Les Broad

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• Feb-2012
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This is a trilogy that starts in a strange future where engineering of the human body - at least for the well-off - isn't just genetic. If you can afford it, and can source the right body parts, just about anything is replaceable. The...

• Oct-2011
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In a similar style to the earlier 'Two Galaxies', this trio of unconnected but funny science fiction stories have been well received by those who have read them. The first tells the story of Gordon Swift and his financial benefactor, a m...

• Sep-2011
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Books set in the world of motor racing offer suffer from one problem: written by people who have a deep understanding of the sport, they just become too technical for most readers. This one avoids that pitfall because it's written from the pe...

• Sep-2011
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After a global chemical war most of humanity has perished. Those who remain exist in isolated communities, not knowing if any other such communities survive. But the situation is getting worse: in one community its leaders know that if they don't lea...

• Sep-2011
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When a multinational corporation becomes so big and so powerful that it is effectively impossible for any Government to regulate or control that corporation can anyone be sure that its activities are legal and ethical?In this third book in t...

• Sep-2011
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The moon is a hostile environment in which to work, about as hostile as it's possible to imagine. The men and women who work there are highly trained, disciplined and competent. The moon, as those who work there know, is nobody's pr...

• Sep-2011
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Sitting in a valley in the bleak moorland of northern England, Greywinton is a village that is home to just a few people. The first snow of winter comes early, but one year it brings with it some strange events: eerie glows from the hilltops, stra...

• Sep-2011
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England in the early 1990s - a prosperous land where unscrupulous financial cowboys could become rich by ignoring rules. One group of those cowboys hit on a really bright idea when they realised that by professing devout Christianity they could se...

• Sep-2011
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Frankie Sidebottom was a (fictitious) soccer player until injury brought his career to a shuddering close. After spells as a television pundit and newspaper columnist - and appearing in a television advertisement - he became a publican. That was a...

• Sep-2011
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The author is perhaps not the most romantic of men, but despite this has, over the years, participated in his share of relationships with those of that incomprehensible breed known as woman. Sometimes they have been satisfying and of the happily-e...

• Sep-2011
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Tea, Drums And Speed is just one of a set of short stories; it tells of a 1960s pop band metamorphosing. Elsewhere, there's a story speculating on how those bizarre rumours about 'celebrities' actually start, another about what flashes through the mi...

• Sep-2011
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A comic tale of disaster following disaster, the story follows the attempt of Jim Tubbs to travel from the UK mainland to the Channel Island of Jersey to sell furniture. It was a simple plan - fly out, do the job he was so well paid to do, then fl...

• Sep-2011
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The Simkins family was more or less normal �" mother, father, two teenage children �" until the father met an attractive American. Then came divorce, followed by the errant father being the beneficiary of a remarkable stroke of luck.As a result, th...

• Aug-2011
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In this series of four unique essays you'll discover the complete history of the world from the Big Bang until yesterday afternoon, why there are more Greek philosophers that Inuit and why, in the author's opinion, we should all be deeply suspicio...