North Africa, June 1942. The British line has broken. The dead are getting up.Cut off in the chaos of the retreat from Gazala, Sergeant Tom Ashby and the battered remnants of 7 Platoon stagger into the oasis town of Qasr el-Mahdi with a dying lorry, a German prisoner and half a bottle of water each. The town has a fort. It has a well. And it has no living people left — except a nurse, an old Senussi rifleman and a handful of children barricaded in the dispensary.When the su...

Rosie and the Sunny Valley is a heartwarming children's story about friendship, kindness, courage, and the simple joys of discovering the world around us. Rosie is a cheerful and curious child who loves exploring the beautiful valley near her home. One bright morning, she decides to follow a sunny trail and discovers a peaceful place filled with colorful flowers, gentle animals, sparkling streams, and friendly neighbors.As Rosie explores the valley, she notices that some of its lit...

'A full-tilt sprint through the Glaswegian criminal underground' David Goodman, author of A Reluctant Spy 'Destined to become a very big name' Peter James 'The vibe is Taggart rewritten by Mick Herron' The Times DCI Alison McCoist is up to the oxters in Glasgow's shadiest police unit, with a list of guilty secrets growing longer by the day. Fran Forbes has just bolted from the scene of a gangland massacre with only a shite-stained tracksuit and a memory stick full of cryptocurrency to his ...

The dark, rawly comic follow-up to the winner of the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year.'A serious talent' Kevin Bridges'Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale' Chris Brookmyre'An outstanding new writer who is destined to become a very big name' Peter JamesDCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular.Chuck Gardner is the proud ow...

Out of His Grip: A True Story of Survival, Abduction, and Escaping a Serial Killer* by **Callum S. Bradley** is a chilling true-crime narrative that explores the terrifying reality of abduction and the extraordinary strength required to survive it.The story follows a victim whose life is violently disrupted when they are abducted by a calculating and dangerous serial killer. What begins as an ordinary day quickly spirals into a nightmare of captivity, fear, and psychological tormen...

He can be the stranger seated beside you at dinner. He can be the quiet gentleman who wins your trust, or the celebrated detective standing right in front of you. He is never who you think he is, and that is precisely the point.Arsène Lupin is a thief unlike any other: charming, brilliant, and impossible to pin down. He steals only from the wealthy, leaves behind calling cards instead of clues, and treats every crime as a work of art. Whether he is unraveling a centuries old riddle...

On the morning of September 5, 1972, eight armed men scaled a chain-link fence at the Munich Olympic Village and set the world on fire.In twenty-one hours, eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were dead. The global audience watching live — nearly one billion people — would never see the Olympics the same way again. And in the silence that followed the gunfire at Fürstenfeldbruck airbase, Israel's intelligence apparatus quietly began assembling a list of names.Blood at th...

Heinrich Himmler took his twelve-year-old daughter on a tour of Dachau. She found it "very interesting." She spent the next seventy-six years defending Nazi war criminals. She never expressed a single regret.Children of the Reich follows six sons and daughters of the Third Reich's most powerful perpetrators — Himmler, Goering, Hess, Hans Frank, Albert Speer, and Josef Mengele — and asks the question history has never fully answered: what do you do when the most documented ...

They weren't omniscient. They weren't everywhere. And that's precisely what makes them terrifying.Strip away decades of Hollywood mythology, and what emerges is far more chilling than any fictional portrayal: a chronically understaffed organization that weaponized ordinary citizens against one another. Neighbors denounced neighbors. Spouses reported spouses. The machinery of state terror ran not on vast surveillance networks but on the willingness of everyday people to betray those...

WINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE for SCOTTISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARFEATURES AN EXTRACT FROM THE NEXT ALISON MCCOIST THRILLER, PAPERBOY'Amazingly accomplished' The Times, Crime Book of the Month'Loved it'Kevin Bridges'A talent to watch'Chris Brookmyre'Very funny'Scotsman'Pitch dark yet dripping with warmth'Ca...

Nicholas Pearce came to the sleek urban firm seeking answers in dusty documents, not the crushing weight of alpha boss Trevor Vane. Every furious argument explodes into raw hunger until Trevor bends him over the desk, and spanks out every last shred of defiance - leaving the defiant little submissive spent, trembling, and desperate for more.The Gay Alpha's Punished Little Submissive is a full-length gay erotic romance featuring a defiant little submissive and his commanding alp...

Archer Lancaster arrived in the Scottish Highlands to seize the disputed lands that were rightfully his. Instead, he finds himself locked in raw urgent hunger with Magnus Vesper - the towering dominant laird who should be his greatest threat.Conquered By The Dominant Gay Highland Laird is a full-length highlander dominant gay MM historical romance featuring a headstrong Englishman and the commanding Highland laird who dominates him.