THRONEBOGCAN is a humorous, quirky, ironic and sometimes bawdy look at the intertwining lives and loves of late adolescents and twenty something's at the birth of the internet revolution. It also references the cynical handling of talent by entrepreneurs during the dot.com bubble era. It is a coming of age journey that encompasses a road trip and a quest that may prove to be the making of Gregory Martyn.Gregory Martyn is an antihero, a boy in a man's body who is more comfortable wi...

This is two books. "Hope" follows the lives and loves of a group of children and their families from the 1950s to the early 1990s. It revolves around their aspirations and struggle for survival, their successes and failures. There is murder and mayhem and a dark underpinning sense of humour that takes place under the continental quilt of the valley environment. There is also a mystery to solve in terms of the main character's love life, this unwinds as the possible candidates are eliminate...

The book is set in 1984. In living memory the United Kingdom had never been so divided, and was close to a general strike and civil war. On one side, the ultra-right wing governing party wanted to smash the unions and had orchestrated a plan to end their influence. On the other side agents provocateurs hid behind the petticoats of the unions and advocated class warfare.A series of gruesome murders takes place at a colliery and Detective Sergeant Eirwen "I" Davies is tasked with solv...

Cockney is the dialect of East London. It was back in the 14th century that the term 'cockney' was first coined, as an insult by country folk to describe working class Londoners and their speech - cockeneyes meaning rotten egg, or, more literally, the egg of a cock. The dialect developed as the capital grew in Tudor and Georgian times, but it didn't become an identifying feature of London life until Charles Dickens popularised it in the 19th century. By this stage anyone born within the so...

Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods and Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the chances are you were born in the or around 1960.To the young people of today, the 1960s seems like another age. But for those who grew up in this decade, school life, 'mod' fashions and sixties pop music are still fresh in their minds. From James Bond to Sindy dolls and playing hopscotch in the street, life was very different to how it is now. After the tough and frug...

If you’re a man of a certain age you’ll know there comes a point in life when getting a sports car and over-analysing your contribution to society sounds like a really good idea.With a good job in sales and marketing and a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife and kids, John Bishop was no different when he turned the dreaded 4-0. But instead of spanking a load of cash on a car that would have made him look like a senior stylist at Vidal Sassoon, he stumbled onto a p...

In this exclusive ebook-only edition, Phil Tufnell, aka 'Tuffers', the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tuffers' Cricket Tales, shares a selection of the most outrageous and hilarious cricket stories he has received from his Twitter followers.

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most serene of surfaces.What becomes of a child who grows up without love?Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older broth...

Charlie Bronson has spent 28 of the last 30 years in solitary confinement. He has been locked in dungeons, in iron boxes concreted into the middle of cells and, famously, in a cage. When he is unlocked, up to 12 prison officers - sometimes in riot gear and with dogs - are standing by. Yet this is a man of great warmth and humour who has never killed anyone and has often dealt with his gruelling life with humour - during a siege in 1993 he demanded an inflatable doll and a cup of tea. Now h...

Forget Torres, Rooney, Beckham and the like. This is what football is really about. One man’s story of a career in the lower leagues.Chris Hargreaves has been a professional footballer for twenty years. Having started out as a youth team player at Everton he made his debut for Grimsby Town in 1989 and was earmarked as their first million pound sale.It never happened.Instead he went on to play for Scarborough, Hull City, West Brom, Hereford United, Plymouth Argyle, N...

Chase Drake plans to wine and dine the investors during a weekend trip fit for a billionaire. When Isabeau steps up to plan the event, he knows he's found someone who's truly his match.However, more is at stake than money when the aftermath of a high stakes poker game turns his partner against him.Can their relationship endure the meddling of Alexander Smith, or will it collapse like a house of cards?This 6000 word story is the seventh part of the bestselling erotic...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickONE COP. ONE KILLER. TWO CAPTIVES OF THE PAST.Mat Joubert, once a rising star of the South African police force, had it all. Then his wife was murdered, and his hopes died with her. Alcoholic, depressed and overweight, he is a shadow of his former self.Then a new killer appears on the streets of Cape Town, murder...