For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showmen are laid bare.  When Freddie Mercury died in 1991, aged just 45, the world was rocked by the vibrant and flamboyant star's tragic secret that he had been battling...

Somebody to Love

The young world of Onneron has known peace for years. But now unease has spread across the land as disagreements between factions threaten each other's way of life.  The Brothers of the Onneron College dedicate themselves to higher learning and to ma...

Path of The Calm

The outbreak began in New York. Soon it had spread to the rest of the world. People were attacked and infected, and they died. Then they came back. Nowhere is safe from the undead.  As anarchy and civil war took grip across the globe, Britain was qua...

Surviving the Evacuation, Book 1: London

A collection of 18 crime stories with a diverse range of characters and scenarios, from guilt-ridden fraudsters to lovesick murderers.

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories

A highly imaginative and relatable guide for anyone who needs the reassurance that suicide is never worth it. Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way that isn't really sui...

How Not to Kill Yourself

Onneron is no longer at peace. Preparations for war have begun. There are rifts within the College and the Church. Both factions need to adapt to the ever-changing world and find their new place within it.  Treace is sent into enemy territory to find...

Path of Tears

Ammon's job was simple, to care for the dragon eggs in the Nest. It should have been easy, but it wasn't. When the sun rose after the hatch, he had made an enemy of the most powerful man in the kingdom, and he would soon learn that was the least of his problems!

Hatch

Billions died during the global civil war that followed the outbreak. Anarchy took grip. Chaos ruled. The world collapsed. In Britain, the evacuation failed. Nowhere was safe from the undead.  Four months after the outbreak Bill Wright has found safe...

Surviving the Evacuation, Book 2: Wasteland

After Lyra - a princess incapable of speech or sound - is cast out of her kingdom of daylight by her wicked aunt, a witch saves her life, steals her memories, and raises her in an enchanted forest...disguised as a boy known only as Stain. Meanwhile, ...

Stain

Nations collapsed. The undead rose. Some people survived.  Three months after escaping from London, Bill discovers the true extent of the global war that followed the outbreak. Most of the world has been destroyed, but though ruined farmland and aban...

Family

After returning home to Lake City for a family emergency, Treace confronts an old foe. Events spiral out of control and a murderer goes on the loose.  Haven prepares for the inevitable war by building defenses and training those that are ready to fig...

Path of Fire

For many long years, Gabriel Seth has led the Flesh Tearers to war. Master of a dwindling Chapter, he has made many enemies in his unceasing battle to keep his warriors alive - and now those enemies conspire against him, luring him to a remote world ...

The Assassination of Gabriel Seth

Monster king, monster king, where are you? Your house is burning down. Monster king, monster king, won't you play? The Red Swan wants your crown.  The charismatic Great Harlequin, Duruthiel, leads his troupe on a daring raid of an ork settlement. Urg...

A Deadly Wit

The one case he couldn't crack was the one that finally broke him. Haunted by his inability to track down and save his missing wife, DCI Robert Kett leaves the Metropolitan Police behind and moves to Norwich with his three young children, hoping to h...

Paper Girls

The outbreak began in New York. Within days it spread throughout the world. No one is safe from the undead.  As anarchy and civil war took grip across the globe, Britain was quarantined. The press was nationalized, and martial law, curfews and ration...

Surviving the Evacuation, Book 0.5: Zombies vs. the Living Dead

When Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change. Neither one had ever farmed before. Charles had been circumnavigating the globe by sail, oper...

Miraculous Abundance

The 33rd Grand Battalion of the Iron Warriors, newly raised and seeing battle for the first time, have the honour of the primarch himself, Perturabo, leading them. But the Hammer of Olympia is there for more than just battle - he is evaluating his ne...

Stone and Iron

As the Imperium of Mankind spreads across the galaxy, bringing all of humanity into its embrace, the advance is spearheaded by the primarchs, superhuman sons of the immortal Emperor. Each of these heroes is a warrior born and a leader bred, but darkn...

The Lords of Terra

It's 1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an outward bound centre. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tig...

Six Stories

Dead Simple is the stunning first novel in the number one best-selling Roy Grace series from award-winning Author, Peter James. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace's first major case is one he'll ever forget. It was meant to be a harmless stag-night p...

