General & literary fiction Books

Thomas Travis, a brilliant local surgeon, is a single father of a very troubled teenage daughter Ruby.Ruby is being bullied at school and cyber bullied. This is causing her to self-harm and even attempt suicide.On one summer Sunday her father persuades...

"Pebbles in the Pond" is a collection of short stories about the consequences and effects of human interaction like ripples spreading across a pond after a stone has been thrown in.

What could be simpler than buying a house in the country?When Sol, a city financier, purchases Bothan Faobhar on a whim, he discovers a world where the neighbours are both distant and at odds with his urban ideals. With no mobile signal, no electricity,...

Will Sterling was no more than a teenager when he was tricked into enrolling in The Royal Navy in 1849. Finding he had little aptitude as a sailor, he was transferred to The Royal Marine Infantry, guarding a forgotten garrison on the Island of Saint...

A small village that had existed for many generations in a remote valley was peremptorily destroyed in the late 19th century to build a reservoir, and the embittered villagers never accepted its loss. One of them had a vision which became their shared...

Long Marston-in-the-Mere is a medieval village set defiantly within a prehistoric stone circle. The cottages cluster round St Michael?s Church corralled by the pressing monoliths. The place lies thus in This world while being reminded constantly both of...

In "Autopech" rollen de hoofdpersonen waarmee we al kennis hebben kunnen maken in "Waddengoud" en latere avonturen in een vreemd avontuur in Oregon. Een rustige autorit ontaard al snel in een strijd tegen de georganiseerde misdaad.Dit verhaal werd net...

God is angry. He finds the behaviour of some of mankind appalling. He decides to intervene and commences to dispense summary justice. It is decided to send an emissary to earth to help man rediscover his faith, and Joshua a 20-year-old student at the...

Ebholo -'Folkism beyond the story of the tortoise but a sieve of modernism vs the culture and tradition of a people.'The Tongue - 'The proven most powerful organ of change ... known to man and God.'

VEDA EDIZIONI Brioso, profondo e colorito insieme di esperienze di vita raccontate elencando avvenimenti lavorativi e di vita quotidiana, intrisi dei valori trasmessi dagli insegnamenti scolastici e familiari assimilati in giovane età. Forti sono i...

A true-life story of a Victorian mariner upon the high seas, based on original letters found in the attic of an old lady's house.

In an unlikely mix of 'Highlander' meets 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', we find a vengeful Calum MacDuff hell-bent on retribution for his distant ancestor. Breaking out from their Highland mental institution, MacDuff, and similarly motivated fellow...

An Irish woman and her children sold into Caribbean slavery by Cromwell's regime.A TV series on the history of slavery. A historian working on the series finds the woman's story conveyed to him through the crucifying randomness of night.As the...

(This novella is rated MA15+ for COARSE LANGUAGE, MILD SEX SCENES, AND ADULT THEMES)Zachary Esmond was busy drowning his sorrows over a woman who butchered his heart when one final drink resulted in unexpected consequences. Now he can have his time over...

Inside a city full of nameless, faceless anonymityTwo people adrift in their own personal nightmares meetCan they face the secrets that threaten to destroy them both?And can they escape Club 217?

Every Sunday, thousands of people, from young kids to pensioners, drag themselves out of bed to play football. Every one of them has a dream about what they will be, or what they might have been. A lot of them think that they could have been professional...

A plot hatched in a small town in the West of IrelandAn improbable allianceA risk to all of LondonAnd Crucible now has a new caseNo one said it was going to be easyNo one could be sure it was even possibleBut if Marc Logadon and CJ didn't succeed...

The People of Wyndell Village form a friendly and supportive community. From Leesa, the young landlady of the Wyndell Inn and her small caring daughter Charlotte, to the secretive Rosy, verger of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, they are all there...

In smoggy 1960s Yorkshire, a world away from the psychedelics of London, Mo arrives at the dingy building in Dewsbury where she is going to be a temp. She is not welcomed, instead she is ridiculed - a fat stupid girl running about like a frightened mouse...

A political thriller following an old-fashioned, one-nation Tory whose family company is forced into liquidation. He loses his family and his dignity and ends up on the streets; but in the end takes revenge on the members of his party whom he believes...

EXCITING CANADIAN WESTCOAST ADVENTUREKiller Gold tells the story of Bedard, who is hired by Queen Victoria to track down and deal with criminals preying on those working in the Lower Fraser River gold rush on Canada's west coast in 1858. Together...

Lali A. Love provides a supernatural thriller of metaphysical and visionary fantasy with her own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative skills to produce this emotionally invoking, heart-wrenching and gripping tale of a family's rise from...

Ulrich Blackhand began his day in the Germanian village of Dolpheim like any other. An act of deceit and dishonesty from another would put his life in jeopardy and he would be forced to flee all that he has known. In his flight he discovers a threat to...

Elizabeth Devereux is a prolific painting protégée whose true inspiration comes when she is drug-free. The trouble is, going off her medication for bipolar disorder can also bring on the black cells. When she finally leaves the halfway...

A Métis police liaison and two Métis elders hold a ceremony in the Vancouver Remand Centre that sets off alarm bells and becomes a prelude to a series of vicious and heartless crimes.When an Indigenous girl is murdered and dumped in Stanley Park, fears...

This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and...

Dreama Black is almost famous. The daughter (and granddaughter) of groupies who captivated L.A.'s biggest rock stars, and muse to her own Grammy-winning ex-boyfriend Luke Cutt, Dreama seems doomed to remain on the periphery of stardom. All that changes...

From New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes her first women's fiction novel--an unforgettable story of friendship, love, family, and sisterhood--perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Susan Mallery, and Kristan Higgins.They say life can change...

You'll have your deposit within seven business days, just like it says on Getaway.com. I've put through a refund to your credit card for the full amount, minus $200 to replace the stained sheets...MirandaWhen 30-year-old Dawn reads Miranda's email, she...

From talented debut author Simone Kelly comes this suspenseful novel that crackles with intrigue, sex, and plenty of surprises--perfect for fans of Eric Jerome Dickey and Carl Weber.Meet Jacques Berradi. Moroccan-born and Manhattan-raised, his genuine,...

From the USA Today bestselling author of the Hope River series comes a new contemporary midwife novel.Say "goodbye" to your old life, and "hello" to the life you've been waiting for...Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients....

At prestigious Oxford University, an American student searches for the truth about her mother's death in this eerie, suspenseful thriller that blends money, murder, and black magic.You can't keep it from her forever. She needs to know the truth.Cassandra...

The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy--a paean to the mystery, tragedy and wonder of life.Trying his best to weasel out of...

"A keen sociological eye for class and ideology; an understanding of the contradictory impulses of the human heart; an ability to conjure a place, a mood and a time through seemingly matter-of-fact descriptions." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York...

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles' Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's...

From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts foreverWhat's in the past is over and done with . . . or is it? Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter...

"A gem of adolescent disaffection featuring a Holden Caulfield-like heroine." -- Vogue.com"Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop. . . . If your all-time favorite books include works of young-adult fiction (like Catcher), I strongly urge you to...