After wandering around looking for someone on this strange world for over a year; Rab makes a home in a remote valley where he lives content, if lonely, until the locals turn up. They are not friendly; they are here to hunt him and he has to escape down river, followed all the way by the last one intent on killing him. After rescuing his pursuer from certain death he keeps him alive and befriends him calls him Eric; only to have him disappear just when they have found a new home and are starting to communicate. He is left on his own to start again; to build a home, when the weather takes a...

Eric has been gone for over the best part of a year, when Rab gets a visitor, 'Flower of the Morning' and her brother 3rd of the 1st house of trackers. Eric is in trouble and needs his help. They rush to the volcano where Eric is being held against his wi

Night is a fundamental and foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social has undergone significant transformations over the last thirty years. As the economic activity of the 'daytime' city has advanced into the night, driven by globalization, uses of night as a time of play, a time of sleep, or a time for dissent have increasingly faced conflict.

This book looks globally at the relationship between night and society in contemporary cities. It identifies that while theories of 'planetary urbanisation' have traced the spatial spread of...

Goldman, a boastful, self-made real estate mogul who enjoys a fully-staffed garden penthouse overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, is living the American Dream. As a German Jew who flaunts this fact far and wide, his inbred paranoia means a handgun is never far from his bedside.