In the year 2045 a team of astronauts set sail for the edge of the solar system on the U.S.S Burdett to search for man's DNA origins.Unable to communicate with Earth as result of magnetic and gravitational anomalies, the star weary explorers discover an earth-like pocket of atmosphere on Pluto teeming with flora and what appears to be wreckage of a ship. That ship's lone survivor assists the Burdett's crew in discovering the origins of man and unlocking the mystery of an alien race...

Tales from a Wizard: The Oral History of Walpurgis recreates the tales of the band behind the ethereal and mysterious The Divine Comedy—an album known to the world as Phantom's Divine Comedy: Part 1. This new exploration into one of Detroit's most mysterious rock groups visits the band's earliest days in 1968 as they rehearsed in the basement bowels of a dilapidated Victorian home on the Rochester-Troy border and up its nationally released album in 1974 on Capitol Records—and beyond.

Danger, intrigue and mystery unfold in this modern day story based on true historical facts about the lost pages of the Book of Kells. The mystery unfolds when Jack Harrison, a retired intelligence agent, leaves London for the quiet and seclusion of Tasmania where he hopes to revive and restore his injured mind and body. He enjoys two years of peace and tranquillity before being visited by his old boss who persuades him to take on one last case. This takes Jack to Amsterdam, Rome, Tuscany ...

Two morally corrupt American males and three females, vacationing in the city of Chartres, France, confess their sins in a "Grand Guignol" overseen by Liutprand, an 8th century Chartres Cathedral monk convicted of heresy for introducing the hourglass to Europe.Liutprand sees you're ready to confess. So shall fall the sands of your . . . small hours.

The classic apocalypse films of the 1970s collide with the introspective, underground Russian science fiction films of the 1960s in this sci-fi action thriller.In a world where The Omega Man and Escape from New York meet, Commander Brent Coleman and the crew of the Lazarus returns from Mars to discover his father is the new ruler of a war-ravaged Earth. In defiance of his father, Brent Coleman leads the liberation as the final war for the fate of man rages on the Planet of Vampires...

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWNSomeone is brutally killing priests.Is it revenge? Or something more sinister?One cold spring morning in County Cork, two fishermen find a body floating in the Blackwater River: the mutilated corpse of a retired music teacher. His hands and feet are bound, and his neck bears the mark of a garrotting wire.The Garda want to wrap this case up before the press get hold of it, but w...

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Stree...

Growing up in Glasgow in the 1930s, Roy Archibald Hall was a natural thief. After moving to London, he became a familiar figure in the capital's underground gay scene. Due to his lucrative criminal career, he led an extravagant lifestyle - though eventually he was arrested and spent the majority of the next two decades of his life, in a cell. Upon release from prison in 1975, he returned to Scotland and ound employment as a butler. He was joined by David Wright, a former lover from prison,...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about the VILLAINOUS VICTORIANS, including Why burglars were scared of bogies, which poet said he ate an ape and how a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.

'At one moment you seem to be in the Lake District; then you could be on the moon; then you are in a wilderness; and then beside a Norwegian fjord.' When Edward decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted by prehistoric fortresses, rugged landscapes, and landladies who insisted on washing his shirts. He takes you with him on a gentle ride up the west coast, eating enormous breakfasts and fresh fish for supper along the way, and stopping to chat to peat-cutters, fishermen, eccentric t...

Blood and Granite is a chronicle of the most notorious homicides committed in Aberdeen over the last hundred years. Written by Norman Adams, a journalist who reported on many of the chilling crimes he now recalls so vividly, it is compelling reading for those who are too young to remember - and those who cannot forget. All are human tragedies from the dark side of life, including: • The grudge that ended in death in an East End pub when butcher James Harrow brutally stabbed two workmates i...

A hard hitting, brutally honest account of police work during the late 1960's and 1970's. Whilst explicit, it is often humorous, refreshing and equally unbelievable. In this ?rst book of a trilogy the author takes the reader through his early police service and in doing so reveals many working practices which in reality have become a culture of dishonesty, lies and often stupidity which has been accepted by the Government of the day, the judiciary and the public at large for many years. Th...