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Utilizando las herramientas que provienen de la ficción o del surrealismo, combinadas como aguafuertes o crónicas malditas de las ciudades que fuesen, sus personas-personajes serán materializados por el lector como símbolos decadentistas, como objetos que atraviesan y vuelven al campo de la realidad.

Realidad que el autor se anima a incriminar sin discurso ni cálculo previo. En este recorrido Semad...

Publicados originalmente en el 2009 bajo el sello editorial Zahir, estos "Viajes y Exilios" retoman una larga tradición literaria de la Argentina, dedicada a las excursiones y derivas, a las epístolas y a las crónicas en tránsito. Existe un hilo conductor entre este libro y las búsquedas iniciales abocadas a imaginar y moldear la Patria (durante el siglo XIX), o de aquellas otras más circunstanciale...

A woman witnesses from her bedroom window a violent assault on her elderly neighbour, and becomes embroiled in something much larger involving a criminal gang. They want her eliminated. DCI Allison has his work cut out as he tries to close his file on Kelland and Paulson, in the sex trafficking case, together with a number of other crimes linked to the OCG. Not only that but police corruption has to be rooted out and this time it leads right t...

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Ageing Rock God, Jim Sullivan, is heading for the quiet life on his newly acquired, tiny island, off the coast of Cornwall. That is until he sends a letter to the queen, announcing his intent to declare independence from the UK and appointing himself king. Determined not to cede one inch of British territory, the UK government despatches low-level Foreign Office researcher, John Cabot, to put a stop to Sullivan's ambitions. What they did...

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As mysteries go this one doesn't look too bad. At least on the surface. Lorne's obligations to a department within military intelligence are called in when Ms Pilar Sanchez turns up with her men-in-black. She leaves behind a box full of photos and secrets. He's tasked with clearing out any mystical or esoteric objects in the cottage of a dead artist who lived nearby. The cottage is full of paintings and statues of a figure that is ill defined ...

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How a person treats an animal can tell us a lot about their personality. Tales from the Isles. The coming of the pandemic. The precious animals in the life of a vet. Two horror stories about two separate horror writers, exploring the Jekyll-and-Hyde myth as well as relating the unspeakable ordeal a catsitter must endure in a remote, gothic mansion. One man and his cat in outer space, before the stars begin to wink out of existence . . . Nine t...

There are over 800 servicemen and women from the First World War buried in Somerset. Taking in more than forty graveyards, this second volume of the Death and Service series unearths the lives of 165 more of the soldiers, sailors and airmen laid to rest in the county. In these pages are stories of boys as young as 15 and men old enough to be their grandfathers, all of whom stepped up to serve their King and their Country. These are tales of lo...

Twenty years on from the disastrous European tour that concluded with the loss of band vocalist 'Bosco' at sea, hapless indie rock band DUTCH COURAGE reform thanks to a chance encounter. Now armed with top level management and enthusiastic new members, originals John Leonard and Martin McCarthy begin to at long last make headway in the music business. TV shows, dream gigs at renown music festivals and a tour of the USA beckon for our rock hero...

Three weddings and an engagement are the happy result of a trip to Bath for the season taken by Elizabeth Darcy, her husband and their younger sisters, Kitty and Georgianna. Nursing an aching heart due to a recent miscarriage, Elizabeth is encouraged to take the journey as a means of raising her depressed spirits in a fresh and convivial setting. Courtship and conflict occur when familiar characters from all six of Jane Austen's novels are ...

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Paul Scudery, a 70-year old long-time actor in the soap, Babylon Revisited, has been playing the role of Ari Bloom for twenty years. He collapses and is admitted to a hospital where he learns that he has contracted a rare and incurable disease. The director of the soap has Paul record several scenes in which he is gradually phased out of the storyline. Paul collapses for the second time in a pool room. In a coma, he is flown to a clinic in Fra...

Mr Perkins makes sure this is a very different sort of story about a cat. There cannot be too many books about a moggy working in a lawyers' office. When he strolls into Spong, Salter and Tethering Solicitors out of nowhere, he is set to change lives. Is he just a stray or a magical cat, who can gift those around him the changes they deserve? Both good and bad. The antics of Mr Perkins will amuse and possibly mystify you. As they do ev...

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Well, it's summertime again in Cadillac Springs. The birds are chirping, the sun is shining and there is not even a hint of any mayhem, imperilment or crisis in the wind... but this was before Ansel shows up to enlist Jeb in yet another one of his 'snatch and grab' schemes, this time in Mexico. Jeb returns to his ranch only to discover that someone is trapping on it and Jeb, TJ and Dog have to put a stop to it. Before things can calm down,...

It could be said that it was as likely as not that drink brought Michael Gately to the gallows - not as a condemned man but as Victoria's hangman. This is his story, told from an unbiased point of view - more so than the tales told of him in his lifetime.

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