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Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems.
Ezekial Murphy, a West Indian immigrant, takes up a new job as an attendant at a large London lavatory. The supervisor, Josiah Reynolds, and Jason, a third West Indian, explain that their main problem is the casual sex which takes place in the cubicles.
versatile and original writers in the English language." --Book Jacket.
Silas Grange is a handsome young doctor who prides himself on keeping his appetites under perfect control. But when Grange is summoned by a mysterious, voluptuous widow named Celia Quill, he submits readily to the power of her sensuality. Calmly, expertly, and with studied poise, Mrs. Quill initiates Grange into pleasures beyond his imagination . . . and then proceeds to betray him with deceit beyond his darkest fears. Set in an eighteenth-century English world of polished surfaces and secret desires, THE RATIONALIST weaves a story of reason overthrown by passion, pure intellect subverted by sexual obsession. Warwick Collins, acclaimed author of CHALLENGE, proves himself a master of historical fiction and a prose stylist of extraordinary power. "Ironic and deliciously lustful . . . THE RATIONALIST is classically elegant and romantically sensuous, comic and sexy." -- New York Newsday
Yachting thriller. The sequel to Ǹew world' storyline and C̀hallenge' books.
"Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that '... unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing.' As Darwin recognised, natural selection, far from increasing variation within species, reduces variation constantly in favour of an optimum type. What then is the true source of variation in evolutionary systems? It is a question which has obsessed Warwick Collins — a novelist who had studied biology at university — for much of his adult life. He proposed in March 2000 that the required degree of variation could be achieved if large numbers of inert or “silent” genes existed within the genome. Such genes — because they do not code for physical character...
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