Dead Simple

In this dazzling global history that charts five centuries of innovation and change, Alec Ryrie makes the case that Protestants made the modern world. Protestants introduces us to the men and women who defined and redefined this quarrelsome faith. So...

Protestants

Some legends can kill you.  When a young woman is brutally murdered in the Norfolk countryside, the locals blame Black Shuck - a legendary wild dog.  There’s only one problem: The wounds weren’t made by an animal.  DCI Robert Kett is battling a black...

Bad Dog

Trapped. Alone. Unconcerned.  Eight months after the outbreak, Bill Wright is trapped in Ireland. Surrounded by the undead, low on food and lower on water, he's been in this situation before. Unlike before, help is only a rifle-shot away. While waiti...

Anglesey

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. But war is waged in many ways. From the dark places where 10,000-year-old psychic warriors interrogate living machines from a time before man, to a treacherous assassination plot that could b...

The Key of Infinity & Other Stories

As the forces of the Warmaster close in on Terra, Endryd Haar leads his warband of renegade Blackshields into battle once more. With his forces battered in the wake of their raid on Xana, Haar finds himself in desperate need of warriors. Answering a ...

The Red Fief

There’s a literary niche for all tastes including those who think that either Agatha Christie wasn’t funny enough or that PG Wodehouse didn’t feature anywhere near as many baffling murders as he could have. The Case of the Canterfell Codicil is a cla...

The Case of the Canterfell Codicil

Within hours of the first outbreak, Manhattan was overrun by the living dead. Within a few days, the undead had reached every corner of the globe.  There was no evacuation of Northern Ireland, and no quarantine in the Republic. A naval blockade preve...

Surviving the Evacuation, Book 9: Ireland

Not all survivors are to be trusted. Not all the conspirators are dead.  February: Within hours of the outbreak, the quarantine was sabotaged. Within days, the world was gripped by civil war.  March: When the lights finally went out, billions were de...

Surviving the Evacuation, Book 11

Whoever wins the election, humanity will lose.  Nine months after the outbreak, 10,000 survivors from across the globe have found a refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Hordes of the undead ravage the wastelands of Britain and Ireland. Satellite i...

The Last Candidate

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trac...

Changeling

Lured into the cursed city of Shadespire by the promise of the secret of cheating death, the aelf wanderer Prince Maesa seeks the Katophrane Thanaton. Surrounded by the spirits of the dead who cannot die, trapped in the last moments before the city's destruction, Maesa nears his goal...but just why does a nigh-immortal aelf seek this power over death? 

The Autumn Prince

The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a ...

Culloden

Anglesey became a refuge for survivors from across the world, but living in the shadow of a decrepit nuclear power station was always a precarious existence. There is only one destination for their final exodus from Britain, but Belfast won't become ...

Surviving the Evacuation, Book 12

For good or ill, the future has begun.  After the outbreak came the nuclear war. The blasts killed millions. Chaos followed. Most of those unlucky enough not to succumb to starvation and disease joined the ranks of the living dead. Fleeing the imposs...

Future's Beginning

Long ago, the Katophranes of the city of Shadespire dared to defy their god. But in the Realm of Death, the ruler of the underworlds does not permit treachery, for Nagash rules all.  To punish their attempts to cheat death, Nagash cursed Shadespire t...

The Darkness in the Glass

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer.  Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories ...

Hydra

Anty Boisjoly tackles the strange case of a war hero who visits his old friends on Christmas morning—after being murdered on Christmas Eve. In The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning, Wodehousian clubman, flaneur, idler, and sleuth Anty Boisjoly p...

The Case of the Ghost of Christmas Morning

Celebrating the ultimate triumph of good over evil, the Devi Mahatmyam by Sage Markandeya is an epic poem to the Mother of the Universe, a song of praise that echoes through the ages. For millions worldwide, the Devi Mahatmyam is of central spiritual...

Devi Mahatmyam

Is nowhere safe? Athgar and Natalia have everything they have ever dreamed of - family, friends, and a place to call home. When Athgar's long-lost sister unexpectedly walks into the village, he feels as if life is complete, but not everyone trusts he...

