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Double action thrillers by the classic adventure writer about security consultant, Max Stafford, set in the Sahara and Kenya.FLYAWAYWhy is Max Stafford, security consultant, beaten up in his own office? What is the secret of the famous 1930s aircraft, the Lockheed Lodestar? And why has accountant Paul Bilson disappeared in North Africa? The journey to the Sahara desert becomes a race to save Paul Bilson, a race to find the buried aircraft, and – above all – a race to return alive…WINDFALLWhen a legacy of £40 million is left to a small college in Kenya, investigations begin about the true identities of the heirs – the South African, Dirk Hendriks, and his namesake, Henry Hendrix from California. Suspicion that Hendrix is an impostor leads Max Stafford to the Rift Valley, where a violent reaction to his arrival points to a sinister and far-reaching conspiracy far beyond mere greed…Includes a unique bonus – The Circumstances Surrounding the Crime, Bagley's true story about an attempted assassination.

A collection of interviews with the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature that serves as an invaluable companion to her work.Doris Lessing is one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These interviews give us her thoughts on her early years as a communist and fledgling writer in Southern Rhodesia, her views on marriage, the family and feminism, on other writers from Tolstoy to Lawrence, and on her later experiments in psychotherapy and mysticism. She reveals how these preoccupations have influenced her own work, from ‘The Golden Notebook’ to her acclaimed autobiographical masterpiece ‘Under My Skin’.The book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not just Lessing, but also the profound impact she has had on our age.

Oh-So-Sensible Secretary You know when you meet a guy and get butterflies in your stomach? Well, that’s what it felt like the first time efficient Summer Curtis laid eyes on her disorganised movie-star-gorgeous boss Phin Gibson. And somehow he’s making her want to let down her perfectly pinned-up hair!The Santorini Marriage BargainWhen Rhianne Pickering agrees to work for Zarek Diakos, she knows no man has ever made her heart quicken and her body quiver like this! Zarek thinks Rhianne makes the perfect secretary. But he’s in need of a bride and, under the warm Mediterranean sun, he’ll show Rhianne it’s a position she can’t refuse! Hired: Sassy Assistant Kyle Munroe’s arrival at the grand English country house of Lulu Hamilton is not welcome! This renegade needs the delectable Lulu’s help to publish her famous mother’s diaries, but Lulu wants to keep her mum’s memories private. She’s infuriated and the sparks begin to fly!