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Grey Area
Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs or more than 500 grams. Nor can a coffeeshop advertise, cause nuisance or sell over five grams to a person in a day. These rules are enforced by surprise police checks, with violation punishable by closure. In Grey Area, Scott Jacques examines the regulations with a huge stash of data, which he collected during two years of fieldwork in Amsterdam. How do coffeeshop owners and staff obey the rules? How are the rules broken? Why so? To what effect? The stories...
Field Grey
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence. He secretly buys a boat and sails to Florida, where he's arrested, sent back to Cuba and imprisoned in the Isle of Pines. There he meets Castro, and a French intelligence officer, Thibaud, who liaises between the CIA and French intelligence. Exhaustively questioned by Thibaud, Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin and another prison cell with a proposition: work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany. One of these is Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal...
Earl de Grey
'Earl de Grey' is a record of the life of Thomas Robinson, later Thomas Weddell, Lord Grantham and, finally, Earl de Grey. He was the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the architect of Wrest Park in Bedfordshire and began the investigation and preservation of the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire.
Sex, Secrets and the Spy
British author Philip Gray has amalgamated a fun, exciting 'Tell All' explicit book about sex, secrets and scandalous stories between an Englishman and his many love affairs. Sex, Secrets & the Spy is the first book of a two part series celebrating life in the fashion and fitness industries during a very cool and exciting time of the 80's while living in Milan. With over thirty, colourful characters, maybe one of them is you! The stories bring a unique cross over from fashion to fitness and tell the adventures of not only an Englishman's gay life finding his identity in a foreign country, but also that of his 'straight' friends. With a house robbery, a suicide, a medium on a train, numerous, exposed love affairs, and a top secret, undercover love affair with a heterosexual 007 mixed with fun parties and paraphernalia it all adds up to a fun, exciting and riveting read.
