"The end was near." Voices from the Zombie War.  The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, trave...

World War Z

August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his ...

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthink...

In the Dust of This Planet

Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street; from a Pakistani currency trader to a...

Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It

Doughnuts, family tensions, relatives who arrive in a Winnebago, Christmas decorations, business worries, Uncle Henry's womanizing, and pyramid schemes wrap Walt Stebbins in layers of detail and distraction. Walt runs a small catalogue business out o...

All the Bells on Earth

Fresh from the staggering success of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Marcus Goldman is struggling to write his third novel. A chance encounter in Florida throws him some inspiration from a surprising source: Alexandra Neville, the beautiful...

The Baltimore Boys

How our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.  In many parts of life - jobs, housing, medical care, education, even a date on the Internet - price is not the only determinant of who gets what. So how do the oth...

Who Gets What - And Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design

The running man. In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Hoke, an American pilot and one of a tiny minority with a rare blood group unaffected by the deadly disease, has survived alone among the debris and ...

‘48

Moments of change, chance encounters, twists of fate that create a new way of thinking or being: The stories in Dear Life, by Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. The collection includes four powerful pieces, "autobiographical in Feeling", set during the time of Munro's own childhood, in the area where she grew up.

Dear Life

Award-winning horror writer and master of the macabre, Graham Masterton presents a blood-curdling array of treats: twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse. Marvel at the mirror dug up in secret ...

Festival of Fear

A strange man (named Howard) on a strange quest (for a Paper Grail) in a strange land (California)... A lot of fuss for a folded scrap of paper. But considering all the odd people searching for the Grail, it must be something special. Something magic...

The Paper Grail

B. Miller's striking follow-up to his much-loved John Creasey Dagger-winning Norwegian by Night.  Near Checkpoint Zulu, 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border, in 1991, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war...

The Girl in Green

The latest novel by British Fantasy Award ‘Best Newcomer’, Joseph D’Lacey. When a vampiric plague threatens to destroy isolated mountain community of Hobson’s Valley, it falls to reclusive outdoorsman Jimmy Kerrigan to save his neighbours and prevent...

Blood Fugue

The anticipated follow-up to Killfile - an unstoppable, high-concept action thriller.  John Smith is no ordinary gun for hire. Smith is a man of rare gifts, and he knows your every thought....  Hired to track down a shooter targeting the rich and fam...

Hunt You Down

From the dark imagination of James P. Blaylock comes a chilling tale of the supernatural. When Peter Travers moves into an old house in a remote canyon to try to separate himself from his old existence, his wish becomes reality...all too literally.Hi...

Night Relics

Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water.  Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too - and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto.

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

The author of The Eternal World seamlessly combines history, biotechnology, action and adventure in this high-concept thriller.  John Smith has a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other people's thoughts. He hears the songs stu...

Killfile

How long can a man escape judgment? A dark and atmospheric thriller from the award-winning author of A Simple Act of Violence.  Vincent Madigan is charming, resourceful, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that he's up to his nec...

A Dark and Broken Heart

The fantastic follow-up to Crime Scene by masters of the psychological thriller genre Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. A Measure of Darkness features deputy coroner Clay Edison in another gripping case.... Clay Edison gets the call in the middle of the ...

A Measure of Darkness

From the number-one international best-selling author of The Revanant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the fascinating story of America's first battle over the environment.  In the last three decades of the 19th century, an Am...

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