Having survived one encounter with an alien, Ripley is persuaded to return to the planet where her crew found the alien ship. A colony has been established there, but suddenly all contact with the settlers has been...
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses Eye
As a teenager Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the company of James Bond, but in her punk phase she`d got herself pregnant and by the time she reaches forty-six she`s a grandmother, her...
All Together Dead (True Blood)
Sookie`s beginning to get used to being surrounded by all varieties of undead, changeling, shapeshifting and other supernatural beings - but even she has her limits. She`d really like to take a while to get over being...
Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns,...
The Discworld: a world bursting with magic, a land of contrasts and extremes that floats through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. In the bustling metropolis of Ankh-Morpork, the oldest...
In THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following on from THE LAST HERO, THE ART OF DISCWORLD is a lavish 112-page...
Attack of Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Bad language. Scatalogical humour. Razor wit. Convoluted plot. High readability. It`s the new Christopher Brookmyre novel.
Behold the Man (S.F. Masterworks) ***
Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ - a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the...
Beyond Lies the Wub. Volume One of the Collected Stories
This is the first volume in the definitive five-volume set of Philip K. Dick`s collected stories. With one exception, all the stories in this book were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick...
One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st...
World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn`t "retiring" them with his laser weapon, he...
Now that she is finally and happily married to Mr , Mma Ramotswe of the famous No. l Ladies` Detective Agency might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to her door seem,...
The bestselling author of "A Wedding in December" returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summer.
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison, watching her while she shops and phoning her at all hours. Then, and for reasons unknown, Beryl lets him into her home. The next day she is found dead and Chief Medical examiner, Dr...
Book of New Sun 1: Shadow & Claw (Fantasy Masterworks)
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe`s The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in...
Terror is sweeping the globe. The Vice-Premier of the People`s Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and world leaders are asking questions: Why has Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who will...
The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn`t seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his...
