A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet.
Yet James couldn't resist helping...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Interstellar by Greg Keyes
From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Triology, Inception), this is the chronicle of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. At stake are the fate of a planet... Earth... and the future of the human race.
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Fantasy / Historical
What if your future was the past?
1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage.
But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband’s six-times great-grandfather.
Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2) by Veronica Roth
Young Adult / Science Fiction / Fantasy
One choice can transform you – or it can destroy you. Tris Prior's initiation day should have been marked by victorious celebrations with her chosen faction; instead it ended with unspeakable horrors. Now unrest surges in the factions around her as conflict between their ideologies grows.
War seems inevitable; and in times of war sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge and choices will become ever more irrevocable. Tris has already paid a terrible price for survival and is wracked by haunting grief and guilt. But radical new discoveries and shifting relationships mean that...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Family Sagas
My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.
In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for - except what she most wants, which is to be back with the people she loved on earth. In the wake of her murder, Susie watches as her happy suburban family is torn apart by grief; as her friends grow up, fall in love, and do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But as Susie will come to realize, even in death, life is not quite out of reach . . .
A luminous, astonishing novel about life and death, memory and forgetting, and finding light in the darkest places, Alice Sebold's The Lovely...
.
View this £1.29 offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Lost Soldier by Diney Costeloe
Historical / War
Eight ash trees were planted in the Dorset village of Charlton Ambrose, as a timeless memorial to the men killed in the Great War. One dark and chilly night in 1921, a ninth tree appears. Who planted it and why? And who was 'the unknown soldier' for whom it is marked?
Eighty years later, the memorial is under threat from developers. Local reporter, Rachel Elliott, is determined not only to save it, but to solve the mystery of the ninth tree. She has no idea that the trail will take her back into the dark heart of her own gripping family history; to a great, but tragic, love and the sacrifice to which it led, in the war to end all wars.
This book was previously published...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Housebroken by The Behrg
Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Psychological Fiction
A dysfunctional family. Psychotic kidnappers. No motive. No ransom. These home invaders want only to 'observe' ...
Enter the home of the Crotchets, the quintessential American family; so perfect, that complete strangers decide to learn from them ... at gunpoint. What begins as a harmless observation soon escalates into a maddening descent as the very definition of 'family' dissolves and is torn asunder -- both from forces without, and within. But these kidnappers, these 'strangers,' may harbor secrets...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Psychological Fiction
Who are you?
What have we done to each other?
These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five by Douglas Adams
Science Fiction
On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity. This was of course The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But this was just the beginning. We followed the adventures of hapless protagonist Arthur Dent and his alien side-kick, Ford Prefect, across a trilogy of five books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. And this merry spacewagon, featuring a flying sofa, a paranoid Android, a gift-wrapped fishbowl, bath towels and much else besides, became an instant classic. Now, for the first time, we are publishing all five books in the Hitchhiker's series, as an ebook omnibus.
.
View this £3.79 offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Universe Builders: Bernie and the Putty by Steve LeBel
Fantasy / Science Fiction / Fantasy
What if God got a C- in Universe Building 101?
(Well, not our God, of course. One of those other guys.)
Dive into a humorous fantasy world unlike anything you have imagined before. A world of gods and goddesses who build universes for a living. Are they all-powerful and all-knowing? Well, not exactly.
As Bernie graduates from God School, he is thrilled to land his dream job as a builder of universes. His first assignment...
.
View this £2.42 offer on Amazon.co.uk
Crime, Conflict & Consequences: Short Stories 1 by Heather Burnside
This entertaining collection of 10 assorted tales explores a variety of genres with stories of love and family dilemmas. There are also a few twists and surprises along the way. The common thread running through each story is - consequences.
- In HELD UP our heroine is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and becomes a witness in an unusual bank robbery.
- In ISLAND OF DREAMS Joe and Bev are...
.
View this FREE offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Tregelian Hoard by Ellie Holmes
With her engagement in tatters, Jonquil Jones, a Portable Antiquities specialist, moves to Cornwall for a fresh start. When a report arrives of a treasure trove that has lain hidden underground for centuries, she can feel her soul stirring with excitement.
Is it a one off or just the beginning of an extraordinary discovery? It’s Jonquil’s job to find out. There is only one problem: the man who reported the find, Sebastian...
.
View this FREE offer on Amazon.co.uk
One Last Lesson (DI Angus Henderson 1) by Iain Cameron
Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Crime, Thriller & Mystery
University has just become a dangerous place…
The body of a young woman is found on a Sussex golf course.
She is a student at a local university.
She was a model on a pornographic web site, owned by two of her lecturers.
Jon Lehman is the victim’s Business Studies lecturer.
He is fond of booze and bedding female students.
DI Angus Henderson brings him in for questioning - with tragic consequences for him.
Dominic Green is a local gangster.
He is a fellow investor in the porn web site.
He moves to protect his investment - with painful consequences for his enemies.
DI Henderson believes the web site is the key to...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Chronothon by Nathan Van Coops
Fantasy / Science Fiction
Run from the past. Run from the future. Run for your lives.
He’s a novice time traveler in a big universe.
Ben just wants time with the scientist’s daughter who got him into this, but when he’s rooked into competing in a chronothon–an Amazing Race through time–getting the girl means he’ll need to make the finish line. When he finds out this competition is more than just a sprint through history, winning takes a back seat to surviving. To save the people he loves, he’ll have to conquer the real dangers hidden in the shadows of the chronothon.
The world of time travelers expands in this next installment of the In Times Like These time travel series. Fans...
.
