As time passed I spent more time managing the other scribes and less time
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Lewis Robinson’s critically acclaimed story collection Officer Friendly was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “eleven letter-perfect stories with the keen understanding of human nature readers expect to find in works by veterans like Alice Munro.” Now Robinson has written Water Dogs, a suspenseful, disquieting, and compulsively read...more
It's 1986, the last day of the summer holidays, and Christopher Hearsey is wondering why his best mate Arthur has suddenly disappeared, and whether lippy Gill Ross a few doors down might know anything about it. The great border city of Carlisle is buzzing with rumours following an act of terrible violence, and in order to begin his search Chris mus...more
SCULPTURED NAILS AND NAPPY HAIR is the widely acclaimed, debut text by LiNCOLN PARK; one of the Nation's most prolific writers of AFRoPuLP fiction novels. Throughout each of the four short stories in this riveting collection, these most unlikely, Black heroines of the 1980's are forced to address issues such as paternal death, love triangles, entr...more
In 1941 the precursor to the OSS and the CIA combined with British SAS to produce an elite fighting force whose mission was to carry out subversion against the fascist regimes of Europe - a subversion that continues to resonate in the contemporary world. The fascism then re-emerges in the Islamist extremism and heretical Christian occultism of toda...more