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DUMP: Where the Universe deposits its rubbish. Stuck on the junkyard planet, Kellin scavenges, sells scrap and tries to buy a matching pair of boots. Traci is hunted by her former friends and current enemies. When Kellin finds her zipped into a bag, she makes sure she doesn’t tell him her real name. Forming an uneasy alliance, the pair set out to find a ship, fix it, and leave Dump. It’s not going to be easy, as everyone – including Kellin’s gang, his best friend, Trig, and Dump’s un-elected leader, Mr King – is dead-set against the idea. Never afraid of a challenge, Kellin’s going to need all his resources to pull this one off. Amazon |
THE MAN WITH THE HORN : Barbara Scott Emmett
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When Jezebel and Magdalena, a couple of whores of indeterminate sexuality, try to persuade her to host a sex party - 'not an orgy, that sounds so vulgar' - high class call girl, Passionaria, is none too keen. But when trumpeter Sal Pinksy puts her in touch with Kid McLean, a former child popstar, and Kid becomes her client, the party takes on a greater significance. Passionaria is a devotee of the pagan god Dionysos and the god needs a sacrifice periodically. Kid McLean - sexually abused as a child - needs to atone for what he believes are his sins. Perhaps all these events can be combined? AMAZON |
A LONG WEEKEND : Susan Miller
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Janet Fraser, a promising young pianist, visits her mother’s family home in the Yorkshire dales where she is transported back to the early nineteenth century and her ancestors mistake her for a daughter of the house who had eloped some years previously.
Janetta Thornley’s ‘reappearance’ receives a mixed reception: hostility from her mother, the autocratic Lady Gabriella; ambivalence from her brother William and resentment from debutante sister Sophie, but teenage Kate is pleased to see her again, as are most of the servants. Janet quickly forms a special friendship with Dorothea, William’s unhappy wife, who he is reputed to have poisoned. In order to maintain her charade and a roof over her head, Janet has to cope with a very different lifestyle while remembering two cover stories: that put about by Lady Gabriella to save face and her own invention to account for the missing years. The prodigal daughter is relaunched into local society and blunders through a variety of situations. Janet gradually adapts to her strange circumstances and settles into Georgian family life, but William eventually discovers she is an impostor and blackmails her into agreeing to marry his sister’s original suitor. Matters come to a head with a family tragedy. AMAZON SMASHWORDS |
DELIRIUM: THE RIMBAUD DELUSION : Barbara Scott Emmett
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1872: The explosive love affair between flamboyant French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine rocks French society. They flee to London, abandoning the manuscript of La Chasse Spirituelle to Verlaine’s scorned young wife. When a lawyer's clerk salvages it from a dusty deed box, the manuscript begins its journey down the decades, revealing the secrets and betrayals of its various keepers. 2004: Driven by her obsession with Rimbaud, Andrea Mann visits his grave at Charleville-Mézières. There she meets a beautiful young man who shows her a page from La Chasse Spirituelle. Drawn into a manipulative relationship with the youth and his mentor, the mysterious Albert, she faces unwelcome truths. The closer she gets to the manuscript, the further she veers from reality. But is Albert’s copy genuine? And can La Chasse Spirituelle fill the void in Andrea’s soul? Amazon (all) Paperback also available. Smashwords |
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THE BUMBLE'S END : Jimmy Bain
Imagine Philip Marlowe woke up one day with the mother of all hangovers and discovered he'd been turned into a Glaswegian. And not only that but he's saddled with a partner in the shape of his devious fat friend, The Bumble. Well, that's how our Narrator feels.
After finding a dead man hanging from a door, discovering a stash of Nazi memorabilia, and surviving a run-in with a psychotic hoodlum, the Narrator is in no mood for any more nonsense. The Bumble's explanations involving the mysterious flight of Rudolph Hess to Scotland, a deceased Glasgow car dealer, and a hoard of Nazi gold just don't ring true... The Bumble's End is a black, humourous tale of greed, death and toffees in the run up to Christmas, Femmes fatales, old Nazis, missing gold and a Rottweiler called Tango chase through the pages. Also on the trail are three unwise men watched over by a corrupt cop with a head cold. The Season of Goodwill just doesn't get any more funpacked than this. KINDLE: USA UK GERMANY FRANCE SPAIN ITALY SMASHWORDS KOBO B&N |
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DON'T LOOK DOWN : Barbara Scott Emmett
Set in a wintry Germany, DON'T LOOK DOWN is a fast-paced thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the icy denouement in a cave high in a hillside.
