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Jim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds he is a big man at the
university, tipped for the head job and an office at the top of the
ivory tower. He has a beautiful, accomplished wife and two healthy
children. Jim drives an Audi, and his dog is a pedigree bichon
frise. Not bad for the son of a hardman who grew up in a room and
kitchen. But it is not easy to escape the past. Certain people have
been keeping an eye on Professor Jim Brennan. When is son Elliot is
arrested on drugs charges and lands in prison after breaking bail
conditions, Jim is approached by men he thought he had left behind.
Their demands threaten his family, students, and reputation. As
threats mount Jim discovers he is more like his father than he
thought. The question is, how far will Professor Jim Brennan go to
save his life?
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology
collection of 100 scary stories to read with the lights on,
selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh.
Haunted houses, mysterious counts, weeping widows and restless
souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in
the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this
beautiful collection of 100 ghost stories will delight, unnerve,
and entertain any fiction lover brave enough... Here are gothic
classics, modern masters, Booker Prize-winners, ancient folk tales
and stylish noirs, proving that every writer has a skeleton or two
in their closet. The all-star cast of authors inlude: Hilary
Mantel, William Faulkner, Kate Atkinson, Henry James, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ruth Rendell,
Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Helen Simpson, Haruki Murakami,
Dylan Thomas, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Lydia Davis, Sir Walter
Scott, Annie Proulx, Bram Stoker, Angela Carter and Stephen King.
THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY
PRIZE 'Superb' The Times Crime Book of the Month 'A hardboiled gem'
Guardian 'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermid
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping
his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery
Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a
house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo
washes up dead. Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs -
is that the reason the police won't investigate? And if Rilke
doesn't find out what happened to Jojo, who will?
Jim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds he is a big man at the
university, tipped for the head job and an office at the top of the
ivory tower. He has a beautiful, accomplished wife and two healthy
children. Jim drives an Audi, and his dog is a pedigree bichon
frise. Not bad for the son of a hardman who grew up in a room and
kitchen. But it is not easy to escape the past. Certain people have
been keeping an eye on Professor Jim Brennan. When is son Elliot is
arrested on drugs charges and lands in prison after breaking bail
conditions, Jim is approached by men he thought he had left behind.
Their demands threaten his family, students, and reputation. As
threats mount Jim discovers he is more like his father than he
thought. The question is, how far will Professor Jim Brennan go to
save his life?
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime It doesn't look like murder
in a city full of death. A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping
the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with
the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden
death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural
causes. As roads out of London become gridlocked with people
fleeing infection, Stevie's search for Simon's killers takes her in
the opposite direction, into the depths of the dying city and a
race with death. A Lovely Way to Burn is the first outbreak in the
Plague Times trilogy. Chilling, tense and completely compelling,
it's Louise Welsh writing at the height of her powers.
'Unputdownable' Sunday Times 'I was hooked from page one' Guardian
When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection
of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to
discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he
finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and
secret desire, fighting for his life.
THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY
PRIZE 'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermid
'Compelling, immersive and brimming with life' Graeme Macrae Burnet
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping
his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery
Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a
house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo
washes up dead. Jojo liked Grindr hook-ups and recreational drugs -
is that the reason the police won't investigate? And if Rilke
doesn't find out what happened to Jojo, who will? Thrilling and
atmospheric, The Second Cut delves into the dark side of
twenty-first century Glasgow. Twenty years on from his appearance
in The Cutting Room, Rilke is still walking a moral tightrope
between good and bad, saint and sinner.
Some secrets are best left buried . . . Knee-deep in the mud of an
ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at
least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up
here?
It is 1593 and London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague
and war, strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes
on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet and spy, Christopher Marlowe has
three days to live. Three days in which to find the murderous
Tamburlaine, a killer who has ascaped from between the pages of his
most violent play...Tamburlaine Must Die is a swashbuckling
adventure story of a man who dares to defy both God and state - and
discovers that there are worse fates than damnation.
When down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer William Wilson gets booked for a
string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he's hoping his luck's on the
turn. There were certain spectators from his last show who he'd
rather forget. Like the one who's now a corpse. Amongst the
showgirls and tricksters of Berlin's scandalous underground Wilson
can abandon his heart, his head and, more importantly, his past.
But secrets have a habit of catching up with him and, as he gets
sucked into certain lucrative after-hours work, the line between
what's an act and what's real starts to blur.
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Selected Stories (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Sue Wilson; Introduction by Louise Welsh
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R405
R330
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This collection of short stories traces D.H. Lawrence's development
as a writer. His early tales draw on personal experience from
childhood to the First World War. Later stories express his
developing ideas about the essential duality of our lives.
'A vivid, action-packed journey through a post-apocalyptic world.
Terrifying and touching in equal measure, the novel is a love
story, an adventure, a road movie, a family drama and a murder
mystery rolled into one' The Times Scotland It is seven years after
the Sweats wiped out most of the world's population. Survivors
settled on the Orkney Islands are trying to build a new society but
their world crashes for a second time when the islands' teenagers
vanish. Stevie and Magnus are the only ones who can bring them
home. Stevie hasn't been back to the mainland since she escaped to
the islands after a desperate flight north from London. Magnus
never saw himself leaving either. After all, what's left for him
there? But Shug was born on the islands and has never known
anything different; has never left them. Until now. And what starts
out as a journey to bring home some young people intent on
adventure soon turns into a race against time to find Shug before
he comes down with the Sweats. Or worse. A pacy, page-turning ride
through a post-apocalyptic world, No Dominion sets the pulse racing
and doesn't let up until the last thrilling page.
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Kidnapped (Paperback, Main)
Robert Louis Stevenson; Foreword by Louise Welsh; Introduction by Barry Menikoff; Edited by Barry Menikoff
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R258
R210
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Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over
and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure set deep in
the Scottish landscape. Stevenson's vivid descriptive powers were
never better than in this account of remote places and dangerous
action in the Highlands in the years following Culloden. Introduced
by Barry Menikoff, with a preface by Louise Welsh.
Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year
Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the
world came to an end. Now, he is a man on the run and there is
nothing to laugh about. Thrown into unwilling partnership with an
escaped convict, Magnus flees the desolation of London to make the
long journey north, clinging to his hope that the sickness has not
reached his family on their remote Scottish island. He finds
himself in a landscape fraught with danger, fighting for his place
in a world ruled by men, like his fellow traveller Jeb - practical
men who do not let pain or emotions interfere with getting the job
done. This is a world with its own justice, and new rules. Where
people, guns and food are currency. Where survival is everything.
Death is a Welcome Guest defies you to put it down, and leaves you
with questions that linger in the mind long after you read the last
page.
Jane and Petra have been together for six years and after deciding
to have a child, they move to Petra's hometown, Berlin. But things
do not quite go according to plan. Jane, at six months pregnant,
finds herself increasingly isolated and preoccupied with the
monuments and reminders of the Holocaust which echo around the city
- imagining the horrors that happened in the spaces around her. She
becomes uneasy in the apartment and conceives a dread of the
derelict backhouse across the courtyard. She also begins to suspect
their neighbour, Alban Mann, of sexually assaulting his daughter,
and places a phone call to the police which holds more significance
than she can ever have known . . .
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