Fiction : Dramatic Fiction

"Hip deep in music, Never Mind Nirvana is a telling inside view that perfectly captures the rhythms and sights of late-nineties Seattle." — Peter Buck, guitarist of R.E.M. Pete Tyler is at a crossroads. Eight years ago he dropped out of a seminal Seattle grunge band to try his hand at a more grown-up calling. more...

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Claire's looking forward to getting back to St Ag's for the new term. Working in Accident and Emergency sounds so exciting - and of course, Jan will be back too. She can't wait to be with him again... But somehow the term doesn't work out quite as she'd planned. It's tough on the ward - and so easy to make mistakes. Jan seems cold and distant... and then there's her dashing cousin Patrick. He seems keen to pay her lots of attention - but what exactly is he up to? It's only a few months since Jan was among the tanks and soldiers in his country's civil war, so training as a nurse in England ought to be a soft option. If only he could leave behind those terrible memories... But the memories keep coming back. And when he's given a new placement in the Mental Health department, Jan knows this term won't be easy. How can he help the mental health patients when he's finding it so difficult to keep himself together? more...

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Deals with sassy dialogue and jazz club rhythms. more...

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Stephanie - bored housewife and down-trodden mother - wants a job, and Madeleine's recruitment company seems the obvious place to go. Except that PAs isn't quite what it appears. Far from providing companies with Personal Assistants, the agency offers Perfect Alibis to unfaithful women. And as Stephanie soon discovers, there are lots of them about! Founder member Patsy, is a serial philanderer and there's even a dark side to best friend, the blissfully-married Millie. For the well-heeled ladies of Edenhurst, PA's is a ticket to risk-free adultery. When slacker Troy, Stephanie's first love, returns unexpectedly, even she is tempted. But her life is soon in turmoil, and that's before the tabloids get involved. more...

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To tell his story, Tom Wingo, the scarred but proud hero of Pat Conroy´s The Prince of Tides , must go on a journey - a literal, geographical journey to New York from his home on the South Carolina coast that leads to a psychological journey from the present to the past, to a virtual prison of memory. What he finds there is both terrible and liberating, for him and for his whole broken but remarkable family. more...

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