A beautifully written insight into the stresses, strains & successes of working for the London Ambulance service. Is there anyone who hasn't wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on & blue lights flashing? Have you? & have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance, maybe fighting to save the patient's life? Or have you considered that the ambulance may be another 'maternataxi' ordered by a woman who can't be bothered to book a real cab & who then complains she can't smoke on the way to hospital? & that the medical technician inside might just be desperate to get back home from a busy shift, to have a cup of tea & catch up with his blog? Meet Tom Reynolds. Tom is an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a blog of his daily working life since 2003 & his award-winning writing is, by turn, moving, cynical, funny, heart-rending & compassionate. It is never less than compelling. From the tragic to the hilarious, from the heartwarming to the terrifying, the stories Tom tells give a fascinating
- & at times alarming
- picture of life in inner-city Britain, & the people who are paid to mop up after it.

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A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O' Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted & Richard & Judy pick, ' Netherland'. Joseph O' Neill's grandfathers
- one Irish, one Turkish
- were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA & was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O' Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny & threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy. At the age of thirty, Joseph O' Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families & two charismatic but flawed men
- it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia & fear, of memories of violence & of fierce commitments to political causes.


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Rilporin has fallen & Corvus, King of the Mireces, reigns over an occupied l&. 

The raiders & their dark religion

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Details: Winner of the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger, the Barry Award & the Macavity Award. ' Darling, if
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A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash & three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run for office. What links these things & who controls what we know? With echoes of John Le Carre & 24, Alan Glynn has written another crime novel of & for our times
- a ferocious thriller that moves from Dublin to New York via West Africa, & thrillingly explores the legacy of corruption in big business, the West's fear of China, the fate of ex-military, the role of back room political players, & the quick fix of online news.
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When Mark Shilling ford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished & successful jockey, comes in third, he can't help but be suspicious. As a professional race-caller, he knows she should have won. Did she lose on purpose? Was ...

The original vampire romance: go back to where the bloodlust began! ' Blood from last nights raid has hardly dried on my uniform, still the familiar craving builds in my belly, I long to wield my sword. I can feel the blade slicing through the air then skin then flesh then bone.'
- Captain Quincy Harker. When nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from World War I, he is haunted by nightmares
- not only of the horrors of battle, but of the brutal midnight exploits of his superior, Captain Quincey Harker. When Harker appears unexpectedly in England & lures John's sister, Lily, to Transylvania. John must confront the truth. Only the love of pure Mary can save him from Count Dracula's poisonous bloodline. But the line goes further than John & Mary can possibly imagine. A new seductive evil walks among the living.

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Details: When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained
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Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic & serve to bridge the worlds of humans & vampires. They protect vampire secrets
- & human lives. In The Fiery Heart, Sydney risked everything to follow her gut, walking a dangerous line to keep her feelings hidden from the Alchemists.
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Following a devastating tragedy that claimed the life of her husb&, Madeleine Frank has fled the Florida Keys for the safe surroundings of Bath. But as a psychotherapist trying to help patients heal after traumatic events, she knows only too well that it's impossible to recover from some losses. Just as she's starting to forget the scars of her past, Madeleine is thrown off-balance by the arrival of a new patient. Sensing something familiar in this damaged & hostile woman, Madeleine is disturbed to discover that strains of her patient's childhood eerily echo her own darkest secret. The increasingly complex relationship between Madeleine & her client, Rachel, will unleash a terrifying series of events which neither could have predicted
- & which neither can control. & at the heart of the terror lies the fate of a child. 19.7 x 13 x 2.6cm, pages 438
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