' An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies wide-boys & psychos who ride in the down escalator of opportunity in the nation's capital. Loud with laughter in the dark this novel is the real Mc Coy. If you haven't heard of Irvine Welsh before-don't worry you will' The Herald ...

With her mother dead & her father currently in prison awaiting trial for her murder a pregnant Frankie is blamed for the tragedy & forced to live with her wideboy fiance Jed O' Hara in a trailer on his parents' l&. Frankie struggles to adapt to their gypsy way of life but when her daughter Georgie is born things go from bad to worse. Jed's mother is a loud brazen domineering woman who has always yearned for a daughter herself & she begins to take over her baby granddaughter. Meanwhile Frankie's family & friends know that Jed is cheating on her but blinded by love & a sucker for his charm Frankie refuses to believe them. Then one day the unthinkable happens. Sick to the stomach at her discovery Frankie for once sees Jed for what he really is. She realises that the man she loves is not only heartless but also violent & dangerous. Petrified for the safety of herself & her family Frankie plots the ultimate revenge. But can she actually go through with it? ...

After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16 the governments clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces & the secret service. But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform. They are demanding two billion dollars. Inside twenty-four hours. Or the bodies will start falling. With the SBS overstretched & its surveillance team locked down there is only one option: Stratton & a team of unproven operatives from MI16. Stratton knows he has to redeem himself & he also has his own agenda. One of the men on the rig is an old friend. & Stratton intends to save him. But one of Strattons team is not what they appear to be. A traitor. With a deadly agenda of their own. & Morpheus is just the beginning. This is the incendiary sixth thriller in the Stratton series by the UKs leading ex-SF professional. ...

From Rory Clements winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award comes TRAITOR the fourth in his acclaimed John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series. ' Does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom does for Henry VIII's' Sunday Times The Elizabethan navy has a secret weapon: an optical instrument so powerful it gives England unassailable superiority at sea. Spain will stop at nothing to steal it & seize the two men who understand its secrets
- William Ivory the ' Queen's Eye' & the magician Dr Dee. With a second Armada threatened intelligencer John Shakespeare is sent north to escort Dr Dee to safety. But he finds Dee's host the Earl of Derby dying in agony apparently poisoned. Who wants him dead & why? What lies behind the lynching of a recusant priest & how is the mysterious & beautiful Lady Eliska involved? While Shakespeare attempts to untangle a plot that points to treachery at the very highest reaches of government he also faces serious accusations far closer to home. With so much at stake must he choose between family & his duty to Queen & country?
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Events are building to a climax in Sachaka as Lorkin returns from his exile with the Traitor rebels. The Traitor Queen has given Lorkin the huge task of brokering an alliance between his people & the Traitors. Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in order to harness the power of an entirely new kind of gemstone magic. This knowledge could transform the Guild of Magicians
- or make Lorkin an outcast forever. The Traitor Queen is the triumphant conclusion to the Traitor Spy Trilogy which began with The Ambassador's Mission & continued with The Rogue.
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Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the roar of tanks through empty streets; the sudden lull before the slaughter begins. Franco's bloody insurrection taught this Englishman all about hell. Arriving in his mother's country the now Nazi Germany Conrad is sick at heart. Even Berlin
- infamous haven of decadence & vice
- salutes fascism. Himmler's black-shirted troops rule the city & every German arm bears a Swastika. But does every German heart belong to Hitler? When Conrad is arrested by the Gestapo on suspicion of spying he is rescued by Theo an old friend from university now a lieutenant of the Wehrmacht. Together they are drawn into a world of danger & deceit of plots paranoia & intrigue where the brave few are united by a single ambition: to free the fatherland from the Fuhrer.

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Reeve Joss is struggling to defend a country ravaged by the assaults of twin armies. His men now patrol a land of burning villages & homeless refugees as Joss tries to separate traitor from friend. The Reeves thoughts are also plagued by the intriguing Zubaidit pleasure-giver spy & temple-trained assassin. But Zubaidit is focused on a dangerous mission her target being warped Guardian Lord Radas. His death would leave the invading militia in chaos but the old tales tell truly of the Guardians immortality
- & of the powers they now wield to twist the hearts of men. Josss nights are also troubled disturbed by dreams of Marit. His lost love has returned from death to become a feared Guardian herself but Marit rejected the corrupt temptations they offered. She now seeks others of her kind praying some are yet uncontaminated by the blight on the land
- & have the will to fight it.

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Young cleric Wulfgar does not believe that his older brother is capable of treason. & yet Wystan stand accused of plotting to overthrow King Edward & place his cousin Seriol on the throne. It is clear that Seiriol & the Archbishop plan to lead an army to conquer Leicester. The Archbishop is an empire-builder & Seiriol is ruthless. Together they appear unstoppable. With the evading army continually gathering force can Wulfgar unearth the evidence to exonerate his brother before he suffers a traitor's death...? ...

Tramp for the Lord tells of Corries experiences after the Second World War. She began to minister world wide & travel widely visiting those she felt were suffering & who were in need of leading to the Lord in places as diverse as Africa & Germany. The book also tells of her meeting with one of her guards from the concentration camp & her forgiveness for him. An impressive & inspiring book telling Corries story in the years after the events of the best-selling Hiding Place. This much loved book is being re-issued in B format with a contemporary cover. ...