You’ve spent all that hard work planning your wedding -right down to the color of the roses on the cake. But when the last piece of wedding cake is eaten and the rice is thrown, you realize that than booking the reservations for your honeymoon, you haven’t given it much thought.
‘Find a head without a body, Ryder, and it’s weird, but there’s something whole about it. Find a body without a head and it’s creepy and sad at the same time- just alone.
The Indispensable Julian Rathbone offers up a wide selection of his work- crime, science, erotic and historical fiction, short stories, extracts from his novels, autobiography, poetry, critical essays and screenplays.
All that matters for Cardi Forbes is finding the one man who can set her free from the sun that plagues her days and nights…the sun that has stolen her mother’s love from her and made her wish she could flee life and its terrible justice.
After a relationship-breaking argument with her dull boyfriend, Veronique jumps into her little white fiat and drives off into the Paris night. Feeling the effects of the wine she has been drinking, she makes sure she drives slowly and carefully, down into the underpass, not wanting to hit the side of the tunnel….
This book traces the Mafia’s beginnings from an underground patriotic society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sisily, through the group of Italian immigrants – the Black Hand – Who savagely tore control of New York’s waterfronts away from Irish racketeers, to the Mob which went on to run organized crime throughout Italy and America. Drawing on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, William Balsamo – great-nephew of the first godfather – and George Carpozi Jr. trace the Black Hand’s coalescence into an organization whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic and into a presidential administration. And they go behind the headlines to reveal with chilling clarity the true extent of the Mafia’s influence today.
Little Infamies was one of the great successes of 2002: a collection of extraordinary stories that gained rapturous reviews and very strong sales. Now Panos Karnezis brings us his first novel, The Maze, a book that will propel him to the very first rank of young writers.
This is much more than just a serial-killer novel; as ever, Pelecanos tackles race, family, loyalties and drug culture with the utmost delicacy of touch, providing a gently panoramic and compassionate view of the ills as well as the positive elements of American society.
They kidnapped him in a small town In Brazil. He had changed his name and his appearance, but they were sure they had their man.
Four years before, he had been called Patrick S. Lanigan. He had died in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. He had been a partner at an up and coming law firm, had a pretty wife, a new daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million had disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive.
This story takes place in ancient roman times, so a few of the words may look strange. If you don’t know them, ’Aristo’s scroll’ at the back of the book will tell you what they mean and how to pronounce them.
In the First World War, Ronald Skirth was an ordinary tommy. His experiences were like those of many others: fighting in the trenches under constant bombardment, suffering under a cowardly commanding officer, enduring shell shock and finally, somehow, surviving.
‘Fidelis Morgan’s tale of love and greed and alchemy in 1699 is a heady compound of wit, wisdom and wildness. It’s an unsentimental warts-on-all portrait that reeks of authenticity, written with a brio that reflects the age’.
A bold and determined modern woman. Her marriage and family are about to be turned upside down by choices that seem out of her control.
Jerry Cooper, of the predators, returns, moving from his spring-water business to launch his new empire of women’s apparel.
The memories, surprises and forced conversations prompted by the close confines of the drive reveal more about the compromises of their shared life than they would care to confess.
“One of the 10 best books of the year… A Grandiose tale of treachery and violence”. – People
“An offer of evil and romance that cannot be refused. Mario Puzo Remains one of America’s best popular storytellers”. – Time
This short exquisite novel manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing
London, 1891. When orphans Esther and Tom are caught stealing by Lord Ringmore, little do they realise the peril they are in. Rather than hand them over to the police, the lord employs the children. But what does he really want with them?
Blackwood is a man obsessed. He has devoted his life to unearthing the roots of magic. Tormented by the thought of death he knows that only real magic can overcome mortality. He has in his possession a book that contains the secret of true magic, but he cannot unlock its meaning alone. Only Tom and Esther can help him unravel its terrible and dangerous secrets…
London, 2013, and a young girl called Amy is about to turn thirteen. She is never happier than in a graveyard where, one day, she notices a gravestone named only ‘Esther’ with a magpie perched above it who speaks to her. He is called Tom!
A spine-chilling tale of magic and illusion, and an induction into the world of sorcery both fair and shady – so beware!
For Jones Harper, being in show-business means money, fame, a beautiful wife, and a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C. McQueen, it means a disastrous career playing passers-by and dead people.
This book is a delightful reminder of how much acting we all do in the name of love.
The Walking Dead original novel series, set in the universe of Robert Kirkman’s iconic comic book, comes to a shattering conclusion with The Fall of the Governor – Part Two. From co-authors Kirkman, creator of the Eisner Award-winning comic as well as executive producer of AMC’s blockbuster TV series, and Jay Bonansinga, Stoker Award-finalist and internationally acclaimed author, comes this stunning finale to their ambitious chronicle of human survival amid the plague of undead, which began with The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor.
In Rise of the Governor, uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse, and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. In The Road to Woodbury, an innocent traveler named Lilly Caul wound up in the terrifying thrall of Phillip Blake’s twisted, violent dictatorship within Woodbury’s ever tightening barricades. In The Fall of the Governor – Part One, Philip Blake finally revealed himself to be the true monster that he is, and the battle lines were drawn between the Governor and the desperate, beleaguered inhabitants of a nearby prison.
Now, in The Fall of the Governor Part Two, the Governor’s dark journey reaches its shocking, heartrending conclusion. In a roller coaster finale, war breaks out, all of the plot lines from the previous three novels converge, tensions boil over into unthinkable mayhem, and the dark destinies of those few left standing are sealed in a series of stunning twists
A grief that knows no boundary. A love without any limit. A need that doesn’t end at Death.
Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend her life with him. She just didn’t expect her hero to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber.
Six months after Jarrod’s death, Corrie retreats to the family home her husband inherited deep in the Missouri Ozarks. She doesn’t know how to live without Jarrod—she doesn’t want to. By moving to Saunders Creek and living in a house beloved by him, she hopes that somehow her Jarrod will come back to her.
Something about the house suggests maybe he has. Corrie begins to wonder if she can feel Jarrod’s presence.
Jarrod’s cousin Eli is helping Corrie with the house’s restoration and he knows that his dead cousin is not what Corrie senses. Eli, as a believing man and at odds with his mystically-oriented family members, thinks friendly visits from beyond are hogwash. But he takes spirits with dark intentions seriously. Can he convince Corrie that letting go of Jarrod will lead to finding her footing again— and to the One she can truly put her faith into?
Jimmy Conway always wanted to be famous. As a teenager he even stashed away a series of letters advising his future self on how to handle all the fame and fortune coming his way. And so when he’s reunited wih these rather embracing predictions in his mid-thirties he can’t help feeling he must be a bit of a disappointment to himself.
When Paul Conrad is called to investigate the murder of six people, one of whom is a famous actress,little did he know that his chase of the world’s most elusive monster would lead to love death and betrayal.
