The Young Bug tells the story of a miraculous phenomenon that reverses the ageing process and makes its "victims" young again. With The Human Rejuvenation Syndrome or HURS, people become more youthful in physical appearance and in their social and sexual behaviour. The lame walk again and love blossoms with all the romantic fervour of youth. How and where did HURS originate? How does it spread? Blake is "infected" early and Angela hits on a crucial clue to its origins. They join forces as the world becomes fascinated and then obsessed with what people justifiably see as the most marvellous...

Dirty Weekend says sex is fun, the sweetest recreation we know. In this short-story collection, Angie's love things tingle and Jeremy's happy heartbreaker twitches with joy as the stories pursue this theme lasciviously. They bring a sinful rapture sometimes more lustily to Jeremy, sometimes more ecstatically to Angie; but always in sweet measure to both. The book offers exciting vistas of how delicious loving can be. The Banqueting Table of Love is loaded with a rich variety of tasty dishes. Starting when eyes meet "across a crowded room," a liaison progresses through a gourmet's menu of hors...

Civilisations die from suicide," Toynbee warned us, "not by murder." The United States, along with Australia and several others have pursued fatally flawed economic and financial policies for almost four decades, beginning with ill-judged interest-rate hikes and stagflation in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They then punctuated the years afterwards with policy departures which, almost without exception, made things worse. In effect, they embarked on serial attempts at economic, social, political and strategic suicide through often obsessive devotion to such concepts as "free" markets,...