/* Text[...]=[title,text] Style[...]=[TitleColor,TextColor,TitleBgColor,TextBgColor,TitleBgImag,TextBgImag,TitleTextAlign,TextTextAlign, TitleFontFace, TextFontFace, TipPosition, StickyStyle, TitleFontSize, TextFontSize, Width, Height, BorderSize, PadTextArea, CoordinateX , CoordinateY, TransitionNumber, TransitionDuration, TransparencyLevel ,ShadowType, ShadowColor] */ var FiltersEnabled = 0 Text[0]=["THE UNDERLYING CAUSE","Tells how the Cause for sainthood of a murdered Irish priest is called into question when the Vatican discovers his love letters to an unknown woman. These letters also threaten an Irish cardinal in the Vatican with a scandal which will also threaten his life. To save himself, the cardinal gives his Jesuit nephew the secret mission of finding the woman concerned and silencing her. But the nephew turns against his uncle and his quest in Ireland and Northern Ireland ends when he himself falls in love. 100,000 words."] Text[1]=["THE TWA CORBIES","Takes its title and structure from the ancient, anonymous Scottish ballad where two ravens talk of the implied murder of a knight with the connivance of his lady the birds reveal where the body lies and the plot to cover up the crime. Resonances of the seventeenth-century ballad occur throughout the novel which transposes the action to contemporary Scotland as the psyciatrist Gregor Maclean unravels the mystery and exposes the murderers. 60,000 words."] Text[2]=["NOT ALL RIVERS REACH THE SEA","Finds a patient who turns the tables on the psychiatrist Gregor Maclean, compelling him to relive all the bad moments of his life and then all but killing him in a car crash. His patient, the writer Craigie Dewar is revenging himself on Maclean for manhandling him and threatening to have his children taken away. Dewar plays on the fact that Maclean is a reformed drunk who was probably responsible for his wife's death in a car accident. His duel with the psychiatrist ends in his own death. 65,000 words."] Text[3]=["A SACRED FLAME","Is the story of Murdo Cameron, a penniless and fatherless boy from a small Scottish town with an obsessive desire to become a great surgeon. He has to contend with local prejudice and a vicious and jealous stepfather, he has to fight to save his brother from hanging after committing a murder and finally he has to sacrifice his love for Fiona Carmichael to achieve his ambition. The novel runs to 150,00 words."] Text[4]=["AFTER THE FALL","Begins with a KGB general rounding up and shooting Axis collaborators in Rumania. But the general realises the end of the war marks the beginning of a spy war between the Soviet Union and the West. He chooses certain boys, brainwashes them and plants them in Britain. This is operation Kukushka(Cuckoo) and the KGB succeeds in planting its men in the Lords and Commons, in strategic industries. Only when one of them is murdered does the Britain SIS agent, Gillespie, begin to uncover and dismantle the intricate espionage network with the help of the Russian girl sent to identify the murdered man. 110,000 words."] Text[5]=["THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE","Traces Scott Erskine's odyssey. As an orphan boy in a Scottish village, as a Glasgow shipyard apprentice, as newspaperman, local politician and friend of James Maxton; as someone so imbued with Scottish Nationalism he defies wartime conscription is jailed. Forced to work as a medical corps private in the London blitz he falls in love (against his will) with an aristocratic English nurse who follows him into the army and schemes with him to recover Scotland's Stone of Destiny after the war. 165,000 words."] Text[6]=["THE BONAPARTE PLOT","Is a historical novel relating how Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, transformed a plot against his own life into a scheme to make himself Emperor. A conspiracy to kidnap or kill Bonaparte and restore the Bourbons was financed by the British premier, William Pitt, who backed the Royalist general Georges Cadoudal and other French generals. But Bonaparte showed himself no mean detective as he unravels the Cadoudal Conspiracy then ruthlessly commits a judicial murder of a royal prince and several other assassinations to become supreme ruler of France.
