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Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. But when an extraordinary student enters his life, Gregory is offered one last, glorious chance to save his career. Soon, however, Gregory�s Faustian pact with success unravels around him, and he must turn to darker, more duplicitous means to secure his fame. Set in the dangerous world where real life and literary ambition collide, Kill Your Darlings is an unforgettable novel of ego and delusion, villainy and the betrayal of love. -
The return of Margaret Cowper, a woman from medieval times, in the form of a beautiful and enigmatic young stranger changes everything in the East Anglian village of Burthorpe. Secrets emerge, affairs are uncovered, the illusion of rural peace is shattered. Is Margaret an angel of death or a harbinger of love? This darkly comic novel takes the ghost story into a new and distinctly contemporary territory. -
The death of Ollie Sincton seems at first an unpromising little murder. Who cares after all, about a fringe media character with a murky private life? But Sincton�s literary bequest, a series of computer disks revealing how certain public figures had enjoyed his professional or personal attentions, changes all that. -
Jonathan Peter. Born 1939. Son of Major Colin Fixx VC (dec�d) and Mary Fixx. Educated: Melton Hall (expelled). Career: runner for the Kray family, pop manager, property speculator, intelligence operative, exporter of pharmaceutical and security tools, consultant, entrepreneur. Married: The Honourable Sarah Harcourt (divorced). One daughter, Jennifer, Interests: finance, the fair sex, getting things done. -
Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site.
To some, he had been one of the great, underrated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence.
Oddly, because I was born on a farm and take an interest in rural matters, I have a troubled relationship with farmers. Every few days, while enjoying looking at the birds and the trees on a country lane, I get harangued by the local farmer or his gamekeeper. For me, walking down a lane enjoying the ...
Read moreThere was once a very silly government minister who floated the idea that Britain’s public libraries should be privatised. It was in the days of Margaret Thatcher when such talk was fashionable. Even so, the idea was quickly laughed out of court. The minister’s political career was over. Modern-minded Tories do things differently. They consult. They ...
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