Inferno

There is always hope.  Northern France is a frozen morass of mud and snow across which rampages a horde of the undead, a hundred million strong. That won’t stop Chester Carson and his comrades. Seeking a way across the Channel, they make for the coas...

Where There's Hope

Not all people died. Not all gave up hope.  The outbreak was in February. By the end of November, Earth has become a hellish wasteland ravaged by the undead. Survivors from across the Atlantic seaboard took refuge on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Bes...

Mort Vivant

In the cursed city of Shadespire, two Stormcast Eternals Liberators, Darras Sunblade and Erak Grimwatch, seek a way to rejoin their comrades in Severin Steelheart's company. However, the twisting and ever-changing maze of the dead city thwarts them a...

Doombound

Natalia returns to where it all began. Forced to pursue those who threaten their daughter's very existence, Athgar and Natalia must say goodbye to all they know. Barely surviving the journey, they finally arrive in Karslev, where nothing goes accordi...

Maelstrom

Moribus, Stormcast Eternals Decimator of the Sons of Mallus, wanders the glass labyrinths of Shadespire alone. Somewhere out of sight, his brothers can be heard, and together they search for a dangerous creature, a malignant spirit that haunts this w...

A Place of Reflection

The 2016/17 season marked the 25th of the Premier League. This book recognises that fact in a way which is factually accurate yet dismissive of reputations and hype. It recognises the achievements of Swindon and Barnsley as much as Manchester United ...

The Premier League

Crime fiction packed with Italian flavour, Death in August is the first Inspector Bordelli mystery set in 1960s' Florence - perfect for fans of Andrea Camilleri or Donna Leon.  Florence, summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen lef...

Death in August

Haunted by his past. Hunted in the present. Uncertain what is real. Athson has seen things that aren't there and suffered fits since being tragically orphaned as a child at the hands of trolls and Corgren the mage who serves Magdronu the dragon. When...

The Bow of Destiny

Anty Boisjoly is back to fill the gap that overlaps between Ruth Rendell and P. G. Wodehouse, and where Jerome K. Jerome meets Dorothy L. Sayers. The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine is another mystifying manor-house stumper for Wodehousian bon-vivant an...

The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine

When the narrator of Swann's Way dips a petite madeleine into hot tea, the act transports him to his childhood in the French town of Combray. Out of his Pandora's box of reflections comes a memory of an old family friend, Swann - a man who was long a...

Swann's Way (AmazonClassics Edition)

Here Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle, tracing the development of fortifications and equipment (offensive and defensive), penning vivid portraits of the weapons involved, exploring the psychology of laying si...

Medieval Siege and Siegecraft

An epic history of science in the Soviet Union, following the scientists who survived Stalin's rule and helped to reshape the world.  Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with pol...

Stalin and the Scientists

"Within a few months we'd witnessed bickering, desertion, subterfuge and rivalry. I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that only a miracle could save us now."  Two men with a passion for vinyl create a society for the appreciation of records. Their...

The Forensic Records Society

The second novel in the Inspector Bordelli series set in 1960s Florence - the detective must race to unmask a particularly brutal killer.  April 1964, but spring hasn't quite sprung. The bad weather seems suited to nothing but bad news. And bad news ...

Death and the Olive Grove

A game of cross and double-cross in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities on earth. From his office on the Street of the Assassins, Nathan Sutherland enjoys a steady but unexciting life translating Italian DIY manuals. All this changes dramaticall...

The Venetian Game

One fugitive. A deadly plot. No rules. Thus begins an ingenious and lightning-fast audiobook thriller that reviewers agree is "not to be missed."  Detective Sergeant Matthew Ryan wants to clear the name of his former boss, who stands accused of offic...

The Silent Room

Murder is the deadliest art.... An invitation to an exclusive event during the Venetian Biennale gives Honorary Consul Nathan Sutherland the perfect chance to drink prosecco in the sunshine and meet some of the greats of the art world.  And then a wo...

Vengeance in Venice

A breath-taking, high-octane debut thriller that will have you leaving your lights on well into the night.  It's happening again. A mutilated body discovered in the woods. A murderous plan conceived in the past. A reckoning 70 years in the making.......