(Robert Hale,London - Nov 2005.)"] Text[7]=["HEBREW MELODY","Reconstructs the story of Josef Hassid, the Polish-Jewish violin prodigy who was considered by his teacher, Carl Flesch, Kreisler and Gerald Moore as another Paganini, potentially one of the greatest violinist of all time. But Hassid's career covered only a few short years. At seventeen he went mad and died after a brain operation. He left no more than four twelve-inch records of genre pieces to prove his brilliance and regret his loss. I have chosen to use dramatic and expository techniques to relate his life as a biographical novel. 55,000 words"] Text[8]=["LIFELINES","Is a multi-character novel about a series of people who cannot get their act together because they are writing different and often disastrous life-scripts for themselves. For instance, Gascoyne, a divorce lawyer who decides to rewrite the book his romantic novelist wife, Nancy, is working on. They quarrel over this and part. She falls for a new doctor in the group practice while Gascoyne starts on another script. Only the doctor realizes that they, and he, are writing the wrong scripts and changes their lines. 60,000 words."] Text[9]=["A TOUCH OF THE SUN","Is set in Sacremont, a Provençal village which was quiet until the discovery of a sarcophagus containing a mummified body under its oldest chapel. The mayor says it's a saint and dreams of pilgrimages and tourism; the doctor contends it will ruin a quiet village. They start a feud over the issue until the doctor proves the body belongs to a woman who had returned from a Nazi death camp to find the villagers who had betrayed her and had now murdered her. It takes all the guile of the Bishop of Aix to settle the quarrel and resolve the riddle of the murder. 65,000 words."] Text[10]=["WHITE PAWN ON RED SQUARE","Relates how at the height of the Cold War a Russian girl plots to steal the most closely-guarded symbol of Soviet Russia, the mummified body of Lenin. She means to use it as a hostage to free her dissident brother and others from a Siberian gulag. She recuits five people each with a motive for settling scores with Lenin; she lures an English diplomat who loves her into the conspiracy. They manage to outwit the KGB but two plotters die and four others land in the notorious KGB headquarters, Lubyanka Prison. 72,000 words.
This book is available in 'E-Format' from SYNERGEBOOKS"] Text[11]=["BENCHMARK","Is the story of an eminent, rigorous and unpopular High Court judges driven to murder the victim of his judicial error he committed. To evenge himself on Judge Knox who had sentenced him, the criminal seduced his step-daughter, turned her into a drug addict and a sexual pervert. For his defence the judge spurns his QC colleagues and chooses a junior, the man who loved his step-daughter before she was corrupted. Against a cunning Attorney-general and a cantankerous Lord Chief Justice, the junior stages a series of coups de théâtre which win over the jury and a minimal sentence. 61,000 words."] Text[12]=["WHERE THE STORM RESTS","A guilt-ridden woman scientist at odds with everyone including herself goes to India ostensibly on a sociology mission but really to escape her problems. She is stranded in a Ganges village where she quarrels with an alcoholic English doctor and creates havoc in the caste system. But finally she discovers Herself and finds peace-of-mind and love. The story is set in the Ganges plain a couple of decades after Independence. 90,000 words."] Text[13]=["LANDSCAPE WITH VERY STILL LIFE","Begins with a woman examining magistrate, Anne de Chamfort, investigating the theft of nine modern masterpieces from her brother-in-law's manor in Aix-en-Provence. But soon she and an English insurance detective realize that the theft is a set-up between the owner of the paintings and the Marseilles mafia and part of the insurance  money is invested in the drugs racket. There is a French text of this story, Nature Morte sur Fond Noir.64,000 words."] Text[14]=["NOT IN THE SCRIPT","This the first of a collection of twelve short stories with the following Titles.
Not In The Script - Sick - Second Honeymoon - The Vigil - MacGregor -
The Cracked Crucifix - The Bat-Eared Boy Of County Down - Hamish Byron -
Stalemate - A Case In Practice - Inspiration - On Information Received."] Text[15]=["WHO PRAY TOGETHER SLAY TOGETHER","Is a novel in which Gregor Maclean becomes involved through one of his patients with a sect which  brainwashes and hypnotises its members; its intention is  to rob them and even compel them to commit suicide.  Maclean and his helpmeet, Deirdre, become sect members, though in Deirdre's case this means she succumbs to the hypnotic techniques, is alienated from Maclean and driven to the point of murdering him then committing suicide herself.  60,000 words."] Text[16]=["McINDOE; PLASTIC SURGEON","One of the most gifted plastic surgeons of his era, the New Zealander Sir Archibald McIndoe became famous in the Thirties for transforming the faces and figures of the rich and famous through nose-bobbing, face-lifting, breast-moulding. But the war saw 'Archie' in another role, repairing the burned faces and hands of those hundreds of heroes, Battle of Britain pilots who had crashed. So badly scarred were most of them that Archie had to reinvent plastic surgery to remodel their faces. He also had to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives by treating their mental problems. For that he invented what he called his Guinea Pig Club, which continued long after his death to help his old patients. Archie also picked pretty nurses many of whom married their patients. Archie had to fight the Air Ministry for many of the concessions granted his Guina Pigs. McIndoe's Battles became legendary during the war.
