L. A Davenport
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Perhaps with him I am a dog.
Who is Kevin? He is earnest yet playful, boisterous yet lazy, a little rough sometimes, extremely direct and always sure of what he wants. He is also sensitive, kind, supportive and caring, not to mention highly communicative and supremely understanding towards children.
“My Life as a Dog” is the funny, heartwarming and moving story of a life shared between a black and tan dachshund and his owner.
Told over two...
2) Escape
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Can you escape your destiny?
John is a trauma doctor recovering at a glamorous Mediterranean resort after losing his wife in a terrible accident. Lost and alone, he wanders the streets, trying to escape his pain and drifting into alcoholism.
He ends up in a seedy strip joint, where he meets Jasna, a brilliant and beautiful hostess. Against their better judgement, they become infatuated and begin to fall in love.
When she is brutally killed, John...
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In a lost corner of London, just outside the East End, lies a faded bow-fronted shop.
No-one ever visits, but if you were to push open the creaking door and step over the piles of unwanted mail, you would find, in the dust-laden darkness, row upon row of shelves stuffed with trumpets, tubas, cornets, trombones, clarinets, drums.
Each time one of the instruments is played, it tells a story, a different story every time. This is The Marching Band...
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How do we keep getting into these scrapes?
The adventures of one man and his black and tan dachshund continue in the second volume of tales where the boundary between dog and owner are as blurred as ever.
From nearly losing Kevin in the back gardens of suburban London to facing accusations of being highway robbers, from accidentally gate crashing a birthday party to meeting Amy Winehouse in the months before her untimely death, the funny, heartwarming...
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The truth is all around you
Thomas P- is exhausted. He's been travelling for work so much he barely knows where he is. And then, while waiting for a table at a restaurant, he sees someone from his past. Exactly as she was twenty years ago, when they first knew each other. Deeply shaken, he tries to carry on as if nothing happened.
But when it happens again, in a different restaurant, in a different city, Thomas's world begins to unravel. Haunted...