We are fortunate to live in a golden age of healthcare. A wonderful array of technological and medical advances can keep us alive for many more years than in the past. For many, though, it is not enough just to add years of life. We need to be both productive during those added years and capable of competing with younger people in the workplace. We have to develop a sense of well-being and satisfy our own individual ideals of physical appearance. Ideally, we are not excessively vain and ar...

Fresh from adventures in Nigeria, Malcolm and Véronique return to live in Europe but the slow pace of life sees them hanker for a return to Africa. This eventually occurs but not before moving from France to England.Four years after departing Nigeria, while a teacher at a private school in the Midlands, Malcolm is offered a mission to the proud nation of Chad where he stays in the town of N'gouri in the Sahara Desert. Aside the suffocating heat, he encounters crab-sized scorpions a...

A return to France after a further three years of living and working in Senegal sees the Itinerant Ecologist (Malcolm) and his ever patient wife (Véronique) decide to take several months' sabbatical to relax and catch their breaths in the beautiful French region of the Bugey. But the gods of travel never rest and, within a few months, Malcolm is preparing for a work mission to a new continent and, for him, the new country of Bangladesh. His initial ten-day input turns into work for an enti...

In the late 1970's, a young ecologist and his outgoing French wife move from London to the University of Calabar in steamy southern Nigeria. Follow this young couple as they discover a world that was completely unknown to them at a time when there were no phones, let alone the internet, to call home.From an unusual PhD final, 'tee'-time with a cobra, to termite hills and miniskirts, their many unforeseen adventures are at times fun, others sad and even dangerous but always entertai...

After a less than happy departure from Senegal, the Itinerant Ecologist and his family arrive back to their home in rural south-east France to begin the process of settling into a new life in Europe. But nothing is ever going to be simple for them; the Gods of Fate long ago decreed that! No sooner than arrived back in France and the family must decide whether or not to follow Malcolm to a new post in The Gambia.Read about their many adventures in this tiny and charming African coun...

The date is March 18, 1314. The King of France in conjunction with the Pope in Rome has orchestrated the fall of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, the Knights Templar. A spiritual war has been raging on earth for centuries and the Templars are the last order to still know how to use fervent prayer to enter the spiritual realm known as the ether. It is in this unseen world of the ether where godly men and women have been fighting alongside God's heavenly host of angels against the demon...

When the Ogre Mage defeated the kingdom of Ioudas in the Great War he ordered all battle gears and gear grunts decommissioned or destroyed. For Sergeant Major 03111337, sole survivor of the Battle of the King's Way it meant hiding his regimental colors and becoming a greeter for a struggling repair shop deep in the city. After decades of disrepair and neglect, the passing of his beloved master, and the taking over of the business by his three sons there may yet be an opportunity for the ho...

While searching for the terrorist Robert Dante the Guardians discover he can completely disappear off the face of the Earth and no one can figure out how he does the impossible. That is until two Frenchmen arrive claiming to be friends, but knowing far too much about the Ether, Billy, and even the existence of the Guardian's hidden base. Billy must find Robert Dante before he can kill again, protect those he cares about, and sort out friend from foe or his may be the next soul lost in the ...

From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.How can a modern army lose to an army of peasants?Delving into the last gasps of the First Indochina War, which saw the communist Viêt Minh take control of North Vietnam, Éric Vuillard vividly illustrates the attitudes that both enabled French colonialist abuses and u...

Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style. - ;'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries ...

'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes...

The ritual killing of a young Apache girl on a reservation in rural Arizona takes the listener through many complex layers of relationships between Apache and Anglo cultures. The myth and spiritual fabric of the Apache community pulls Zeb Hanks, a small town sheriff, through a personal journey, making the murder not just a crime to solve but a cathartic passage.The dead never leave us but they do whisper ghost stories that bring the past back to life. Jake Dablo is a drunken, washe...