A Himalayan Journey into Madness, Mayhem and Adventure !It documents a Nepal not spoken or written about in other travel or adventure stories – not sparing the reader from harsh realities, corruption and madness; a sojourn into the Himalayas that succinctly captures the myths, history, geography and people in a way that shocks but also brilliantly entertains."Adventure as it should be - just do it and damn the rest!" - Ian Thurlby, founder of The Blue Space Guides' Co-opera...

Fourteen Short Stories of Dark Fiction and Non-Fiction. Tales of Night and Ice, interwoven with the Supernatural. A modern reflection of sparks that lurk within the dark. Murder, Mystery and Sex!

A perilous journey full of love, deception and delusion.Set in the dramatic and raw landscapes of the Basque Pyrenees, Biafra and French West Africa, the story follows the plight of Jacques Freeman, a lonely brooding bachelor lamenting his days in the south of France after losing his home and family to a violent African revolution. Six powerful characters, three women and three men, interplay in this gritty and exhilarating novel."This will be a book for the decade. A true ...

A diverse collection of dark stories and travel journals.If you enjoy reading about weird experiences and eccentric perceptions, then Mumbo Jumbo is for you!"Cold crystal particles beautifully shaped and delicately formed into the soft snow or harsh ice of hiking and climbing.This is what the word crystal conjures for me.For others it may be a cure in crystal healing, the devil calling in crystal meth, an expensive cut glass thing or just a pretty stone. Once ...

The 1960’s was a post-war peaceful decade of pyschedelia, op art, mini-skirts, The Beatles, and the notoriously publicised sex scandal of Government Minister, Lord Profumo/ . . . These extraordinary events all coincided in over 15 peaceful years after the 2nd World War in 1945, when both allied covert services of the U.S and the USSR were rendered almost static/ . . . Also, the famous onset of ‘flower-power’ contrasted sharply with first time Space exploration, when both Major Powers enter...

A collection of modern poetry, from playful and provocative to profound and poignant, through these poems Ben Gilbert shares his unique and refreshing perspective on many aspects of modern living."These masterfully written poems brought warmth to my heart, tears to my eyes and curiosity to my mind. I found myself smiling and amused by his witty take on things. The author is a talented linguist and has played on words effortlessly to inspire and tantalise the minds of his readers. I...

Michael Morpurgo’s children’s classic is now a BAFTA nominated major movie animation that The Sunday Times calls ‘bold, charming and beautiful’ starring Cillian Murphy, Sally Hawkins and Ken Watanabe. With screen play by children’s laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. From the award-winning author of War Horse.‘A dazzling adventure’ – The Times‘I heard the wind above me in the sails. I remember thinking, this is silly, you haven’t ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SUSPENSE MAGAZINE • Includes Dean Koontz’s short story “You Are Destined to Be Together Forever”From “one of the master storytellers of this or any age” (The Tampa Tribune) comes the stunning final adventure of “one of the most remarkable and appealing characters in current fiction”(The Virginian-Pilot)—as Dean Koontz brings the unforgettable odyssey of Odd Th...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace exposes the dark side of internet dating in the intriguing crime novel Dead at First Sight, by award winning author Peter James.A man waits at a London airport for the love of his life to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired cop waits in a bar in Florida’s Key West for his first date with the lady who is his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they’ve been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world...

A hilarious and heart-warming tale of second chance love from the author of Kindle sensation The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything.Is he just a summer fling? Or the one she’s been waiting for?…How Lauren thought her summer holiday would go: Priceless mother-son memories made before Charlie leaves for university.How things actually are, now they’re here: Charlie refusing to speak to her and...

Building work in an expanding Reykjav�k uncovers a shallow grave.Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple.Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than...

Now in paperback, the eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up—the Serious Cybernetics Company.D...