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(0)David Pearce
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A pistol shot shatters the early morning silence of the Great Hall. A lead ball flies to its target. A miss? The man lowering his pistol has never been known to miss.
Decades later a master restorer examines a hole in a family portrait — a hole where the heart is. Beside him stands Graham, a young Englishman. It is a long way from the veggie restaurant above Plymouth Arts Cinema to the Mollison atelier in Prague where Graham met and fell in love...
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The recoil of a mighty punt gun reveals a muddy corpse, a heaven sent (literally and metaphorically) opportunity for Detective Inspector Clout to fit the crime to a local mafia boss. This is a daveshortstory time to intrigue and entertain the commuter between stations. Timed with precision to ease the pain of your commute "The Case of the Punt Gunner's Bollards" is a short story set in the wild sea coast of eastern England.Prepare to be spell-bound....
3) Newman
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Newman – a man with a killer instinct. Just the sort of chap a girl needs when the urge to stray affects her husband. When her husband breaks the rules. Maddie had always known he would come in useful one day. How right she was.
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Just what my doctor might have ordered — an adventure of my very own. Just the thing to avert the looming mid-life crisis. They were out to get me...have me whacked...send me to sleep with the fishes.
How else to interpret that gesture, the hand drawn across the throat, menacing and made in my direction.
Stand and fight or cut and run? Nothing for it but a headlong dash across Europe, hounds snapping at my heels. No sooner were they shaken off than...
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What does a sensible girl do when her husband plummets headfirst into the deepest, darkest pig slurry reservoir in the whole of England, possibly the world never to be seen again?What does she do about the family firm and his obsession – the manuscript that reeks of pig and warns that the world is about to end?How will she convince her staff that she is a good egg, on their side and not one to be afraid of and how should they celebrate the phenomenal...
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No Viking has ever been able to resist a party and even philosophical pirates are notorious for a spot of yo ho ho and a bottle (or three) of rum.When their invitations are borne on the waves they set sail.The party to end all parties. The mother of all parties. The Party for the End of Time.They drink and fight and rape and pillage and burn with the best of them but in the end what's better than man hugs?
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This is a cautionary tale and a warning to all males of daughter bearing age.
I was all set to become the perfect father, an example to you all. I was all set to blog, write manuals, embark on lecture tours. The lucky children, a daughter first, followed by a boy, then perhaps twins, would be granted long periods of quality time.
And what times they would have: sandpit time, healthy eating time, pool time, literature and first steps in math time,...
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Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? is a collection of essays by utilitarian philosopher David Pearce. The essays deal with a variety of subjects, including the abolition of suffering through biotechnology, negative utilitarianism, our obligations toward non-human animals, the nature of consciousness, and the future of intelligent life.
9) The Bomber
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The Bomber just can't help himself....The Bomber just loves dropping things...bombs...people...you name it Bombs drops it...Henry knick-named him...Henry's dad gave him a job...a marriage of true minds...a partnership made in heaven...But one drop goes wrong...blame game...harsh words...remember the old adage...if you have to quarrel best not with your helicopter pilot...
10) The Dood
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The Wild West was no place for the lily-livered as I proved when I blew into town an some smart-arse bar baby tried to put one ovah on me."Lissen here, Sugar Plum, this is me talkin and you bedda lissen good."See what I mean – an I mean real mean.
11) Olivia
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Olivia has lived in the shadow of her entrepreneurial husband but when he dies as the result of an absurd accident she does not hesitate to step in. Celtic Literary Enterprises holds its breathe as she takes over.Her husband had developed two obsessions: to publish an unsolicited manuscript that he regards as a masterpiece and to prepare for the end of the world.Olivia is faced with a dilemma. Should she honour the wishes of her dead husband or strike...