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The Hollow Man
Random House 2011; US$ 10.67Detective Nick Belsey needs help. Something happened last night - something with the boss's wife - and Belsey needs to get out of London, and away from the debt and the drink and the deceit. Collecting his belongings back at Hampstead CID on what should be the last day of his career, Belsey sees a missing person's report. But this one's... more...
International Commercial Tax
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 116.00An introduction to international tax law that makes the technical and nuanced world of international taxation accessible. more...
Junky
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableBurroughs? first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money,... more...
Queer
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableOriginally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch . Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer... more...
Letters 1945-59
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableBeginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. Burroughs's letters show the development of both the man and the writer, vividly documenting his (often turbulent) personal and cultural history. The collection provides a key to opening up and contextualizing... more...
Comparative Perspectives on Revenue Law
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 112.00This volume of essays analyses some of the complexities and failures of tax systems. more...
The Yage Letters
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableWilliam Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky , by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to... more...
The Hollow Man
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 12.99?A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London, and a beguiling bastard of a hero?what a recipe for a great read.? ?Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing Describing London police detective Nick Belsey, hero of The Hollow Man , an enthrallingly original thriller from British crime novelist Oliver... more...
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