A vulnerable bachelor is blackmailed sexually.Knowing Women is observationally and psychologically acute. It is also a lot of fun. You knew this middle aged graphics artist with an Eastern European bisexual lap dancer girl friend was headed for trouble and I enjoyed observing his tribulations. I recommend this book very much and hope to read more of the work of Lawless.Mel Ulm from his blog The Reading Life.'His ability to treat the ultra-ordinary with a surgeon's for...

The mean streets of Dublin and powers that be lurking. A man known to wear a wig in his exemplary life roams the dark streets of the city exploiting the weak and vulnerable. And who is the hooded figure who has to pick up the pieces for him, perpetuating the age-old problem?

Why does the mysterious Mr Washington slowly demolish a suburban house? 'A surreal blend of black humour, metaphor and gritty but exquisitely executed urban squalor, which for all its ingenuity never loses the soul of its story.' The Sunday Business Post.

Winner of the WOW Award for fiction.'Lovers Who Wound Blame it on the Storm shows how a talented writer can take the framework of an erotic love fixation and turn it into art by infusing it with a bona fide sense of character, motive and atmosphere.' The Judges on the WOW Award.

A journalist in Spain, avoiding his unhappy marriage, meets up with a mysterious sex-hungry lady on the run from her eventual nemesis.

Hennessy Award nominated story of an impressionable young man's hitchhiking journey through France in 1968 during the time of the Sorbonne riots where he encounters predatory sex and tastes the delights of elusive love.

During a long hot summer a young man, inspired by Bobby Darin's Dream Lover, becomes infatuated with a beautiful girl only to make an emotionally-wrenching discovery.

After the death of her invalid husband, a widow's previously suppressed feelings for her late husband's best friend surface to reveal what was a desperate course of action.

‘Funny and Addictive!’ Fabulous Magazine (Sun)Funny, sad and honest, if you loved David Nicholls’ One Day and The Note this is the book for you.‘So much more than a love story, more of a life story.’Five years ago at university they had been seven friends that laughed hard and loved harder.Nicky and Miles were the couple that were always meant to be … Leigha and Adam, not so much.So when Adam and Harriet gr...

Many current AI and machine learning algorithms and data and information fusion processes attempt in software to estimate situations in our complex world of nested feedback loops. Such algorithms and processes must gracefully and efficiently adapt to technical challenges such asdata quality induced by these loops, and interdependencies that vary in complexity, space, and time.To realize effective and efficient designs of computational systems, a Systems Engineering perspect...

Time is fleeting. Days become months. Months become years. And years turn into decades. Significant moments in our eternity that are marked by love, lust, fashion, and memories, which can never be replaced.Welcome to Devious, Delicious Decades! A collection of stories that span time to entertain you. Set in the past, present, and maybe the future, the SaSS26 anthology will take you on a journey never seen before.

Jesse Hollister was born into blood. The son of Texas's most ruthless crime lord, he's spent eight years pretending to be the perfect heir while plotting to burn his father's empire to the ground. But when his father sets his sights on the Bishop ranch, and the sharp-tongued, fearless Raven Bishop, Jesse's secret war explodes into chaos.Raven's already lost everything once. Now her uncle's made a deal with the devil, and she's the bargaining chip. She knows better than to trust a H...