Jack Webb

This stunning first book from a major new talent focuses on the life and work of Jaisen, a self-proclaimed New Age performance artist from the North East of England. Alone, or with his brother and friends, he instigates 'artistic events' - 'performances' which are strongly ritualistic, extraordinarily surreal and anarchistic. Includes 60 colour plates.

Fierce Tea

Maria del Pilar Kaladeen

Roderick Westmaas

William Tantam

In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the Northern Atlantic. Memory, migration and (de)colonisation furthers our understanding of the lives of many of these migrants, and the contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the essays of academics and activists.

Memory, Migration and (de)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond

Father Joseph Shanley and Detective Sergeant Sammy Golden felt a very personal interest in this case. Gil Basta had been murdered. It was not hard to find his enemies: Gil had written Manama Town, a big, five hundred page, dirty, sordid book that had immediately become a best-seller. But the novel was not a creation of Basta’s imagination—the people and incidents depicted were based on reality, Father Shanley’s parish and parishioners. Unfortunately, the matter did not rest with publication of the book and Basta’s murder. Carmen Montoya was found hanging from a rafter in the shed behind her house. Carmen had been prominent in Manama Town as the whore who slept with the narrator. Father Shanley heard something in the confessional that had a bearing on her death, but illness put him in bed for a few days. Sammy, meanwhile, had flown to Phoenix to question Basta’s wife. She had an alibi for the time of his death, but Sammy was sure that there was something that she was hiding from him. As he pursued the case further he found himself personally involved, and it took some brilliant deductions from Father Shanley to discover the real facts behind the deaths.

The Gilded Witch

It started with a missing poet, a fire, and a half-strangled girl. But before it was over Sergeant Sammy Golden and his friend Father Shanley found themselves faced with the double headache of foreign intrigue and triple murder.

The Delicate Darling

There has been no other epoch in American history where corruption, debauchery, and horrific murder has intersected with a society as speciously glittering and innocent as the Los Angeles of the 1940s and 50s. This work deals with subjects like the sex slaying of Betty Short, narcotics, gambling and prostitution.

The Badge

Million dollar heiress is kidnapped by an unusual pair—a blonde and aex-con—who demand ransom or they will make sure death strikes their victim! Electrifying, terrifying, spine-tingling, Red-hot mystery thriller by the incomparable Jack Webb, author of the best-selling mysteries The Big Sin, The Naked Angel, and The Damned Lovely.

The Broken Doll

Have you ever smoked a joint? No? Are you curious about what it would be like to get stoned? Christian will show you. Have you ever gotten drunk? Yes? Well, have you ever gotten so drunk that you s# t your pants? Do you wonder what that would be like? No, you don't wonder about that? Really? Huh. Christian will show you anyway. Have you ever cheated on someone who loves you? Have you ever brought a random person to a bar and later tried to have sloppy sex with him or her in the bathroom? Curious about how that kind of debauchery would go down? Christian might show you. Ever dream of success? Ever dream of being someone important? Have you ever dreamed of making a positive difference in the world? Yes? Well, so has Christian. Have you ever killed a man? Go ahead, open this book and treat yourself to a gloriously savage love story. A story populated by complex, and usually drug-addled characters. Follow Christian and his violent friend Cooper as they struggle to find identity, purpose, and love in the heart of Manhattan.

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