Set against the backdrop of the intense rise and fall of the dot-com industry in 1999, the story follows a cautious banker named David Lane. David decides to break out of his routine and help his friend Guy Jordan launch a startup called ninetyminutes.com. However, the venture quickly turns dangerous when Guy has a severe falling out with his father and primary investor, Tony Jordan. When Tony is brutally murdered, David finds himself trapped in a volatile downward spiral of corporate corruption, disaster, and personal peril
When MI5 agent-runner Liz Carlyle is moved from Counter-Terrorism to the Industrial Espionage Section, it looks very much as if she has been sidelined. While vetting the director of a top-secret research establishment in the Peak District, however, Liz realises that her subject is lying to her and is a potential blackmail risk. Other more malign forces have arrived at the same conclusion, and soon a lethal Intelligence game is in play. With Martine Charrat, her opposite number in the French secret service, Liz is drawn into a desperate race. But as Liz soon discovers, their unknown enemies hold all the cards.
When MI5 agent-runner Liz Carlyle is moved from Counter-Terrorism to the Industrial Espionage Section, it looks very much as if she has been sidelined. While vetting the director of a top-secret research establishment in the Peak District, however, Liz realises that her subject is lying to her and is a potential blackmail risk. Other more malign forces have arrived at the same conclusion, and soon a lethal Intelligence game is in play. With Martine Charrat, her opposite number in the French secret service, Liz is drawn into a desperate race. But as Liz soon discovers, their unknown enemies hold all the cards.
The novel takes place in a New York City condominium called Echo Terrace. The story is told through the eyes of the building's concierge, Farro Fescu, who acts as the general factotum and a quiet observer of the multi-ethnic, eccentric residents living inside.Through his daily interactions and mailbox collections, Farro uncovers the deeply intertwined lives, secrets, and vulnerabilities of an exotic cross-section of the world, including:
The million-rand teaspoon is a true story, told by several narrators, of a young man's descent into drug addiction, a serious overdose that left him blind and brain-damaged, and his struggle to recover over the next nine years. Written entirely in the first person, Paul Bateman's story is narrated by him in some chapters, and, in others, by various members of his family, his ex-girlfriend, and a woman who was involved in his protracted but only ever partial recovery. The title is divided into two parts - the first covering Paul's years of addiction and the second detailing his struggle to regain some kind of life up until the present. The title refers to Paul's father's recollection of finding only a teaspoon in his son's otherwise denuded flat (Paul had sold everything else, but kept the teaspoon to cook up drugs). The spoon came to symbolize for him the years of struggling with Paul's addiction, and the financial cost of that struggle.
Byron Winterleaf, a 23-year old white guy, is on the verge of losing his job as a translator at a Xhosa-themed restaurant. And during heavy rains his back garden in Observatory, Cape Town, is flooded, killing the marijuana plants that he'd been hoping to harvest for profit. But the flood also brings something else to the surface it's a bone, that much is clear, but whose? Susan Ridge, head of Restoring Dignity to Forgotten Minorities (RDFM) is adamant that it is the bone of a Khoi victim of the 1713 smallpox epidemic. She convinces Byron that his house should be converted into a museum, to honour these forgotten people. But it soon becomes apparent that Ridge's intentions are anything but honourable she is simply playing on a collective sense of guilt, in order to make a personal profit. Byron finds himself caught up in the middle of a cultural scam. However, this time it's not only his job at a restaurant that he stands to lose his house, the only sure thing in his life, becomes a battleground, and if he's unable to take control of the situation he stands to lose everything ...
A deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames.
Set during the tense atmosphere of 1930s Soviet Russia, the story follows Captain Alexei Korolev. After his previous dangerous investigation, Korolev is unexpectedly assigned by the NKVD state security service to look into the suspected suicide of a young woman named Maria Alexandovna Lenskaya. The case takes him to a bleak, battle-scarred movie set in Ukraine titled Bloody Meadow, where he quickly uncovers a web of secrets that puts his own life on the line.
This novel, set in England and Russia at the time of the Great War, tells the story of Alice Fry an independent woman in a world ruled by men and the two men who love her. In 1913, Alice meets Edward Cobb, eligible young son of a baronet, at an avant-garde party in Chelsea. They fall in love and get engaged, but Edward's family thinks Alice fast. When Alice's father becomes involved in a sexual scandal, Edward has to choose between Alice and his political career. He breaks off the engagement, not knowing that Alice is expecting his child. Desperate, Alice accepts the offer of a rich Russian, Baron von Rettenberg, to go to Russia as a governess for his children, while Edward enters an unhappy marriage. Alice gives birth to a son and yearns for Edward though the Baron von Rettenburg loves her. The Great War takes its terrible toll and the Russian Revolution explodes. Trapped by the Red Army in the Black Sea port of Novorossiik, Alice, her son and Rettenberg are saved by a member of the British Military Mission
It could be difficult being a liberal Afrikaner in South Africa in the dying days of apartheid, especially if you were a powerful newspaper owner.
When an old college friend pays Alex Calder an unexpected visit he is drawn once more into the shady dealings of the City – and in particular back to Bloomfield Weiss, the investment bank he’d hoped he'd left well behind.
For Kim is married to Todd van Zyl, son of South African newspaper tycoon Cornelius van Zyl. Todd wants Alex’s help to investigate the murder of his mother, shot at a game reserve eighteen years ago.
Todd has always believed his mother was killed by guerrillas – but the recent discovery of a letter written by her shortly before her death now suggests a crime far closer to home. And it seems Alex’s old enemy at Bloomfield Weiss holds the key to the mystery.
Unfortunately Todd’s suspicions have stirred up a nest of vipers – with deadly repercussions…
See No Evil is the sequel to On The Edge, featuring Alex Calder.
Kay, at 44, has known marriage, motherhood, monogamy and, latterly, monotony. She's lived for 20 years and three months with a man who, at first, she thought magnificent. When she finds out about Brenda, her husband's lover, Kay decides to change her life.
Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen -- laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed! Picture the scene: Dother Hall performing arts college somewhere Up North, surrounded by rolling dales, bearded cheesemaking villagers (male and female) and wildlife of the squirrely-type. On the whole, it's not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting! but once her mates turn up and they start their 'FAME! I'm gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I'm gonna fill my tiiiiights' summer course things are bound to perk up. Especially when the boys arrive. (When DO the boys arrive?) Six weeks of parent-free freedom. BOY freedom. Freedom of expression! cos it's the THEATRE dahling, theatre!!
A psychological suspense novel set in 1920s New York City during Prohibition, following a police precinct typist named Rose who becomes entranced by a glamorous and mysterious new colleague named Odalie.
The story follows a headstrong heroine named Bernadette as she aggressively pursues a man named Tim, despite his existing engagement to Elizabeth. Meanwhile, she completely overlooks the charming Radley. It is a bold, modern romance exploring themes of determination, unrequited love, and the complex nature of relationships.
The story follows Simon Ayot, a fast-rising English associate at a top Boston venture capital firm called Revere Partners. Just as Simon is about to close a major biotech deal, his father-in-law (who is also a senior partner at the firm) abruptly pulls the funding. When his father-in-law is subsequently found murdered, Simon quickly becomes the prime suspect and must navigate a dangerous web of high finance and deception to clear his name.
Set in Kent during 1940, the story takes place in the idyllic English village of Chilbury during the early days of World War II. As the local men leave for the front lines, the village vicar decides to close down the choir. In defiance, a group of resilient women come together to form an all-female choir, forging deep bonds and finding the strength to withstand the hardships and heartbreaks of the war.
