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The Angel of Death is a bleak and fictional account of the United Kingdom's prison system. When terrorists commit an act of genocide resulting in the deaths of over eleven thousand Londoners, the Prime Minister, under pressure of intense social media, announces a new government initiative as the death penalty is no longer practicable. The new legislation called, the Safe Limitation Act is rushed through Parliament and a woman neurosurgeon is employed to run the scheme. But however successful the program, she is eventually betrayed by the government, rejected by her family and spurned by her friends, undergoing the most consequential counteraction by the population in living memory.

n this year Maud and her family learn that the physical horrors and disappointment of living through a world war extend beyond mere death. For despondency and demoralising events happen closer to home as her children change in ways she previously could not have imagined.Would these occurrences have happened had the Germans not begun their quest for world domination? Just how long would it take to win the war as she and everybody else ask how many more needless deaths of soldiers, Jews, intellectuals, gypsies, ordinary civilians and the Nazis, so-called, undesirables would have to die?As the Morrow familyÕs tired and weary souls prevail under the gravest of situations, Maud and her husband, Richard find the question impossible to answer. Yet, as they endure, bright speckles of happiness and even love and new life occasionally whirl around them making their lives just bearable.

Miriam is now eighty-seven and after Roy's death, still lives in the large vicarage in Wanstead with Rafa alongside Rafa, Florence and her twin girls, Faith and Betty. It is now a time of reflection, the promise of a great, great grandchild, and long conversations about the events and conditions that shaped her life. Yet even as her body moves inexorably into extreme old age, events continue around her that proves that even wheelchair bound, her clear and sound mind, alongside her remarkable memory, can still dispense positive advice and be more than useful to those who are charged with caring for her. Miriam's Last Year also sees Rafa Barker in her twilight years when she too has become alone once more, abandoned by her one and only daughter over a shameful event from which she cannot face. A time when, surrounded by her close family and friend, she too takes a reflective sad look back on a lifetime of service and love as she cares for Miriam during her final days.

A fantasy grounded in reality. In 1963 when Miss Donna Lawson discovers an unconscious woman on a deserted stairwell at London's Fenchurch Street Station, she calls for help immediately, little realizing that the bizarrely dressed lady wearing late Victorian clothes is about to offer her an experience that will change her perception on life and love. That is if she can shake off the suspicion that she has become the central figure in what could be an elaborate hoax. Her reservations are not made any easier by the sordid and hidden activities of her boyfriend, but at least are eased by the appearance of one good man.

Alien Queens 4 poses yet another problem for Stewart, Frankie, Anne B and Velvet's narrator, Miss (now Mrs) Molly Flaguline. For the escapade in which they find themselves, perplexes even the mature understanding of their original eighteenth century lady-of-the-night turned archivist. As if the notion of time travel wasn't difficult enough for Molly to comprehend, her knotty problem is how to document what happened when Velvet decides she wants to rescue her long lost sister, Vibeta from a thousand years ago. Alternate universes, doppelgängers, multiple timelines and worst of all, Qartin; an earth-like parallel world where royal cannibalistic humans pray to the half-blind goddess, Vampas are only a few instances that poor Molly has to chronicle in the correct order. Alien Queens 4 contains distasteful confusion, abhorrent blood sacrifices, Stewart and Frankie's diminishing love for each other and an insane deranged princess.

The last year of a lower class London family and friends living and working in Newgate Street before war engulfs them. There are funerals, affairs, deception, violence, and even a murder. And to those familiar with the Miriam series, there is a surprising visitor. A novel with domineering mothers, obsessions with famous trials and hangings and frustration that the little corporal from Germany was going to take over their lives. Yet amongst the anger and heartache of their everyday existence, many of their frustrations arrive from realising that they are subject to an unknowable future...

On a warm and late summer evening in 2015, after her boyfriend dumps her, Essex girl, Donna Rigg drunkenly smashes her car into a pillar box. She is taken to hospital where she is diagnosed with concussion. Over the next few weeks, her perception changes, for she begins to see the world as it was fifty-five years previously in 1960. On a follow-up visit for an MRI, she becomes frightened and argues with staff. Becoming aggressive and overhearing she could be sectioned, she runs from the hospital and vanishes in the grounds as 1960 actually becomes her reality... Misplaced was written (optimistically) as literary fiction and as a first person narration. It is focused more on theme than on plot. As Donna describes her adventure, it certainly risks losing its way with no simplistic logical ending.

When the third year of war begins, Maud and her family are homeless and misplaced. Only Bert, an old friend of her dead husband has the ability to help them. Gradually Maud and her daughter begin to rebuild their lives taking on responsibility after responsibility as the deprivations of war continue to affect them. Although Maud continues to find great comfort in the love Richard has for her, the effects of the war changes the personalities of those she knows. And with that comes bitterness and frustration as everyone realises that this is a war than is not going to end any time soon. There are more deaths of loved ones, an unknown brother arrives, two jail sentences, Maud's love for orphan Freddy is tested, in her circle of friends more babies are born and eventually, her love for William, her only son, is tested as the army turns him into a fighting man. A man he was not destined to be.

The future: The ability to map the human cortex neurone by neurone has been perfected by way of scanning. While people live, it is now possible to place a copy of a person's personality into data storage. A Similarity. The main reason is so the bereaved can communicate with them after death. Geolog is a world leader in this technology. For two middle-aged sisters, Mia and Emma, living on an isolated farm on the periphery of Hastings, this technology divides them. When Mia's husband is murdered in Hong Kong and she uses his Similarity online, a family secret is revealed forcing them to ask some profound questions about life and the continuance of the human soul. And all the time, Geolog, the technology giant, is monitoring them.