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The Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United
States guarantee the right against self-incrimination, the right to
remain silent, and the right to counsel. A crime wave swept
California in the late 1970s. Several young girls were abducted,
raped, and murdered. Michael Dee Mattson was convicted of these
crimes and sentenced to death. Law clerk by day, family man by
night. In 1982, Jim Potts-a brilliant, idealistic, African American
law student-is honored when one of his professors recruits him to
assist in writing a death penalty appeal on behalf of a serial
killer. Potts discovers a loophole in the case that had somehow
been overlooked. One that could not only get Mattson off death row,
but once presented to the Supreme Court of California, could
release him to rape and murder again. When Potts confides in his
pregnant wife, she says if Mattson goes free, their marriage is
over. But if Potts quits the case, or withholds information, he
violates his duty to client and Constitution and risks his career
before it even begins. A moral dilemma with no good way out. To
avoid losing his family and releasing pure evil back into the
world, Potts must be smarter than his options. He must find a way
to keep his family together, fulfill his duties, and keep Mattson
behind bars. But can he?
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The Usurpers
Willa Muir; Edited by Anthony Hirst, Jim Potts; Introduction by Jim Potts; Designed by Anthony Hirst; Cover design or artwork by …
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The Usurpers, Willa Muir's fourth novel, was written in the early
1950s and was based on the diaries she kept in Prague in the period
1945-1948, when her husband the poet Edwin Muir was the Director
the British Institute in Prague, the lecturing and teaching arm of
the British Council there. Under the guise of Utopians in
Slavomania, The Usurpers offers acute, humorous and sometimes
acerbic observations on relations among the British themselves in
Prague (the city is never named) and between them and their Czech
friends and those in the Czechoslovak establishment who were
suspicious of the British presence, and depicts, largely through
the actions and conversation of its characters, a deteriorating
political environment in which the lives of many Slavomanians and
even some of the Utopians are increasingly under threat in the
lead-up to the Communist coup of February 1948. The Usupers was
ready for publication in 1952 and was submitted to a number of
major UK publishers under the pen-name Alexander Cory. The
publishers were nervous. There was some concern about libel suits
and perhaps also about the political sensitivity of the contents.
Then, when she was publicly revealed to be the author, Willa Muir
withdrew it. The typescript, from which this edition has been
prepared, has long been in the care of the Library of the
University of St Andrews and over the years a number of critics and
Willa Muir enthusiasts have read it, among them Jim Potts, who
brought it to the attention of Colenso Books and who has provided
the Introduction. The non-publication of the The Usurpers in the
1950s may have been partly due to political pressure, at a time
when the UK government’s grant-in-aid to the British Council was
being called in question.
Terrorists try and use a top secret weapon to destroy the Gold
Coast resort town of Coolangatta. Only human fraility, and a bit of
double dealing, saves the day. Not quite Australias 9/11, but
close.
Scattered off the west coast of mainland Greece are the seven
Ionian Islands, celebrated for their spectacular landscapes, olive
groves and classical associations. Together with the mountainous
mainland region of Epirus, the combined populations of Corfu,
Paxos, Lefkas, Ithaca, Kefalonia, Zakynthos, and Kythira constitute
less than a twentieth of the population of Greece, yet they have
made a huge contribution to the culture of the country, before and
since becoming part of the Greek state. The unsurpassed beauty of
the islands and of the Pindus Mountains has stimulated the
imagination of countless writers and artists from Homer to Byron,
Edward Lear and the Durrells, Louis de Bernieres and Nicholas Gage,
as well as scores of nineteenth-century travellers.
Drawing a mosaic portrait of the Ionian Islands and special places
of interest in Epirus, Corfu resident Jim Potts focuses on the
landscapes, legends, traditions, and historical events that have
appealed most strongly to the imaginations of writers, residents
and travellers. Ranging from the mythical leap of Sappho and the
mystery of Calypso's island to the impact of tourism on modern-day
Corfu, this book reveals the extraordinary cultural legacy of this
beautiful part of the world.
ODYSSEUS AND SAPPHO: the landscapes of the poets; Homer's Ithaca
and Scheria; Sappho's leap; the identification of Dodona; classic
ground; King Pyrrhus.
THE SEVEN ISLANDS: Strategic issues; Corfu v. Kefalonia; Byron and
Casanova; Empress Elizabeth of Austria; Greek writers, Solomos,
Laskaratos, Theotokis and Valaoritis.
TURKEY, VENICE, BRITAIN, GREECE: conflict and occupation; union and
liberation; the Second World War and civil war; nationalism and
identity; cultural differences."
From the glitter of Australia's Gold Coast to the rugged outback, a
reporter chases a crooked politician and his offsider
A mad killer is loose in the Australian Outback. As the bodies pile
up it becomes a race against time to stop him
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