A gripping, brilliantly realised near-future thriller of a woman trapped by an ability no-one was supposed to have. Jude is a ReTracer who travels back in time in order to stop disastrous events from happening. It makes her distrusted by most people, alienated from her mother and her lover, and now it has made her a threat to someone... such a threat that someone is willing to throw her off a building. Can Jude find out who wants her dead before she hits the ground? "A fast-paced, futurist...

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.There are worse things than the death penalty…They call them halfheads: convicted criminals, surgically mutilated and lobotomized by the State, then sent out to do menial jobs in the community so everyone will know what happens when you break the law. There are no appeals, no reprieves, and no one ever comes back. Until now.

In this "astonishing fantasy debut," a mother and a mysterious Chinese man—who is more than he appears—search for her missing daughter in San Francisco ( Locus).Offering "a deft blend of the oldest of magicks in a dragon, and the newest of sorceries in computers" (Anne McCaffrey), this is the incomparable novel that garnered Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick Award nominations, and earned its author the John W. Campbell Best New Writer award.

The first book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from multi-award-winning author Chris Brookmyre.We all make life choices. Some cause more mayhem than others.Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're havi...

Bad is the new good.In the not too distant future the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all it's not their fault they can't do it right, is it? So it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent.And now a murder has been committed and our possibly incompetent detective must find out who the murderer is. As long as he can find directions...

A COMIC EPIC FOR ANYONE WHO LOVES RODDY DOYLE, P.G. WODEHOUSE, BECKETT AND KAFKA, BUT WISHES THEIR BOOKS HAD MORE EXPLOSIONS...'The Death of the Author is on your conscience!'It was. 'Sorry,' I said.Jude is a penniless Irish orphan, fighting blizzards, bankers and the laws of physics as he walks the length of England. He has not one, but two Quests: to find his True Love -- last glimpsed in the hairy clutches of a monkey -- and to uncover the Secret of his Origins.

A Viking temple. A Viking ship. Both preserved in the clinging, black mud of the North Yorkshire estuary. Press and TV watch over the archaeologists' shoulders as past and present merge.And while huge, death-cold creatures stalk and destroy through the blizzards of an eerily early winter, modern computer science and the dark night-knowledge of the old Norse gods disinter a terrible truth about a past that is sleeping, not dead.

Shatter a mirror, and rearrange the pieces. What shapes will you find in the splintered glass?Sinister forces roam London's streets, skulking through the neon-lit rain. They are not alone. Haunted by memories of the man who abandoned her, Amber goes walking in the deep night. The phone box she enters takes her on a journey she could never have imagined, one in which the past and the future will be rewritten. Others follow in her footsteps, their lives intertwining, and the...

'On the surface, MY HERO is funny; deep down, it's smart, with lots to say about the fine line between Life and Art- and about what happens when it disappears altogether.' - MAXIM'Witty and eccentric... dazzling, neat, frivolous.' - TIME OUTThis is the story of Jane, who finds the novel she is working on starts to write back. She's already realized novel writing isn't such a piece of cake after all, and the world of fictio...

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 ...

**A horror short story collection from #1 bestseller, Paul Finch. Full of unputdownable reads for cold winter nights…**As the nights draw in, get hooked on this dark and suspenseful collection of horror tales – the perfect read for fans of Mark Edwards and Peter James.This collection comprises of seven short stories, all also available as individual ebooks:The Incident at North ShoreChildren Don’t Play Here AnymoreTokGod’s Fist

This old school horror sees agents Bob Cole and Sue Cartia investigating what is to them, just another brutal killing. However, what begins as a murder case rapidly becomes a story of evil making its home in the depths of fear itself. In order to shed light onto the murders of the present, the investigation delves into a shadowy story from the past and without other options, the most unlikely of leads needs to be followed. As the two agents begin to chase the killer down, they find that th...