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A Game of Consequences
Miles 'Tiger' O'Toole, the bank's new Chief Executive, is determined to make his mark. He unleashes a roller coaster expansion drive where profit targets are everything, and no prisoners taken. Ethical standards go out the window. It's time for customers, staff and shareholders to buckle their safety belts.As tensions mount, his steadfast deputy Des Peters realises he faces a stark choice. Should he remain loyal to his employers, or wave goodbye to his rewarding career?Narrated with humour and wry observation by an experienced former investment banker, A Game of Consequences is an engrossing contemporary exploration of organisational power, greed, and corruption.
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Yaad, the Girl With No History
It’s 1987. Namo, the politically active bookseller, is preparing to save his marriage after his wife left to stay at her mum’s after an argument. Nazdar is at home, preparing for her wedding which will be taking place in her home village the next day. Friba, the pregnant Peshmerga, is on her way to the city’s hospital, together with her husband. They don’t know one another, but destiny will bring them together.
Sarwar Joanroy follows the fates of these people from the moment their daily lives are interrupted and they end up in the desert.
The novel is a journey through the black pages of the history of the Kurds in Iraq, before the invasion of the United States. Yaad, the girl with no history makes you face the facts about what Saddam Hussein’s regime did to the country and its citizens. It makes you understand why this country is still in turmoil, even today. Sarwar Joanroy based the events in his book on true events, some of which he experienced himself.
Yaad, the girl with no history is a story that is as moving as it is fascinating and educational.
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Wrecked
Harrison King is convinced that he does not have a problem with alcohol, despite the fact people often tell him that he drinks too much and he often gets himself into awkward situations after a few drinks.
When his girlfriend leaves him because she thinks he is an alcoholic, Harrison sets out to prove to her and to everyone else, that he is completely non-dependent and that he is a highly functioning and responsible adult. He quickly realises that he might be drinking a little too regularly, but he is adamant that he is not an alcoholic.
Wrecked follows Harrison and his struggles with his career that he hates, his boss that he hates even more and his battle with his control over his consumption. Harrison drinks when he has a bad day at work, when he cannot decide what to do with his life, when he is stressed and as a way of dealing with social interactions.As Harrison continues with his journal, he questions his life choices, tries to expand his social circle and put more effort into a plan for his future. But his drunken antics keep getting him into increasingly uncomfortable situations.
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Woodstock Road
Tom Cassogen (Cass) leaves home in Ireland in the late 1960s to join an old school friend in London. He is soon immersed in the drifting hippy culture of the time and through trial and tribulation, love and free living, forgets his childhood of poverty and abuse. His love for Celia drives him on as he evolves from a soft boy into an experienced young man. His journey through flatland London revolves around a wide range of interesting characters and events. It is a story of the 1960s, of growing up, of searching for meaning and identity in a fluid world of love and ecstasy, of pain and sadness, and mostly of the resilience of youth.
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With Love from Your Friends
This is the story of a young chap that simply thrives on the title of being a ‘complex individual’. He belongs to a spectrum of unique difficulties in which he will only ever feel at one with his own existence. He only shares this situation with a handful of friends.
But wait, there is nothing typical about this bunch that is kept locked away for the purpose of one young man’s version of a five rainy minutes, as mother nature intends to weave her marvel. But is this maverick builder truly in control within his own world as he roams the pathways upon an undecided destiny? Only one way to find out.
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When Two Lives Collide
In 1953, Major (Old Bob) Ferguson, a soldier recently blinded on duty in Kenya, relates his untold story to a ten-year-old village lad, Mike Gilbride. In 2012, Mike, his days fast closing in, is seeking final catharsis as he relates both their colourful tales to Teddy, his only grandson. Family lies, treason and death flourish. Eventually, their lives collide.
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Wanderer of the Wild
At 23 years old, Avery had achieved the things expected of her. An education that led her nowhere, a dead-end job that paid the bills and a boyfriend her parents loved. When everything fell apart and her mental illness got the best of her, she gave up all that she had worked for and left home in a beaten-up car.