(W.H.Allen,1961)"] Text[17]=["A TIME TO HEAL","A biography of Ian Aird, who pioneered heart surgery and organ transplants in his hospital, Hammersmith Postgraduate Medical School. Aird, the youngest-ever Professor of Surgery at the school, was also a brilliant and inspired teacher whose Companion in Surgical Studies became a 'bible' for thousands of medical students. But for all his talent, Aird had virtually no backing from the state to create his heart surgery and transplant units at Hammersmith. Only his dedication and that of his team made up for time lost during the war. A brilliant surgeon who could operate anywhere in the body, Aird came to public prominence by separating the Nigerian Siamese twins, Boko and Tomu, in a marathon operation. But sadly, at 57 Ian Aird took his own life in despair at the lack of support and official recognition given to his life's work.
(Heinemann,1964)"] Text[18]=["THE DAMNED DIE HARD","This biographical history of the French Foreign Legion is recounted through the eyes of famous and infamous members of this élite regiment. Men like St. Arnaud, whose courage earned him the baton of a Maréchal de France but who was still a venal and perfidious rogue; or men like Maréchal MacMahon, who led the Legion in the Crimean war and became President of France. There were poets like the American, Alan Seeger, killed in the trenches, and writers like Blaise Cendrars, who heard a dying legionnaire describe how he robbed the Bank of England. Officers like Colonel Elkington, who was cashiered for cowardice only to be reinstated with honours by George V; and the one woman to join the Legion, Susan Travers, who has told of how she survived running the gauntlet of the Afrika Korps. Those and so many more like them are The Legion.
(Dutton(USA),1973 - Saxon House(UK),1974)"] Text[19]=["ROGUES IN THE GALLERY","Tells the story of the great thefts which have plagued the art world throughout the twentieth century-starting with the stealing of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, recounting the theft of 118 Picassos from the Papal Palace in Avignon and the ruse with which an eminent Paris dealer sold a whole collection of stolen masterpieces. The world's biggest museum, eternally shut to the public, is the one into which thousands of stolen masterpieces have disappeared. This books proves there is a mafia that steals art to order for the very private collector; it exposes how criminals steal to gain a ransom from the owner or insurance companies; it shows that terrorists like the IRA have raided private houses and galleries and used the stolen art to bargain for the release of their fellow-terrorists.
(Godine(USA),1981)
An updated version of this book is available in 'E-Format' from BOSON BOOKS."] Text[20]=["A MAN AND HIS MOUNTAIN","For Paul Cézanne the mountain was Sainte-Victoire, the limestone monolith that dominates the landscape of Aix, his native town; it also symbolises his struggle with life and the obsession to paint things as they appeared to his eyes and mind. That meant spurning the great renaissance paintings and everything after them-all based on mathematical perspective--that is, monocular vision. By painting what he perceived with both eyes, Cézanne was reviled in his lifetime, accused of being perverse, unbalanced. Yes, even by his best friend and soul-mate, the great Emile Zola. It was Cézanne's Calvary to swim against the artistic mainstream, but eventually he was recognised as one of the greatest painters. And as the artist who could be said to have inspired Picasso, Braque and almost every movement in modern art.
(MacMillan(USA),1977 - W.H.Allen(UK),1977)"] Text[21]=["THE LAST PHARAOH","At sixteen King Farouk was the hope of an Egypt gaining independent from the British. For fellahin of the Nile this handsome, godlike young man spelled an era of freedom, abundant harvests and the good life. But little more than ten years transformed Farouk into an obese faun with a mania for women, gambling and other people's possessions. His rule was a disaster; during the war he leaned towards Nazi Germany and quarrelled with the British, who nearly deposed him; he led his country into a war with Israel which resulted in rout and humiliation; while Europe lay under the Communist nuclear menace Farouk and his entourage were living it up in casinos and luxury hotels across the continent. But finally in 1952 his scandalous life, his ruinous policies and his autocratic and inept rule brought about a revolution that forced his abdication and exile. Thirteen years later he died in Rome aged 45.
