Books by David Hine

Victor Hugo's scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britain's political system tells a story of Gwynplaine, the two-year-old heir to a rebel lord, who is abducted, then abandoned. Years later he is re-introduced to the aristocratic life, and resolves to become the voice of the voiceless, whether he is heard or not.

It seems that Faraway Hills, the modern community built on the site of the far, far older Crouch Heath, did not satisfy all the needs of the community. When the Castavette Estate reappeared on the edge of town, years after it had been demolished, those needs, those urges, those cravings were satisfied. But what price will be exacted by The Bad Bad Place? David Hine and Mark Stafford, the team responsible for The Man Who Laughs and Lip Hook, bring a new tale of dreams turned dark, and a mother''s soul blackened with revenge.

Somewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a neglected road, there is a village called Lip Hook. A car speeds towards the village. The driver is a beautiful woman, the passenger a man with a gunshot wound. The two seek shelter at the Hanged Man Inn, where the woman persuades the inn-keeper to accept payment in kind. As the woman extends her services to more of Lip Hook's men a false faith grips the community - and reason, logic and humanity begin to disappear.

This is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulatory design that have emerged in each area examined. -- .