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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Iain Sinclair
Prepare to rethink everything you thought you knew about World War II. 1940, Britain's darkest hour and as Naval Intelligence officer Tom Belvoir negotiates the corridors of power he hears the murmured talk of surrender. Desperate times call for truly desperate measures, an extreme operation and the ultimate sacrifice, in a plot which will change the course of history. Now seventy years later, what secrets are still too dangerous to be talked about today?
It is 1902. Victoria's steam-powered empire stretches from England to the stars. The Queen's Armoured Hussars patrol the ther. British airships rule the skies of Mars. Great British inventors build bridges across seas and connect the cities of the empire with vast subterranean tunnels. But Britain (and the world) are under threat from unspeakable horrors from beyond. Slumbering gods, diabolic occultists and terrifying monsters from Earth's past conspire to overthrow mankind usher in an age of terrors. Only Professor Erskine Sedgewick - the most insightful mind of the age -and his faithful companion Cadwallander can stop them. Fantastic steampunk derring-do and thrilling cosmic horror collide in this action-packed adventure.
1930: Salter’s Creek, former trading-post, an isolated settlement in NW Canada long-fallen into decline after rumours of a gold strike turned out to be false, serves scattered outlying homesteads hacked out of the surrounding forest by immigrant Scottish families dispossessed of their Highland birth-right by the Clearances. It is necessary to decide who should be responsible for the welfare of Kip Harrison, orphaned aged eight by a car accident and adopted by his elderly Great Aunt who dies shortly before his eleventh birthday. Should his guardian be the austere Minister and his wife, or the amiable schoolmaster whom Kip himself prefers? Nobody except the reader is aware of the boy’s accidental encounter with the fanatical old itinerant preacher `Pope’ Potter with which the story opens and is to have such far-reaching consequences. In an exceptionally dry summer, the threat of forest fires in everyone’s mind, a worrying pattern of small conflagrations and the bizarre desecration of the church increases tension as The Great Blaze eats its way towards Salter’s Creek.
Charged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia. Forced to live as a human under the name of Jeremy Clovenhoof, the dark lord not only has to contend with the fact that no one recognises him or gives him the credit he deserves but also has to put up with the bookish wargamer next door and the voracious man-eater upstairs.Heaven, Hell and the city of Birmingham collide in a story that features murder, heavy metal, cannibalism, armed robbers, devious old ladies, Satanists who live with their mums, gentlemen of limited stature, dead vicars, petty archangels, flamethrowers, sex dolls, a blood-soaked school assembly and way too much alcohol.Clovenhoof is outrageous and irreverent (and laugh out loud funny ) but it is also filled with huge warmth and humanity. Written by first-time collaborators Heide Goody and Iain Grant, Clovenhoof will have you rooting for the bad guy like never before.
Halloween 2016.It is eight days until the American people vote for the 45th President of the United States and millions are struck with horror at the prospect of Donald J Trump - businessman, reality TV star and professional wrestler - getting his hands on the oval office.However, few of those people know that Nostradamus had foreseen both Trump's presidency and the British exit from the EU spelling the end of the world as we know it.Jeremy Clovenhoof and Michael Michaels - the earthly incarnations of Satan and the Archangel Michael - have read the prophecies and must do their utmost to stop them coming true (because Clovenhoof can't let the world end until he's seen the latest series of Game of Thrones).As Michael heads to Europe to undo Brexit through the power of song, Clovenhoof flies to the US to stop Trump becoming president by whatever means are necessary.If you want a searing indictment of global politics and intelligent analysis of the greatest historical events of our time, go somewhere else. But if you want rampaging elephants, naked continental types, drone-mounted chickens, accidental neo-Nazis, LSD-spiked brownies, the Large Hadron Collider and the vengeful spirit of the Statue of Liberty then this slice of hellish fun might be just what you need.
A Hitch In Time: A Young man's coming of age on two remarkable journeys hitch-hiking over 20,000 kilometres through Colonial Africa during the 1950s
Iain Finlay
High Adventure Publishing
2016
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"One of Australia's most interesting next-gen crime writers."SYDNEY MORNING HERALD"Iain Ryan has learned the lessons of the modern maestros James Ellroy, Ken Bruen and James Sallis, but his poetry and cadence is completely Australian."PETER DOYLEAn ex-con circles back to L.A. and knows it is a mistake. Elsewhere, in Vegas, a restless kid buys a mysterious, stolen guitar. Two characters, worlds apart, but drawn together by the same buried history. Spread across two connected stories, Iain Ryan's What Living And Dying Is Like is about regret and hard-won recovery.Iain Ryan grew up in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. Author of FOUR DAYS (2015), THE STUDENT (2017) and THE SPIRAL (2020).
Ella Hannaford has a small business to run, an overworked father to look after and a future stepmother who wants a perfect wedding. Can she avoid a girly night out with her clueless stepsister? Can she side-step lovesick suitors at every turn? Not if it's up to that team of foul-mouthed dwarfs who want to forcibly drag her into her happily ever after. You'll love watching gun-toting grannies, stubborn fairy godmothers, and flying carpets come crashing into Ella's world when she refuses to accept her Happy Ending.
Stephen and his friends spent their teenage years immersed in the fantasy gaming worlds of wizards and warriors, undertaking quests to fight evil occultists, vanquish terrible monsters and rescue damsels in distress.Now, twenty-something years later, there is a real-life quest. Life as a monk has hardly prepared Brother Stephen for the mission ahead. Demon Rutspud is definitely not a damsel, but he is in distress. The evil occultists are real and if Stephen doesn't rescue Rutspud from a fate worse than death, no one will...Sword-wielding Satanists, stir crazy demons, super-smart squirrels, magical garbage and a suitcase that cannot be stopped run riot in a story about the bonds of friendship and dark deeds in suburban cellars.
In golf, there are drills for every tiny, technical element of the swing. But where are the drills that help a player improve their mental game and develop a focused mind? Telling a student to 'stay in the moment'.'focus on the target' or 'play one shot at a time' are just words, if we don't have the tools to help a player become aware of how these things actually feel. OSVEA, the 5 components of a golf shot, is precisely that kind of tool. Through the practical drills, challenges and games in this book, players can develop their own personal interpretation of what the world's top players do in the pre and post-shot routine. (They can also see just how much fun golf training can be.) What's more, with OSVEA everything you think, feel and experience during these challenges is transferred into your game - helping you enjoy a higher level of competitive golf. This is a book for coaches, for dedicated parents and for passionate players who want to know more about the powers and possibilities of a stronger mental game. This is OSVEA.
Do you want to make golf swing changes stick? Do you want to take your range game to the golf course? Are you ready to enjoy the process of improving your golf game and have fun shooting lower scores? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you need to know this: Simply beating golf balls on the range is like learning to swim in the bath tub - ineffective That's why we the golf performance coaches at Game Like Training have written this book. We want to share everything we k n o w a b o u t learning complex movements (like swinging a golf club) while making it simple, digestible, and practical for every level golfer. If you want to use your golf practice time effectively, take your range game to the course, shoot better scores, and simply get more joy out of your golf game, this is the book to get you there.