(Michael Joseph(UK),1969 - McCall(USA),1970)"] Text[22]=["THE RISK TAKERS","Is the first popular history of heart surgery, from the moment on September 9, 1895 that the German surgeon Ludwig Rehn dared operate on a human heart to repair a stab wound. His patient, Wilhelm Justus, survived. With that operation, Rehn stripped away most of the myth and prejudice surrounding the human heart. In England thirty years later, another surgeon, Henry Soutar, actually opened the hart to open a blocked valve with his finger and save his patient's life. Bit by bit, surgeons mastered the heart. A German thrust a catheter tube down a vein into his own heart and X-rayed the process; Americans carried out the first Blue Baby operations and others corrected congenital defects. Then along came the machines which allowed the heart to be taken out of the system and open-heart operations performed on a still organ. This opened the way in 1967 to heart transplants which nowadays are routine.
(Muller(UK),1962 - Holt,Rinehart(USA), 1962)
*Chosen as Best Medical Book of 1963*"] Text[23]=["CHESNEY","This black-hearted villain began life as John Donald Merrett. In 1927 in Edinburgh he murdered his mother who had found him forging her cheques to fuel his wild life. He was seventeen. Escaping with a Not Proven verdictbut with a new name, Ronald John Chesney, he married a family friend, Vera Bonar. After naval service during the war he landed a job in the Allied Control Commission in war-torn Germany. He turned to smuggling arms, cigarettes and liquor. But Chesney had fallen for a German girl and wanted the money he had placed in trust to Vera. So, he devised what he thought was the perfect crime. Using another man's passport and disguising himself to look like the passport picture, he flew into London and murdered his wife by drowning her in a bath. But her mother discovered him and he had to murder her brutally. His perfect crime in ruins, he committed suicide back in Germany. An inquest found him guilty of both murders.
(W.H.Allen(UK),1951)"] Text[24]=["THE BENT PYRAMID","Ewan Chisholm, despised drunk and gifted Egyptologist, is ordered by his curator to find a horde of paranoiac jewelry found in an envelope in the late Sir William Garfield Tate's papers. Tate and his Nubian mistress were killed for these jewels. Ewan embarks on an adventure to find both the jewels and the murderers
before they find him.
This book is available in 'E-Format' from SYNERGEBOOKS"] Text[25]=["A QUESTION OF NEGLIGENCE","In a large London teaching hospital, Murdo Cameron, one of the world's most inventive surgeons is pitted against the equally eminent physician, Sir Kenneth Fairchild over a case of alleged medical negligence. Cameron is accused of botching an operation and causing a patient's death; and the hospital is charged with covering up the death. Into this feud steps Cameron's friend, Gregor Maclean, a brilliant psychiatrist. He finds his friend diminished mentally and physically, given to perverse behaviour. But gradually he resolves the enigma of Cameron's actions then unmasks those who created the scandal and conspired to ruin his career.
(Harcourt,1970 - Collins(UK),1973)"] Text[26]=["A BORDERLINE CASE","When curious earth tremors shake the Roof of the World and these coincide with an outbreak of a mysterious disease, the WHO sends a medical team into the Hunza Valley to investigate. The WHO serves as cover for Paul Brodie, SIS man sent to probe the mystery. Hunza, the model for Shangri-la, is noted for the legendary health and longevity of its people. He and Shane Kingslake, the woman heading the WHO team, track the disease to a polecat, which has been irradiated, perhaps by nuclear fallout. When they create a vaccine Chinese soldiers descend on the WHO camp and take Shane and Brodie into China as virtual prisoners. They discover the Chinese have been using nuclear explosions to divert rivers and the fallout must have caused a virus mutation in the polecat. They keep their vaccine secret and use their immunity to foil the Chinese, destroy their research centre and flee across the mountains to Hunza and freedom.
