A dark, twisted psychological crime thrillerWhen a privileged student stumbles home covered in blood, urine, and bruises, he claims a teacher attacked him. The media explodes. The police are called. Careers are threatened.But DCI David Riley isn't convinced.Miss Fleming has a spotless record. Sebastian McBride has none. His wealthy father wants justice, or revenge, and he knows how to pull strings. But as Riley digs deeper, the story begins to unrav...

"A vivid story about Miami's countercultural history" Jon Caramanica - NEW YORK TIMESThe self-proclaimed "Mayor of Miami" Trick Daddy exploded onto America's pop culture landscape as one of the pioneers of Dirty South rap. His 2001 album, Thugs Are Us, established him, as one critic wrote, "alongside Ludacris and Mystikal as one of the few nationally championed Dirty South rappers, and catapulted him onto the playlist of every urban radio station in America, not ...

Matthew is just trying to hold the wreckage of his life together after his girlfriend left him for another woman. A chance to review a West End play seems like a lucky break, until it turns into an X-rated nightmare. The next day London tears itself apart, people make love in the streets and kill each other over a dirty sandwich. Overnight everything changes, the city is very quiet, people smile and nod, but what they smile and nod at is only visible to them.The only other normal p...

"Peter's thoughtful model will hopefully enable future practitioners of medicine to argue against any retrograde move towards paternalism and authoritarianism."- Jonathan Silverman, author of Skills for Communicating with Patients, from the Foreword. This inspirational guide provides an innovative framework for understanding the consultation. It is concise, easy-to-read and highly accessible, presenting a simple and easily remembered non-linear diagram which facilitates the understanding o...

When four-year-old Daisy goes missing, DCI Dylan faces his most harrowing case yet. All leads point to Jeffery, a seemingly unassuming suburban resident whose cold, calculating demeanor hides unspeakable horrors. As the clock ticks, Dylan struggles to crack Jeffery's sinister mind games, battling against his own frustration and moral boundaries. But when conventional methods fail, an unconventional force steps in, blurring the lines between justice and vengeance. In a tale of psychological...

First published in 2006. Part of the Studies in Social History series, this volume looks at leisure and class in Victorian England, 1830-85, including topics of popular recreation, middle class and working class differences and rational recreation for the masses and the case of Victorian Music Halls in the entertainment industry.

When Dr. Pemberton and his team tear a hole through reality, they expect to glimpse distant stars—or nothing at all. Instead, they find a desolate version of Earth, eerily similar yet catastrophically different. In a parallel London, Frank and his family struggle to survive amid the collapse of society, where hunger and desperation threaten to strip humanity of its last shreds of decency.As two worlds collide through an impossible portal a fragile alliance forms. Frank's family cli...

A short story about Pete and Alex. Two very private people who have a special interest in old chapels, where they stage some very unusual performances. Together they are all-powerful and enjoy doing things that lesser people would think of as cruel, wrong or just pain evil. But today they will discover that actions have repercussions, and that they are about to have their worst day ever

David lives in the world created by the bank bailouts and the credit squeeze. It's not a good place to be. The cities are battlegrounds, those with jobs fight those without and the young fight the old. Fear hangs in the air like a fog, and violence is a way of life. He has to get out. All he has to do is find a way past the armed guards, the landmines and the heavy machine guns at the border.

When Mark lost his job, he also lost his mind, and he descends into a fantasy world of H.P.Lovecraft and Nazi aliens at the North pole. The shadows on the walls tell him that everything is false, and you can change reality just as easily as opening a door. Of course, this is all the product of a broken mind. Things like this do not really exist, do they?

A short but comically dark tale of how a dental abscess destroys a routine smuggling operation to Vegas. Pausing only to kill his toilet the courier escapes into the strip where between the emergency room, Tania the stripper, prostitutes and their blackberries he plots his salvation using his in depth knowledge of handbags.

*'Classic Noel Streatfeild at her warm-hearted best. I absolutely loved it' Hilary McKay, author of THE SKYLARKS' WAR*'Such rewarding reading' Daily TelegraphThere are stories for every reader in this delightful collection - exciting crime-solving adventures; nervous young actors in the spotlight for the first time; unforgettable holidays and unlikely friendships.Featuring beautiful illustrations by PETER BAILEY