The Girl with a Peppermint Taste Set in the London of the mid '60s, with anti-nuclear marches, flower power and rebellious pop concerts as backdrop, the story concerns a respectable middle aged company director who falls hopelessly in love with an uninhibited, sexy, disrespectful but very bright East End hippy. As he mixes with her friends - student politicians, revolutionaries and madcap musicians, whose behaviour and language shock him profoundly - his values and judgements are turned inside out and upside down till he abandons the security of his family and business for the wild freedom of...

Inspired by true events that happened in Frigiliana in southern Spain in the 1970's, this, the second of Drew Launay's 'Almijara' novels, reunites us with his loveable cast of characters dealing with life in a typical Andalucian mountain pueblo, as well as struggling to come to terms with the 'modern' world of telephones, electricity, and foreigners... From the pompous school teacher Maestro Munoz, the village's self-appointed intellectual, to canny Placido, owner of the Bar Alhambra, whose wife Conchita always nags him 'whenever she has the chance', we return to the Andalucia a few years...