(Scribner's(USA),1979 - Gollancz(UK),1980)"] Text[27]=["NO FACE IN THE MIRROR","In the third novel written around him, the psychiatrist Gregor Maclean has the task of straightening out his friend, Dr Ewan Sutherland, who is running an experimental psychiatric unit but who seems to be himself mentally unstable. As one orderly says: 'Imagine living in a nuthouse where the nuts are in charge.' Maclean moves into the unit, Beauchamp Manor, and first has to deal with the mystery of a girl thought to have committed suicide. Quickly he realises it was murder by a dangerous psychopath who might kill again, this time a wealthy woman patient. Sutherland resists and resents his attempts to help him and Maclean suspects he is being blackmailed for some dark secret. Finally, he tracks down the psychopath, but not before he has killed Sutherland and another inmate.
N.B. Richard Copeland is a pseudonym for Hugh McLeave.
(MacMillan(UK),1980 - Mystery Guild,1980 - Walker(USA),1980)"] Text[28]=["THE ICARUS THREAT","Is the third novel in the Himalayan quartet. Brodie and Shane are called to a remote valley where they have a mysterious epidemic of something like chicken-pox or shingles. But several outbreaks are reported in India which trigger Brodie's theory that they are being disseminated purposely. When Brodie argues that birds are carrying the virus of the disease, he escapes being murdered by dacoits. His old SIS chief, Cready-Smythe, arrives with evidence of strange-looking aviaries in the Soviet Union. Brodie penetrates the camp on the Soviet-Chinese border where scientists are infecting birds with viruses and bacteria and programming them genetically to follow migratory paths. With a blend of bluff and blackmail, Brodie rescues his boss from the Russians and destroys the camp and the birds before fleeing back into Hunza.
(Gollancz,1984)"] Text[29]=["UNDER THE ICEFALL","At the end of the Second World War a Bristol Buckingham bomber crashes high up on the Baltoro Glacier with a precious cargo aboard-gold. One of the men who failed to find and rescue the crew of the bomber is Edward Grayling, obsessed for more than twenty years by that gold hoard. Now that the plane is poised to reappear in one of the Baltoro icefalls, he and his family are going to scale the glacier and recover the gold. But Grayling is not aware that the ice-locked bomber contains something more vital, a secret that neither the British nor the Americans can allow the world to know. Which is why Cready-Smythe joins Brodie and Shane Kingslake in an attempt to reach the plane first and destroy the evidence it contains. But others are also interested, notably the Chinese, who also know about the secret, though not everything. Who will win this three-way race, fraught with danger and death at every step? Or will the Baltoro icefall have the last word?
(Gollancz,1987)"] Text[30]=["THE SWORD AND THE SCALES","Neil Archer is charged with the brutal and sadistic murder of his socialite mistress and begs his old friend, Paul Lipmann, to defend him. Both loved the same woman, whom Lipmann married. For Lipmann it's a dilemma, for he's no more than a junior barrister and Archer could have called on a Queen's Counsel to cross swords with the Attorney-General, who will prosecute. Reluctantly, Lipmann takes the case but has a psychiatrist analyse Archer's personality. Maclean, the psychiatrist, suggests there are good grounds for pleading diminished responsibility and saving Archer's neck. But for his own reasons, Lipmann goes for an acquittal, loses the case and Archer hangs.
(Peter Davies(UK),1969 - Harcourt Brace(USA),1969)"] Text[31]=["THE STEEL BALLOON","A fire at Harwell's latest experimental reactor, a scientist dying of radiation poisoning and another, Edgar Stein, who commits suicide. All this triggers suspicions of sabotage in David Lovatt, science editor of a national newspaper. He begins to sense a plot when his scoop is suppressed. Teaming up with Elizabeth, Stein's attractive sister, he uncovers a KGB plot to sabotage Britain's nuclear industry by blowing up the country's most advanced nuclear installation at Dounreay in the north of Scotland. For both Lovatt and the girl it becomes a race against time to prevent a renegade Harwell scientist from carrying out his plan and contaminating a large area of the United Kingdom with radioactivity as well as destroying faith in nuclear power as an energy source.
(Muller,1964)"] Text[32]=["VODKA ON ICE","Bob McIlhenney, a leading American scientist with a drinking problem and a passion for vodka, attends a high-energy physics conference in Bulgaria. When he can't find vodka his withdrawal symptoms compel him to ask the Soviet consulate for the liquor. He gets the vodka, but also a beautiful, flame-haired girl, Karen, to listen to his pillow-talk and suborn him. But the Russians didn't envisage their falling in love with each other; or that McIlhenney, the scientist, is brilliant enough to play the game of the foxes with the security men on both sides and dupe everyone into letting them go their own way, free.
