A superb new noir/science fiction fusion from the 'mastersinger of space opera' (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe, strap in for a gripping murder mystery.Yuri Gagarin is a private investigator, who picks up small cases from his local community, runs into trouble with the local police, and generally ekes out a living as best he can. He's aboard the Halcyon - a starship, hurtling through space, carrying thousands of passengers with...

WINNER OF THE BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD 2020'Atmospheric...evocative...important.' Tom KeneallyKitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation...Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl - unconcerned...

The Dylan Thomas Collection includes modern recordings of some of Dylan Thomas' most iconic works, read by renowned Welsh actor, Iwan Rheon. In this collection you'll find the everlasting wonder of A Child's Christmas in Wales, lesser-known but no less beautiful stories The Peaches and Quite Early One Morning, six of his most famous poems, as well as a brand new version of Under Milk Wood.The last completely original audi...

For the first time on audio, the deeply personal and ingenious first novel written under Patrick O’Brian’s own name.THREE BEAR WITNESSJohn Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don who has given up his teaching post and come to live in a secluded Welsh valley, falls in love with Bronwen Vaughan, the wife of a young farmer who is his neighbour. She is estranged from her husband, an admirable man in many ways, but one who has compelled her to submit to some brutal sexual perversion....

SOVAS 2026 Finalist for Outstanding Audio Drama – Lead Performance – Best Voice ActorThis is Under Milk Wood as you've never heard it before.The last completely original audio-only production of Thomas' masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, was in 1954 (two months after Thomas's death). It has been reprised countless times since then for stage, TV, and in book form, but this wholly new version, headed by Iwan Rheon as First Voice, keeps Thomas' orig...

THIS IS NOT a sappy romance read where sweet Miss Y swoons at the sight of attractive Mr X.BUT If you want a great read about WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE and real men not threatened by women who can hold their own in any situation. PLEASE GO RIGHT AHEAD and get hooked.Rowland, The Senator's Son is Book One of the fast-paced kick-arse, action adventure series - Forces at Play.These skilfully crafted tales are married with a dash of mystery, a peppering of nau...

The Treloar Story describes this unique college in Hampshire which has educated disabled student for seventy years.

Nara is a human female that is brutally attacked, an attack she is not meant to survive.At the moment of her greatest despair she prays for the creator to "Save her or show her to her next existence." As she is about to succumb to her injuries she is rescued by massive anglic beings she believes are the creators archangels.She awakes to find herself transported 400 years into the future. In this time the Earth in fact the Milky Way no longer exist, destroyed by the idiocy o...

The 4th edition of Plumbing continues to provide the definitive single volume text on plumbing, heating and gas installation work, ideal for students working towards their Diploma in plumbing or NVQ/SVQ at levels 2 and 3. Highly illustrated and easy to read and understand, it tackles plumbing topic by topic, in double page spreads with text, full colour illustrations, and clear photographs, enabling the reader to grasp the essentials quickly and easily. This approach ensures it al...

When a Tempest is more than a violent storm.When the touch of a demonic force starts to create imbalance, two great divine beings decide to create a cure. A child. Tempest is the 15 cycle daughter of two great deities. Her care is entrusted to the Sword Master of Eerikki. His task is to train her to become an Elite Warrior in her own right.Is she the panacea or will she become just another victim of the darkness of the dishonoured?Tempest of Eerikki...

Voted The Times' Book of the Year, Salt Creek is an Australian historical novel about a family pursuing their dreams, duty, and displacement.A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance through the eyes of a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia.The comfortable and respectable life Hester Finch now leads in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt Creek in 1855. Yet s...

Master Basic Plumbing and Central Heating is a straightforward guide to such easy, yet frequently mysterious, tasks as replacing a radiator or changing a tap; it also offers ample help for such crises as blocked toilets and frozen pipes. It will tell you all about the layout of a house and water system, then show you how to undertake basic emergency repairs; complete small and achievable projects; and even tackle bigger things like installing a bathroom suite or plumbing in a dishwasher.