Evelyn volunteers to act as a visiting companion at the exclusive home dispensing assistance, jovial friendship and bonhomie and accepts the task of proof reading a supposedly fictional novel written by a one of the residents whom she surprisingly discovers is a disillusioned, retired spy, Harry. Evelyn soon begins to suspect that the novel is an actual memoir of Harry's past life as a member of various Intelligence Agencies across the world. If it is a memoir, she soon realizes that it is...

Funny, touching, sad, with a Light at the End of the tunnelThere are thousands of working actors in Australia but only a handful will ever make it as rich and famous International Stars. This story is not about one of the handful. This is the tragicomedy memoir of a Stage and Television star of the 70’s and 80’s who is forced to abandon his career when his beloved wife, Marie, suffers a massive stroke which leaves her physically disabled. As her full time carer and with approaching ...

Detective Senior Sergeant Lucielle (Lucky) Lambert looked down at the body lying in the bath. The eyes were closed and it looked quite peaceful really. The dark hair wasn't looking too good plastered to her head with strands flattened against her cheeks and forehead and blood trickling down the right side of her face from the gash on her head. The makeup was a bit blurry and streaked, skin a bit pale maybe, but all over, the body's in pretty good shape. Yes, she thought, I can definitely I...

Ex-news cameraman, Steve Saunders, is repatriated back to Australia suffering from Post Trauma Stress caused by wounds he suffered in his last assignment and the horrors he witnessed whilst covering the closing stages of the Vietnam War. The final terrifying incident which tipped him over the edge and lodged itself in the depths of his subconscious has caused ongoing and frightening subliminal flashes of the experience, haunting his nightmares and threatening his recovery. He becomes unwit...

Part one of this book, The Withered of Oz, is an autobiography of the author who, as a former Stage and Screen actor, director, producer and script writer, relinquished his career when his wife suffered a devastating stroke and he chose to become her full time carer. With approaching old age, the demise of his career and the restrictions forced upon him by his wife's condition he reviews his life since the calamity and examines his current philosophy and discovers a humorous if sometimes c...

this is a thought provoking novel that fascinates as it entertains.psycho therapist, peter mahoney is forced to re-examine his training, beliefs and eventually his very existence when he meets, john, a seemingly very ordinary, average, elderly client suffering from panic attacks. peter suspects agoraphobia but under regression hypnotherapy john's symptoms don't seem to add up and peter changes his diagnosis to possible multiple personality disorder.but a problem occurs when t...

Code Name Millicent: The Cat Intelligence Agent Who Came in from the Cold is a delightful feline fantasy and a must read for all cat lovers.Millicent is an exotic, sophisticated Shorthaired Oriental cat who is sent to Nimbin in northern N.S.W. by, Tom, the Chief of the CIA – The Cat Intelligence Agency, to infiltrate, gather intelligence and report on the local drug trade. There she meets, King, the dashing and beautiful Burmese tom-cat and is befriended by the elderly Bertha, a ta...

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in British and American Romanticism. First, the edition’s transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections such as, but are not limited to, comparis...

Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series starts with The Mermaids Singing and continues with The Wire in the Blood. Download both in this special ebook edition.The Mermaids SingingThe bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. B...

The Donor, Helen FitzGerald's fifth novel, is a nail-biting psychological thriller about a single dad's horrorfying dilemma. Will, who has given up everything to raise his twin daughters, has a terrible choice to make when both girls suffer kidney failure age 16.Should he save one child? If so, which one?Should he buy a kidney - be an organ tourist?Should he sacrifice himself?Or is there a fourth solution - one so terrible it has never even crossed ...

The sixth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham.A MISSING BOYTeenager Luke Mullen was last seen getting into a car with an older woman. No one can understand why he has disappeared. His father - a former police officer - knows all too well that the longer he is missing, the more likely he is to turn up dead.A TERRIFYING VIDEOThen Luke's parents receive an anonymous video. It shows their son, eyes wide with terr...

A TIME FOR JUSTICE is the first in Nick Oldham's fast paced, highly acclaimed crime thrillers featuring Henry Christie and is now available for the first time in e-format...As far as mafia hitman Jimmy Hinksman is concerned, working in Britain is a piece of cake. In his opinion, the police are unarmed amateurs and security is nowhere – at least that's what he tells his boss, Mr Corelli. Which is how Hinksman can clamp a Semtex bomb to a Daimler in a Lancaster hotel car park unobserv...