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Everything was against us, even time. We were indisputably going to die tonight. I have been faced with death so much today that I was suddenly not afraid anymore. I prepared myself over and over again, and finally, I am ready for it. I am. Right?" Caitlyn Cooper - Fairytale Imprisonment Future-seeing Caitlyn Cooper and her bad-news boyfriend quickly learns that the safest way of playing a part in each other's life is to be apart from each other.

When Daniel's parents force him to move to the countryside, he fears his new life will be boring...yet nothing could be further from the truth. On his first day at his new school, he is told the dark and mysterious wood at the back of his garden is cursed by a terrifying beast. With rumours of how a family vanished several years ago, Daniel is warned to stay away or risk becoming the monster's next victim. But following his parents' strange be...

In the south of England, in the city of Monks-Lantern, events are starting to unfold which have the potential to threaten all of creation. Isaac Jacobs is a young university student with a haunted past who has long been fighting the supernatural monsters of this world and now he fights them alongside his four friends, Gabbi Gurtpasha, Billie Stamford, Laura Henley and Ben Pokeley. What starts off as a disturbing but relatively low key investig...

Sharp as quivering hares are the Flecks. We've eyes and ears for things other folk miss.' Much later, in the aftermath of Flodden, a young man finally understands his father's words. The year: 1513. The place: North-East England. Tom Fleck, a downtrodden farm worker but gifted archer, yearns to escape his masters. He unearths two objects that could be keys to freedom: a torque of ancient gold and a Tudor seal ring. He cannot know how these fin...

People are being murdered in Chigwell, Essex. The killer is leaving numbered tokens in the victims mouths. DI Jed Parish and PC Mary Richards must gain access to the abandoned Beech Tree Orphanage if they are to find out the truth behind the murders.

For those with a sense of humour and the utterly ludicrous this is for you. This may be mad, wacky and incomprehensible but life is all about the unusual and the absurd. This book is people who like their literature totally nonsensical. I hope this is a book for people who like to think outside the box, a book is both challenging and fun. Above all this is the book for people who like to laugh and smile. It might even you leave you rolling aro...

This is a love story - although if you like your love stories done Mills and Boon then put it down now. This is also a tragedy - by definition a story based on the association of two alcoholics can't be anything else: but, unfolding through the fatalistic humour that is the hallmark of the alcoholic, you are spared the pain until the end. Essentially the story examines the terminal hopelessness of alcoholics - and the despair of those who love...

Emil Andreev is one of the stars of contemporary Bulgarian fiction and drama. A master storyteller from Lom on the River Danube, he is the winner of several awards, including the Vick and Helikon prizes for fiction. His works have been translated into English, German, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Serbian. He is the author of several collections of short stories - Lom Stories (1996), Late Art Nouveau (1998) and The Drunkards' Island (1999), the...

Hundreds of years separate the families, but their fears are the same when their lives are torn apart in changing times of violence and hate. They seek a refuge and dream of peace and a new beginning. The cave provides shelter and an inspiration. Nok, the last survivor of an early Stone-Age people, and pregnant Meera, an outcast from a newer race, are hounded by Meera's tribe. Roman settlers, Marcus, Flavia and son Octavian, evading a tribal u...

Set on a candle-lit protest march against intolerance around Vienna's Ringstrasse, Marching the Ring tells the story of the tension between Richard and Anne Kearns and is contrasted with their love for each other in their long, and now faltering, marriage. At different stages during the march their life together is revealed as - in turn - they recall meeting as students, their married life, parenthood and professional careers (Anne as a noveli...

Because of her language skills and knowledge of Paris, a young aristocrat is recruited into MI6 to try and locate missing SOE agents in the French capital. Catherine has orders to kill any of them who are working for the Germans. She meets a former German student who raped her when they were at the Sorbonne before the war. He is now an SS officer working in Paris. He invites Catherine into the Sicherheitsdienst headquarters along Avenue Foch, ...

At the end of the Second World War, the sometimes benign, sometimes malign, levelling dust of fate, dictates the course that the lives of two brothers will take after they are separated by a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by guilt, Douglas Bowen recklessly risks his life during the Korean War, falls in love with the exotic, but treacherous Linda Yeung in Hong Kong and, after being co-erced into joining a sinister section of MI6, known as ...

FRACTAL UTOPIA. The Science Fiction adventure of the century begins here in R Becket's first book written for young adults, called 'KREATOR'. Rowan Macready a seemingly insignificant boy of sixteen, suddenly becomes the single most important figure in the fate of mankind. An extra terrestrial force grips the helpless minds of Earth's Children in an insidious virtual game. Here, the participant unknowingly is absorbed into another plane of exis...

This is the story of my 9 months in a Malay kampong (village) house, in Kelantan, the strictest Moslem State of Malaysia, while my Eurasian wife was in coma.

An extraordinary tale with its mix of fact and fiction. Pat's story is factual up to about 1946, then her imagination tends to take over.There are times when it is left to the reader to separate reality from wishful thinking.

This, the third of Struan Hamilton's biographies of life pioneering in Russia, takes us to Central Russia, to Stepanopel, a city on the Volga. Once more you can laugh with him, cry with him and really get the sense of witnessing the wonderful theocratic progress that was being made there in the early part of this century.

Hi. This is Rachel again. After all the trouble I told you about in my first book 'Family Secrets', I was really looking forward to going back to Scarborough for the summer holidays. I was gonna see my gran and all my old friends and get away from all the bad stuff for a while. But that so didn't happen! It started going wrong as soon as I stepped off the bus and creepy Joshua tried to chat me up. Then the next day Gran didn't came home from t...

A quirky tale of romance and rebellion set on the bewitching islands of The Archipelago. Here, a set of unique conditions has given rise to some of the planet's more bizarre and threatening species. Now with the citizenry in imminent revolt, what are the chances of human society surviving on the islands? Can the fragile social order be preserved and the future of humanity secured, or will the words of one rebel leader prove to be prophetically...

It's 2029, an asteroid heads for an impact in the Sahara desert following a mysterious change in orbit. Far from being the catastrophic event that had been predicted, an ancient secret is exposed that will re-write the history of mankind. Was an undiscovered branch of our family tree the foundation for our present civilisation? Who did build the pyramids? What are the markings on the Nazca plain in South America? The Torah Cult, a secret organ...

THE ETERNAL LIGHT.Imagine being able to see the wind - and music, love and Jesus too.Here is a unique opportunity for people to have a fresh but exciting look at something so amazing yet so natural that it challenges us to find out more.Who or what is this ETERNAL LIGHT?There is a natural void in every person, wanting real answers. Who are we? What is our purpose here on earth? What happens next?This book is an intriguing way to begin the jour...