(Harcourt Brace(USA),1969 - Pyramid,1971)"] Text[33]=["ONLY GENTLEMEN CAN PLAY","Two spies, Matt Craig and Lora Trusova, are ordered by their organisations to play the love game while double-crossing each other. But when Craig and Lora really fall in love they are caught in the crossfire of their spymasters in Moscow and London who are tussling not only to glean each other's secrets but for their own advancement. Craig's boss, Standish, betrays him and he is tried for treason and imprisoned while Lora's boss, Kudriatov, wants her for himself. But Craig breaks out and crosses the Continent to find Lora and outwit both Standish and Kudriativ in a dramatic climax that leave both spymasters dead and the lovers in the clear.
(Harcourt,1974 - Barker(UK),1975)"] Text[34]=["DOUBLE EXPOSURE","Is the second book in the quartet about Paul Brodie and Shane Kingslake. Now Brodie is lured from his Himalayan valley to penetrate a secret Soviet nuclear establishment in the Ukraine, where they are testing the effects of radiation on human guinea-pigs to measure the effects of radiation; Brodie is blackmailed by his spymaster, Cready-Smythe, into taking the assignment only because his friend, Alex Guthrie, who had saved his life, is now a prisoner in the centre. Brodie is captured and subjected to mental and physical torture. However, he escapes and mines the reactor with explosives then threatens to blow it up thus and contaminate a whole Ukrainian river system and the countryside. He contrives not only Guthrie's escape but saves the sixty-odd prisoners of the establishment.
(Scribner's(USA),1979 - Gollancz,1980)"] Text[35]=["SECOND TIME AROUND","When a psychiatric colleague is killed by a hit-and-run driver, Maclean suspects murder linked to one of his patients. That patient is the powerful publisher, Laurence Hallam Fisher. Maclean gathers evidence to link Fisher with the deaths of several prostitutes, all similar in appearance. But Fisher disappears before he can be questioned. In what becomes a quest for his own past, he makes for Berlin and goes through the Wall into East Germany. Maclean follows him. Fisher finds the espionage school where he and the girl he loved were trained as spies. There, spymasters attempt to condition Fisher to go back to his spying assignment in Britain. But he chooses suicide in a car crash and makes a dying confession to Maclean.
(Walker(USA),1981 - Hale(UK),1981)"] Text[36]=["DEATH MASQUE","An unkown foreigner dies on the operating table of a London hospital, and everything points to an error by the anaesthetist, a former drug addict. One man believes him innocent-his friend, psychiatrist Gregor Maclean. He is proved right when the man's wife is pulled out of the Thames, drowned. And the killer of both the man and wife is now hunting their daughter to kill her and erase the evidence of a series of crimes committed more than twenty years before. Bit by bit, Maclean untangles the plot involving a high-class ring of drug smugglers prepared to murder again and again to protect their racket, their identity and their powerful ally in Scotland Yard.
(Hale(UK),1985 - Walker(USA),1986)"] Text[37]=["THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LIAM FAULDS","As one of the judges of the Eddystone Prize for an outstanding Anglo-American novel best-selling novelist Graeme Baldwin knows the prize is rigged by some influential publishers; he also realises no-one is allowed to win it twice. So, with the aid of a front man, Martin Gilchrist, he submits A COMMON GRAVE, a novel set in the Northern Ireland of the 'Troubles,' faking it to look as though it has been written by an IRA man, Liam Faulds, who is on the run. His publisher falls for the ploy and backs the novel for the Eddystone. But Baldwin's scheme begins to go wrong when Gilchirist's wife seduces him then shows she is a much better hand at writing plots and scripts than Baldwin. A COMMON GRAVE does win the Eddystone for Gilchrist, although Baldwin never knows this. He is dead.
(St.Martin's Press(USA),1984)"] Text[38]=["A MOMENT OF TRUTH","This is a biographical novel of the life and times of Zola and is also a cultural fresco of late nineteenth - century France. It tells of Zola's early struggle against poverty and incomprehension; his blood-brother friendship with Paul Cezanne; his backing of the scorned Impressionists; his monumental creation of twenty Rougon-Macquart novels depicting and dissecting the French Second Empire in raw and often lurid prose. Finally, this book details Zola's courageous combat against the whole French establishment to win justice for an obscure Jewish captain, Alfred Dreyfus. Zola's unremitting battle for justice in L'Affaire Dreyfus caused his own death in 1902. Every page of this book can be traced to Zola's letters, dossiers and other documents and authorities and provides new material on Zola's early life and the mystery of his premature death.
