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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.

This is the true story of Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, the son of the Earl of Coventry and an American ballerina who dedicated his life to becoming a professional surfer. Surfing was a means of escape, from England, from the fraught charges of nobility, from family, and, often, from his own demons. Surf, Sweat and Tears takes us into the world of global surfing, revealing a dark side beneath the dazzling sun and cream-crested waves. Here is surf noir at its most compelling; a dystopian tale of one man’s obsessions, wiped out in a grisly true crime.

When the body of a young Black man turns up on a Margate back street, it seems to be yet another drug-related crime. Margate is currently the focus of a special operation, code-named Pivot, to take down local suppliers. But Gray discovers there’s more to the case than initially meets the eye. And Gray has his own problems to deal with. First there’s the public investigation into the death of Gray’s ex-boss, DCI Jeff Carslake and then Gray’s estranged daughter, Hope, turns up on his doorstep - she’s pregnant and left the child’s father.

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 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.

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.

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.

When Eddie Cartwright's reckless gambling causes the restaurant business with his partner Steph to fail, the couple seriously fall out and separate. It leaves Eddie virtually penniless and struggling to survive. In a chance meeting with a surgeon at the local park, he is offered a job working on the medic's country estate. But soon he begins experiencing encounters with ghosts, and starts to realise he is next on the list to join a bizarre collection of the living dead.

The plan was for Ben and Eleanor to put business life behind them and spend idyllic days living at an old farmhouse in beautiful countryside. The reality became a living nightmare, with ghosts in the evil farmstead driving them towards insanity, trapped into suffering the same horrors of its grisly past.

Tom Roberts has been aware from childhood that mysterious events once occurred at his grandfather's remote country house, but has no idea of exactly what happened there. Years later, when he spends a short break at the property, the horrifying past comes vividly to life as ghosts rise from their graves to reveal deeply buried family secrets.

Adam Collins buys an old cottage by the sea to relax when warned that his high pressure job could lead to an early heart attack. But ghosts of a nearby fishing village that, many years ago, collapsed into the sea return to haunt him. Soon, he is drawn into a supernatural world which increasingly threatens his future through strange events that unfold.

On an icy November night, Drew Blackmore is beaten unconscious, then abducted. He awakes to find himself in total darkness, naked and chained to the floor. Fed just enough to keep him alive, Drew is unable to identify his captor, or the reason for his incarceration. As reality fades, hallucinations take over. Can Drew escape his prison before madness claims him?

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.

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!

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.

A classic true story of sporting rivalry - unto death.