![]() Remembering that Ashenden knew Driffield as a boy, Roy hopes to mine his memory for some good anecdotes. He’s contacted by a popular author of his acquaintance, Alroy Kear (“I could think of no one among my contemporaries who had achieved so considerable a position on so little talent”) with a request: Roy is writing the authorized biography of the late writer Edward Driffield, at his second wife’s behest. ![]() I’d recommend his work to fans of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, or to anyone looking to expand their knowledge of the classics: his books are short (with the exception of Bondage) and accessible, and the frequent theme of struggling one’s way to love and creative success in defiance of poverty and a cruel fate resonates.Ĭakes and Ale is narrated by an older writer named William Ashenden, a Maugham stand-in who previously appeared in the 1928 linked story collection Ashenden, widely recognized as the first English spy narrative. ![]() ![]() (20 Books of Summer, #12) This is the third Maugham novel I’ve reviewed here (after Of Human Bondageand The Moon and Sixpence) and my fourth overall. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A past that could put all their lives at risk. Jake will do anything to protect Remi and help him break the cycle of abuse he has endured all his life, but his investigation is about to uncover something far more sinister and deadly than they ever imagined. He’s torn between the desire to tell Remi they are destined to be mates, and the need to first let Remi get used to the werewolf life. From the first moment he turned Remi into a werewolf in order to save his life, Jake has been fighting to keep his inner demons at bay. Jake Romero, a crack private investigator with a bad-boy biker image, realizes he has his work cut out for him when Remi asks for his help. A past so dark it haunts him only in dreams. Ethan Whitehall is a successful rancher and a well respected man in his community. To do it, he must face a past he hides behind his cocky, trouble-making attitude. When James Killian comes out to his father, he finds himself banished. When his little brother turns up covered in bruises, he is driven to finally bring their abusive father to justice. Read 409 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Remington Lassiter is trying his best to stay out of trouble while he learns the ropes of being a werewolf. ![]() ![]() While Barker is critical of organized religion, he has stated that he is a believer in both God and the afterlife, and that the Bible influences his work.įans have noticed of late that Barker's voice has become gravelly and coarse. This award is presented "to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for any of those communities". In 2003, Clive Barker received The Davidson/Valentini Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards. Barker's second long-term relationship, with photographer David Armstrong, ended in 2009. It was in Liverpool in 1975 that he met his first partner, John Gregson, with whom he lived until 1986. Educated at Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, he studied English and Philosophy at Liverpool University and his picture now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Philosophy Department. ![]() Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Rubie (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. ![]() ![]() Since she was too young to drive and her mother worked the majority of the day at a children's hospital, every Thursday after school Alex would ride her bike to the train station and travel the short distance into the next town for her classes. In fact, she was so advanced she was part of an honors program that allowed her to take an additional class at the community college in the next town. Luckily for her, she was one of only a few people on the five o'clock train back into town, so her secret was safe.Īlex was an exceptionally bright student and always had been. ![]() She was a very smart and serious young woman and never wanted to give the wrong impression. A long sigh came out of the thirteen-year-old girl and she neatly fixed a strand of strawberry-blonde hair that had escaped her headband.Īlex hated dozing off in public places. She looked at the empty seats around her while she remembered where she was. The subtle jerks of the train rocked Alex Bailey awake. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s under intense pressure to solve a case with no clues the gruesome crime details he’s trying to keep secret in order to screen out crank callers are promptly splashed across the front page of the local tabloid and his tentative advances to pathology technician Cleo Morey are thwarted by his grieving for his wife, Sandy, who disappeared without a trace nine years ago. While Tom is agonizing over what to do, Grace is having his own troubles. In short order, Tom gets an email with a dire warning from Scarab Productions: If he tries to open the program or contact the producers or the police, he’ll be killed along with his wife and children. He takes it home, idly boots it up and discovers in the few moments before it stops playing and begins to erase his hard drive that it’s a record of the brutal murder of Janie Stretton, the law student whose mangled body has launched the Sussex CID on a frenzied investigation. Leaving the commuter train at Brighton, struggling entrepreneur Tom Bryce finds an unlabeled CD where a particularly obnoxious fellow-traveler had been sitting. ![]() ![]() Roy Grace’s sophomore case is just as suspenseful as his first ( Dead Simple, 2006), and just as wildly improbable. ![]() |