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The Cartographer's Apprentice by Jim Webster
Fantasy / Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Four short stories from the Land of the Three Seas casting a light on the early career of Benor Dorfinngil. The trials and tribulations of a young cartographer; this book features duels, savage halfmen, gassy beer, blood feuds and most dangerous of all, beautiful women.
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Professor Kompressor under cover by Nils Andersson
Children's Fiction / Humour
Professor Kompressor is an inventor. He is excellent at inventing, but he is finding that seemingly good ideas can cause a lot of grief.
Two mysterious men pay the Professor a visit and he finds himself drawn into a world of deceit and lies. Trying to invent his way out of trouble, the Professor finds that even the best-laid plans do not always work out as intended.
As the plot thickens, the Professor strikes up an unexpected friendship...
Professor Kompressor is a fictional character but his adventures are inspired by ideas from science and the modern world. They show that you can have a lot of fun with science and technology, especially if you allow for a little bit of...
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The Buddhas of Borneo by Stuart Ayris
Contemporary Fiction / Literary Fiction
"The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to the coastal area of Sabah..."
That's the exact area of Borneo to which I was travelling. It couldn't be that bad. I'd have a tour guide and a driver with me. It's just jungles and monkeys anyway, isn't it?
Little did I know then that it wasn't terrorists that I should have been warned about, but the entire unravelling of my senses.
The Buddhas of Borneo is a 30,000 word novella that takes the reader on a five day journey across North Eastern Borneo, from Prisoner of War camps to Buddhist temples, batcaves and jungle retreats. But nothing is as it seems - particularly on Turtle Island...
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Six Years Left by Courtenay Hereward
Contemporary Fiction / Short Stories
Six years left, only six years...
Sarah, a sensitive fourteen year old girl finds herself in Azerbaijan, not far away from her home in Russia. Desperate to escape, Sarah rows out to an island where she encounters a group of gorgeous seals. After numerous deaths occur Sarah realises that life is too short, especially for the seals.
Six years left, only six years until extinction
All proceeds from this book shall help endangered species.
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Black by Rose by Andrew Barrett
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Black by Rose is the key to it all.
When Eddie Collins gets pulled off a job, and resigns because of it, a series of life changing events begins; but not only for him.
Then Eddie finds a gangland murder suspect dead in his house. He thinks life can’t get any worse, until he’s tied up in woodland with a gun at his head. And no way out.
The Major Crime Unit’s Operation Domino is the investigation into gang boss, Slade Crosby, and his connection with the death of an undercover officer. But tampered evidence halts Domino’s progress, and with Eddie out of the way, Slade is in the clear.
There’s only one way to get Slade in cuffs…
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An Invitation to Hitler by Bernard Neeson
Historical / Political Fiction / War
Summer 1940:
Britain stands alone; its army defeated by the Germans in France; the survivors only just rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk. In London, Winston Churchill, the newly-appointed Prime Minister, struggles to impose his authority in the Cabinet. Some of his colleagues believe there is no alternative but to seek a deal with Hitler.
On the coast of France the German army awaits its orders. The Luftwaffe increases its air assault on Britain and, after weeks of heroic effort, the RAF is weakening. Mutinies and peace marches are reported across the country. There are even hints of...
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Verity's Lie (The Huntley Trilogy) by Grace Elliot
Historical / Romance
Charles Huntley, Lord Ryevale, infamous rogue…and government agent.
In unsettled times, with England at war with France, Ryevale is assigned to covertly protect a politician’s daughter, Miss Verity Verrinder. To keep Verity under his watchful eye, Ryevale plots a campaign of seduction that no woman can resist– except it seems, Miss Verrinder. In order to gain her trust Ryevale enters Verity’s world of charity meetings and bookshops…where the unexpected happens and he falls in love with his charge.
When Lord Ryevale turns his bone-melting charms on her, Verity questions his lordship’s motivation. But with her controlling father abroad, Verity wishes to explore London...
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For The Love Of God by MG Sweeney
Humour
How difficult is it to earn your place in Heaven? If you’re not abiding by God’s Law, then it’s all but impossible. No one knows this better than 12-year-old Catholic schoolboy, Brian Scanlon. He’s on a quest, not only to save his own soul, but that of his younger brother Michael. However, there is just one thing that lies between them and eternal salvation – their evil, older brother, Patrick.
