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Jack Rubin travels to South Africa, the land of his birth. He wishes to meet his father, David; they have not been in contact since Jack was taken to England at the age of fourteen. On arrival in Doonesfontein, Rubin learns that his father committed suicide twelve months earlier. But Jack is not convinced it was an act of suicide. He vows to find who it was that killed his father. Rubin's search leads him into a web of deceit, violence, corruption and disappointed hopes. He finds relief with a sexy African girl, but is drawn to the beauty and charms of an Indian girl. The final resolution of the story is both surprising and violent.

Jack Rubin and Malik are chalk and cheese. One an amoral Jewish atheist, tough, fast with his fists, attractive to women; the other a quiet observant Muslim family man. Business is poor and Rubin is thinking of quitting. Then a man comes to the office and asks that Rubin find his missing wife. He has a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Jack is immediately smitten. The money is good, the job appears to be easy, and Rubin finds the woman attractive. Soon, Rubin and Malik are up to their necks in intrigue, lies, deception. The man is not the girl\'s husband. He is involved with crooked businessmen. And the girl, Jessica Connelly, has some sort of secret relationship with John Conteh, a black gangster who has done time. There is death along the way. It looks as if Conteh has killed more than one person, and is likely to do so again. In an exciting denouement at Jessica\'s apartment, Jack is attacked by a knife-wielding Conteh. Rubin is stabbed. Rubin and Malik are a team to watch. Readable from beginning to end, with some exciting twists along the way.

A chance meeting with a young prostitute leads Jack Rubin into a nether world of procuring of children and trafficking across frontiers, of dodgy night clubs and middle-aged panders, and East European thugs who do not recognise police authority, or know the meaning of fear. The police know about this underworld but, for reasons of 'community cohesion', turn a blind eye. Jack Rubin cannot turn a blind eye and he sets out to destroy Zoltan Khan, the local gangster who runs the rackets. Jack Rubin has two weaknesses: he is working alone; and he gets the hots for Khan's attractive wife, Kavita. This time, he could have bitten off far more than he can chew. From the tough author of Chekhov's Gun and Deep Blood. 'The toughest writer in the business, on either side of the Atlantic.'

After working as a mining engineer in southern Africa, Richard Hannay is in London and at a loose end. When a man is killed, Hannay is suspected of the murder. He flees to Scotland and becomes embroiled in an international spy ring related to the mysterious "39 steps." Hannay must elude both the police, who are hunting him for murder, and the foreign spies who seek to foment war.

Reputations shift with the generations. Once a best-selling novelist, and remarkably prolific in what was a relatively short life, Walpole has since his death been largely neglected. Between 1909 and his death, Walpole wrote thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, plays, and three volumes of memoirs. Today, when he is remembered, it is for Rogue Herries, a novel set in the English Lake District, and involving gypsies and high adventure.

Henry Stephens Salt (1851-1939) was an English writer and social reformer whose work brought praise from many quarters. Unlike many zealots for a cause, Henry Salt always demonstrated great logic and wit to show the folly of those who opposed progress. In this, he was not unlike his great contemporary, the playwright Bernard Shaw. Salt wrote studies of Thoreau, Percy Shelley and Richard Jefferies the writer and naturalist. Wherever Henry Salt is remembered today it is largely for his work on animal rights, not least in his classic Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress. Another work, A Plea for Vegetarianism, was well ahead of its time too.

The story of soap from a different perspective - that of the industrial chemist. Miss Blackburn worked many years in a laboratory given over to analysis of substances, and in later vears moved to a conglomerate making a range of retail goods of which soap and cosmetics were an important part of the brand. When she retired Miss Blackburn tended her vegetable garden and became largely self-sufficient.

This book is very much a primer in every sense. It is among the first of a series of such books to be published by Emma Stern Publishing in 2016. Simple, easy to read, completely accessible to young children as well as adults, the Respiratory System is an excellent introduction to the subject.