Paul House

Rick Morrison is a journalist. He has moved to Madrid to get over the recent death of his wife. Laura G mez is a lawyer. She is trying to escape from an abusive relationship. V ctor and Tom s Rubiales work the streets, stealing cardboard and copper and setting up a marijuana farm. Tom s yearns to become a bullfighter. Ignacio Campos, the Chief Constable, wants to go into politics but he must first find a way of escaping from a mafia boss in Galicia. When an unmarked grave from the Spanish Civil War is discovered in a small village to the north of Madrid, their paths begin to cross as they all have different reasons for wanting to identify the four bodies found there. Their stories reach a climax during the the village feast in a most unexpected way.

OBSERVATIONS AND LOVE SONGS includes all the poems the author wishes to see in print that were written between 1975 and 2018.

The English Ladder is a four-level course designed to help pupils take their first steps in English. Join Freddie the frog for fun, adventure and lively language learning through engaging stories, challenging songs, games, tongue twisters, and communication activities. Part of a four-level course, this Level 2 Activity Book features practice of target language from Pupil's Book Level 2, activities to draw, colour and write, Me! sections that encourage personalised language learning and a Songs Audio CD, including karaoke versions.

SOONER THAN GOLD is baded on the true story of Eiza Lynch who, in 1848, at the age of 13, fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine, who, at he age of 18, was the highest paid and most sought after courtesan in all of Paris, who, as mistress of the Dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano L pez, became Regent of Paraguay and the richest woman in the world. Together with L pez she involved the country in bloody war, the result of which was total disaster. SOONER THAN GOLD is Volume 1 of the trilogy. The other volumes are FIRE AND POWDER and COME TO DUST.

SOONER THAN GOLD is based loosely on the true story of Eliza Alicia Lynch who, in 1848, at the age of 13, fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine; who at 18 was the highest-paid and most sought-after courtesan in all of Paris; who, as mistress of the dictator, Francisco Solano L pez, became Regent of Paraguay and the richest woman in the world. Together with L pez, she involved that country in a bloody war, the result of which was total disaster.

The English Ladder is a four-level course designed to help pupils take their first steps in English. Join the Fantastic family for fun, adventure and lively language learning through engaging stories, challenging songs, games, tongue twisters, and communication activities. Part of a four-level course, this Level 4 Teacher's Book features lesson-by-lesson teaching notes, notes for activities in the Pupil's Book and Activity Book, tests for the end of each unit and each level and clear guidance on language presentation.

PIGS is an examination of the all-pervasive power of absolute evil to poison the lives of even the most innocent. Since his wife left him, James Hardman has lived in a brothel in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. He has been a successful author of detective stories, but his agent asks him to write a screenplay of a serial killer. Hardman is obsessed with the crazy rantings of the killer and when he becomes involved with the Dominican Mafia, it seems a logical progression. What follows is one man's fight against mediocrity and evil, armed only with the hope that love survives and conquers all.

A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO SLEEP is a novel about post-war Spain and the transition of the 1970's. It is a novel about love, revenge and obsession. A 'war orphan' is on his way to meet his exiled Uncle who is coming back to Spain as a result of the amnesty granted by the first free government. On the way he meets an itinerant farmer. Their conversations and memories lead to a surprising change in the young man's plans.

Leah Elisabeth Browne has died. The novel starts with the funeral where we are given the character of Leah, the maiden aunt, as seen by her relatives. Her house has been left in her will to one Frank Hawe, a person no one has ever heard of. Slowly, the story of her love affair with Frank is told, along with the extraordinary life of her brother and his beautiful young wife. It is nothing like the rest of the family could ever have imagined.

A novel set against the failed coup d'etat in Spain of 1981. It follows the lives of a cross section of society in the three months leading up to the coup, and the week following.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT - Beef Tea and Marlowe Philips are incompetent private detectives who are on a case that takes them through the USA, Mexico and finally to Spain. They are following the dangerous criminals Wilma and Lance, who are, in turn, trying to kill them. They run across some strange characters, like Boll Weevil, the Texan peanut farmer, Fat Al, the Mexican drugs baron, or Tobias Jugg, the captain of a tramp steamer, and several celebrities, such as Bob Dylan, Edgar Broughton and Captain Beefheart, together with a weird menagerie of animals. As they journey on they reminisce, talking about and criticising or praising such things as varied as cricket averages, Play-doh, Marcel Proust and Roger Whittaker. The mystery ends with a modern enactment of the last scenes of Hamlet.

A dead body is found on a deserted road, the body has been cut into small pieces and abandoned in a suitcase; it has been so badly mutilated that it is unrecognisable. The police believe that the victim could be a junkie or a whore since nobody has bothered to report her missing. They visit the local convent where the nuns are known to have been working with the prostitutes. As the investigation develops, we witness a struggle for power in the convent. Father Moses is sent to investigate the disappearance of one of the nuns and as he unravels the tangled relationships within the convent he begins a journey of self-discovery which ends when he has to decide whether he is to be Jesus or Judas.