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Robert Maitland, a 35 year-old architect, is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control. Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself, dazed and disorientated, on a traffic island below three converging motorways. But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible – and he finds himself imprisoned on the concrete island. In this twisted version of ‘Robinson Crusoe’, Maitland must learn to survive – using only what he can find in his crashed car.As in all Ballard’s best work ‘Concrete Island’ provides an unnerving study of our modern lives and world. With his alienating ‘Ballardian’ view of normal events, this is a unique novel from one of our finest writers.

WILL YOU MARRY ME… TEMPORARILY?If Jenny Blake didn't marry in four days, horrors upon horrors would befall her, according to a legendary family curse. Yet standing in her polka-dot dress in the middle of the Love Me Tender Wedding Chapel with hired husband «Jimmy the Lip» wasn't her idea of the perfect wedding. Luckily, a very handsome stranger came to her rescue!Bounty hunter Nick Tarantelli just couldn't let innocent Jenny be taken advantage of – especially by her crooked groom-to-be. He had to stop this marriage. But what he didn't expect was to step in as her temporary husband to save the desperate woman – or wishing for a lifetime of wedding nights with his beautiful blushing bride… .