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It’s not every day you come across an autobiography which starts out with learning how to overcome sexual abuse as a child, how to become an international playboy who built the most famous boutique hotel in the world, where people like Freddie Mercury, George Michael, Julio Iglesias to name a few, called a home away from home, add in the odd shipwreck or two and more than a few thousand sexual partners and misdemeanors along the way, and when your finished, you'll agree that this book is not just another great listen but its perhaps the greatest story every told.

Do you believe that the brain that you were born with would be the brain that you die with? As we grow and experience the various things around us, our brain develops and absorbs all of these elements, the new sights, sounds, and smells. This means that it is not hardcoded to function in predetermined ways. It was meant to grow and to glow. It is soft coded or soft-wired to be molded, altered, tweaked, and shaped based on all the things we learn and experience from the minute we are born to the time we die.

When Alex Preston is invited to spend a short holiday on a private island owned by a friend, he looks forward to a restful break. But the only break on offer is his breaking point, stranded with ghosts, killers, and a series of horrific secrets buried on the cursed island that threaten to stop him ever leaving alive.

A fictional tale of love and darkness in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and of every man and woman who bore the Auschwitz tattoo or was interred in Nazi death camps throughout World War Two, this Holocaust love story is inspired by real events. It is a tribute to the courage of victims of Nazi war crime during the Holocaust, sadly a part of Jewish history. The horror of Holocaust experiments carried out under the auspices of war and Hitler's obsession with a master race, are hard to understand, impossible to condone, and difficult to imagine forgiving.

Benjamin Latham is young and handsome, his 18th-century mind wakened to a bizarre 20th-century world. And there is the need deep within...an animal need, frightening, murderous, unholy...a vital need that must be fed. And with his need comes a power over men and women to do his bidding, to quiet his dark craving...Until the murders begin...Now Benjamin must find a sanctuary: a lover, a partner, a friend. Someone who can share his darkness. Someone he can lead to...the awakening.

Working-class rugby player Nick feels out of place at university. The hallowed halls of Cambridge seem impossibly huge and far beyond the Mansfield of his youth. But Nick has much more than fitting in to fear, when he's attacked by a creature straight out of his worst nightmares. Emotionally scarred by the sudden death of her parents, Annabel buries her feelings deep in her studies. But after barely surviving a freak accident, the shy girl begins to fear she's cursed.

A body washes up on the beach near Ramsgate in the South of England. For Detective Sergeant Solomon Gray, the case appears cut and dried - the drowning of an immigrant. But as the tidewaters recede, two more corpses surface. One appears to also be a refugee, but he’s been stabbed to death. The other Gray recognizes immediately, and Gray knows this means trouble. Because the corpse is the son of local business tycoon Jake Armitage. All signs indicate murder. Armitage swears to track down his son's killer and avenge his death.

Fifteen years ago, local crime boss Duncan Usher was sent to prison for killing his wife. A young detective Solomon Gray was first at the scene and instrumental in putting Usher away. But now, Usher is out, released on a technicality. Usher has held a grudge all this time, and he won't stop until he gets revenge on the dirty cop who framed him all those years ago.

A 51-year-old pub landlord from Hammersmith, a DJ from Lambeth, a prize-winning novelist influenced by Charles Dickens, and Iain Sinclair, a young British intelligence officer: just four of the 10 contenders in 2018’s truly fabulous Ultimate Londoner competition. 

These chronicles set in the Gulf Islands of Canada’s Pacific coast had evolved through eight years of excursions as a sea scout leader and Venturer company adviser. Lives revolving around a respect for the power of the sea and for nature become an overview of developmental psychology as boys became men. From the early '90s, electronics may change, but with sailing, camping, and having fun, the boys do not!