19-year-old Mylie O'Farrel is interested in music, girls and wild nights out on the town in London. Then Harry, an elderly ex-army officer, is brought into the psychiatric unit where Mylie works, purportedly for having attempted to strangle his wife.
Harry, who has no visitors, is suffering from melancholia. Both Harry and Mylie are having difficulties with the women in their lives.
Through a series of story, often humorous, meetings, the youth and old man become friends.
As, little by little, Mylie realises that Harry is harbouring a secret terror, the young man gambles on bringing this into the open so his friend can be set free.
1 When I was very small I had an obsession with the sea. It was a problem for my Mum and Dad who only had to let me out of their sight for a moment and I was off, stubby legs pumping over the sand and heading straight for that dangerous embrace. Here, tonight, I feel the reawakening of that compulsive need as I gaze down at the shifting surf about my legs, my feet already numb so that I am no longer aware of the coldness of the water, no longer aware that I am still wearing boots and socks or the wetness of my skin beneath my jeans. I am aware, without the slightest sense of strangeness
The symbiotic pattern of evolution is everywhere and allows us a very different and fascinating window into the way symbiotic viruses work, since all viruses are symbiotic, including those involved in our human reproduction.
In Darwin's Blind Spot, Frank Ryan counters the belief that evolution developed through simple survival of the fittest. He argues instead that life on the planet is not only a bloody battle for supremacy, but is also the result of a labyrinth of cooperation. Darwin based his theory of evolution on competition between individuals, leading to the accumulation of gradual changes, dictated by natural selection. Evolution, he declared, could not make a sudden jump. Only later did biological scientist realize the importance of living interactions, whether as symbioses between diffe
A child is kidnapped, followed by several murders. A mystery thriller in the Sandy Woodings series.
ON A CHILL November day in Sheffield, Bobby Stephens, an eight-year-old boy is kidnapped. That same day, in Bolton, two men have a tense meeting in Heywood Park. In Liverpool, a woman breaks into a house to search its contents. All are strands in a tantalizing mystery - and its seems to Chief Inspector Sandy Woodings that Margaret Stephens, the boy’s mother, knows more than she is telling him. As the hunt proceeds, the paucity of evidence becomes alarming. Woodings feels personally involved: his own son, Gerry, is of the same age as Bobby. And Woodings
Murder mystery thriller. One of the trilogy with Tiger Tiger and Goodbye Baby Blue.
The murder of Angela Hawksworth shatters the peace of the attractive village of Dossage. A simple crime of passion, it should be quickly solved. Yet, as hot May turns to yet hotter June, Detective Chief Superintendent Sandy Woodings discovers a complex web of emotional undercurrents which, under the pressure of his investigation, threaten to release themselves in another tragedy.
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Mylie O'Farrell is 20 years old. By day he works as a health care assistant in a psychiatric unit in London. Off duty, he indulges his interest in music, girls and wild nights on the town with his friends, Janus and Rich, who share a ramshackle house in Westminster they call 'The Palace'. Everything changes when ex-army officer Harold Edward Severn "Harry" is admitted to the Unit under a Compulsory Detention Order after purportedly trying to strangle his wife, Muriel. Harry, who is suffering from melancholia, has no visitors so Mylie takes a special interest in the cantankerous old man. Throu
When America is attacked by what appears to be a ferocious WMD, a small group of people lead the fight back. Includes violence and graphic detail
05: 17/ 08h45 In the Midde East Apache gunships attack an agricultural station in the desert. In Thirless, Arizona, MayEllen Reickhardt is waiting to meet her friend, Lucille Cordoba. MayEllen and Lucille are cactus growers. They plan to visit the annual convention in Phoenix. They will never make it. At the Ivan Wallin Field Reserve, an ecology station in the southern Mojave, Ake Johansson is carrying a roll of computer printout back to his office from the mainframe computer in the lab. The printout - covering th
The final book in the Twins of Moon trilogy. Borne by their dragon guardian, the twins Magio and Eefa brave the perils of Dromenon to free their imprisoned father.
The sorceress Lustfera has torn a hole in the sky over Triluna, a minor planet within the archipelago of worlds that make up the dragon kingdom of Aeonia. Through the rent she leads her invading army of Ursascogan giants into the outermost periphery of the dragon world. In this treacherous move she plans to destroy Aeonia, thus ending forever the benign rule of the dragons.
Can the twins free their Archmage father in time to help the dragon king
Your genome lies at the very core of your make-up. This book explains it for readers who know nothing whatsoever to start with.
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work?
Your genome defines you at the most profound level. That same genome is present in every one of the approximately 100,000 billion cells that make you who you are as an individual member of the human species. An important ingredient of the genome, and its essential nature, is memory – the memory of the entirety of every individual human’s genetic inheritance. But how, exactly, does it perform this remarkable feat of memory? We know
A scientific exploration of one of Nature's great mysteries.
How does a caterpillar transform into a butterfly, or plankton-feeding larvae grow into gorgeous sea stars? Metamorphosis has captivated our imagination for thousands of years. Yet it remains, largely, a mystery. Award-winning author Frank Ryan delves into that mystery with the keen eye of a scientist, the skill of an expert storyteller, and the tenacity of a detective tracking down one of science’s least-understood phenomena.
