Derek Adams

Warning: This book contains male homoerotica. A mutilated corpse, a powerful family intent on stonewalling the police instead of mourning the loss of their son, a sex-for-hire scheme that began as a lark and then turns deadly--all combine to plunge Detective Jake Westerby into a shadowy world of lust and drugs on the leafy campus of Cascade University. Jake's sexual prowess has caused him grief in his personal life, but makes it easy for him to infiltrate an organization that provides male escorts and drugs to wealthy men willing to pay a premium for discretion. When his identity is exposed by a treacherous cop, Jake is slated to be the killer's next victim. Only fellow detective Paul Mazurek can rescue Jake--and only then if he can pull off an audacious impersonation. Can Paul save the man he loves so that their passion for one another can ignite and come into the open?

Jake Westerby: Deep Undercover

Fiona Sampson

Sam Riviere

Clare Pollard

Polly Clark

George Gömöri

John Mole

Carol Rumens

Attila József

John McAuliffe

Wayne Holloway-Smith

Tom Warner

Anthony Dunn

Jacqueline Gabbitas

Ágnes Lehóczky

Tim Liardet

The Balassi Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London launched its new project ‘Inspired by Hungarian poetry: British poets in conversation with Attila József’ in celebration of the Hungarian Culture Day on 22 January 2013. On 22 January 1823 Ferenc Kölcsey – one of the most important literary fi gures in Hungarian history – completed his manuscript of the Hungarian National Anthem. Since 1989 Hungarian culture is celebrated on this day. To mark this special event, the Balassi Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London invited British poets to contribute to its new project with a poem of their own written in response to the poems of the Hungarian poet Attila József (1905-1937). The original idea of the ‘British poets in conversation with Attila József ’ project came from Tibor Fischer, the internationally renowned British writer of Hungarian origin. The aim of the project is to raise awareness and appreciation of Hungarian poetry among readers in the UK through initiating a poetic conversation between renowned British poets and selected poems of the outstanding Hungarian poet Attila József. The Hungarian Cultural Centre asked British poets to respond to a selection of Attila József’s poems in English translation, put into English beautifully by John Bátki, Edwin Morgan, George Szirtes and Peter Zollman. The present online anthology, published on 11 April 2013 – the birthday of Attila József and the National Poetry Day in Hungary – is the product of the poetic ‘conversation’ between Attila József and more than a dozen of his present-day British counterparts. A gala reading in London on 11 April 2013 celebrates the occasion of the launch of the anthology, Attila József’s work and poetry.

British poets in conversation with Attila József

Inspired by Hungarian poetry

'I'm not even in band yet, but I've already figured one thing out—there is no other class like it!' This is Karen Casey's summary of the end of her fifth grade year in Karen Casey's Adventures in Band, Book 1, by author Derek Adams. She and her best friends Heidi and Alexandra (Alex) discover how fun and exciting band can be when they attend an instrument demonstration meeting held by the band directors. Their classmates Dacia and Carmella also attend the meeting, and manage to cause quite a bit of trouble for them for the rest of the year. They meet all of the middle school band directors at the meeting, but Mr. Abrams is the one Karen, Heidi, and Alex like the most from the start. The three friends try hard to get in his class for next year, and he ends up helping them out in several situations. Each instrument is briefly but accurately described, and the friends even attend a band concert put on by older students. If you are in band, or were in band when you were in school, Karen Casey's Adventures in Band, Book 1 will bring back fond memories and emotions. If you are not quite old enough to be in band, hopefully Karen and her friends will convince you to try it!

Karen Casey's Adventures in Band

Derek Adams

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