This early work by Émile Gaboriau was originally published in 1867 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Mystery of Orcival' is one of Gaboriau's novels of crime and my...
This book is a comprehensive catalogue of ancient Roman and Grecian Gods and Goddesses, with detailed descriptions of each deity, information concerning related festivals, retellings of legendary t...
A barking mad mystery.The Nosy Detectives agency is like no other. For a start, one of the detectives is a dog called Monty, a rescued Golden Retriever with a heart of go...
Jesus' burial cloth could be the most important Christian relic. Men and women risked their lives to save it - and destroy it. Can it survive war, famine, p...
"An emotional rollercoaster that transports the reader on an heartbreaking journey of love, loss, and family, and reminds you that going home doesn't always mean the place you lay your h...
"How long do you last in bed?" Those were her first words to me, swiftly followed up with, "And how big would you say you are?"Cue the record scratching, what?...
1965. Young Tito Scaffone loves vintage horror movies more than life itself. He is especially enamored of Lon Chaney's 1925 The Phantom of the Opera-the majesty of the sets, the silent-...
Dr Howard Lester and his friend Sir Henry Littleway have made a startling discovery: a simple operation on the brain’s prefrontal cortex results in vastly expanded consciousness and mental...
Riley "Brendan" Major is a middle-aged geek trapped in a dead-end retail job and feeling that his life is one colossal failure. Strange dreams of another life plague him, dreams of superheroes and ...
Mr Parratt is a pizza delivery man in a small Scottish town. There is one delivery he is never going to forget on a fateful night when his world is turned upside down... after jilting his bride-to-...
THE QUEEN'S TRAGEDY is Robert Hugh Benson's third in a series of novels designed to tell the story of the English Reformation from the Catholic point of view. Benson handles a difficult subject wi...
On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, ...
Listen...The furious clangor of battle. The harrowing singing of steel. The desperate cries of wounded animals. The gasps of bleeding, dying men. The slow, deep breathing of terr...
In 1918, silent film director Louis Feuillade and writer Arthur Bernede resurrected one of their greatest characters for a second adventure: a mysterious avenger, wearing a slouch hat and a dark cl...