Fiction - English

It was the epoch of empire, the age of pride and blood and conquest, the time of Rhodes and Jameson striking north from the Cape in search of gold and diamonds, land and glory.
Such a man was Zouga Ballentyne whose epic journey from the danger and drudgery of the Kimberley mines to the rich grasslands below the Zambezi follows a bloodstained road where the death of a kind and the destruction of a warrior nation are the price of empire…

Moving from the sophisticated world of Paris couture to the brash glitter of New York, Flair is a stunning novel about the dilemma of a modern career-woman.
Gifted fashion designed Julia Bonner is aiming for success in a business where cut-throat rivalries abound, the fragile egos need to be fed. But when she meets Ross McCutcheon, a brillian computer analyst, Julia’s life and her career start soaring to new heights.

In the 1980s Mickey and Fred shared everything, from their first cigarette to their first kiss. Fifteen years later and Mickey is living in London – a loving, chaotic single mum. Fred is about to embark on marriage, but when he bumps into Mickey his world turns upside down.

A novel based on real diaries and interviews with survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima, Black Rain probes deeply into the emotional significance of nuclear attack on ordinary people. A serious-minded Japanese businessman, his gentle childless wife, and their beloved niece, Yasuko, remember with understated horror the day that changed their lives and the world.

The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity’s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence.
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire’s glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.
But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule—a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets…a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.

It is a dark time for the rebel alliance. Han Solo is frozen in carbonite and has been delivered into the hands of Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian launch a hazardous mission against Jabba’s Tatooine stronghold.

It was the dream Max had been having since the war. The dream of those horrifying, final moments in the Fuhrer’s Bunker – images of that night of terror, of the brutally beaten, dying man and his last desperate words; dreams of a past from which Max can’t escape.
Suddenly, it starts all over again – but it is no longer a dream. And now Max finds himself caught in a chilling search for Hitler’s last legacy…
The story of a deadly race to discover the Fuhrer’s final evil bequest to mankind.

In 1955 a glittering array of Hollywood talent assembles in Mexico to film an extravaganza on Cortez – they include Nick Stone, the young Greek director; Julian ‘Looks’ Brooks, the English matinee idol and his beautiful fiancee, Ines; sexy French starlet Dominique du Frey with her strange white-haired chaperone Agathe; and the imperious producer Herbert Croft.
But, under the blazing sun, old vendettas are stirring – to be paid off in a saga of revenge and murder which began in the darkness of wartorn France.

Rob Fleming is a London record store owner in his 30s whose girlfriend, Laura, has just left him. At the record shop — named Championship Vinyl — Rob and his employees Dick and Barry spend their free moments discussing mix-tape aesthetics and constructing “top-five” lists of anything that demonstrates their knowledge of music.
Rob, recalling his five most memorable breakups, sets about getting in touch with the former girlfriends. Eventually, Rob’s re-examination of his failed relationships and the death of Laura’s father bring the two of them back together. Their relationship is cemented by the launch of a new purposefulness to Rob’s life in the revival of his disc jockey career.
Also, realizing that his fear of commitment (a result of his fear of death of those around him) and his tendency to act on emotion are responsible for his continuing desires to pursue new women, Rob makes a symbolic commitment to Laura.

The stories in Emily Prager’s first collection are dispatches from the front line. They explore with black humour and fierce irony that territory in which provoked women and provocative men meet.
The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device follows the Foxy Fire platoon as it tests the ultimate female weapon against male members of the Vietcong.
The Alumnae Bulletin chronicles the reunion of three female graduates as they sing the school song and swap sexual fiascos.
The title story, set in 13th century China, tells of 6-year-old Pleasure Mouse and her eagerness for the crippling process which will satisfy society’s ideal of beauty.