Together with her two dogs, savings that were quickly draining and a heart full of anxiety, Avery left behind a life of familiarity for a life on the road. Through endless miles of driving and hiking, she finds that the soul can heal, and that happiness can be found in the most unexpected places. In the beautiful embrace of nature, she discovers what it feels like to be free, realizes the burdens and the marvels of this privilege, and breaks the chains of the things that once held her back.
As she welcomes some of the most breath-taking sights in Europe, she learns the hardship of living in a car and the weight of solitude, the strength it takes to survive out in the wild and the benefits it can give to the brave. Along the way, she comes to terms with her past and makes new friends, falls in love and is faced with heart-breaking loss.
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Walk the Line
Walk the Line is a story about how we got here, both personally and politically, told through the lives of its main characters – Sam, Michelle, Philip, Mary, Ed and Carol. It opens in the summer of 2005, in the week of the 7/7 bombings. These have a profound impact on Sam especially as he struggles to understand what they mean and their implications for the way he’s lived his life.
The narrative follows its characters’ lives from 1968 – the most turbulent and traumatic year of the ’60s – to 2008, when the world was caught between the hope of Obama’s election and the unfolding abyss of the financial crisis.
People change and memories blur with events and the passage of time. Relationships develop and bonds between them strengthen until, at the end, they are confronted by a discovery that forces them to question much of what they believe in.£3.50 -
Unwelcome Legacies
Fragilities exist in all families, but some families are much more fragile than others…
For a quarter of a century, Anna Johnson went about her life believing that she had gotten away with her affair with Bill Williams. However, when he dies and leaves a small fortune to the younger of her two sons, the money and other dark secrets lay bare the fragility of her own family as members start to lose sight of all common decency.
By definition a legacy is a gift of property or money left to someone in a will. In the broader sense it can also be something received or transmitted from the past. Anna has made nothing in the way of any financial gain, but the legacies of her past are revealing themselves thick and fast – threatening to destroy her marriage, her family, and her whole life.
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Unlikely Destinies
As part of a small Australian military group three sisters of immigrant parents participate in secret missions to counteract People’s Republic of China coercion and planned terrorist attacks in the Indo-Pacific. The sisters enjoyed a happy but meagre childhood in a remote West Australian township from where they emerged as the fortuitous beneficiaries of a private school education in South Australia. They displayed exceptional talents in standard and elective subjects. As young adults they excelled in tertiary education and gained degrees in linguistics, admiralty and Pacific constitutional law, pure mathematics, and computer science before coming to the attention of Australian intelligence agencies and the military. They were recruited by the military group for clandestine assignments that ranged from the outer boundaries of the South China Sea to Papua New Guinea and in between. The main parts of the story are about these assignments.
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Under the Shade of the Mango Tree
Inaya – the daughter who knows her father to be dead.
Imaad – the son who has persistently betrayed and disappointed his father.
Zahra – in search of the man who saved her childhood and protected her mother.
Salmaan – An autistic youngster who finds it difficult to navigate himself in the big, wide world.
Today.
Inaya – The news of her father being alive shatters her existence completely as she is left with an air ticket and a damning decision.
Salmaan – Her brother, autistic and confused escapes through an unlocked front door and discovers a world that is cruel and far from safe.
Imaad – A drug dealer on the brink of uncertainty drowning in a sea of betrayal and animosity.
Zahra – Finders not keepers of the man who changed her life and future.
Then, one moment, a fatal incident rips their souls apart and transforms their landscapes forever.
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Under the Desert Sands
On honeymoon, an archaeologist couple, Toby and Lucy, meet an emergency on Lake Nasser. A man, Hassan, was being attacked by a crocodile. Can they rescue him? Will he survive?
Leaving the lake for the Western Desert and its oases. They go to Kharga and have a wonderful party. A fantasia entertains them with whirling dervishes, Nubian dancers and pipes of hashish being handed around. Then back on to the White Desert, a “Wonder of the World”. They get stuck in the deep sand and freeze in the cold night; dug out, a surprise in the hole left by their rear wheel.
Is it what they hope? Is it part of a temple? Is it an archaeologist’s dream or just a lump of stone?
Lucy bewitches a colonel in the Baharyah Oasis; he brings manpower to raise the block. Suddenly, the edge of the deep trench crumbles and sand and rubble collapse into the hole. What will become of the young couple?
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