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In a story that will appeal to lovers of wine and to devotees of murder mysteries, Harry Benson is The Wine Detective. When a member of an elite wine tasting group is poisoned, Harry is called in by the police to help their investigation; Harry has a unique gift: he can instantly recognise a wine he has previously tasted.The investigation into the murder results in Harry realising that a big fine wine swindle is going on. The action moves from Scotland Yard to the Old Bailey via Bordeaux, Hong Kong and Bali. Harry's the only person who can stop the swindle and bring the murderer to justice, but his life is complicated by a developing romance - with a policewoman!

We are about to experience a new spiritual dimension of glory that will unleash all the glorious treasures of heaven! Position yourself now that you may participate in this next great move of God! Webster defines a "paradigm shift" as "an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way." The church has experienced several such "shifts." Dynamic outpourings have always begun with prophetic promptings, which initiate the spiritual transformation from an established and acceptable reality to the establishment of a new, fresh, and dynamic spiritual way. We stand on the brink of another such extravagant outpouring of God's Divine Presence. This powerful new book will open the eyes of your heart to the coming lavish and global manifestation of glory!

This Revised edition of A Guide to Personal Investments is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of personal finance in 2023. Written against a backdrop of low interest rates, high inflation and low returns overall the information contained in the book will be particularly invaluable. The book is suitable for small investors in all markets and covers personal pensions, healthcare and education. It will prove an invaluable guide for all who are concerned to maximise returns from their investments, and also protect investments.

In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length-some are almost novellas, others no more than a page-but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion in the hills; a scuba dive guides uneasy newlyweds to a point of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone's great gift: to pinpoint and make real the impulses-by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive-that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our very selves.

Encounter God at the Altar!When we hear the word, "altar," we often associate it with images of death and sacrifice or of surrender and yielding.Although these associations do have their place, there is a New Covenant revelation of the altar that will usher your relationship with God into new experiential dimensions.Robert Stone lays out a revelatory blueprint for you to take your intimacy with God to new, marvelous and wonderful levels.You will: Receive new revelation of how the biblical concept of the altar is a blueprint for you to experience the Holy Spirit more deeply. Gain new clarity in following the Holy Spirit's leading. Experience deep spiritual fulfillment as you learn to fellowship with God on a more personal level. Enter into greater depths of worship where you can witness God's glory more powerfully.This New Covenant revelation of the altar invites you into fresh encounters with God's presence!

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion book to the landmark documentary series on BBC TV.

The results of "being filled with the Holy Spirit" begin with the Spirit breaking the power of the sin nature, followed by the isolation and suppression of that nature. This is followed by the person living by the guidance and sustaining energy of the Spirit. The result is the development of the fruit of the Spirit and a desire for the gifts of the Spirit.

'Harrowing, white-knuckled journey to hell' Time

Winner of the William Faulkner Award for the Best First Novel

'A tough, elegant, alarming novel. Stone writes superbly about the sea, about fear and loneliness, about life in extremis . . . In Outerbridge Reach, he has produced what I believe will come to be recognized as a quintessential novel of the Reagan era, along with Updike's Rabbit at Rest and Don DeLillo's Mao II ' John Banville, Guardian 'Stone has already written two of the best novels of the past twenty years, Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise. Outerbridge Reach makes it three . . . He is a great storyteller, whose plots move as relentlessly as those of the best thrillers, yet his prose is elegant and full of literary allusions' A. Alvarez, Sunday Times 'Stone's fifth and finest novel is about going to sea and the difficulty of trying to find a way back again . . . if one half of Stone's characters live their secret, interior lives apart from society, then the other half are desperately looking for their own ways out: drugs, murder, revolution, betrayal, infidelity . . . and, in the case of Owen Browne in Outerbridge Reach, sailing off the map of the world and mind altogether' Scot Bradfield, Independent 'Its themes are contemporary and touched with cruelty . . . The toughness of Stone's novels has been readily accepted as on the surface; but there's an inner toughness of judgement that, when one stubs one's toe on it, is even more impressive' Robert M. Adams, New York Review of Books

For 20 years, Robert Stone made his living as a modern-day pirate: deep-sea diving, fishing, treasure-hunting and smuggling. He spent 10 years smuggling illicit fuel in Africa, until his criminal empire came crashing down thanks to a friend's betrayal and the US law enforcement. This is the true story of his adventures.

'He catches brilliantly the bitchiness among the hangers-on and hustlers, the mix of sentimentality and greed in so much movie talk' Observer

Robert Stone's remarkable new novel is a thriller of razor-shart intensity: mysterious, erotic and deeply readable.

`A novel of immense authority and force' Salman Rushdie

'At once religious discussion, love story, mystery, delivered with the verve of an airport thriller . . . The central character of this book is Jerusalem; the book reeks of its myriad mythologies and beliefs . . . Damascus Gate is an amazing read . . . a rare and remarkable feast of writing' Scotland on Sunday 'The heir of Conrad, Hemingway and, crucially, Graham Greene, Stone is at his best when his characters are in extremis . . . the scenes of violent confrontation could not have been rendered more powerfully by any other writer . . . formidable' Sunday Telegraph 'A book that is not afraid to take on the big themes like faith, faction, spirituality, tribalism, identity and injustice . . . It is also an extraordinary treatment of Jerusalem itself . . . With Stone, it has found the kind of imaginative interpreter that every city waits for' Sunday Times 'Writing this good should be engraved on tablets of stone in letters of fire and blood. Fantastic' Uncut 'Stone has a journalist's eye for detail, but a novelist's eye for irony . . . Damascus Gate is rich with theme and atmosphere . . . few writers could even attempt to capture, as Stone does, both the intense, combative spirituality of Jerusalem and the festering menace of Gaza' Esquire

In an elite New England college, Professor Steven Brookman embarks upon a careless affair with a brilliant but reckless student, Maud Stack. She is a young woman whose passions are not easily contained or curtailed, and is known as something of a firebrand on campus. As the stakes of their relationship prove higher than either one could have anticipated, their union seems destined to yield tragic and far-reaching consequences.

This, the first book-length study of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem in English, contains profound analysis of his life and films in the context of contemporary Spain and World cinema and is based on original interviews with Medem and many of his collaborators by the author, an establish expert on Spanish cinema.

The first in-depth look at a unique sacred music tradition