To mark the closure of this great institution, Andrew Moss, who worked in the NHS locally for over twenty-five years, has drawn on historic archives and contemporary sources to present a fascinating picture of hospital life from the Infirmary's foundation in 1770 to the present day, which will surprise, inform and delight readers.
Hardcore is a man who is cloaked in violence yet suffocating within its dark folds. His chance for hope is stolen from him when he discovers his lover, Rebecca, dead from what the police believe is a supposed overdose. They would though, wouldn't they? An ex-junkie mob bitch-who gives a damn? He does, so using the only method he knows he blindly sets out for answers, whatever the cost, no matter who he has to hurt along the way. The trouble is his answers only lead to more questions.Further complications arise in the form of Stella and the opportunity of redemption she offers, making him question if he is even capable of escaping the shackles of his life. As the story weaves towards its conclusion and the final pieces begin to fall into place, will he like the picture that it paints-or will it reveal the truth behind Rebecca, her death and the people who surround him to be far more sinister than he could have ever believed?
After nearly blowing the whistle on his corrupt bosses' expense-fiddling at Her Majesty's Department of Tax & Revenue Affairs, junior tax inspector, Peter Figgis, is sent off on Operation Wild Goose to investigate VAT fraud at game fairs. He doesn't find any. What he does find is a game fair company, Gewgaw Limited, fronting an international drugs cartel run by evil sociopath Ieuan Henge. Helped by American flunky, Walton, Central Asian vamp, Russlana, and an array of other incompetent ne'r-do-wells, Henge needs to secure funding from Mexican and Middle Eastern investors whilst simultaneously trying to assassinate the previous owners of Gewgaw Limited, Penelope and Croesus Massy-Itche.As incompetence gives way to chaos, Figgis travels the game fair circuit encountering Mexican drug dealers, wayward falcons, vengeful bosses, ghillie suits, rumours of inter-species sex, potatoes, murderers, mastiff-owners, unchristian language, cider, other traders, small black terriers and - even before the apocalyptic climax at Halfrod Hall Game Fair - love, in the comely form of under-cover police sergeant, Jayne Harvey."I found the book laugh-out-loud funny and clever, in the same style as the novels of Tom Sharpe."
Historic reconstruction drawings of Gloucester accompanied by photographs and drawings from excavations