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The cell reeked of piss. Like the hard light they never turned off, there was no
escape from the smell. The crude...
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Twenty years earlier …
‘Wait for me!’
The voice was thin, but carrying, as piercing...
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Me
When I was four years old, all I ever wanted was to have a weeing Tiny Tears doll. I’d never been...
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Dog and Me
An ant can look up at you, too, and even threaten you with
its arms. Of course, my dog does...
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 INTRUSION: 1995
THERE WILL BE NO AWAKENING.
The sleeping woman will feel nothing the next morning, only...
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 In researching the first volume of the authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, Charles Moore conducted extensive...
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 A chill wind hit Connor as he emerged from the ExCel Centre in the Docklands and headed for the bus stop on Freemasons...
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 This excerpt contains adult material. It is intended for readers 18 years of age or older.
I shed my clothes across...
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Ek word in intensiewe sorg geplaas, maar my toestand versleg steeds. Die glukosevlak in die serebrospinale vog (SSV)...
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 Jackie Cameron is one of the most exciting chefs working in South Africa today. Under her leadership the Hartford House...
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 Dr Wei started also, his deep, bossed gong laugh. "I say this to say that I admire the culture, your culture, its...
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The hearse pulled onto a scrubby track, traveled several hundred feet, and stopped. The passenger door opened,...
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Chapter One
I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem. As with so
many scientific c...
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The first decade of the 20th century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St Louis,...
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Chapter One
After a killer day at the office, nothing smoothed those raw edges like happy hour. On the...
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Chapter One
Among the Unreal People
In the hot flat bush in far northeast Namibia I crossed a...
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Chapter One
Through the chilly curtain of sleet, in the intermittent wash of the great light on the...
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 The intrusion had been coated with a dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic veneer. Now that the sun was up it seemed as...
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 They came at dusk, three of them knocking at the front door. She first saw them through the glass panel in the wooden...
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 Whitehall Palace, London, March 1543
There has been a late snowfall and the covered turrets of ...
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