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Oliver Harris
A new Elliot Kane thriller from brilliant crime writer, Oliver Harris.
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William S. Burroughs
Draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have…
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Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, this title follows William Lee’s hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene.
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A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses.
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Billie Oliver
The only thing better than Harry's House, is Harry in your house!
This book offers the crucial insights and key recommendations that mental health professionals need to support children of color in the child welfare system.
Nick Belsey is back. And this time, he’s in real trouble…
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A modern but classically styled spy novel in the spirit of John le Carre and Chris Pavone, A Shadow Intelligence follows a mercurial MI6 agent, Elliot Kane, as he goes…
The launch of a brilliant literary thriller.
British spy Elliot Kane is forced out of semi-retirement to investigate a colleague’s suspicious death on Ascension Island, a remote and rocky outpost of the British military in the middle…
A brilliant crime series for fans of Mick Herron’s Slough House novels. Nick Belsey is a hero you will never forget.
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‘A gripping, fast-moving and intelligent novel from new spy fiction star Oliver Harris’ Irish Independent
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A brilliant crime series for fans of Mick Herron’s Slough House novels.
Nick Belsey is back. And this time, he's in real trouble...
Oliver Harry Gerson
Die Beschuldigtenstellung als Status, Rolle und Funktion ist bisher stiefmutterlich behandelt worden. Wie das Werk zeigt, ist die Beschuldigteneigenschaft indes nicht eine Rechtsposition unter vielen, sondern wirft vielmehr die Systemfrage…
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Professor Oliver Harris
Detective Nick Belsey, a shrewd, street-smart cynic and dedicated drunk who is also one of London’s sharpest and most unprincipled investigators, was introduced in 2012’s The Hollow Man; now he’s…
The first in a series of gritty and original thrillers following cunning detective Nick Belsey, from a rising voice in British crime fiction.
Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Jonathan Cape –Title page verso.
There is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane–volatile, inquisitive, free-floating–in the field. They take them and put two years and over GBP100k into their training…
A modern but classically styled spy novel in the spirit of John Le Carrae and Chris Pavone, [this book] follows a mercurial MI6 agent, Elliot Kane, as he goes off-script…
Oliver H Harris
A young idealistic woman lawyer joins a large law firm in a big city, where she finds corruption, disillusionment and murder. She has the mind of Voltaire, the vocabulary of…
Harry Lime
Robert Oliver Reed, born on 13th February 1938, at 9, Durrington Park Road, Wimbledon, London, England, UK, was an actor, best known for his upper-middle class, macho image and 'hellraiser'…
This volume of correspondence vividly documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his text. Sheds light…
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, this book is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad…
Fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. This book reveals…
Oliver J.T. Harris (The University of Leicester, UK)
Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology.
Harry Oliver
Originally published as ‘Black cats and April fools’ in Great Britain in 2006 by John Blake Publishing Ltd. –Title page verso.
Origins of the words and phrases we use every day.
Oliver reveals the most unusual and unexpected stories behind household necessities, toys, common objects, and everyday items. This delightful volume is perfect for history hounds, language lovers, and trivia buffs.
A love letter to Harry Styles, a pop star who’s a sign ofthe times. Now with stickers!
The world may have had to saygoodbye to One Direction, but…
John Harris Browne
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Optic Oliver
Try again, or, the trials and triumphs of Harry West: a story for young folks (1897) This book, Try again or, the trials and triumphs of Harry West , by…
Oliver Optic
Try again - Or, The Trials and Triumphs of Harry West is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different…
The novella began as a story treatment for a proposed film adaptation of Alan E. Nourse’s novel The Bladerunner. A later edition published in the 1980s changed the formatting of…
William S Burroughs
The Soft Machine is Burroughs’ original cut-up novel, first in an experimental trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. A surreal space-age odyssey and a total assault…
Originally published as March hares and monkeys’ uncles by John Blake Publishing (Great Britain), 2008.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
