COLD LIVING
COLD LIVING is a brutal, fast-paced thriller that delves into the menacing underworld of black and white British gangsters, Italian Mafia and Jamaican Yardies.

Raising issues on inter-racial relationships and looking at reasons why there are so many drug-related deaths on our streets today, this compelling fact-based novel shows how, in a world of ever-increasing violence and crime, the vicious, cruel and weak can thrive....

if only they are willing to pay the price....

COLD LIVING
Cliff Don
Paperback -182 pages (Sept 2002)
ISBN 1904018394 UK £6.99
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The Department That Doesn't Exist
'In these times of political sleaze and denigration of our country, this is a story that I hope will lift people out of the abyss of national despair. Whether they believe it is another matter ...'

Helen is the product of a privileged but overprotected background, with little experience of life beyond a failed, violent marriage.

Then Peter - to all appearances a wealthy if enigmatic playboy - comes back into her life one year after their first electric meeting.

For a time Helen enjoys a tentative sort of happiness. But a faded photograph and an innocent question are all it takes to overturn everything that was once familiar, endangering her life and altering its course forever.

The Department That Doesn't Exist is an intriguing true story which can now finally be told, of how one woman unwittingly found herself at the epicentre of British Intelligence during the politically fraught 1960s. It is also _ and perhaps chiefly _ a poignant love story of two soul-mates whose commitment, both to their country and each other, survives near-impossible odds.

The Department that doesn't Exist
Helen Jay Hamilton
Paperback -250 pages (2002)
ISBN 1904018297 UK £7.99
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SWORD
Throughout the ages, it had been called by many names: Firebrand, Widow Maker, Flesh Splitter, Hiss of Wind. It is made of steel, but the soul of those who have wielded it, and those it has slain, have invested it with a depravity, and sometimes dignity, that are all too human.

Abeth is the voice and soul of the Sword. He tells the tale of its role in mans past and future from the bloody inter-tribal conflicts of Wales in 223 BC, to the Roman invasion of Britain, brutal thirteenth century Crusades and a terrifying vision of Earth in 2201, when humanity seeks to escape or redeem its ravaged planet.

As its dark story unfolds, the Sword emerges as a fearsome but vital presence: an instrument of both vengeance and justice, a catalyst for mens actions, and a potent symbol of human power and responsibility.

Sword
L. D. Agnew
Paperback -209 pages (2002)
ISBN 1904018173 UK £7.00
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Echoes 1: The Chocolate Tram

What with a self-engrossed father, an accident-prone mother and a scornful older sister, Peter Kentish is left largely to his own devices to discover the joys and face the fears of childhood. The Chocolate Tram revives the streets and characters of a bygone South London and centres on an Eden known as Battersea Park to which, in the end, the child must say farewell.

Bernard Noble has had a varied career as a teacher, linguist and UN official in the Middle East and Europe. In 1995 he was appointed OBE for services to the International Court of Justice. He has translated several literary, philosophical and legal works from French, German and Dutch. He lives with his Lebanese wife in the Hague.

Echoes: The Chocolate Tram
Bernard Noble
Paperback - 263 pages (January 2002)
ISBN 1904018122 UK £6.99
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Echoes2: Young Mortality

In Young Mortality, the London child of The Chocolate Tram is approaching his teens as the War begins in earnest. While the Blitz rages, he seeks distraction in a Victorian novel which only sharpens his musing on the value of a boy's life. An encounter with an unknown uncle plants a seed of mistrust which flowers in deep tensions within the family. The dénouement veers between tragedy and farce.

Bernard Noble has had a varied career as a teacher, linguist and UN official in the Middle East and Europe. In 1995 he was appointed OBE for services to the International Court of Justice. He has translated several literary, philosophical and legal works from French, German and Dutch. He lives with his Lebanese wife in the Hague.

Echoes: Young Mortality
Bernard Noble
Paperback - 261 pages (January 2002)
ISBN 1904018130 UK £6.99
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Talismen

Talismen (a jocular plural) begins on VE-day and is largely set in the Oxford of the austerity years. Already obsessed with aesthetic and philosophical questions, Peter Kentish becomes deeply involved in the identity crisis of a fellow-undergraduate, which leads to a dramatic showdown with one of several women to whom Peter is drawn. His strained relations with his parents come violently to a head...

Bernard Noble has had a varied career as a teacher, linguist and UN official in the Middle East and Europe. In 1995 he was appointed OBE for services to the International Court of Justice. He has translated several literary, philosophical and legal works from French, German and Dutch. He lives with his Lebanese wife in the Hague.

Echoes: Talismen
Bernard Noble
Paperback - 346 pages (January 2002)
ISBN 1904018149 UK £7.99
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Stendall's Salvation

November 2021: a new year is looming, and James Stendall's life is a mess. He's twenty-eight and living in squalor, he drinks too much and his vicious temperament has led to a disciplinary hearing that will mean certain dismissal from his job with the Space Fleet.

Then the seemingly impossible happens: a computor error discharges the wrong man, and Stendall becomes a crew member of LPS Texas, an elite American spaceship consigned to a vital mission.

Once in space, the crew's easy relationship slowly deteriorates, until a horrifying, irreversible act sets in motion a train of events that include mental breakdown, suicide and tragedy on a cosmic scale.

Stendall's Salvation is a violent, hard-hitting novel that explores man's most basic instincts while suggesting that sometimes, even the most depraved individuals can be saved.

Stendall's Salvation
Ken Thompson
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