The elderly derelicts in the sleepy Louisiana settlement of La Belle Commune are leading the good life, lazing in the hot sun. Until Bushwhack Jack Breaker rides in from Texas with his outlaw band, and everything changes. Ex-bounty-hunter Paladin awakes to find eccentric marshal, Brad Corrigan, has been forcibly taken, along with saloonist Rik Paulson and storekeeper Alec Mackie - but where, and why? The elegant widow Emma Bowman-Laing knows where, but Paladin and crippled wrangler Shorty ...

When Clyde Manson, Hoss Kemp and the Mexican, Guerrero, ride from the Mexican border to Sasabe, Arizona, there is much more on Manson's mind than a straightforward bank robbery. Manson is a high-flyer from New York. Why is he involved with outlaws? Why does such a man so desperately need money? Why is he determined to reach Yuma? The bank robbery is successful, but Deputy Marshal Will Hawker is shot dead. Suddenly the outlaws have a posse led by Marshal Slade Hawker hot on their heels as t...

When Lane Condry, The Last Chance Kid, paid a rare visit to the family home in Arizona's SAn Pedro Hills, he found his younger brother, Nate, acting suspiciously, and the property being threatened by unscrupulous mine owner Jack Kenyon.

Joel Cramer's wife is murdered and his young son kidnapped. In his quest to catch the killers and rescue his boy, Joel has to overcome a web of deceit and corruption. After dealing with the killers, he finds that his son has been taken by a renegade Comanche, and his journey continues to a showdown at Blue Stack.

Ewan McGill is warned off his spread, but is determined to sit it out. Then, three weeks later his house is burned down, his wife is kidnapped and his 10 year-old sun is murdered. Now he must take matters into his own hands, to find Verity and avenge his son's murder.

They hanged Marshal John Kilgannon's brother in the Hollow and threatened to do the same to his wife unless he released the outlaw 'Dynamite' Ring Burgoyne from the town jail. But the prisoner had gone - taken away for trial by Federal Marshal Brent Blake - and now Kilgannon had a problem. With his wife in danger and his job under threat from crooked councillor Abraham Levin, Kilgannon was forced to snatch the prisoner. But in that bloody encounter a lawman was blinded by Kilgannon's bulle...

Soon after his arrival in Mesquite Flats, ex-New York businessman Bodene Rich is committed to Yuma Penitentiary for a vicious assault. Six months later Rich is released, in light of new evidence, and pardoned by Warden Bradley Shaw. On the day of Rich's release, Shaw hands in his resignation and when he is shot dead on the trail by an unknown gunman, Rich is once again in trouble. Rich finds himself further blighted by circumstance and finds himself working towards a showdown involving a b...

Boone Kingdom returned to West Fork ten years after killing the three renegades who had murdered his family. Now he is known as Hondo Kid, and he is once again involved in a fight to stop cattleman Roberto Aguandra taking the High Plains ranch from Isaac Haynes and his sons.

When Johnny Dark tangles with two gunmen in Del Rio he is watched with interest by stranger Nathan King. Later, King tells Dark the story of a gold mine won and lost in a card game. He invites Dark to join him in a deadly race to establish ownership, all this with the promise of fabulous riches.

Deputy Marshal McClain is found in his home, kneeling over his dead wife's body, holding the bloody knife that had killed her. Accused of her murder, he escapes from jail and stumbles across evidence pointing to her killers. So begins a long manhunt that takes him from Arizona to the Texas Gulf Coast and a town on the shores of Laguna Madre. There tangling with the Skeltons, a family of bootleggers, brings to McClain more startling information that sees him heading back to Arizona. Torment...

John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Thomas Carew and Henry Vaughan: these were some of the 17th-century writers who devised a new form of poetry full of wit, intellect and grace, which we now call Metaphysical poetry. They wrote about their deepest religious feelings and their carnal pleasures in a way that was radically new and challenging to their readers. Their work was largely misunderstood or ignored for two centuries, until 20th-century critics rediscovered it, finding in it ...

Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervour and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne’s ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare. This collection of his finest poetry showcases the diverse range of his work, and includes Death Be Not Proud, A Hymn to Go...