Michael Hillier: 6 books

Ben Cartwright finds the brutally murdered body of his friend and business partner Toni Cimbrone in their office. Beside the body is a small metal emblem with the picture of a grotesque wolf enamelled on it.The next morning he is told that the Cimbrone family is going to exclude him from the...

Caroline Daley, escaping from a messy divorce, and her friend Brian Napier are on a ferry going down the Adriatic when the engines pack up. Somebody has put seawater in the fuel. The nearest port which they can put in to is Dubrovnik. But the Yugoslav Civil War has broken out and the city is under...

Alan Brading, a young Englishman, sees his French wife gunned down in front of him in a London street. He even sees the face of her killer. A few days later, at her funeral in a small town in the Loire valley, he is certain he sees the murderer again, but nobody will believe him, nor can he persuade...

andrew denbury owns a company called gyroflow. he is summoned to his bank one morning and told they are calling in the overdraft on which his business runs.he must repay nearly two hundred thousand pounds within 24 hours.because he has signed a debenture, he has given the bank the power to appoint...

John Tucker loses his father, his place at Cambridge, his family home and his comfortable privileged life. He discovers Alison Stacey is the cause. Is he upset? You bet he is! Alison is descended from an old upper class family and has a strong sense of social superiority. She believes in putting...

This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights...