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  Calling Birds (short story)...

  Stuart MacBride

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  Fourth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season 
  Working in a call centre normally offers few career opportunities. But it looks as if Tracy’s about to get her big break. 
  Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author, delivers a black, humorous mystery in Calling Birds. Tracy's call centre job takes a thrilling, hard-boiled turn, making this a top detective story and a sure bestseller. 
  For fans of Ian Rankin (Standing in Another Man's Grave), Mark Billingham (Cry Baby), and Michael Connelly (The Law of Innocence).

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  Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman...

  John Cleland

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  One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. 
  The classic novel of a young girl's exploration of physical pleasures. 
  Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns the ways of physical passion. She soon escapes her fate for the loving arms of a wealthy young man, but misadventure and fate conspire to keep her from domestic bliss. Instead, Fanny discovers that sex need not be just for love; that it can be had for pleasure. She then sets out to explore those pleasures in as wide a variety as she can. With old men and young, and women as well; in positions of power, and situations where she has none; either watching or participating, Fanny's journey through the realms of sexual pleasure is a literary tour-de-force.

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  The Persons Of The Tale

  R. L. Stevenson

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  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet and writer. The most famous of his works was Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson is one of the most translated authors in the world. In the story of “The Persons of the Tail”, two characters of the “Treasure Island” novel after another chapter written by the author are trying to decide if the author really exists and if so – whom does he love more: captain Alexander Smolett or Silver? But they are so different: Silver is a rude bandit, cap is a man of duty.  The story is written with such exciting language, transferring you into the pirate atmosphere of “Treasure Island”. Read the whole story to know how the argue ends.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Dogfight

  Michael Knight

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  A Los Angeles Times Notable Book: Short fiction by the author of Eveningland, “a writer of the first rank” (Esquire).   “These 10 distinctive and intensely affecting stories confirm Knight as a writer of significant gifts. In short narratives that invariably entice the reader with an arresting opening sentence, he establishes a solid sense of place, using the local color of his native Alabama, and transforms ordinary people into nearly mythic figures. The first story, ‘Now You See Her,’ sets the stage, constructing a conflict of nearly Oedipal proportions. A veterinarian widower and his teenage son, Xavier, who calls himself X, spy on Grace, their next-door neighbor, who ‘it would appear . . . renounced clothing altogether’; the surprising climax occurs when her dog suddenly takes ill. In many of Knight’s offerings, animals act as agents of change: in the title story, a dogfight is the catalyst for an adulterous affair and results in a parallel clash between the dogs’ owners. ‘Gerald’s Monkey’ uses a man’s desire for a pet monkey to examine the emotional aftermath of Vietnam. Knight demonstrates agility with a diversity of viewpoints: he is equally at ease with first-person narration or third, an adult perspective or an adolescent’s, as in a stunner called ‘A Bad Man, So Pretty’ (taken from a Muhammad Ali quote) that works up to a Cain and Abel-style confrontation. Knight’s characters are both recognizable and transcendent, suddenly drawn into trespassing the ordinary limits of their lives to enter the realm of allegory.” —Publishers Weekly

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  A Chance in the Night

  Kimberly Van Meter

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  Skye D'Lane isn't looking for a hero. She stopped believing in dreams a long time ago—that's what got her trapped in a lifestyle she never wanted. Even sexy Christian Holt sweeping in and rescuing her from danger can't convince her to take another chance on love.Christian never planned on being anybody's hero, especially someone like Skye. He's spent most of his life trying to outrun his own painful past, but he can't get her out of his mind. If Christian can help Skye escape her situation, maybe he can save not only her life, but her heart, too. And maybe this could be a second chance for a new life, for both of them.

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  The Stone Dragon

  R. Murray Gilchrist

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  A clause in the will of an old embittered aunt means that our hero has to choose between two women, cousins of his, of whom one is conventional and submissive and the other beautiful, erotic and unconventional. Trysts are held in the Italian garden in the presence of a stone dragon, a symbol of emotion frozen for all time, just as in a conventional marriage. The hero makes his choice, and unleashes a series of events which will not disappoint affectionados of the tragic gothic melodrama.

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