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Witty, funny, and highly observant, Voyages takes us across the Atlantic in the company of Miles, a seasoned traveller, a Countess recouperating from illness, a failed poet, and a host of other juicy characters, who all seem to think of Miles as a bit of a 'catch'. Will they net him, or will he be able to get away once more?Voyages is a comedy of manners set on board a liner. Miles, a seasoned traveller, once again sets sail across the Atlantic, to be intrigued by ...

Lyrical, tender and sexually exhilarating, The Marble Boy is a record of a man's journey through the Mediterranean. Real and imaginary, Edmund tries to come to terms with lost love.When Edmund Payne ran from an unfulfilling marriage and a job as an art school teacher to tour the rich and evocative Classical landscapes of the Mediterranean, he began an ‘odyssey’ of the heart and the imagination. But he was running from suspicions surrounding a relationship with a ta...

A chance encounter while swimming off the beach at Brighton, England results in frustration for Oliver as he longs for love.Funny and touching, Oliver visits Brighton Beach one hot summer's day with his best friend, and while swimming, meets Martin, a handsome man his own age. They get on, in the water and out of it, until Oliver begins to hope for more. As summer ends and they meet during a cold autumn in London, Oliver realises Martin is a troubled man and is unable to respond to...

A boy yearns for recognition from his father, but then soon realizes he is nothing like the kind of man he wants himself to be.On a boat off the coast of Devon, a boy waits with his father’s new wife as all the men, friends on one of their diving holidays, all descend to the depths. Rachel is uneasy, and the boy is bored, but as Rachel begins to talk, she reveals something of her relationship with the boy's father, how they met, and how, behind everyone’s back, they destroyed his f...

Reminiscences by a famous artist's son to a fatherless student are clouded when each has to confront the consequences of their past.Illuminating, and tender, this is a story of a young student student of art history, Andrew Ashton, who makes a long trek to a Greek island to visit Ben Burgess, son of famous artist Royston Burgess, a painter of vast, mysterious canvases that now sell for millions, in the hope that he will interview him and complete his university thesis. But he has t...

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devasta...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. What matters most in how poverty shapes children’s wellbeing and development? How can data inform social policy and practice approaches to improving the outcomes for poorer children?Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22. It examines how poverty af...

The “wickedly clever and devilishly amusing”* Veronica Speedwell returns for a rousing adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries.London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task—saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Ram...

Members of an Egyptian expedition fall victim to an ancient mummy’s curse in this thrilling Veronica Speedwell novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries.London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as the butterflies she collects, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell can’t resist the allure of an exotic mystery—particularly one involving her enigmatic colleague, Stoker. His former expedition partner has vani...

London, 1887. Veronica Speedwell intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans. When Veronica thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, he offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker - a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. When the Baron is murdered, Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth.

London, 1888. Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell can't resist the allure of an exotic mystery—particularly one involving her enigmatic colleague, Stoker. His former expedition partner has vanished from an archaeological dig with a priceless diadem unearthed from the newly discovered tomb of an Egyptian princess, just the latest in a string of unfortunate events that have plagued the controversial expedition. In London, rumours abound that the curse of the vengeful princess has been u...

Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an impossible task—saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution, who stands accused of the brutal murder of his mistress Artemisia. Together with her natural historian colleague Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer—a ruthless villain who not only took Artemisia's life in cold blood but is happy to see Ramsforth hang for the crime.