Kirjahaku

Revenge is a dish best served cold, they say, but some like it hot - body hot In ROBIN ANDERSON'S latest foray into sex crime, we cruise downriver from Chelsea Harbour to Canary Wharf and Wapping, where gay gallery owner Raymond Bartholomew stages a spectacular "Revenge" themed art show set up via the Internet. Its sell-out success blesses Raymond and his camp coterie with new horizons, new lovers and new sources of wealth. But before you can say "blackmail", the exhibitors' subjects start falling dead like flies - but in the most bizarre circumstances. Who's the latter-day "canvas Ripper? Could it be the colonic-inspired Anonymous Bosch or the heinous hand behind a group hara-kiri? Maybe even the "stitched-up" Man Ray or the evil inspiration behind Velasquez-inspired death camp? Once again ROBIN ANDERSON'S heady cocktail of gourmandising and extreme sex is calculated to titillate, amuse and enthral. But be aware, dear readers, that some passages have loads to be desired, while others are positively inflammatory Forewarned is forearmed

TALE ONE: THE ADVENTURES OF MAISIE THE MEERKAT & BUNTI THE BUSHBABY - THE RESCUE OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA'S JEWELS.A wicked plan by the even more wicked CHIEF KIMBULLI to steal THE QUEEN OF SHEBA'S JEWELS from her Jewel House in the ancient city of ZIMBABWE is not clever enough for young ARGO and his friends, MAISIE THE MEERKAT and BUNTI THE BUSHBABY. With the help of CORNELIUS the crocodile and VICTOR, a Velvet Monkey and his monkey team, the VEE VEES (the VICTORIOUS VELVETS ) CHIEF KIMBULLI'S so-called clever plan quickly ends up in disaster and the jewels safely returned. TALE TWO: THE ADVENTURES OF FI THE FIREFLY & MOMBASSA THE MILLIPEDE - THE FOILING OF HIDEOUS & HEIDI THE HYENAS' HORRIBLE PLOT.A special concert organised to celebrate ZIM DAY and held in the presence of The Queen of Sheba, proves to be in danger due to a nasty plan organised by HIDEOUS and HEIDI the HYENAS, assisted by VICTOR THE VULTURE and his team of ugly vultures (THE VILES) to sabotage the glamorous event. Thanks to FI THE FIREFLY, MOMBASSA THE MILLIPEDE, PERCY THE PORCUPINE and other friends their nasty plan is soon put into disarray.TALE THREE: WARRIS THE ALBINO WARTHOG WINS THE DAY WARRIS the albino WARTHOG wins the day when he shows WITHERSPOON and WENDI, his brother and sister who are forever teasing him about his pale colouring (WARRIS being a pale pink as opposed to a WARTHOG's usual muddy brown), you shouldn't judge a book by its cover in the same way you shouldn't judge a WARTHOG by his colour TALE FOUR: THE ADVENTURES OF LUCY THE BABOON & CHARLIE THE CHEETAH.DAVID and his friend PHINEAS - on discovering they can speak Baboon Speak with LUCY, DAVID'S pet BABOON and Cheetah Speak with CHARLIE, DAVID'S pet CHEETAH - soon find themselves caught up in the rescue of both LUCY'S and CHARLIE'S relatives caught up on the many islands formed by the rising waters of the new KARIBA DAM built across the mighty ZAMBEZI RIVE

In the tale of Cinderella the heroine only has two ugly sisters and an ugly stepmother to contend with: whereas in High Jinks in High C, young Dot Brownstone, the heroine (later to metamorphose into the highly ambitious Narcissa Defarge), finds herself having to deal with not only a pair of wearisome, adoptive parents and a zealous, over-possessive childhood friend but more - much more. Enter the dashing young Baron Pieter Listig Maritz (himself a metamorphosis extraordinaire) and Narcissa soon finds herself caught up in a world of wicked uncles, aunts, questionable acquaintances, double-crossing lovers and unparalleled intrigue.Throw in a talented, songstress daughter, a fairy tale castle, a tropical island, a vengeful murder or two and let the high jinks in a very discordant High C begin.

A chance meeting through the unsavoury village shopkeeper Jago Peters sees the beginning of an unfathomable relationship between the loutish teenager Frank Frear ("That's 'fear' with an additional 'r'") and the younger, sophisticated Marcus Healan. A decade later the ruthlessly ambitious London-based Marcus invites Frank to assist him in establishing himself as numero uno in the cut-throat world of publishing, resulting in the two creating their own "bestseller" wherein fourteen unsuspecting souls (who previously "did them wrong") become unexpected Valentine's Day "gifts" delivered to their respective present day partners, lovers, companions or work colleagues on the actual day. A teaser of "things to come" are the grisly displays involving seven of the fourteen "donors" who - in poses reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch's unpalatable The Apocalypse - are randomly discovered by an understandably shocked Joe Public. Whether such munificence leads to a happy or a surprise ending, only Marcus or Frank know the answer.