When Lauren Keane is kidnapped during a winter break in Nuremberg, she doesn't take it personally. The kidnappers have, after all, mistaken her for her friend Katti. When she finds a dead Albanian cleaning woman in her shower, however, she figures it's time to fight back. Especially as she is now in the frame for the murder. Along with Wolf, her ex, who's now engaged to the frigid Ingrid, and Gunther, an undercover-or-is-he?-policeman, Lauren sets about trying to find the vanished Katti, nail a bunch of sex-traffickers and discover why the cleaner was brutally murdered. Not that she delights in putting herself in danger but, if she's ever going to get the chance to buy her presents at the Nuremberg Christmas market, she's going to have to get the mess sorted out somehow. KINDLE: USA UK GERMANY FRANCE SPAIN ITALY SMASHWORDS KOBO B&N |
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THE LAND BEYOND GOODBYE : Barbara Scott Emmett
1987. The morning after the Great Storm. A letter drops through the door of Jess Whitelaw's London flat and sets her on a journey through the Australian Outback and her own damaged psyche.
In the heat and dust of the Northern Territory, Jess’s protective armour is chipped away as painful truths are revealed. Tension builds like thunderheads heralding the start of the Wet. Will Jess be able to come to terms with the guilt she feels? Will she ever learn that the past is not so terrifying when looked at the right way? KINDLE: USA UK GERMANY FRANCE SPAIN ITALY SMASHWORDS B&N KOBO PAPERBACK AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON |
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GARLANDS AND SHADOWS : Karen MacLeod
Reluctant bridesmaid Maura Lindridge has more on her mind than her silly little sister Amy’s wedding. Maura has taken a huge financial gamble by setting up as an artist in the picturesque village of Feorlish in the Scottish Highlands. Amy has got engaged to the wrong man and is trying to compensate by planning a lavish wedding. Fiercely independent Maura is so determined not to make Amy’s mistake that she tries to ignore the attractions of Jaime de Salinas, the half Spanish hotelier in charge of her sister’s reception. KINDLE: USA UK GERMANY FRANCE ITALY SPAIN SMASHWORDS B&N KOBO |
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THE IRON LADY OF THE WESTERN WORLD: J M Syngamy
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD
That Mrs. Thatcher had an Irish great-grandmother is well-known. But did you Know that she had Irish cousins some-ways removed? What if one were the spitting-image of the Prime Minister? This discovery set afoot a conspiracy to change the course of History. Behind it one of Europe's most secretive organisations - the Vegan Brigade, previously written of, only on rice-paper. Could there be two Mrs. Thatchers? Three? More? A proliferation of Women of Mass Destruction? These and many other questions are answered in this thrilling tale of Conspiracy and gastronomy, of high ambition and low cunning, Western values and Eastern promise, of gangsters and doppel-gangsters. KINDLE: USA UK GERMANY FRANCE ITALY SPAIN |
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DOUBTFUL BLOOD: Karen MacLeod
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COUNTERFEIT: Karen MacLeod
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THORN MAKER: Karen MacLeod
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DEVERELL GATEHOUSE: Karen MacLeodTime has its own echoes… Imogen Webb attempts reconciliation with her estranged husband and his family, while staying in medieval Deverell Gatehouse in rural Hampshire. But the atmospheric gatehouse has a troubled history and the present is shadowed by tragedy. As unexplained occurrences mount up, Imogen begins to realise that its past and present have an extraordinary link. A timeslip novel. Paperback and ebook available from: KINDLE: USA UK GERMANY FRANCE SPAIN ITALY KOBO SMASHWORDS B&N |
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THE SHADOW OF DARK OAKS: Marguerite Osborne
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I AM A ROPE: Ian C Macleod |
SEE THE PRETTY RED BALLOON: Kate Murray |
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'Mavis was born within the sounds of Bow Bells. Mavis liked to think they rang in her birth. "Pu-ush!" Her head butting blind and bloody into this wide and wondrous world.''. How wide and wondrous, how puzzling and joyful, challenging and dismaying she would discover as she went through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and sought to find her true self. What were the circumstances of her conception? Who was her father? Who were the women who came to the door and from whom she had to be hidden? Did her favourite aunt commit murder? How is she to square reality with dreams of romance? The search for answers makes an intriguing and compelling story told with pace in precise and vigorous prose, not a word wasted.The characters, the situations are specific and perused from differing viewpoints, but the themes are timeless and will stir memory and reflection moving readers to see afresh their own experiences. PAPERBACK ALSO AVAILABLE Amazon |