General & literary fiction Books

Life in a fishing village on the Northumberland coast at the turn of the century is hard but happy for Emily until one night after a devastating storm her father and two older brothers are lost at sea and all that seemed safe and secure, crumbles and...

In the topsy-turvy world of time travel no pun is safe.Sentient beings throughout the universes have been encouraged to believe that their existence is governed by a system of pot luck.The residents of Surrey, planet Earth are no exception.Take the...

One lonely widow, one guilty circus performer, one manipulative doctor, one struggling sister, one stolen identity and one big regret.Six stories. Six lives. Six relationships.The Thorn in the Roses is a modern day collection of short stories inspired by...

Le passé de Tommy Randall revient lui jouer son dernier mauvais tour. Les stigmates indélébiles laissés par son accident assombrissent à nouveau son avenir. Son QI exceptionnel ne lui sera d'aucun secours, pas plus que son physique ou ses nombreux...

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the...

Two student flatmates living out a very meagre hand-to-mouth existence in the centre of Glasgow find themselves the lucky recipients of a winning lottery ticket. The only catch is that it is in America and was sent to them by a supposed long lost uncle...

A Christmas Carol - Canto di Natale è uno dei racconti più famosi di Charles Dickens del 1843.

Inspiriert von Peter Bichsel habe ich begonnen, Dinge umzubenennen; ich habe dem Kind eine Vielzahl alltäglicher Wörter mit entfremdeter Bedeutung beigebracht. Doch ich befürchte, dass das Kind intelligent ist, eines Tages in die Welt hinausgeht und...

Luke's return to Bromyard - continuing on from the first 14 books in The Chapters Of Life series, which featured Luke and his motorbike friends in and around Bromyard in Herefordshire.

L'autore ha sempre amato scrivere, fin dall'infanzia. Poi l'amore per la scrittura l'ha sepolto e ora riscoperto. O meglio, nel corso della sua vita talvolta ha scritto per sé stesso, ma appunto per questo ha considerato lo scrivere solo una modalità...

The period before World War Two was often referred to as the ?phoney war?. In that troubled time, an agent for the Home office was sent to Germany under cover to try to find out what Hitler and his allies planned, the group later called the Axis of Evil...

Due ragazzi innamorati non possono coronare il loro sogno d'amore per un vincolo di sangue che riaffiora dopo un quarto di secolo, ma una vecchia suora ha custodito il segreto della loro vera identit?.

Garvey's Last Soldier is a gripping thriller and love story. Set in the black community of south London between 1997 and 1999, this astonishing and moving novel centers around the mysterious Lady Theodora who lives with her tormented grand-daughter...

As the homelessness among ex-service personnel topped 100,000, groups began to splinter off into armed militia. These people had not only the will to cause mayhem but had been highly trained by the very armed forces who had subsequently abandoned them...

What happens when you die?A big, fat nothing. Or so Colin Wilkinson thought. Until one day, in the isolated basement morgue of St Theresa's Hospital, the ghosts of seven cadavers lying in the body storage unit appear before him.Waiting to depart for the...

Short stories set in Cambridge where Peter Copley is attempting to study English, however his wife's uncle is convinced that his education needs to cover a much wider curriculum. Unfortunately Uncle Raymond is prone to enthusiasms which prove a problem...

A Priest and a Boy is a work of fiction reflecting real-world events. In 1956, Peter Madigan is an eight-year-old altar boy in a Sydney parish. Bernard Cassey is the parish's assistant priest. The story recounts the growing relationship between the two...

THIRTY-ONE MOONS, POETRY FROM EARTH, is a poetic adventure birthed in the natural world! Julie bleeds the truth of humanity's awakening and rebirth through the inspiration she finds in the vivid wild beauty of Mother Earth, Father Sky and all of creation...

Sarah Santana received a phone call. Her only family had been killed in a fire in Spain.Harry Dolan, a notorious London crook was responsible because he'd lost face on a deal.After the funeral Sarah found out her family had been murdered the five bodies...

Back home in India, Aryaan successfully landed a lecturer job at a university, but that did not help him to feel connected with his homeland. When his wife's physical and mental health deteriorated, Aryaan decided that migrating to Canada would...

In this final chapter in James Earl Hardy's groundbreaking B-Boy Blues series, Mitchell "Little Bit" Crawford and Raheim "Pooquie" Rivers are all grown up. Mitchell is a stay-at-home dad renovating his dream house, writing, and raising his godson and...

In her first anthology from the UNSTUCK Writer's Collective, author Shani Godwin has compiled a collection of beautiful stories from nine aspiring authors tackling subjects often buried within the hearts and souls of women.From finding your voice to...

Solei was perfectly content living the life of a party girl until her mother kicked her out for the hundredth time. Determined to establish her independence, she takes on questionable work for great money but at the cost of her self-respect and getting...

