The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe – now in his seventy-second year – has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed
A cautionary Near Future tale about social disorder in the UK, Boyce had the misfortune of predicting a rise in unemployment to an unheard-of three million in a fiction published just months before, in the harsh reality of the first Thatcher recession, it actually reached four million; he was also
A TALE AS LONG AND TWISTED AS THE BRAIDED HAIR AT THE CENTRE OF IT'S LEGENDS. A girl with magical hair taken from her parents and confined to an isolated tower. Her captor, an old witch who acts as an overprotective mother who knows what's best. But what does Mother Gothel actually know? This
Jason is a cynical rich playboy. He doesn’t take life seriously. He doesn’t believe in settling down. Eileen's twenty-seventh birthday is almost here. But as always she's an afterthought in her parent’s minds. Her family is too busy planning a shotgun wedding for her older sister to pay attention
Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a
WHAT IS THE UNDERDOG ADVANTAGE ALL ABOUT? Do you ever feel stuck in your life? Here's how to FLIP THAT SWITCH! Finally the success road-map for those not born to privilege or advantaged. Do things look good on the outside but on the inside, you feel like a prisoner trapped in mediocrity? Or maybe
Matthew Hawke’s professional life is soaring as high the powerful bird of prey whose image is inked on his back. He’s at the top of his game as the owner of an advertising agency that is scooping up prime accounts like a mighty hawk wrapping its talons around an unfortunate ground rodent. Yes, work
The first monograph about the Polish foreign policy after 1989. Roman Kuźniar focuses on the main challenges of the period in question: regaining sovereignty and establishing a solid foundation for Polands security as well as economic and civilisational development. The successes in these areas
Sam Landon is a homeless eighteen-year-old thief who is desperate for a different life. When his skills attract the attention of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sam eagerly grabs the chance. Sam’s determined to prove himself when he gets his first mission–to steal a flash drive from a paranoid
