Many mistakes, few regrets, lessons learned and forgotten. Four men lie dead in a Bangkok morgue. Mike Dean feels it is not his fault in spite of what others might think. He holds up in his Goa hideaway craving the bliss of ignorance, hoping his troubles will somehow blow away. But he has it, and they want it. They won't go away.Mike Dean thought he'd left the seedy underworld behind in the East End of London when he moved to the East End of the World. But trouble follows wherever M...

The Swinging Sixties: Not all it's cracked up to be? Or the greatest time ever to be young?Featherstone thinks it is. He's an art student, past his First Time barrier, and thinks he knows it all.The Sixties are in full swing: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Featherstone does his bit to help make the slogan a legend.Not one to pass up opportunity, he chances upon a way to make big money: Porn.Soho, London. Strippers, Models, Gangsters, Sleaze; Featherstone is su...

Who could ever tire of endless sex and more money than it's possible to imagine?Featherstone does. He leaves Swinging Sixties England, allowing Fate to dictate his destiny. She leads him to Amsterdam, sin capital of the world.Seduced, robbed, rescued, nurtured. Featherstone marvels at the wonders that unfold. Cops smoking dope, Free love and white bicycles. He's easy meat for insatiable Velma Ventura.She's the owner of an exclusive brothel. Topless slave girls, Live...

Featherstone is lead singer with a fabulous 60's rock band. This all-round lovable rogue with no ear for music but balls that make up for it, sets out to take his friends into the big time, and it is up to him to get them there with no map.Finding sexual encounters is no longer a problem, but making money is. He gets further involved with London's criminal underworld; not a smart move, but when does Featherstone ever do 'smart'?Sex, drugs, rock and roll; Featherstone does i...

You don't forget your first time. Remember yours? Of course you do.Featherstone certainly does. It happens in the 1960's, when most girls keep their knees pressed firmly together during passionate embraces. They try to hold out until they marry. That 'other kind of girl' is incredibly rare. But boy is he eager to find her.He daydreams through school, wishing his life away, waiting for weekends to come around. Casting aside grey flannels, Featherstone dons his garb of crazy ...

Waverley is a small cat with a big miaow and he lives with Mr and MrsTurner and their son Jonathan at number 10, Marten's Drive.Waverley likes the house at number 10, Marten's Drive because it haslots of good places to sleep and a back garden that seems to go onforever. Beyond the wooden fence at the bottom of the garden there isa children's playground, green fields, and then the woods. All daylong Waverley snoozes in the sunny spots around the ho...

It looked bleak and predictable for little Keelen Mailman: an alcoholic mother, absent father, the horrors of regular sexual and physical assault and the casual racism of a small outback town in the sixties. But somehow, despite the pain and deprivation, the lost education, she managed to absorb her mother's lessons: her Bidjara language and culture, her obligations to Country, and her loyalty to her family.So it was no surprise to some that a girl who could hide for a year in her ...

Since being crowned the Northern Businessman of the Year 1993, Keith Lemon has been going from strength to strength and now is regularly seen sandwiched between two bang tidy lasses on the funniest show on telly, CELEBRITY JUICE.In BEING KEITH, Keith Lemon - international ladies man and national treasure - opens up and shares the juiciest parts of his life from the last five years; from selling Securipoles in America and travelling the world to his first encounter with Holly and Fe...

Fancy a slice of lemon with that, love?As you can tell, I'm a good-looking guy and quite a hit with the ladies...some proper bang tidy lasses too. I've been honing my game for a few years and now, at last, I reveal all. In my book, I reveal the 69 rules of being a succ-sex. Clever, right?So why not slip into something a little more comfortable, take my hand and I'll guide you through the rules of attraction, chat-up lines, first dates and relationships Lemo...

Jez is on a mission of mercy: to replace a tragically deceased comic book for his injured best mate, Tel. Venturing into the Hidden Asteroid bookstore in London—the temple of geekdom itself—Jez is bowled over by the guy behind the counter.Rhys is the poster boy for hot geeks: tall, gorgeous, and totally cool. Jez is desperate to impress him, so he bluffs his way through comic book jargon . . . and then dashes back to the hospital to beg Tel to teach him how to speak Geek.Te...

WINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS MEMORIAL PRIZE'Her art is ignited by voice, as you hear it, is unquestionable' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'Distinctive, pared-down style' DAVID EVANS, INDEPENDENT**'Unflinching look at the lives of working-class women' DAILY MAILNell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, h...

Tim Winton's That Eye, the Sky is a tale about a boy’s vision of the world beyond, and the blurry distinctions between the natural and supernatural.At twelve years old, Morton – Ort for short – is not quite a child, but not yet an adult; his isolated outback world is an intriguing combination of boyish innocence, adolescent confusion and burgeoning awareness. When his father is seriously injured in a car crash, however, that world is suddenly thrown into c...