Breathe. Just breathe. Sometimes that's all it takes to wipe away the bad memories. Other times, the swallowing darkness lurches Dani awake in a cold sweat, the bloodcurdling screams still echoing in her ears... But this year will be...

Before Ai is a fascinating prequel to Ai Rising. The author mixed fact and fiction to make a perfect book about modern era artificial intelligence. The two main characters, Aiden and Taylor, are both starting M.I.T. at an age of fourteen. They both have...

La Costa Reed is a bestselling author with a sordid past. Her life is an open book, but will one well-guarded secret threaten to tarnish it all?LA COSTA is a survivor of poverty and abhorrent childhood abuses. From the dirt lots of West Memphis, to the...

If you can’t be you, who can you be?That’s the question Veronica White asks herself in the wake of her husband’s very public affair. For years, she’s been known as the prettiest member of the Bitch Brigade and Pete’s wife,...

Moonflower in Autumn Rain is a deeply poetic, and at once, tragically mundane—microscopic look at the uncertain reality of human longing. Here are moments and places untouched by time; fractured emotions; and estranged people trying and...

This comedic play is set among the French descended Bouton family, now known as the Buttons. Their annual reunion is the occasion for fun and games, but also for stories perhaps better left untold

On the verge of bankruptcy private investigator Mitch O’Reilly takes any gig that comes his way while running his Eye Spy Supply shop in a forgotten Los Angeles strip mall. After two tours in Afghanistan, Mitch’s life amounts to running his...

scattered fragments is a collection of narrative poems that follow two timeless lovers as they navigate the complexities of adulthood and relationships. Twenty-two poems tell tales of the pangs of unrequited love, self-discovery, doting on a new love...

Winner of the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards"[A]n amazing job of storytelling while integrating several of today's hard-to-discuss topics . . . [N]ot for the faint of heart."--San Francisco Book ReviewThe winner of the prestigious 2020 Next...

Alice Bennett knows what it means to suffer. After burying her abusive childhood and reinventing herself, Alice is living a life she never imagined could be hers. She's married to a perfect Southern gentleman. She has a challenging job she loves-writing...

Smuggling, precious love, and outlaw Zen. A tale of the wild and turbulent 1960's -- when and where anything seems possible until shown to be otherwise. Jake Acree leaves the bohemian blues joints of Chicago  and travels cross-country on...

For the last few years an alien ship from a distant galaxy has been orbiting the planet of Shellfargon. After numerous negotiations the three captains of the United Earth Starship (UES) Albion agree to provide technology and satellite up links in...

Jules is young, urban, an MBA on the road to success. While he waits in his new office on the first morning of his new job, he knows only that his life is progressing exactly on schedule. Also waiting for Jules is his new supervisor, an odd,...

VASTARIEN is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces...

March 11, 2011. A cataclysmic earthquake in Japan-a tsunami headed straight for the coast of California. With deep psychological fault lines of his own, Dr. Alex Arai has no idea of the personal upheaval ahead. Before long, the respected art history...

"I don't care what you've done. I don't care what happens. I only want to be with you."Twins-orphaned as children and reunited after a separation of fourteen years, juvenile detention and alleged abuse in the New York State foster-care system-return...

A newly revised and footnoted edition of Catherine Crowe's 1859 nonfiction collection of supernatural stories, "Ghosts and Family Legends." Over eight nights of a Christmas gathering, guests gather around the fire to share true tales of strange...

Novelist Marc Mullbery leaves his sleepy island vineyard to attend an annual yachting excursion with a group of colleagues. As they set sail frictions emerge when Marc's mistress evades his advances and suddenly ends their longtime affair. Marc's...

The Sharecropper's Daughter tells the story of Frank Lee, a girl born to a black mother and a white father in 1930s South Carolina. Frank Lee grows up between the precarious backdrop of being black but looking white amid racist and ambiguous times. She...

Angie Lanier, the heroine of Kathleen MacArthur's new novel, travels a world away from her Midwest background, where she absorbs a mysterious spell cast upon her by a Balinese priest. Her efforts to learn more about her father prompts flashbacks of her...

All Davis Brown wanted was a future shot at being Sports Editor of the student newspaper, the Forester. Then in October of 2002, right before basketball season, he got his wish...and more than he bargained for!Flagrant Foul, as part of the Stories from...

A collection of stories about real life with topics ranging from isolation to marriage and death to freedom. Sometimes poignant, frequently funny and always honest.

A humorous adventure story about Steve Bliss, our uneducated hero who stumbles through life in a cloud of cluelessness. He tangles with a drunken, panhandling attorney and traps himself into an ill-advised partnership with a ruthless Russian gangster...