Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to the streets of LA. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, causing, first, disorientation and...
After their legendary adventures in the northern wastes and beyond, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, are back home in Lankhmar again, and...
Second Variety: Collected Stories vol.2
The stories within "Second Variety" were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as "Second Variety", which tells of an...
“The Separation” is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler`s deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and...
Кэндес Бушнелл Candace Bushnell
Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX AND THE CITY blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through New York, as Candace Bushnell, columnist and social critic par excellence, trips on her...
A few years from now the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn`t seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole...
A collection of Stephen King horror stories, including the tale of "Gramma", who only wanted to hug little George - even after she was dead; "The Raft", featuring a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite;...
It`s rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim`s...
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Once upon a time (or last Thursday, as it’s known in this matrix) everything was fine: Humpty Dumpty sat on his wall, Jack and Jill went about their lawful business, the Big Bad Wolf did what big bad wolves do, and...
The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery and when the magnetic lottery bottle twitched, anyone could become the absolute ruler of the world, the...
Calcutta, a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song...
The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, the troubles are just beginning - armed gangs roam a lawless land and taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness,...
Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn`t commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly - and equally mysteriously - offered the means to escape....
After twenty-five years of working in the shadowy world of espionage Keith Landry is on his way home. Driving along the highway, humming a few bars of `Homeward Bound`, the twenty-five years` service he has given the...
A stainless steel rat for a stainless steel Meet Slippy Jim, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, aka James Bolivar DiGritz. A man of many names and many all of which add up to make one of the greatest con men of all time....
Steep Approach to Garbadale (B)
Dark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, this is Iain Banks` best novel since "The Crow Road".
