Modern Literature

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  • The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon. She has her own deep contacts, but the more she investigates, the more she discovers herself in a very dark place indeed. For the assassination plan is only the beginning...
  • A well-chosen compilation of essays, discourses and short stories.  In this volume: The Philosophic Mind; A Bevy of Lovers; Husbands and Wives; Law and Lawyers; The London Scene; To Lie Magnificently; A Little Learning; Essays in Invective; Some Observations on Food; The Latest Hour; The Aphorisms of Samuel and Tony Weller.
  • Christmas Eve in London. The capital is deserted, silent. In the offices of the Joint  Intelligence Bureau, three people are left to man operations - and protect MIDAS, the computer lynchpin of British Intelligence gathering. Then out of the blue, Operation Silent Night explodes... Three months later: one man, Major Anthony Hollands, a former JIB officer, is on a deadly mission - a mission  which leads him to a mole buried deep within MI5, and whose ambitious plans are only beginning...
  • Alice, transported to the colony of New South Wales, serves her sentence and becomes a free woman; Eliza Jane is an unwitting partner in her husband's illegal slave-labour trading at the turn of the century and is forced to commit murder; Clare, a nurse during the Spanish Civil War, is an undercover agent in Germany during the second World War. A novel spanning a century and five generations, with settings moving between Europe and Australia.
  • After the end of World War II, Australia's Directorate of War Graves Services uncovered an extraordinary document hidden in a bottle buried in a grave in Singapore. It was a summary of the secret diary of Dr. Rowley Richards, a P.O.W. and medical officer on the notorious Burma Railway. Richards, just 23 when the war broke out, witnessed the horror of camp life first-hand and through his work treating fellow prisoners suffering in the harsh conditions. In a series of diaries he recorded the everyday brutality of the P.O.W camps as well as the courage, humour and mateship of his comrades. Just before being transferred to prison in Japan, he buried a summary of his contraband writings. Astonishingly, it was returned to him intact.
  • Barsetshire No. XXVI. The community is all abuzz with news of the impending marriage of Herbert Choyce (vicar of Hatch End) and Miss Merriman (who had been the long-time secretary of the late Lady Emily Graham). The couple, older and wiser than the usual betrothed, are in no hurry to tie the marital knot, but the enthusiasm of their friends and neighbors sweeps them up on a rush to the altar, as all of Barsetshire's familiar faces join in the festivities. But in the wake of the wedding, other concerns take center stage.
  • Terry Delaney leads a relatively satisfying life as a security guard and as a passionate rugby player with a shot at pro-team success. But Terry's life is shaken beyond recognition when he falls obsessively in love with Danielle Kabbel, the daughter of his employer, Rudi Kabbel. Rudi, a half-mad/half-charming immigrant from Eastern Europe, suffers from visions of an impending apocalypse and from the demons of a tormented childhood. The family madness runs deep, from the Kabbel family patriarch, Stanek, a Nazi collaborator who betrayed his wife to save his own neck, to Rudi's traumatic childhood in which he was a pawn between the Nazis and the Russians. It is into this maelstrom of devastating history and present day insanity that Terry is drawn - to his own desperate peril.  
  • The man with no name rode into San Miguel and saw the chance to make himself a fistful of dollars. He set two rival families against each other and managed to survive the bloodshed unscathed, while each side paid his hire. Then a massive shipment of Mexican gold arrived and violence exploded in the streets, the man with no name - the stranger, the Americano - came near to losing his life; that was when he ceased to be dangerous and became lethal...Cover art shows representation of Clint Eastwood as the Stranger in the 1964 film of the same name.
  • In the remote barren wasteland of North-western Australia, three  wandering thugs make a murderous bid to gain ownership of a newly discovered nickel fortune by crippling the legitimate owners' vehicles and setting the occupants adrift, without food or water, to die in the searing heat. The victims attempt the seemingly-impossible desert crossing, close-herded by the thugs.  But the killers have reckoned without the power of gratitude, when the victims receive assistance from someone they never expected to meet...