View this FREE offer on Amazon.co.uk
Head in the Clouds Much? by Andy Sexton
Humour / Gay & Lesbian
All the ingredients of classic chick lit, told from the perspective of the Gay Best Friend.
There’s a fine line between being quirky and being downright weird, and Lou had unknowingly crossed it years ago...
Twenty-nine-year-old Lou Lawrence has been coasting through life. He resides at the family home in the small town of Crockham for £40 a week and changes jobs whenever the going gets tough. But the one thing that doesn’t come easily to Lou is his relationships with men.
Lou believes that all his problems will disappear when he meets the right guy. What isn’t helping is the fact that Lou has a habit of chasing after straight men. That hazardous trend is set to continue when....
View this FREE offer on Amazon.co.uk
Betrayal by The Investigative Globe
Non fiction / Religious & Inspirational
On 31 January 2002, the Boston Globe published a report that sent shockwaves around the world. Their findings, based on a six-month campaign by the 'Spotlight' investigative team, showed that hundreds of children in Boston had been abused by Catholic priests, and that this horrific pattern of behaviour had been known - and ignored - by the Catholic Church. Instead of protecting the community it was meant to serve, the Church exploited its powerful influence to protect itself from scandal - and innocent children paid the price.
This is the story from beginning to end: the predatory men who exploited the vulnerable, the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes, the 'hush money' used to buy the victims' silence, the survivors who found the strength to tell their story, and the Catholics across the world who were left shocked, angry, and betrayed. This is the story, too, of how they took power back, confronted their Church and called for sweeping...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
The 5th Wave (Book 1) by Rick Yancey
Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs.
Runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors.
To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope.
Now Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life for herself in Brooklyn. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting beneath the rhythms of a new life - days at the till in a large department...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Ghost by Robert Harris
Crime, Thriller & Mystery / Action & Adventure / Contemporary Fiction
The narrator of Robert Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house.
But it doesn't take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill.
The Times has called Robert Harris 'the leading current exponent of the intelligent literary thriller'. The Ghost is his most compelling novel yet.
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Contemporary Fiction / Literary Fiction
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other.
.
View this £1.29 offer on Amazon.co.uk
Forgotten Women by Freda Lightfoot
It is 1936 and Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home.
But not all women are content to be left behind. In Britain, Charlotte McBain and Libby Forbes, friends from opposite sides of the class divide, are determined to do what they can; in Spain, Rosita García Díaz, fiercely...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Suicide Squad by Marv Wolfman
Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous Super Villains, provide them the most powerful arsenal at the government's disposal, and send them off to defeat an insuperable entity. Intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a group of despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. But once they realize they were chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates
Fantasy / Romance / Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Some houses breathe...
Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. More than an hour's drive from the nearest town and surrounded by forests, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude.
But things start to go very wrong, very quickly.
Elle discovers a crumbling graveyard nestled in the woods. It contains a generation of the house's residents, all with an identical year of death.
Scratching in the walls... slamming doors... whispers in the night... a locked room...
As Elle explores deeper into the house, she begins to unravel the property's dark and dangerous history. At its centre is Jonathan Gillespie, a...
.
View this £2.99 offer on Amazon.co.uk
Backwash (DCI Tom Caton Book 8) by Bill Rogers
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The body of a young man is discovered in a terraced house in East Manchester. DCI Tom Caton is drawn inexorably into the dark side of the internet where nothing is as it seems, and where lurks a threat to his own happiness, and that of those closest to him. In two weeks Tom and profiler Kate Webb are due to tie the knot. An appointment that she fears he may never keep.
Part police procedural, part thriller, part mystery, this rich tapestry of a novel delves into the threats that face everyone who uses those social media that have become an essential part of our everyday existence.
.
View this £2.33 offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
'We fed the monster until it blew up ...'
While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune.
From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk
Set me free by Jennifer Collin
Romance
Disastrous love life aside, Charlotte Evans is rather content with her life. Her quaint little art gallery is plodding along nicely, and her sister Emily’s artistic career is about to take off, thanks to her tireless promotion. She even gets to see her best friend every day and drink his delicious coffee in the café next door.
But when dastardly property developer Craig Carmichael comes along, threatening to demolish her gallery and take everything away, Charlotte has an unexpected fight on her hands. Not only is she battling to stop Craig’s development, she’s also struggling against the mysterious magnetic pull that has her on a collision course with Craig himself.
Craig...
.
View this £2.06 offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Passage (Wonderland Series: Book 1) by Irina Shapiro
Romance
In the spring of 1685, Lord Hugo Everly, ardent supporter of the Protestant upstart the Duke of Monmouth, vanishes without a trace just before the Monmouth Rebellion, leaving future generations forever baffled as to what might have become of him.
In 2013, while visiting Everly Manor as part of her job as a location scout for a film production company, Neve Ashley stumbles onto a secret passage that leads her into the...
.
View this £2.99 offer on Amazon.co.uk
The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
Myths & Fairy Tales / Fantasy / Historical
Young Rhea is a miller’s daughter of low birth, so she is understandably surprised when a mysterious nobleman, Lord Crevan, shows up on her doorstep and proposes marriage. Since commoners don’t turn down lords—no matter how sinister they may seem—Rhea is forced to agree to the engagement.
Lord Crevan demands that Rhea visit his remote manor before their wedding. Upon arrival, she discovers that not only was her betrothed married six times before, but his previous wives are all imprisoned in his enchanted castle. Determined not to share their same fate, Rhea asserts her desire for freedom. In answer, Lord Crevan gives Rhea a series of magical tasks to complete, with the...
.
View this 99p offer on Amazon.co.uk