Kris Keller, a rising star reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, is called back to his struggling Southwest Georgia hometown to make final arrangements for his father who authorities say took his own life. In Fort Phillips, Kris encounters an ex-girlfriend, a high school rival and odd occurrences. He is told secretly that has father's death may not have been self-inflicted. Despite being estranged from his father, Kris feels obligated to investigate his death. As he does so, the town's secret...

Should a journalist ever become a participant in the story he is covering? Thats the ethical dilemma facing Clint Stockton in Fifteen Minutes of Fame, the exciting first novel by Gary Watson.Clint, top reporter for the Advocate, a second-rate daily newspaper in Atlanta, is already at odds with his wife over his job when he begins following two murder investigations - the beating of a homeless man on a downtown street, and the shootings of three big-rig truck drivers. As his workloa...

Reporter Jake Martin and lawman Edgar Quinn have come to Sanderson, a tiny south Georgia town, to escape their pasts and resurrect their careers. Jake settles in as editor of the local newspaper and writes about cow rescues and civic club meetings. Quinn becomes police chief and starts chaperoning high school spring dances and cleaning up Senior Week pranks. The town's sedate routine is shattered when three local malcontents are killed one-by-one in sadistic rituals. Working together on th...

Bill Masen wakes in his hospital bed, eyes bandaged. Something is wrong: it’s unusually quiet and no one has come to his room. When he removes his bandages he finds a world that has changed utterly. Most of the population are completely blind – only those who didn’t watch the night sky can still see. And, as law and order break down, a new menace appears – Triffids, walking carnivorous plants that can kill a human with their lethal sting. For Bill and the other survivors, it’s now a battle...

The legendary comedian stars in his wickedly funny sketch show, written by Johnny SpeightArthur Haynes was the most popular comedian in Britain from the late 1950s. His hit TV sketch show ran for 15 series, winning him the Variety Club Award as ITV Personality of 1961, and the following year it was adapted for BBC Radio. Included here are a collection of the best surviving radio episodes, featuring the classic comic battles between Haynes and his long-suffering str...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.‘He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.’Shakespeare’s epic tale of war,...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.‘Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.’Love's Labour's Lost is a comedy about young love, with an unexpected ending.After vowing to avoi...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.‘If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.’The second play in Shakespeare's series of histories, musing on the realities of wielding power.

This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities...

The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, two of the most important and influential thinkers in twentieth-century European philosophy. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all their major sole-authored and collaborative works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Deleuze and Guattari's groundbreaking thought. Stude...

This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity.Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial t...

A digital magazine featuring the very best in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and HorrorThe latest fiction from established writers alongside the best new stories from emerging talents and debut authors.On-point articles and regular columns, exploring genre fiction in all its forms. Interviews with leading authors and artists.Insightful and informative book reviews by a carefully selected cadre of reviewers, assessing current titles and imminent releases from publishers b...