WCC's Swift's Gulliver's Travels
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 26740 words.
Published on July 8, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: May 27, 2010
James Leigh
Biography
I grew up in Kent with the Battle of Britain going on overhead. I studied at Oxford University, then taught for the University of Maryland for some years before jumping ship by going into advertising. I now live in the Yorkshire dales where I used to shoot and fish but now mainly play the piano, sing and write. Most of my books have been novels written in intervals between doing other work, but now I am concentrating on producing what I am determined will be one of the great books of the millennium.
Where to find James Leigh online
Website: http://www.wexyork.com
Where to buy in print
Books
WCC's Sir Gawain & TheGreen Knight
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 18960 words. Published on July 8, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
Price: $0.99 USD. 18960 words. Published on July 8, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
WCC's Virgil's Aeneid
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 25860 words. Published on July 7, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
Price: $0.99 USD. 25860 words. Published on July 7, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
WCC's Homer's Odyssey
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 32380 words. Published on July 6, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
Price: $0.99 USD. 32380 words. Published on July 6, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
WCC's Homer's Iliad
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 33330 words. Published on July 6, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
Price: $0.99 USD. 33330 words. Published on July 6, 2010. Nonfiction.
WexYork Compact Classics are shortened translations of classics texts - stepping stones by which readers can approach their originals with greater pleasure and understanding. Because the cultures that produced them are unfamiliar, each text has been prepared with introduction and end notes.
The Little Red Retirement Book
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 27060 words. Published on July 4, 2010. Nonfiction.
A unique quarterly compendium of help, advice and guidance for people in, or coming up to, retirement in the UK. Packed with constantly updated information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers and website addresses, covering every aspect of retirement, from pensions and health to travel and retirement income.
Price: $0.99 USD. 27060 words. Published on July 4, 2010. Nonfiction.
A unique quarterly compendium of help, advice and guidance for people in, or coming up to, retirement in the UK. Packed with constantly updated information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers and website addresses, covering every aspect of retirement, from pensions and health to travel and retirement income.
The Book of Caradoc
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 82020 words. Published on June 28, 2010. Fiction.
Britain after the Withering. A parallel world without witches, wizards or magic. Where a small trader from the Dulwich VIB commune rose to become the Dux Bellorum, or war-leader of his day in a Britain without technology or central government. A wilderness of scattered communes among a few larger Authorities menaced by Metros where people struggled to re-create a world they barely remembered.
Price: $0.99 USD. 82020 words. Published on June 28, 2010. Fiction.
Britain after the Withering. A parallel world without witches, wizards or magic. Where a small trader from the Dulwich VIB commune rose to become the Dux Bellorum, or war-leader of his day in a Britain without technology or central government. A wilderness of scattered communes among a few larger Authorities menaced by Metros where people struggled to re-create a world they barely remembered.
Landscape With Dead Figures
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 85540 words. Published on June 22, 2010. Fiction.
Sutton-le-Vale. A sleepy little village somewhere in rural England where nothing ever happens ... Until a wandering paedophile dies - or is murdered ... Until a local blackmailer dies - or is murdered ... Until a handyman at the big house dies - or is murdered. Who could have guessed the connection between them and a sniper's planned attempt on the life of an American presidential candidate?
Price: $0.99 USD. 85540 words. Published on June 22, 2010. Fiction.
Sutton-le-Vale. A sleepy little village somewhere in rural England where nothing ever happens ... Until a wandering paedophile dies - or is murdered ... Until a local blackmailer dies - or is murdered ... Until a handyman at the big house dies - or is murdered. Who could have guessed the connection between them and a sniper's planned attempt on the life of an American presidential candidate?
The Old Scallywags
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 121440 words. Published on June 13, 2010. Fiction.
Discovering that the roof over their heads might be sold, the Blenheim Nursing Home'residents form a fighting co-operative. To buy their building, they plot to raise money by crime - unaware that it is already a front for crime. The most fantastic development of all, though, at that time is "the welling up of so much energy and desire in so many pre-war souls and bodies."
Price: $0.99 USD. 121440 words. Published on June 13, 2010. Fiction.
Discovering that the roof over their heads might be sold, the Blenheim Nursing Home'residents form a fighting co-operative. To buy their building, they plot to raise money by crime - unaware that it is already a front for crime. The most fantastic development of all, though, at that time is "the welling up of so much energy and desire in so many pre-war souls and bodies."
The Rostov Constellation
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 60820 words. Published on June 2, 2010. Fiction.
Paul Marrick, called in by a Lloyds insurance syndicate during an outbreak of Mediterranean piracy, finds himself having to foil both an attack on a South African warship and an attempt to disrupt the world's diamond market. The connection? The Moloch - both a yacht and the name of one of the Riviera's most dangerous underworld gangs.
Price: $0.99 USD. 60820 words. Published on June 2, 2010. Fiction.
Paul Marrick, called in by a Lloyds insurance syndicate during an outbreak of Mediterranean piracy, finds himself having to foil both an attack on a South African warship and an attempt to disrupt the world's diamond market. The connection? The Moloch - both a yacht and the name of one of the Riviera's most dangerous underworld gangs.
The Ludi Victor
by James Leigh
Price: $0.99 USD. 92430 words. Published on May 29, 2010. Fiction.
Award-winning thriller. Over 500 young men are dying violently every year, an insurance conglomerate is losing millions, yet the world suspects nothing. How and why is it being committed? An investigator follows the trail to the Grand Canyon and finds he himself may have to become Ludi Victor IV - the ultimate Victor of The Game.
Price: $0.99 USD. 92430 words. Published on May 29, 2010. Fiction.
Award-winning thriller. Over 500 young men are dying violently every year, an insurance conglomerate is losing millions, yet the world suspects nothing. How and why is it being committed? An investigator follows the trail to the Grand Canyon and finds he himself may have to become Ludi Victor IV - the ultimate Victor of The Game.
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