The Mayfly

When a body is discovered in a burnt-out barn in the Warwickshire countryside, DI Will Jackman is called to investigate. Nancy Faraday wakes up on the kitchen floor. The house has been broken into and her boyfriend is missing. As the case unravels, DI Jackman realises that nothing is as it appears and everyone has a secret. Can he discover the truth behind the body in the fire and track down the killer before Nancy becomes the next victim? 

Beneath the Ashes

An airborne strain of the AIDS virus decimates humanity. Bruno Ricasso, an Italian cop, a Carabiniere, struggles to survive on the island of Capri while Europe erupts in flames and society crumbles. But when his solitary existence is broken, Bruno returns to the empty city of Naples in search of answers.  Can Bruno find a way to stay alive in the ruins of civilization? Or, will Bruno's past sins prove even more deadly than the Omega Plague? 

Omega Plague: Collapse

In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. At the same time Tom Ansell, a young lawyer, arrives from London to receive a manuscript from one of the Cathedral Can...

The Salisbury Manuscript

Historical fact and fantastic legend clash when Merlin's descendant Roland takes up the Quest for the Grail against Arthur's ancient enemy - a thrilling new adventure from an extraordinary talent whose appeal is growing fast with each new book....

Kingdom of the Grail

What do you do if you're a teenager, stranded by your parents in New Delhi, without any sort of adult supervision, with easy access to all sorts of strange drugs? If you're James McGirk, you use your bad trip to develop a philosophy that explains the...

A Grand Theory of Everything

Short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger 2013. Set in Florence in the 1960s, this is the third in the Inspector Bordelli series of atmospheric Italian crime.  Florence, 1965. A man is found murdered, a pair of scissors stu...

Death in Sardinia

Haunted by his past. Hunted in the present. Buffeted like an arrow in the wind. The hunt for the Bow of Hart continues for Athson and his companions. They have escaped the clutches of Magdronu and Corgren, the mage, but they are still pursued. In nee...

An Arrow Against the Wind

Florence, October 1966. The rain is never-ending. When a young boy vanishes on his way home from school the police fear the worst, and Inspector Bordelli begins an increasingly desperate investigation. Then the flood hits. During the night of 4th Nov...

Death in Florence

I was 12 when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us...Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. And sometimes tha...

The Puppet Boy of Warsaw

The sixth book in the award-winning crime series by Marco Vichi, following Inspector Bordelli.  A family cloaked in secrets. A beguiling woman. A unique setting. Inspector Bordelli is back to solve one of the most difficult cases of his entire career...

Ghosts of the Past

In Confessions, regarded as the first true Western autobiography, Saint Augustine of Hippo lays bare his heart, body, and soul. In this unguarded prayer, a fallible Augustine admits to the indiscretions, selfishness, and licentious obsessions of his ...

Confessions (AmazonClassics Edition)

Grace Daniels is distraught after her daughter's body is found in a Leicestershire country lane. Her only solace is the re-emergence of Faye, an old friend who seems to understand her loss.  DI Will Jackman delves into the case, until a family traged...

The Lies Within

On the 500th anniversary of Luther's rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world.  Five hundred years ago, Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk. Today it includes a billion pe...

Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World

Much of what is said about yoga is misleading. To take two examples, it is neither 5,000 years old, as is commonly claimed, nor does it mean union, at least not exclusively. In perhaps the most famous text - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - the aim is ...

The Truth of Yoga

The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long, and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer numbers who fail. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives ...

Backstabbers and Bullies

Within an unconventional artists' neighbourhood, DCI David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla need to find six-year-old Tracy Rudd, the third child to be abducted in recent weeks. Tracey is the daughter of controversial artist Gabriel Rudd, who Tracey's grandp...

No Trace

Track a stalker. Catch a killer. The Death Messenger is a tense police procedural following The Silent Room in the thrilling Matthew Ryan series by Mari Hannah.  When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan a...

The Death Messenger

Distant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son - the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel - is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in...

To Die in Spring

Bound to prophecy, his destiny balanced on an arrow’s tip. With the Bow of Hart in hand, Athson is hunted by his enemies. His mistakes haunt him as much as his past. Hastra the Withling reveals Eloch will send an arrow for the bow. Magdronu plots to ...

The White Arrow

‘There’s water in the engine,’ he said. ‘The engine has stopped.’ This changed everything.... Surviving the Storms brings together incredible first-hand accounts of rescues carried out by the remarkable RNLI lifesavers. In this collection of heart-wr...

