D M Andrews: 3 books

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a wife, must be in want of a good fortune.'   There is much excitement in Longlawn when two men with tall hats enter the district. Mothers buy new dresses for their daughters, fathers polish up on their fencing...

Callum Chase would much rather be reading a good novel than playing sports, or studying a bit of Greek myth instead of mixing with those in his school. Bullied and friendless, Cal retreats every night into a world of his own making -- a world of his imagination, a world where he is master, a world...

Universal Buck-Passing: Socialized medicine never works. It can seem to work for about fifty to seventy years as true costs are hidden and construed as increases in the "cost-of-living" or as nebulous, ill-defined tax increases, rather than increased, dedicated health care costs. The concept...