Deal : Literary Fiction

Date: 4 June, 2021

'A Family Complete' is the first story in a series. It focuses on Aruba, a shy, young girl who works as a maid in the city of Karachi. Her dream is to become a fashion designer and give her mum the life she never had when she was younger. She was only two years old when her mum got a job as a maid for a wealthy family, and she has been a part of their family her whole life. She shares a very special bond with her mum, who herself had faced many obstacles by raising Aruba alone without...

Date: 19 March, 2021

France, 1940. An unexpected gift of an old motorcycle with a tragically romantic past hurls a young orphan into the thick of things as war breaks out and his life changes forever. Half-French/half-German Daniel must find a way to survive in a world that mercy seems to have abandoned. This book transports the reader to Nazi-occupied France, where Daniel unwittingly and unexpectedly finds himself working for the Resistance, and ultimately to the Russian Front in a twist of fate so startling that no one can see it coming. By turns quirky, heartwarming, beguiling and uncompromising, author Marc Sercomb weaves together...

Date: 29 January, 2021

Measure for Measure has proved unusually controversial since its earliest recorded performance in 1604. Adverse critical judgements and heavily-censored performances established a deep-seated and unjustified prejudice against the play. By redressing the balance, however, we can establish the full value of so much that was unappreciated or underrated for centuries. This study deploys thorough, impartial analysis of texts and contexts (including detailed reference to the play in performance) to explore possibilities and to suggest alternative interpretations. It concludes that no play in the Shakespearian canon reflects the socio-political conundrums of the Twenty-First Century more comprehensively. FREE eBook From January 29...

Date: 19 January, 2021

Beyond The Utmost Bound is an epic adventure about a teenage outcast that begins in a small Texas town of four roosters, a few stray dogs, not many more residents and concludes on a park bench in Paris. Our 17-year-old hero leaves everything he has ever known and heads out on a spiritual and life-affirming quest for knowledge, clarity, and a better way to live. An array of eccentric, fun, and quote-worthy characters lead him on a rip-roaring journey through the deserts of spiritual awakenings, over the rapids of romantic queries, up the mountainof philosophical reflection, past the fog of...

Date: 9 January, 2021

What a mess. This was not supposed to happen. This isn’t where Nick Owen thought he would be by this point in life. He used to be a busy web programmer. Now he spends most of his energy trying to stop his three-year-old twins from playing in a dirty sand pit. Nick thinks of himself as Daddy 3.0, a stay-at-home-dad—but he just wasn’t programmed for this. 99 Cent Bargain Book from January 9 - 16, 2021