It’s 1985 in small town Catholic Ireland where religion is deeply rooted into the psyche of the people. Confession is a weekly event, statues of the Virgin Mary are moving or crying up and down the country and Dallas is almost as popular as Sunday Mass. For The Love of God follows...
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Learning to Dance Again by Frankie Valente
Romance
Julia Robertson is devastated after the sudden death of her husband Duncan. Her friends rally to support her, but with her sons away at Edinburgh University she still feels isolated in her grief. She is unemployed but has no wish to return to her old job as the manager of a care home; but she cannot decide what to do instead. With the approach of her fiftieth birthday that she has no desire to celebrate, together with the gloominess of her mood which will only get worse when winter arrives, Julia knows she needs to take drastic action to heal her broken heart.
It was Duncan’s last wish to take her on a second honeymoon to Sicily. So Julia books herself a holiday for the whole of...
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5:2 Fasting and Fitness Easy Science in Layman's Terms by Linda Gruchy
Non fiction
Are you one of the thousands who are trying the revolutionary new way of eating; 5:2?
Ever wondered why fat is so hard to burn?
Ever wondered why you spent a year in the gym getting fitter but not thinner?
Ever wondered which exercise is best and when best to do it?
This book will answer those questions, and much more.
Linda Gruchy joined Kate Harrison’s 5:2 Diet Facebook Group in early October and has lost two stone in weight to date.
The Facebook group has grown from a handful of likeminded people into a very lively group of thousands. Members have asked many diet and health-related questions, not just about the 5:2 way of...
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Kellie at Come-alive Cottage (Come-alive Cottage 1) by Wendy Unsworth
Children's Fiction / Humour
Aunt kitty is a very unusual witch - every time she waves her magic wand something goes wrong! Come-alive Cottage is full of Aunt Kitty's gone - wrong spells, like the postman who has been turned into a Christmas elf, flowers that say 'sniff me!' and a watering can that gets grumpy when water goes up his spout!
And when her aunt starts making spells with snakes, Kellie Culpepper has to jump to the rescue!
A fun, read-aloud story!
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It Would be Wrong to Steal My Sister's Boyfriend (Wouldn't It?) by Sophie Ranald
Romance / Humour
You live together, laugh together, borrow her shoes and eyeliner – is there anything you can’t share with your sister?
Ellie’s younger sister Rose has it all. She’s beautiful, stylish and dates gorgeous, glamorous millionaires, while Ellie is quite happy watching TV on the sofa with her old mate Ben. But when Rose brings her new boyfriend home, it’s lust at first sight for Ellie. And although she knows it’s wrong, everything changes: she’ll do whatever it takes to get Oliver, even if it means abandoning her principles and turning a deaf ear to her friends. After all, would it be so wrong to take up running, put some highlights in her hair and make herself...
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Reading Upside Down by Jo Platt
Romance / Humour
"...perfect setting, perfect dress, perfect flowers, one hundred and eight guests - and one, total and utter, rat."
Abandoned without explanation at the altar, 30 year-old Rosalind Shaw descends into the kind of depression which involves her watching too much daytime TV and not bothering to shower as regularly as her mother would like. After several inebriated, unwashed, months, Ros relocates from London to St Albans and begins a new life, as part-owner of an antiquarian bookshop, "Chapters". Here she finds herself working alongside the intellectual, and intensely private, Andrew; the kind-hearted, sartorially splendid, Georgina; and Joan, a free-spirited, loose cannon of a...
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Eden by Dean Crawford
Action & Adventure / Science Fiction
If the world fell apart overnight, what would you do to protect your family? When a horrific natural disaster causes the collapse of civilisation and strands Cody Ryan deep inside the Arctic Circle, he is forced to embark upon an impossible journey. Thousands of miles from home in a brutal new world where only the strongest will survive, Cody and his companions must conquer seemingly insurmountable odds in a search for their loved ones, the limits of their own humanity and the rumoured last refuge of mankind… Eden.
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The Last to Fall by Glynn James
Action & Adventure / Horror / Science Fiction
In 1926 Joseph Dean was just getting ready to hang himself when the man named Joshua stepped into his cafe and changed his life.
He made Joe an offer - one that would mean travelling through the door to another world to find something that had been lost for nearly two hundred years.
Joe would discover a lot more than that in the years that followed.
For anyone who has read The Memoirs of Reginald Weldon, this is a chance to hear a familiar voice once more.
The Last to Fall is a short novel, and the first in a series following Joseph Dean's travels in another world.
