his first biography, Neil takes look back at one of the most stressful times in his life and his manic crazy arsed attempts to learn how to drive. Making no apologies, Neil tells it as it is in this frank, humorous and quite often foul mouthed narrative.
Ink in my Blood
Join Neil Haverson on his 50-year ride through the Norfolk and Suffolk newspaper industry. Neil has witnessed it all in the ever-changing regional media world - from flongs, hot metal and office cricket to full colour printing, digital editions and the web. For much of his career, Neil worked in Eastern Counties Newspapers, latterly Archant's commercial arm, but his talent as a humorous writer was discovered on the in-house Prospect magazine. This led to wry sporting columns and the famous 'Fortress H' dispatches in the Eastern Daily Press.In this book Neil presents the 'greatest hits' from his Norwich Mercury, Eastern Daily Press and Let's Talk magazine columns and his reflections on half a century of ink in his blood.
Sky Hooks
A young warehouseman, his promising football career cut short by injury, counts flanges, valves and couplings for a living. He longs for the warmth and women of the office, but the prostitutes who hang around the high-rise are easier to deal with. Drink provides relief, if not escape, and probably the last thing he should dream of becoming is a writer, but then he buys himself a note pad and pen.This debut novel by Neil Campbell, author of the short story collections Broken Doll and Pictures From Hopper, is a moving and darkly comic meditation on the challenge of trying to realise dreams in a harsh and unfair world.
Always the Sun
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: From the creator of Luther comes a gripping tale of the deep bonds between father and son Always the Sun finds one man pushed past his limit, walking a wobbly line between safeguarding and carnage. While mourning the death of his wife and chasing away the darkness with a bottle, widower Sam looks for a fresh start. Dragging his frail thirteen-year-old son, Jamie, with him, Sam abandons their life in Hackney to return to his hometown. On the outside, things appear to be improving: Sam finds a job as a nurse at a local psychiatric hospital, his older sister continues to offer whatever emotional support she can, and Jamie enrolls at Churchill Comprehensive. But Jamie seems to be having trouble fitting in at school. A group of kids led by a particularly savage bully target the boy on his very first day, and the administration is apathetic at best and complicit in Jamie’s continued torment at worst. A meeting with the bully’s father yields no answers, and soon after, Jamie comes home bearing real, physical scars. Sam is left at a crossroads. With no one able or willing to help, how far will he go to protect his child?
Beyond Hamsterley
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Duel for the Crown
From the searing heat of Australia, through the dust of Paris, Wimbledon's grass to the battle indoors on the road to Hanover, the annual tennis tour is one of the most gruelling in sport. Neil Harman follows the top two British tennis players as they battle for world-ranking places and the British number one spot.
