A crime novel which features journalist Laura Ackroyd and her lover Chief Inspector Michael Thackeray. When building work unearths the bones of a young woman, bitter memories and old hatreds surface, and someone is willing to kill in order to conceal the identity of the murderer.

The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

"...an absolute blockbuster of a tale that not only absorbs every bit of your attention but will have you pondering about the nature of reality itself. I thoroughly enjoyed every single page..." -Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite ✶✶✶✶✶ "... a complex thriller about power and hope whilst never missing a beat." -K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite ✶✶✶✶✶ Reality is an illusion worth fighting for. Earth's ecological collapse is avoided when most of the world population agrees to permanently upload into a simulated reality called Replika. But the stability of this world is threatened when a group of neuroscientists hack their brains to interact with the simulations in unforeseen and dangerous ways. Sky devotes her life to rebuilding the real world left in the shadows of Replika. But when she learns her brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, is in danger, she must choose which world needs her most. All she wants...

A lot of people lose their way in India . . . it's a country specially made for that.'Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie with an overworked doctor, a young prostitute and the leader of a strange religious order.Dreamlike, elusive and profoundly disquieting, Indian Nocturne calls into question the very nature of identity.

This is more than just an autobiographical chronicle of his life and career. A Writer's Tale takes readers behind the scenes in the life of a dedicated artist, who despite often sizable odds, persisted to become one of the best selling horror writers in England and around the world.

Even where oceans are warm, dark secrets lurk below the surface. Even where breezes are fragrant, trouble floats in the air. Even in the land of aloha, peace can be destroyed.When a missile plows into a tourist boat, dolphin researcher Kaia Oana is one of the first into the water, risking her own life to help others. When called upon to investigate the incident, Lieutenant Commander Jesse Matthews enlists Kaia and her specially trained dolphins to help––and romantic sparks fly.As Kaia and Jesse edge closer to the truth about the accident, their own lives are threatened. Will they be able to stop a killer before more lives are lost?

Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja.Carefully selected by their hostess – an enigmatic figure who calls herself, 'The Black Lady The' – the passengers on this journey range from a wealthy tribal chief to a humble petrol pump attendant, from a rain-maker to a reserved woman observing purdah.They are united only by their dissatisfaction with Nigeria's chaotic and corrupt regime, a concern which is reflected in the widely differing stories they tell on their journey – bawdy tales, sharp satires, poignant narratives and moral fables.Blending poetry and prose, rich visual images, and witty puns, Karen King-Aribisala succeeds in transforming a fourteenth-century English classic into an exuberant and distinctively African work.

After tangling with the deadly basilisk, Nathaniel Fludd is glad to return to England with his Aunt Phil. But someone has ransacked their home, and their best suspect is the sinister man who's been trying to steal the Book of Beasts.Before Nate and Aunt Phil can find the culprit, they are called to Welsh countryside. The wyverns (giant dragons) are in an uproar. Could the same man who ransacked the Fludd house be behind the rift with the wyverns? And just what does he want with The Book of Beasts? But before Nate can solve that mystery, he must calm the dragons before it's too late. It's just another day at work for the world's youngest beastologist!

I stared deep into the ring. A cloudy form shifted inside the jewel. It moved as if -- as if it were alive. Miss Gold turned the ring in the light. The cloud became a face. It frowned inside the jewel. "What is that?" I gasped. "It's a flaw in the jewel," Miss Gold explained. I couldn't take my eyes off the ring. The face inside was so ugly. So creepy. So evil.

Salt Snake and Other Bloody Cuts is a collection of short horror fiction from Simon Clark, an acclaimed author of blood curdling novels—Blood Crazy, Darker, and The Night of the Triffids. Originally published in 1998 as a limited print run of just over 800 copies, Salt Snake is a real treat for any lover of weird fiction.

Piers is desperate to become a page to escape the dirty, tedious labor of his father's blacksmith shop. So when a knight arrives announcing that he's on “the quest," Piers begs to go along. Off on a series of adventures he never dreamed possible, Piers and the knight quickly run into difficulties. The knight is slain by Parsifal who is on a quest of his own.Parsifal is unlike anyone Piers has ever met. He doesn't behave “knightly" at all. Slowly, Piers realizes that being a knight has nothing to do with shining armor and winning jousts. And, as their journey continues, they find that to achieve their quest they must learn more than knighthood: they must learn about themselves.The tale of Parsifal has been told more than that of any other knight, but no one has ever told his story quite like Gerald Morris does in his fourth Arthurian novel, another tour de force of humor, action, magic, and, as always, true love.