A chance meeting with the hotelier Rudolph Wenger and his female companion ends in a orgy of drink, drugs and sex, that sees Gary, a young Irish man forced to flee the police on the island of Jersey.Arriving in Dublin, he moves into a low-rent, tenement house run by the mysterious landlord Mr. Jones and inhabited by an array of eccentric and violent characters living on the fringes of society.Brainwashed by the rote learning of his school teacher father, he lives in a world...

THE ASHES OF THE GODS Alphonsus Q Mann III, leader of a New Age sect flees to Ireland, from the authorities in the United States, who seek him for currency and tax violations. He buys a mansion - Martin's Castle Hotel - on the Burren in the west of Ireland, operating under the guise of running high-level management training courses, in a technique called 'Reality Imaging'. Patrick Denk, Mann's second-in-command is sent in advance to purchase the property. Although initially...

EVENING WARRIOR The burning of a Viking temple in the Faroes by a blind Irish monk called Papar, brings retribution from the Gods to all on the island. A young Viking warrior Egil Skallagrimsson saves an Amerindian slave girl called Noni from being raped by a son of the Royal family. Egil murders the youth while overtaken by one of his rages, which sees him turn from a cool-headed, responsible young man to a raging beast with superhuman strength. Al...

A FAMILY GRAVE A body buried deep in the heart of the Wicklow mountains leads Detective Frank Blood to the gun used by a terrorist linked to the 1974 Dublin bombing, in which his parents were killed. But he's not the only one seeking the gun. The odds are firmly stacked against Blood discovering the weapon's true history and unravelling the mystery of his own young life, that has been wiped from his memory by the trauma of the bombing. Blood's involvement...

Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet—a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters—lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful Natasha, a ...

Waverley is a small cat with a big miaow and he lives with Mr and MrsTurner and their son Jonathan at number 10, Marten's Drive.Waverley likes the house at number 10, Marten's Drive because it haslots of good places to sleep and a back garden that seems to go onforever. Beyond the wooden fence at the bottom of the garden there isa children's playground, green fields, and then the woods. All daylong Waverley snoozes in the sunny spots around the ho...

Ash is James Herbert’s last and most controversial novel. It will make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction.Fear will let you in. Terror will keep you there.David Ash, ghost hunter and parapsychologist, arrives at Comraich Castle – a desolate, ancient place with a dark heart – to investigate a series of disturbing events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse, fed and now unleashed by the evil of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BOOK BEHIND THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESNAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADEHere is the fifth book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece in the making.A DANCE WITH DRAGONSIn the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her ...

The basis for the film starring Scarlett Johansson, award-winning author Michel Faber's Under the Skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genre-jumping meditation'' (Washington Post Book World).Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might ...

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.Here is the second book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.A CLASH OF KINGSA comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land a...

The ferociously readable, #1 bestselling crime thriller that led to the much-loved ITV show… ‘Wholly satisfying’ Ian RankinYoung girls are disappearing nationwideDr Tony Hill sets his team a task: find a link between the cases.Only one officer comes up with a theory, but it’s too wild… that is, until one of their number is murdered and mutilated.Tony has started a game – one where hunter and hunted can all too easil...

**A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world.“A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle**Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college togeth...