Fiction

Action, adventure, romance, sci-fi and more. 

Hellfire Rising (The Middleton Sage Book 1) – Richard Brook (a 02)

Hellfire Rising, part one of The Middleton Saga is a contemporary adventure thriller. It tells the story of the Liber Veritatis, a legendary codex made from the Tree of Knowledge. Split into seven parts by the ancient Sumerians and entrusted to a number of global civilisations to protect and prevent it from being made whole. A … Read more

North Sea Rising – Richard Cartmel (a 69)

The year is 2039. The setting is the British Isles – but not the British Isles as we know them today. The brutal economic impact of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU, together with the ever-accelerating effects of global warming have led to a very different environment indeed, in almost every way. Politics, geography and technology … Read more

Dr William Hobbys: The Promiscuous King’s Promiscuous Doctor – Peter Stride (g 64) writing as Ornsby Hyde

Ornsby Hyde (pen name of Peter Stride), Dr William Hobbys: The Promiscuous King’s Promiscuous Doctor. Dr. William Hobbys is a riveting medical romp through the War of the Roses, filled with lusty romance, intrigue, and the answer to a centuries old mystery. Written with historical and scientific accuracy, Dr. William Hobbys chronicles the lascivious adventures … Read more

Birchland Hall – Chip Tolson (a 57)

Birchland Hall is a novel of family drama revolving around a Victorian mansion in the West Yorkshire town of Dewsfield, set in the late 1990s. Cousins Mo and Freddie Holtbury, strangers since an unfriendly childhood, now in their fifties, meet on a bleak October day, the only family at Aunt Ethel’s funeral. Neither has married, … Read more

Find Me – Jon Stock (b 84) (writing as J S Monroe)

FindMeCoverFive years ago, Rosa walked to the pier in the dead of night, looked into the swirling water, and jumped. She was a brilliant young Cambridge student who had just lost her father. Her death was tragic, but not unexpected.

Was that what really happened?

The coroner says it was suicide. But Rosa’s boyfriend Jar can’t let go. He sees Rosa everywhere – a face on the train, a figure on the cliff. He is obsessed with proving that she is still alive. And then he gets an email.

Find me, Jar. Find me, before they do…

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Kompromat – Stanley Johnson (g 58)

KompromatStanley Johnson’s Kompromat is a brilliant satirical thriller that tells the story of 2016’s seismic and unexpected political events on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Pebbles – a collection of short stories – Chip Tolson (a 57)

Pebbles – a collection of short stories will be launched at the Yeovil Literary Festival in October 2016 and will be available to order in bookshops from November 2016. Pebbles lie on the shore in their billions waiting to be found. Sometimes one or two are picked up, maybe even kept and taken home to … Read more

Requiem for Private Hughes – Jonathon Tolson (a 57)

Art student Archie Middlebrook, on national service in Malaya, is wounded in a terrorist ambush; his friend, Geraint Hughes, is killed in the explosion. Home in Somerset with his war-widowed mother, Dorothy, and family helper, Ivy, Archie won’t speak of events in Malaya. He immerses himself in manual labour for their elderly farmer neighbour, ‘Zed’ … Read more

The Charlemagne Connection – Richard Cartmel (a 69)

The second in the Commander Truchaud series finds the diffident policeman unravelling yet another mystery in the little French village of Nuits-Saint-Georges. A young German tourist seems to have gone missing. But what at first appears quite a straightforward affair soon turns dark when a decomposing body is found in the woods. Another episode of … Read more

Peter’s Railway Series – Christopher Vine (m 79)

Greetings from Peter’s Railway, Holiday at Lunan Bay is the latest addition to the Peter’s Railway range of paperbacks and is one of Grandpa’s amazing-but-true stories.  This time with more pages, more adventure and more engineering:  It’s a family adventure in Scotland which ends with a bang! At just £4.99, this will make a great … Read more