"A gripping, cinematic supernatural thriller, shot through with unsettling imagery and startling insights into the nature of good and evil." —David Demchuk, Sunburst Award–winning author of The Bone MotherKidnapped from his foster home, six-year-old Evan desperately searches for a way to escape his brutally violent captor, Rook. Armed with supernatural abilities, Rook is no ordinary man, but then Evan is no ordinary boy. And it soon becom...

Stephen Michell delivers a whimsical collection of short-fiction tales that both delight and provoke one's imagination to see everyday things a little differently.The gardener was a simple person who took life as it came and watched it as it went. He lived in a little town in southwestern Ontario near the banks of the Kahyonhatátye Grand River, and he busied himself with the quiet toil of his gardens.Perhaps because of his good-humoured nature, or perhaps merely out of cha...

A detailed account of the Canadian run-up to the Dieppe Raid, the invasion and life in the P.O.W. camp as well as the final forced march by the malnourished and sick kreigies.This novel documents the daring escape of 52 soldiers, right under the noses of their German captors with the assistance of the camp Kregie band, of which Stephen Michell was part. Their job was to distract the camp guards. The escape at Mulhausen was the reason Hitler ordered the executions of the British and...

"A gripping, cinematic supernatural thriller, shot through with unsettling imagery and startling insights into the nature of good and evil." —David Demchuk, Sunburst Award–winning author of The Bone MotherThis audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling.Kidnapped from his foster home, six-year-old Evan desperately searches for a way to escape his brutally violent ...

The hilarious road trip summer romance that became a Top 20 UK sensation!Uptight, control freak Evelyn never takes chances with her heart. Until fate brings her a misplaced love letter, revealing her ex-fiance still adores her…five days before he's set to marry someone else!Throwing caution to the wind, Evelyn embarks on a whirlwind journey to reunite them before it's too late. But from the beginning, everything that could go wrong does, and sardonic, arrogant cab driver Br...

In this “an electrifying historical thriller that is sure to become a classic” (The Real Book Spy) the long-anticipated origin story of legendary Marine, fan favorite, and father of literary icon Bob Lee takes us to the battlefields of World War II as Earl Swagger embarks on a top secret and deadly mission.July, 1944: The lush, rolling hills of Normandy are dotted with a new feature—German snipers. From their vantage points, they pick off hundreds of Allie...

An outback family saga that is funny, poignant and completely unexpected from Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Before the Storm out now.Di's 12th novel opens in New Zealand in the 1960s. The Mitchell family has run a prosperous sheep farm for generations and the youngest daughter, Sally, has just turned 20. She shocks her parents by becoming involved with an older man. Scandalised, they try to pack her off to England, but Sally doesn't make...

From the carnage of war a new hero is born.The slaughter of World War One is over, but already secret little wars are breaking out all over 'New Europe'.Sub-Lieutenant de Vere Smith VC, at twenty the youngest Victoria Cross holder in the British Empire, is asked by the head of the Secret Service to help convoy arms to the Poles, under threat from Russia and Germany.Jumping at the chance, Smith refits his old patrol boat, Swordfish

'Moves so intensely and inexorably that it almost seems like the war it is describing' The New York Times Book Review'Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?'On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific, the soldiers of C Company are about to enter the war. The men know they face their baptism of fire. But none know if they will be one of 'the lucky ones' to make it safely off the island. From Captain S...

When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City’s tenements turn to midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to protect their rights. Now, as the Edgar® and Agatha Award–nominated series continues, the two must track down a cruel criminal preying on the hopes and dreams of innocent women…A Gaslight MysteryFrank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens h...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest.'A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Jünger's...

A "masterpiece" from the O. Henry Award–winning author of Rich Man, Poor Man, this classic novel captures the experiences of three soldiers during WWII ( The Boston Globe ).The Young Lions is one of the most powerful American novels to tackle the Second World War. Ambitious in its scope and robust in its prose, Irwin Shaw's work is also deeply humanistic, presenting the...