Surviving the Storms

A twisty story of murder, guilt and unintended consequences, perfect for fans of Kerry Wilkinson and Mel Sherratt. Two hundred and fifty thousand people go missing in the UK every year. Ninety-one percent of those reported to police are found within ...

Gone

Following an argument with her British boyfriend, Chinese student Min Li is abducted whilst walking the dark streets of picturesque Stratford-upon-Avon alone. Trapped in a dark pit, Min is at the mercy of her captor.  Detective Inspector Will Jackman...

Before It's Too Late

DI Mike Yorke is coming home. After three months in London, he’s looking forward to being back in the north east – but he’s barely off the train before he’s deep into the most bizarre case of his career. A viciously flogged corpse. Children disappear...

Thorn in My Side

When Audrey and Ronny win the National Lottery, their troubles seem to be over. Bills can be met, the loan sharks paid off, and their cleaning and cowboy-builder jobs gleefully ditched off. But for Audrey, the matriarch of the Gateshead tower blocks and Ronny, the flamboyant dreamer, the winning ticket brings with it many other unforeseen changes.

The Lottery

A stunning debut historical thriller set in the turbulent 14th century, for fans of C. J. Sansom, The Name of the Rose, and An Instance of the Fingerpost. London, 1385: A city of shadows and fear, in a kingdom ruled by the headstrong young King Richa...

A Burnable Book

One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written, Ferney will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life. When Mike and Gally Martin move to a cottage in Somerset, it's to make a new start. But the relationship comes under ...

Ferney

Track a stalker. Catch a killer.  When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan and Detective Superintendent Eloise O'Neil are among the few to view its disturbing content. With little to go on, the only lead ...

The inspiration for the major motion picture ‘Jojo Rabbit’.  A gripping, atmospheric novel about obsession and love in war-time Vienna. This extraordinary novel is seen through the eyes of Johannes, an avid member of the Hitler Youth in the 1940s. Af...

Caging Skies

Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war, six million had been killed.  On 1 August 1944, Andrew Borowiec, a 15-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade from a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers belo...

Warsaw Boy

When Abby Henshaw is brutally attacked by two strangers who dump her at the side of a remote road, her first thought is for the safety of her baby, Beth. But what follows is a mother’s worst nightmare: Beth is gone and Abby’s world collapses around h...

Stolen

Blade is hiding. Playing dead. He knows people are looking for him but he doesn't want to be found. Because he knows these people aren't messing about. But Blade can look after himself. He has to...The first in a compelling new series; the story combines an enormously likeable and engaging central character with the harsh realities of street life and the youth culture of today.

Blade

The new Essex-based thriller from the author of Blackwater and the Detective Jack Frost prequels. July 1983, Essex. A boy playing hide-and-seek sees a fox tugging at something up on a railway embankment. He approaches it cautiously. Seconds later, a ...

Yellowhammer

People faced with cancer take life seriously--very seriously. They want answers; they need to know what works. I know the feeling. For more than twenty years now, I have sat in groups with thousands of others going through cancer. Between us we have ...

You Can Conquer Cancer: The Ground-Breaking Self-Help Manual Including Nutrition, Meditation and Lifestyle Management Techniques

Fourteen months after the outbreak, 13 months after the nuclear war, the old world is gone, but a new world is emerging. The evacuation of Britain failed, but other evacuations were a success. In Canberra, a new civilization is being born, but in Can...

Welcome to the End of the Earth

Longlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017.  The fifth book in the award-winning crime series by Marco Vichi sees Inspector Bordelli take the law into his own hands.  Spring, 1967. The trail of tragedy and destruction that followed the previous...

Death in the Tuscan Hills

The war, with its horrifying, endless slaughter on the Western Front, is the backdrop to this story of the conflicting demands of duty, loyalty and love. Dolly Weston, her husband reported missing, falls in love with a wounded army officer. To compli...

And Such Great Names As These

She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be.  ‘We’ve alerted the RNLI and they’re sending a lifeboat out.’   ‘The RNLI?’ I said, surprised. ‘They do that?’   Saved from the Waves is a heart-warming collection of first-hand accounts ...

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