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A job on a rainy day at a remote location. Hundreds of shards of glass have mysteriously appeared on the ground, where sheep could step on them. Some of the shards are two feet long, like glass daggers. The small workgloves I have won’t do for this. I could use the old welding glove, but there’s only one and it will only fit on my left hand, which is awkward. I go to find it. It works OK. I can get the shards of glass out of the earth, and into a plastic bucket, then carry the loads of glass to the storehouse. I keep telling myself, as the rain runs down my neck, to slow down, be patient, be careful not to stumble on the rough ground, it’s not worth getting cut out here, with nobody within a mile and no water to wash with except the rain. I take the last bucketful into the high-ceilinged storehouse. As I walk away, I see some roll of paper on the stone floor, among all the rubbish. I keep walking. The paper is covered in sheepshit and birdshit, like everything else on th...

You don't have to be a saint to like Roger Moore's James Bond. But if you like the action packed stories of Ian Fleming and Leslie Charteris, then it's good news to see these classics which first made an appearance way back in the late 1920s, and grew in popularity over the following decades are out as ebooks. Leslie Charteris was born Leslie Charteris Bowyer-Yin in Singapore in 1907 and wanted to be a writer from the very start. His first published work was a poem which was published in The Straits Times when he was just nine and a half. Leslie Charteris He wrote the first Saint story, Meet the Tiger when he was just 20 and it was published in 1928. He continued writing about his hero, Simon Templar for a further 89 titles, many of which became films, radio series, TV series and even a comic strip. I've always liked Roger Moore, and The Saint TV series was one of my favourite programmes back in the 60s. When he took ove...