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In August 2015, Roger will return to the Deep South to complete his reflections on this great region. He begins Volume Two in New Orleans ten years after Hurricane Katrina caused major devastation by taking nearly 2,000 lives, and in particular, how a natural disaster exposed how the world’s richest country betrayed its poorest citizens at the time of their greatest need. Whilst in the region, Roger looks at two of the greatest cultural exports of the Deep-South: Food and Music.
Roger will visit Arkansas to tell the story of the Little Rock Nine and how children literally had to fight for their Education. He will travel to Mississippi, the scene of some of the worst cases of racial violence and compare it with some of his painful memories in Britain. He also looks at the impact of sport to bridge the racial divide, and visits Louisville, Kentucky, home to ‘The Greatest’ – Muhammad Ali. He complete his travels where Dr King was slain in Memphis, Tennessee, rounding up with an appraisal on President Obama’s two terms in the White House as he revisits Atlanta and Washington DC.
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Stag weekends are supposed to get messy, but the shocking secrets, sex and violence these guys experience will change their lives forever.
The Weekend is a bold, gripping and graphic tale of 21st century male life, as seen through the eyes of eight friends, ranging from age 19 to 40, on Luke’s last days of freedom. A cosmopolitan mix from colourful backgrounds, closely and loosely connected to the groom, the men all share the desire to have a good time, and involving anything and anyone they can get their hands on, over one sultry summer weekend.
The settings are in various different party venues in a fictional UK city. The set-pieces range from a medieval banquet with no cutlery, to a lap-dancing club with a side-line in illegal gambling and fighting. The lads’ antics are told in vivid detail, with some truly comical and seriously shocking moments, and a tragic ending that will keep the reader on the edge right until the end.
Ultimately, it’s a story of friendship, with dark secrets revealed from two of the men’s past pushing the group’s loyalty to the limit, plus the sex, lies, laughs, fun, booze, drugs, violence, back-stabbing and bitchiness that demonstrates the best and worst of male behaviour.
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A downtrodden man, gloomy at the prospect of middle-age suddenly sees life differently after a series of life-changing events ahead of his 40th birthday.
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The boys are back in a new town on a fresh adventure with different acquaintances, but old rivalries are resumed and a variety of escapades lie ahead in Eastern Europe.
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