Larry Zagorski spins wild tales of fantasy worlds for pulp magazines. But as the Second World War hangs in the balance the lines between imagination & reality are starting to blur. In London spymasters enlist occultists in the war of propaganda. In Southern California a charismatic rocket scientist summons dark forces & an SF writer founds a new religion. In Munich Nazis consult astrologists as they plot peace with the West & dominion over the East. & a conspiracy is born that will ripple through the decades to come. The truth it seems is stranger than anything Larry could invent. But when he looks back on the 20th century the past is as uncertain as the future. Just where does truth end & illusion begin? THE HOUSE OF RUMOUR is a novel of soaring ambition a mind-expanding journey through the ideas that have put man on the moon yet brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What will you believe? ...

In 1941 Larry Zagorski was a na?ve young writer of science-fiction. Seven decades on he looks back on that crucial year & traces his place in a mysterious web
- one that connects the Second World War with the Space Age stretches from London to Cuba & Southern California & links Ian Fleming with Rudolf Hess in a conspiracy that reverberates in the present. Could this be the secret history of the 20th century? In this thrilling tale of spies & propagandists the conned & the heartbroken dreamers & fanatics the question is: who will you believe?
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HOUSE OF SECRETS follows three siblings & their family as they are forced to move to a mysterious new house in San Francisco & end up embarking on a journey to retrieve a dark book of untold power. The first story in an epic fantasy adventure trilogy! When Brendan Cordelia & Nell move to Kristoff House they have no idea that they are about to unleash the dark magic locked within. For the house once belonged to a crazed writer whose stories have come to life. Literally. Now the Walker kids must battle against deadly pirates bloodthirsty warriors & a bone-crunching giant. If they fail they will never see their parents again & a power-mad Witch will take over the world. No pressure then.. . House of Secrets is the first book in a major new series. It's going to be epic. ...

THE HOUSE OF SECRETS follows three siblings & their family as they are forced to move to a mysterious new house in San Francisco & end up embarking on a journey to retrieve a dark book of untold power. The Walker kids had it all: loving parents a big house in San Francisco all the latest video games.. . But everything changed when their father lost his job. Now the family is moving into Kristoff House a mysterious place built nearly a century earlier by a troubled fantasy writer. Suddenly the siblings find themselves launched on an epic journey to retrieve a dark book of untold power & uncover the Walker family's secret history. Oh & save their parents.. .and maybe even the world. ...

In the fully painted psychological thriller & horror story House of Secrets" teenage runaway. Rain Harper becomes part of a supernatural justice system when she takes up residence in a haunted mansion. Holding court within the abandoned house five otherworldly ghostly spirits known as the Juris hypnotically summon people to their location & judge them for the secrets that they keep. Acting as a "witness" that binds the Juris trials to this plane of existence Rain is forced to validate their decisions as she simultaneously tries to save the defendants from their sentences." ...

THE GAMES AFOOT.. . It is November 1890 & London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued Holmes & Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling & sinister events stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston & the mysterious House of Silk.. . See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of The House of Silk Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for The House of Silk Judys Review Ive never read a Sherlock Holmes story. To be honest they didnt hold any particular appeal for me. Obviously Ive seen the various films & TV versions & mostly enjoyed them but the books themselves? No thanks. Anthony Horowitz has changed all that. I cant wait to get stuck in to the originals
- if theyre as good as The House of Silk Ive got a massive treat coming. This book evokes a powerful sense of late-Victorian London. It is winter 1890; handsome cabs clatter along the frosty cobbled streets gas lamps flare in the gloom & telegram boys run to & fro with urgent messages. At 221b Baker Street Holmes & Watson are taking tea by a roaring fire when Mrs Hudson the faithful housekeeper shows a clearly agitated gentleman in. He has a story to tell. He is being stalked by a menacing scar-faced man who stares malevolently at him. It has been going on for weeks & their visitor is at the end of his tether. He begs Holmes for help. The games afoot Watson! & indeed it is. Horowitz spins an ever-more dramatic & dangerous story. What begins as a puzzle swiftly becomes a mystery with deeply sinister overtones. As Holmes & Watson become immersed in their investigations they begin to hear the whispered words the House of Silk... what does the phrase mean? What links Londons foggy streets with the violent underworld that seethes in the American city of Boston? This is quite simply one of the best detective mysteries I have read for a long time. Congratulations Mr Horowitz. Can we have another one please? Richards Review "
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THE GAME'S AFOOT.. . It is November 1890 & London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued Holmes & Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling & sinister events stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston & the mysterious ' House of Silk'.. . ...

Russia 1915: Sixteen year old farmers son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassins bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family & is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov the only son of Tsar Nicholas II the course of his life is changed for ever. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas & Alexandra the machinations of Rasputin & the events which will lead to the final collapse of the autocracy Georgy is both a witness & participant in a drama that will echo down the century. Sixty-five years later visiting his wife Zoya as she lies in a London hospital memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. & with them the consequences of the brutal fate of the Romanovs which has hung like a shroud over every aspect of their marriage... ...

Six million years ago at the very dawn of the starfaring era Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male & female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise & fall of countless human empires. They meet every two hundred thousand years to exchange news & memories of their travels with their siblings. Campion & Purslane are not only late for their thirty-second reunion but they have brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line & there is a very real possibility of traitors in their midst. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them & why
- before their ancient line is wiped out of existence for ever.
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In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead" were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool detached tones of his narrator Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov: the daily battle for survival the wooden plank beds the cabbage soup swimming with cockroaches his strange family of boastful ugly cruel convicts. Yet " The House of the Dead" is far more than a work of documentary realism: it is also a powerful novel of redemption describing one mans spiritual & moral death & the miracle of his gradual reawakening." ...