Colin: 1066 books

Cedric couldn't be blamed for enjoying his personal success and he also couldn't be blamed for taking his eye off reality in the indulgence of this success.

Nathan is recently divorced and his life has taken a downturn. He is not a desperate man however,philosophically taking anything that is thrown at him, and is forever curious about the human condition. In his short time at the museum, where he can marvel at the extent of past, human survival, he is...

The social worlds represented by Dog Merdo and the Crumpsall-Dandys are in direct contrast, the one to the other. Such is the great rift valley of contempt between the two, that they can only ever meet on equal terms in death. The Crumpsall-Dandys lead a rich and privileged life, while Dog Merdo belongs...

Herman, having recently been made redundant, is being fussily groomed by his wife as she perfects the state of his suit he is obliged to wear for a job interview that morning. He is used to wearing overalls for work, and being generally casual or careless in his ordinary, everyday, dress sense.To...

Two lifelong friends, Phoebe-Rose and Imogen, find themselves in bed together, but not through sexual need or physical attraction. Their names have been changed to hide their true identities. Unlike their recent and unexpected guest, in the bed and breakfast accommodation that they ran together and whose identity change is a little more drastic.

A straightforward anecdote about the imminent closure of a care home for the elderly, which had been founded by the indomitable Myra Thorndyke. Old age and its frequent accompanying states of dementia and diminishing ability of judgement, is both sad and humorous at the same time. Myra's difficult,...

Dave wins the regular, monthly drinking contest in the pub for the first time, and is then considered among the elite of the hardened drinkers. Barely able to stand up, he meets Iggy, a former winner of the contest, and they go on to a military fancy dress party where there is no 'last orders'. Eventually...

Dez is a social alien living on the outside of convention, and has no care for the world about him. Silas lives rigidly within the system and regards it his duty to give assistance to those who have fallen foul of convention, generally through no fault of their own. They only ever meet once, when...

A routine ride home on the underground metro provided Wilfred Truebody with both dreams and nightmares. He was a different man when he got off at his usual stop, and expecting to get home for tea.

Dan Sherman had to take early retirement through bereavement. He started to have lucid dreams about a tall man who was beckoning him go to a certain place. He soon realized that this wasn't an everyday event. It was to be the start of a once in a lifetime chance to be a Space Guardian. How will he cope with powerful entities who will try to destroy him at turn?

An experimental brain, held in an underground facility, one day electrocutes a guard close by. But the brain wakes the fallen body up as the new owner. But that's not all; with but a gesture of the hand, it switches bodies with another person, even taking the place of the target's mind....

Telle qu'elle se dessine et malgré l'ardeur mise à séduire et à gagner les esprits à ce grand besoin identitaire qu'il serait si urgent de satisfaire par ce moyen si « pédagogique », la création prochaine d'une « Maison de l'Histoire de France » laisse craindre le pire pour l'histoire,...

L’année 1871 consacre la prépondérance de l’Allemagne bismarckienne en Europe et le début de l’apogée européen dans le monde. La Grande Guerre sera fatale à cette double hégémonie en provoquant la défaite militaire de l’Allemagne et le déclin économique du Vieux Continent face...

Une étude la France de l'entre-deux-guerres et les différents aspects de la crise qu'elle a connu pendant les années 1930 : crise économique, sociale et politique, tentatives de rénovation idéologique, crise intellectuelle et morale, crise internationale, échec du Front populaire et effondrement de la IIIe république.