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Piddles the Penguin by Otto Fishblanket
Children's Fiction / Humour
One afternoon, at half past four,
A penguin knocked on my front door.
"My name is Piddles," he said to me,
"Let me in. I need a pee!"
Another charming rhyming tale from the bestselling pen of International Poet and Part Time Cheesemonger, Otto Fishblanket. This is sure to delight children everywhere with it's copious references to "wee", "piddle" and "widdle". Unfortunately, it is illustrated by Gerald Hawksley, but you can't have everything.
"Twenty Two Stars! This is the best book I have ever read in my entire life!" - Olivia Fishblanket.
"Thanks, Mom!" - Otto Fishblanket
"Well, I haven't really read it, but I am sure it is very good." - Olivia Fishblanket
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Slow Burning Lies by Ray Kingfisher
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
A coffee shop in Chicago is just closing. The last waitress goes to lock up.
But a man appears at the door, desperate to talk to her, to tell her Patrick’s story. He says she is the only person he can trust.
The waitress decides to let him come in, and he tells her a twisting tale of a man driven to the edge of madness by evil dreams.
But just who is Patrick? Some poor demented soul still suffering somewhere?
Or the man sitting in front of her?
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Scouting For Murder (Verity Long) by Lynda Wilcox
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Be Prepared …for murder!
When Verity Long agrees to take a friend's daughter to Brownies, what she expects is to drop the child off and spend a quiet evening in her favourite wine bar. Instead she finds a hysterical Brown Owl and a corpse in the Scout hut.
But Verity, researcher for a best-selling crime novelist, has made a career out of being curious. Determined to investigate, Verity seizes the chance to cook for the Brownies' imminent holiday at a nearby Scout campsite in her search for the truth.
Sacrificing her customary gourmet diet to serve up sausages and pizzas might be tough for the amateur sleuth with a fondness for murder, men, and Merlot; it is child's play...
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The Beadmaker by Jessica Hemingway
Family Sagas / Crime, Thrillers & Mystery / Contemporary Fiction
Unable to cope with her abusive family any longer, sixteen year old Georgie runs away. Two decades later, her grandfather is dying. Now a successful artist living in Hawaii, Gina Glass returns to the North of England for the first time. Back in the family home she must face her demons and reassess her relationships with her grieving relatives. Whilst dealing with her past she meets Dariel Varik, a young Parisian art dealer who offers her a foothold into the future.
Will Dariel open the door to the coveted European art market or does he have a different agenda? As Gina tries to heal the rifts in her family, secrets are exposed, and only the truth will save her.
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The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D.'s St Patrick's Day Parade (An Agent Ward short story) by Darren Humphries
Fantasy
The United Nations Department for the Enforcement and Apprehension of Demons is the first, last and only line of defence against the supernatural threats trying to break into a world where magic and technology are uneasy bedfellows.
A death brings Agent Ward, the Man From U.N.D.E.A.D., to Ireland and to a secret location where there are dangers without and secrets within.
Can Ward work out the latter before a veritable parade of demonic beings launch a full-scale attack?
The Man From U.N.D.E.A.D.'s St Patrick's Day Parade is a short story featuring Agent Ward from the Man From U.N.D.E.A.D. series of novels.
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Mask of the Macabre by David Haynes
Horror / Novellas / Historical
Four short tales of Victorian terror, each bound to the other by a chilling thread.
The date is January 10th 1866 and the snow is falling thick on the blood soaked streets of a murderous London…
Mask of The Macabre – A travelling magician appears with a gruesome show. But what secret does it hide?
Doctor Harvey – Bethlem lunatic asylum’s newest patient has a story to tell, but how will he tell it to his doctor?
Memento Mori – A photographer is given a mysterious assignment with disturbing consequences.
The New Costume. – The entertainer discovers a new string to his bow and gives the finest performance of his...
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Daddy Was a Punk Rocker by Adam Sharp
Non fiction
Adam just wants a conventional father. But his father hates convention, he would rather rebel. Adam wants a father who will sit by his bed and softly sing him lullabies. But his father is too busy snarling on stage alongside Joy Division and other angry young men. Adam, a budding goalkeeper, wants a father who will shoot balls at him in the park. But his father prefers to shoot heroin in dark rooms. Adam wants a father who is predictable, who is a provider, who is present. His father can never be any of those things. Because Daddy is a punk rocker.
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