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Gauntlet
Richard Aaron
July 2009 Debut of the Month.
Exhilarating Action, clever plotting and a bunch of real characters make this debut simply sensational. It’s a brave author makes an autistic savant the hero of a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/03/2009
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Outlaw
Angus Donald
July 2009 Debut of the Month.
An interesting take on the Robin Hood legend, seen through the eyes of a young man forced to leave home and join the outlaws of Sherwood Forest....
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/07/2009
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Dead Spy Running
Jon Stock
This is billed as the first in a trilogy but Daniel Marchant is such a charismatic character surely there will be more to come after that? The book opens with Daniel, a suspended MI6 officer, and his girlfriend running the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/06/2009
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Slights
Kaaron Warren
A dark, sad, unsettling and highly original book. You will be gripped from page one and drawn in to the troubled and increasingly fragile world of Stevie as year by year she finds herself more and more alienated from the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Nature Girl
Carl Hiaasen
This is slapstick satire where one chaotic situation bounces on to another. Full of wacky characters and improbable scenarios and set in the dangerous world of Florida’s ‘gator-strewn Everglades, it’s just the most ludicrous fun you’ll have for a long...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2007
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Nekropolis
Tim Waggoner
Zombies, vampires, private-eyes!!! Who could ask for more?? A great mixture of horror and detective story, this was actually expanded form a novella and will now form part of a series.
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2009
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Beautiful Losers
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen’s second novel, first published back in 1966 is now re-issued under the Blue Door flag. It comes under the label of “experimental novels” of the sixties and is considered a classic. A must for all fans of his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2009
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As You Do
Richard Hammond
More tales from the ‘Hamster’ following his exploits on Top Gear as well as other various adventures. The perfect book to dip in and out of for amusing anecdotes. Hammond is an articulate, funny and interesting writer giving some great...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
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Hellraisers
Robert Sellers
March 2009 Book of the Month.
It’s a total cliché to say it but they don’t make ‘em like these guys anymore! Four...
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City of the Sun
David Levien
An exceptional first novel by a Hollywood scriptwriter, a gripping, horrifying, unputdownable story of abduction, murder and parental despair. It introduces ex-police officer turned private detective Frank Behr who is...
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From Aberystwyth with Love
Malcolm Pryce
More from the ‘king of Welsh noir’ Pryce brings us another delicious mix of crooks and conmen told with his wry wit and slight nod to the absurd and Louie...
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A Year in the Merde
Stephen Clarke
Outrageous, irreverent and politically incorrect, a young Englishman copes with the French. The odd spelling as he phoneticizes the French accent takes a bit of getting used to but get...
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Contact Zero
David Wolstencroft
Four fledgling MI5-trained spies meet serious trouble on their first assignments and are forced to cut loose and find the unknown place ‘Contact Zero’ that is reputed to be a...
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Skin and Bones
Tom Bale
January 2009 Debut of the Month.
With one of the best opening pages to a book you’ll ever read this electrifying debut thriller will leave...
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The Secret Speech
Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith’s debut novel, Child 44, was one of the runaway successes of 2008 and his follow up novel is equally gripping. Set in the Soviet Union of...
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The Sewerside Chronicles
Tim Lay
April 2009 Debut of the Month.
National Literary Prize winner in the Undiscovered Authors competition 2007.
The Sewerside Chronicles is a fast-paced and witty novel following...
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A Snowball in Hell
Christopher Brookmyre
Brilliant, right back on form, for the last was not one of his best. This, however, is complex, humorous, violent, confusing, in fact all that one wants and expects from...
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