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New York City, 1962. Vera is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene. She's working at a radio station when her quick wits and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of activists. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns war makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and sh...

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There's nothing more dangerous than revenge. Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed, she's just about coping in her new role as foster parent to her orphaned niece, taking a job at the local pub to help make ends meet. Then the pub's landlord and Judi's friend, army veteran Pete 'Macca'...

Based on the true story of Jacob DeHaven who lent $450, 000 to the Continental Congress. Jacob's generosity may well have saved the War of Independence from disaster. Yet this hero of the American Revolution died in poverty. 200 years later, one of his descendants and her lawyer are on a quest to change that. But first, they will have to find the evidence, and overcome a stubborn Government determined to frustrate their every move. Will there ...

The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining the history of our fascination with the uncanny from the golden age of the Victorian ghost story to the present day. From the rise of Spiritualism to the folk horror revival, This book traces our continuing e...

What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Ths book covers the period 1975 to 1986. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, and the rise of a new, commercial, mainstream. It describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank t...

The Western Front, July 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers, and then subsequently trying to take his own life. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to investigate. Along the way, Reinhardt comes to an awakening of the man he might be.

When a hysterical mother reports her baby's sudden disappearance, suspicion immediately falls on the absent husband. But Detective Geraldine Steel's gut instinct tells her this case is not as simple as her colleagues think...Complications in the mother's life begin to surface, including her relationship with her controlling father, a controversial political figure. As the police investigate, their urgent attempt to find the missing infant grow...

An American millionaire changes his will, fearing for his life. The millionaire is murdered, and names Rowland Sinclair the executor of his will. Rowland descends into a world of upper-crust skulduggery and deception in this return from the popular series character (also accessible as a standalone).

Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays? Does a true story give a project more weight than a...

A newly-discovered gun casts light on a family secret long kept... a murder the Sinclairs would prefer stayed unsolved. As old wounds tear open, the dogged loyalty of Rowland's inappropriate companions is all that stands between him and the consequences of a brutal murder... one he simply failed to mention...

After narrowly escaping the terror of Nazi Germany, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe. But they are wrong. A bizzare murder plunges the hapless Australian into a queer world of British aristocracy, Fascist Blackshirts, illicit love, scandal and spies......

A Rowland Sinclair Mystery 4. Its 1933, and the political landscape of Europe is darkening. Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australias Fuhrer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over cocktails and seeking allegiances in a common cause. Yet the Australian way of life is not undefended. The clandestine armies of the Establishment have once again mobilised to thwart any friendship with the Third Reich. But when their man...

Australian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing - collectively referred to as Southern Cross Crime - is booming globally, with antipodean authors regularly featuring on awards and bestseller lists, such as Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize winning The Luminaries and Jane Harper's big commercial hit, The Dry, winner...

It is 1933 and wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair is enjoying a leisurely sojourn in the luxury Hydro Majestic Hotel in the Blue Mountains. As ever, he is accompanied by his entourage - a poet, a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress. The Depression-era troubles of the wider world seem far away, until long-time Sinclair family...

Wealthy Bohemian artist Rowland Sinclair and his lively companions are sailing homewards to Australia on the RMS Aquitania. The ship embodies luxury and civilised respite from the tensions of the Depression-era, until the murders start... A passenger manifest containing suffragettes, men of God and mystics ought to provide stimulation...

Wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair enjoys a comfortably bohemian existence which he shares with old allies - a poet, a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress. It's the early 1930s and a great Depression is engulfing the world, spawning misery and discontent. Tensions are mounting as the Far Right makes inroads which threaten...

She hasn't seen her brother in years. Now, he's dead.

The British and the Americans have intel Mossad desperately need. To force MI6 and the CIA into sharing their priceless information, Eli Amiran and his maverick colleague Rafi undertake a risky mission to trick their allies: faking a terrorist plot on British soil. But in the world of espionage, the game is treacherous, opaque and deadly...

The million-selling Mr Nice was one of the most successful non-fiction books of the last two decades, the ultimate cult book. Now in Becoming Mr Nice, Howard Marks's daughter, the writer and lawyer Amber Marks, has collated and curated highlights from Howard ¿s extensive and previously unseen personal archive. This beautifully illustrated and designed book will be essential reading for Mr Nice's legion of fans worldwide.