Book 4 of the bestselling epic fantasy series, The Three Powers.
Violence and war reigns on Tír as the dragon, Driftwood, returns Kate to join Alan and his friends, who are helping the young Kyra, and her vast army of Shee, to besiege the Tyrant's metropolis, Ghork Mega. Mo, baffled by the changes she senses within her own being, and terrified by the strange visions she encountered in the Valley of the Pyramids, is in
This is book 2 of my new fantasy trilogy, The Twins of Moon. As Quimbre warns Eefa, 'No world is more riddled with secrets than the eldritch waters we now blithely sail.' Here in the Sea of Stars the twins discover their extraordinary true destiny.
The twins Eefa and Magio are sailing the archipelago of islands known as the Sea of
This is the Quercus (Jo Fletcher) first edition of Frank P Ryan's epic fantasy novel. It is a top ten epic fantasty bestseller on amazon.co.uk.
Four friends, Alan, Kate, Mark and Mo are drawn to the fabled Irish mountain of Slievenamon, on the summit of which is the Gate of Feimhin. The gate is a doorway to another world, one that has remained closed for centuries, forgotten by all but one man, Padraig, who guards its secrets as have countless generations of his family before him. With Padraig's help they pass through the gate, to enter the enchanted but war-ravaged world of Tir, a land where danger threatens at every turn. The four must learn t
This is the second novel in Frank P Ryan's acclaimed fantasy series, The Three Powers. The first in the series, The Snowmelt River, is a top ten epic fantasy bestseller on amazon.
Release date: November 8, 2012 by Publisher Jo Fletcher Books (Quercus).
Available at www.frankpryan.com
Four friends, Kate, Alan, Mark and Mo have entered the enchanted but war-ravaged world of Tír, bringing hope for the millions of oppressed peoples who live here. But Kate has been kidnapped by the Great Witch, Olc, who has imprisoned her in the Tower of Bones.&
Epic YA fantasy by bestselling author, Frank P. Ryan. Eefa and her twin brother Magio are on the run, hunted by a ruthless predator with a pack of wolf hounds. What fate awaits them in the magical Valley of the Raptors? Is it freedom or a trap?
Eefa and her twin brother, Magio, are on the run, hunted by a ruthless predator with a pack of terrifying wolf hounds. They have no idea why this is happening to them. Until recently they enjoyed a carefree life in the ramshackle town of Warren on the semi-tropical isle of Moon. Since birth Eefa has been invisible to everybody other than Magio, an invitation, as Magio sees it, to adventure, inspi
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR Sandy Woodings, on the trail of a nation-wide drugs ring, is transferred from Yorkshire to the majestic but desolate surroundings of the island of Anglesey. Paul Thorpe, a young man involved in drugs, is found murdered in a local reservoir and Welsh investigator Jim Boyce seems a little too excited about the murder. This is the first event which will draw Woodings into a whirlpool of murder and deceit. When Boyce is found dead, Woodings is dealing with much more than a local incident. Can he put an end to the sudden and grotesque bloodletting that has erupted on the isla
The heroic story of how a small group of people, few of them TB experts, found the cure for the greatest killer in human history. But the battle needed to be extended to all sufferers. Why have we failed to take the miracle to the developing world?
TUBERCULOSIS:
THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD
(In the USA, The Forgotten Plague)
TUBERCULOSIS is the greatest infectious killer in history. In this century and the previous one, it was responsible for an estimated thousand million deaths. The discovery of the cure changed history - yet, incredibly, that story has never previously been told.
Half way through the twentieth century, few people world-wide, whether doctors or the ordinary man or woman, believed that such a cure would ever be possible. Only a tiny band of unlikely heroes, scattered in different countries, believ
Our human genome is full of viruses similar to HIV-1. These have played an important role in human evolution and still play an important role in human embryology and day-to-day chemistry. Just how important are they to our evolution past and future?
On Sunday, 12th February, 2001 the code for the entire human genome was finally deciphered. Embedded in the code were large fragments that were directly derived from retroviruses. Those fragments were evidence for the extraordinary role of viruses in our human evolution, indeed for the role of viruses in the evolution of all of life on Earth, and their involvement in a huge range of biological processes. For example three viruses play an essential role in every human pregnancy and five others are intimatel
Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague viruses.
In the 1980s our comforting illusion that we had conquered plagues through our discovery of vaccines and antibiotics was shattered by the arrival of AIDS. But AIDS is just one of many emerging plagues for which we have, as yet, no cure. Even the great killers of history - TB, cholera, bubonic plague - are making a comeback, often resistant to the drugs that once controlled them. In this book, Frank Ryan goes into the front line of the fight against epidemic disease, to take a long hard look at what is happening and why. You will find many vivid descriptions and some terrifying facts. B
The book that tells you all you need to know about viruses, and more.
Leading expert Dr Frank Ryan focuses on viral evolution - what forces drive it and what makes some viral strains benign while others are deadly. He will astonish you to reveal that living with viruses played a key role in our evolution as placental mammals. In essence, we have co-evolved with our very own viruses.
Virusphere reveals the hidden world of the virus, which is a key player in the ecology of the oceans and throughout all
