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Saving the world
The employees of a failing environmental pressure group face another week in their King's Cross office. The arrect of
one of their number for taking pornographic photographs precipitates the organisation's demise.
A darkly humorous
novel introducing Mackintosh, the impoverished and dissolute campaigner and aspiring artist.
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Mackintosh's triumph
Mackintosh wants to concentrate on his painting. He tries to enter the artistic circle of Hampstead in the hopes of finding
a rich widow as a patron. When he cannot fit into the ways of affluent Hampstead, his plans go awry.
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Mackintosh's resurrection
The final volume of the Mackintosh trilogy. Our hero has achieved his ambitions. He lodges with a wealthy divorcee who
offers to sponsor an exhibition of his work. Unfortunately, his desire for freedom clashes with his landlady's ambitions.
As an additional difficulty, he does not have enough paintings for the exhibition. When he passes off other people's work
as his own, the problems multiply.
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Three points on a triangle
The first of a trilogy of novels exploring life in the East End of London over the second half of the twentieth century.
In the London of the 1960s, Carol struggles to to bring up her child as the city of her childhood is pulled down around her.
She lives with her mother. The three generations coexist uneasily together. Carol tries to find a man who will give her and
her child a better life.
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Joanne wanting
In the 1970s, middle class and attractive Joanne wants to sample life in an South London commune. The experience
changes her life, though not in the way which she anticipated.
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Over the roofs
The final volume of the London trilogy explores aspects of London life in the 1990s. Normally, Arnold only sees the East
End from a train window as he commutes to the City. On this occasion he falls asleep in the train. When he awakens, he is
travelling through a townscape which he does not recognise. When he gets off the train, he is plunged into a way of life which
he hardly acknowledged before.
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The last hippie
Jeremy is a college lecturer who feels that something is missing in his life. He yearns for the artistic excitement of
the 1960s and decides to recreate the atmosphere of that period by establishing an arts laboratory. Events spiral out of control
when squatters take over the building.
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The man nobody knows
Alan is a loner, more concerned with maintaining an orderly existance than with relationships. In a scuffle to escape
from a prostitute, he kills her. To his surprise, the experience is exhilarating. In the events that follow, he attemps to
reconcile his obsessional nature with the desire to find pleasure: a desire which can only be satisfied by more killing.
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Daddy's dead
The death of William Standish in a Devon lane brings his family together. His photographer son, Curtis, attempts to discover
what his father was doing there and finds that the reasons may be more complex than he imagined.
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Martin's talent
Martin's talent is to play the piano. As a child, he witnesses the breakup of his parents' marriage. As a student, he
suffers a mental breakdown. A portrait of a young person who fails to cope with the pressures of life.
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Jennifer
When Alan encounters Jamie and is drawn against his will into following his pupil's unhappy love
life, memories of Alan's own relationship with Jennifer come back to him as he sees the same errors being repeated. He
wants to warn Jamie, but he has to watch matters being played out.
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