This book is available in 'E-Format' from BOSON BOOKS"] Text[39]=["MONKSHOOD","This is basically a love story. A young woman lawyer and former fencing champion hears a dying man confess that a well-known writer serving a life sentence for the double murder of his wife and her lover is innocent. She meets the writer in prison, persuades him to let her defend him. They fall in love and she sets out to prove he was the victim of a plot to kill two people and pin the blame on him. 73,000 words."] Text[40]=["PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION","Craigie Dundas, a Scottish painter, has been honoured with the Légion d'Honneur and a retrospective exhibition of his life's work by his adopted town, Aix-en-Provence. As portraits and landscapes arrive from donors and museums and as he chooses pictures for the exhibition from his own collection, the highs and lows of his life and loves are played back in his mind. 120,000 words."] Text[41]=["FRENCH LEAVE","Is the story of a young Scottish couple who go to Paris for the husband, an academic, to write a thesis on the differences between the Cartesian French and the pragmatic British. Paris and France are wonderful. But everything goes disastrously wrong. They betray each other, he with a French aristocrat, she with a Parisian Lothario. He is challenged to fight a duel by a cuckolded sadist who means to kill him. 100,000 words."] Text[42]=["OVERMATTER","OVERMATTER is Hugh McLeave's account of his boyhood in a poor West of Scotland community, his army service, his career as journalist, biographer and novelist. He has interwoven his story with a memoir of his mother, Letitia Johnston McLeave. Overmatter is printer's jargon for discarded and pulped copy that failed to make the press. 160,000 words."] Text[43]=["TRANSLATIONS","'The Risk Takers' :- 9 languages including - German, Dutch, French, Swedish and Polish
'The Last Pharoah' - Dutch,1971
'The Damned Die Hard' - Yugoslav,1979
'A Man And His Mountain' - Hungarian,1986
'Rogues In The Gallery' - French and Argentine,1983
'Vodka On Ice' - Danish,1972
'A Question Of Negligence' - French and Greek,1973 - Dutch,1978
'Only Gentlemen Can Play' - French,1976
'A Borderline Case' - German,1981
'No Face In The Mirror' - Argentine,1982"] Text[44]=["ROGUES IN THE GALLERY (Original Version)","Tells the story of the great thefts which have plagued the art world throughout the twentieth century-starting with the stealing of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, recounting the theft of 118 Picassos from the Papal Palace in Avignon and the ruse with which an eminent Paris dealer sold a whole collection of stolen masterpieces. The world's biggest museum, eternally shut to the public, is the one into which thousands of stolen masterpieces have disappeared. This books proves there is a mafia that steals art to order for the very private collector; it exposes how criminals steal to gain a ransom from the owner or insurance companies; it shows that terrorists like the IRA have raided private houses and galleries and used the stolen art to bargain for the release of their fellow-terrorists.
"] Text[45]=["CAT OUT OF THE BAG","This is the story of a cat which vanishes and provokes a Cabinet crisis. But the cat is Socrates, official Number Ten mouser and a national celebrity. With his place at the top table Socrates not only knows more cabinet secrets than the Queen he is also the government talisman. So much so, the opposition dirty-tricks expert seeks to exploit his absence politically, even deciding to eliminate him. But when Socrates’s animal friends suspect skulduggery even murder, they take their revenge on the people who have failed him."] Style[0]=["red","green","blue","","","img/img027.jpg","left","center","Bimini","Bimini","center","center",5,4,800,50,3,3,10,0,5,1,100,"complex","gray"] Style[1]=["red","green","green","","","img/img027.jpg","left","center","Bimini","Bimini","center","sticky",5,4,780,50,3,3,10,0,5,1,100,"complex","gray"] Style[2]=["red","green","blue","","","img/img027.jpg","left","center","Bimini","Bimini","center","sticky",5,4,800,50,3,3,10,0,5,1,100,"complex","gray"] applyCssFilter()