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  • Hard Copy
    Richard Ayres
    Helen is religious and believes she committed a mortal sin when she became pregnant by Jeremy. Determined that their daughter Jane would never fall from grace, she vigorously disciplined her. Jane fled from home aged 18, and has since had no contact with her parents.Jeremy, a man at odds with the modern world, has failed to get any of his novels published. Still, he sets up a b...
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    16,33 €

  • An Odious Little Man
    Richard Ayres
    Charles Pettifer, 75, a former Chief Planning Officer, returns from a hospital appointment having received his final sentence. He lives alone, his wife left him years ago, he is childless and friendless.His health worsens. Lonely and frightened, he confides in his cleaner and his nurse, revealing events in his youth in the 1950s and 60s when he couldn’t relate to the culture of...
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    16,23 €

  • Unto the Third and Fourth Generation
    Richard Ayres
    Tony Cawson, 75 and in the early stages of dementia, has a dreadful secret dating back to his youth of which his daughter Rebecca is ashamed and which she dreads her children will discover. But Rebecca, a conflicted individual in a failing marriage, also has secrets in her past which she wishes to keep from them, and from her husband. As Tony’s dementia worsens, and as Rebecca’...
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    17,35 €

  • Friends Disunited
    Richard Ayres
    It is 2002, and Dave is 59. A former university lecturer, he had to retire after suffering horrific facial injuries which have resulted in his becoming a recluse. He becomes emotionally dependent on his counsellor, Susie. Susie encourages him to end his isolation by making on-line contact with his former school-friends whom he has not seen since he left his home town. E-mails a...
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    17,47 €

  • ’Letters and Secrets’
    Richard Ayres
    It is England in the Jubilee summer of 2012. Three couples living in different parts of the country await the celebrations with varying degrees of enthusiasm, hostility, or indifference. Derek Bailey, in his 60s, has a secret past, linked to a tragic event that happened 24 years before. If he is ever to come to terms with that event, he needs an answer to a question that has ...
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    17,32 €

  • Information Warfare
    Frederick Okello / Richard Ayres / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    Information warfare is a nebulous concept, but widely cited as a keystone in any future campaign. Even though information warfare has been used for centuries, current doctrine, policies, and guidance provide little help for the warrior to understand first, what information warfare is, and secondly, how to do it.Information Warfare: Planning The Campaign provides a logical appro...
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    17,47 €

  • The Further Education of Mike Carter
    Richard Ayres
    Mike Carter has been a lecturer at Streetbridge College of Further Education for 30 years. He has been the leader of the pack, scourge of college management, seducer of students, colleagues and wives of colleagues. But now, approaching 60, things are going awry. The younger lecturers are no longer in thrall to him, his powers of seduction are declining, and those whom he has of...
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    18,26 €

  • A Pennine Incident
    Richard Ayres
    This is a tense portrayal of a mystery in Martin’s past, and its affect on his life and relationships - chiefly between him and his wife Jennifer, and another couple, Stephen and Jacqui. The main themes explored in this novel are the impact of a single traumatic event on the life of an individual, the fragility of friendship, the effects of aging and changes in personality on ...
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    23,21 €

  • Waterloo Sunset
    Richard Ayres
    In 2007, six friends meet in London for a pub-crawl to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their graduation from a Leeds University. As the day progresses, tensions develop resulting from their differing perspectives on modern society, from the hostile atmosphere in some of the pubs and streets, and from the suspicion each begins to have that the others may be harbouring secrets....
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    17,59 €