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"Originally published, in a slightly different format, as Circulation: William Harvey's revolutionary idea, in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 2012"--T.p. verso.
When Sloane, an unsuccessful painter but a successful forger, is released from prison after taking part in a high-profile art scam, he finds a letter from a woman with whom he had a passionate affair in his youth. On her death bed she tells him that years ago she gave birth to a daughter-his daughter-Connie, from whom she has since become estranged. She implores Sloane to find her and make peace between them. Sloane agrees-but when eventually he finds Connie she is locked into a highly charged relationship with Vincent Delaney, a man whom the police believe has killed once and will not hesitate to kill again. Initially rebuffed by Connie, Sloane has to decide whether to walk away or stay and fight for her. As the police dig deeper into Delaney's business affairs and begin to uncover underworld associations, so Sloane comes to understand the depths of violence which bind Connie and Delaney together. And the more Delaney feels cornered and under pressure, the more unpredictable and dangerous he becomes.
A novel of courage based on the experiences of John Harvey's own father who served with the London Fire Brigade.
He seemed bigger than life, but in the end John Harvey Kellogg fell victim to his personality weaknesses. In this engrossing biography, Richard Schwarz probes Kellogg`s fascinating, complicated, and controversial life. Marked by successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, his story is one you will not soon forget.
The word "embodied" is one of those terms, such as "grounded" or "centered" that can be discussed forever without being experienced. Defining embodiment, though, can be quite tricky, because much of what is taught in western societies about the body devalues the felt experience. The categories of formal learning, particularly anatomy and physiology, are taught with the fundamental source being cadavers (dead bodies), and conceptualizations that do not include our own vitality, or life force. Without the felt experience, embodiment is just another concept that can be discussed ad nauseum. The felt experience (or "phenomenology" in academic-speak) is the path away from these endless discussion...
An ex-footballer turned private eye tracking down a missing soldier; a stage psychic who appears to predict the death of a woman; and a long-standing conflict among the people of the wild crags of the Peak District. Three novellas from three of the UK's finest crime writers. John Harvey, Rod Duncan and Stephen Booth bring you Crime Express.
The striking new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Times bestselling author.
Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are off an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong. But as their investigation widens, their attention focusses on the biography Bryan was writing about the life and death of fifties film star, Stella Leonard, whose death from drowning, when the car she was driving skidded mysteriously off a lonely Fenland road, uncannily echoed the climax of her most notorious film, Shattered Glass. With Bryan's journalist sister egging them on, and bringing herself into mortal danger as she conducts her own investigation, Will and Helen gradually peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and its own perverted sexuality.
Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with a friend's family, has disappeared. The loss is more than they - or their marriage - can bear. But time does heal and slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself. A new husband, Andrew - even a second daughter, Beatrice. The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible - that is until, years later, a desperate phone call launches DI Will Grayson and his partner, DS Helen Walker, into an investigation which will test their professional and emotional resources to the very limit. Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently released child-abuser and Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive love affair with a married colleague, there is a real danger that their most demanding investigation yet will slip fatefully through their hands...
In this study of British industry one in a series of business books, former chairman of ICI Sir John Harvey-Jones argues that people are the most under-exploited resource in industry, being the one constant against the rapid changes in hardware and technology. Sir John puts forward the claim that staff are underused and underestimated, looks at recruitment and selection, coaching and daily management of staff, and gives his own blueprint for people-managing that could put Britain at the forefront of world business.