From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive. But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer ? the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash? Views: 91
While carrying out research in Paris, American historian John Craig is surprised when he runs into his old college professor. Sussman is a worried man. A survivor of Auschwitz, he in shock, having seen and been seen by one of the Nazis who tortured him in the camp. But SS Colonel Berg has been dead for ten years – or has he? Before Craig can help solve the riddle, Sussman is found dead and Craig is being questioned by the police. As various international organisations are drawn into the hunt for Sussman’s killer, he realises that the ex-Nazi is far more than just a wanted war criminal.Soon Craig’s search for the truth takes him from Paris to the island of Mykonos, where he must unmask a dangerous and powerful foe. Views: 91
Eleanor of Aquitaine rules as a modern heroine in the twelfth century, in this beloved classic of royal fiction from renowned author Norah Lofts. At a time when a woman's value was measured solely by her wealth and the number of sons she bore, Eleanor was the high-spirited, stubborn, and intelligent heiress to the vast duchy of Aquitaine. Her leadership inspired the loyalty of her people, but she was continually doubted and silenced by the men who ruled beside her—the less wise but far more powerful men of the church and court who were unwilling to lose power to a woman, regardless of her rank or ability. Through marriages to two kings, two Crusades, and the births of ten children— including the future King Richard the Lionhearted—Eleanor solidified her place in history. In Eleanor the Queen, Norah Lofts brings to life a brave and complex woman who was centuries ahead of her time. Views: 91
Harriet Ogilvy is a young woman with a small fortune and a mental
disability, making her the ideal target for the handsome and scheming
Lewis Oman. After winning Harriet's love, Lewis, with the help of his
brother and mistress, sets in motion a plan of unspeakable cruelty and
evil to get his hands on her money. With consummate artistry, Elizabeth
Jenkins transforms the bare facts of this case from the annals of
Victorian England's Old Bailey into an absolutely spine-chilling
exploration of the depths of human depravity.
Based on the real-life 1877 case of Harriet Staunton, Harriet (1934) was a bestseller and a major critical success, beating Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust to win the Prix Femina. Views: 91
Chosen by General Denton, Chief of American Far East Intelligence, for a dangerous and highly important mission, Red Randall and Jimmy Joyce take off from the carrier Tipton. Their assignment is to contact the American leader of a guerrilla band on the Japanese-held island of Luzon. Against incredible odds they land their Grumman Avenger on the strongly Japanese-guarded island, only to find that the guerrilla leader, Navy Lieutenant Jackson, has been captured. Grimly determined to complete their assignment, they map out a daring plan to rescue Jackson, who possesses information of vital importance to the American forces in their plans for the invasion of Luzon. How they effect a rescue with the help of Jackson's Filipino guerrillas, and how Red wages a one-man war against a Japanese garrison, make a suspense-filled action-packed story. Views: 89
Classic pulp crime thrillers from the 1940s and 1950s. In their time, the Hank Janson novels, with their sleazy covers and no-holds-barred tales, were a guilty pleasure for millions of readers, but incurred the wrath of the establishment! Blonde on the Spot, the seventh Hank Janson novel, picks up directly where Lilies for My Lovely, the sixth, left off. But all is not well in Hank's relationship with Sally Taylor, and when he winds up in a replica Wild West ghost town, where gambling, drugs and prostitution are rife, things go from bad to worse. Then there's the nearby Indian reservation, with its disgruntled and exploited native American population ... This incident-packed novel, first published in June 1949, is reissued by Telos complete with its original Reginald Heade cover. Views: 89
THE HORDES OF DRUUFON!They constitute a clear and present danger on distant Grautier, the Solar Empire's forward base 6562 light-years from the homeworld, Earth. Grautier is in a state of alarm as the Terran Spacefleet prepares to engage in battle with the enemy Druufs. Out around Grautier a unique phenomenon is occurring: two time-planes are beginning to stabilize–the Einstein continuum that includes our own Earth and that other continuum of the menacing alien universe of the Druufs. The ferocious foe is not unknown to Atlan for he fought them 10,000 years ago in his youth and is wary of them now. He warns Perry Rhodan of the peril they portend and his friend heeds the warning and develops an audacious plan. Little as the peacelord likes it, a blood-red haze of battle is about to explode in... THE CRIMSON UNIVERSE! Views: 89
This is the book that led to Hans Fallada's downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie produced by Jews, leading Hitler to ban Fallada's work from being translated.Nonetheless, it remains, as The Times Literary Supplement notes, "the novel of a time in which public and private merged even for those whowanted to stay at home and mind their own business."From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 88
“This power,” said the Professor respectfully, “could be used clinically to overcome neurosis or psychosis, but it would have to be very carefully controlled. In the hands of an unscrupulous government, the drug is worse than any weapon man has yet devised.”In the hands of Recman, the potent Formula 29 X would be enough to turn every man on Gimel into a sort of Recman robot. It would turn the dream planet beyond the barrier of space into an automatic state. All citizens would be blind followers of the dictator, and no man s mind could escape... Views: 88
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Perry Rhodan, Peace Lord of the Universe and commander of the spaceship Stardust, set the hyperjump coordinates for the planet of eternal life. But, as the ship dematerialized, something went wrong and the Stardust raced out of control across the galaxy to the system of Laton, a blue giant sun... thirty thousand light years from its goal! Perry discovers an alien stowaway aboard - a life form, from the Planet of the Dying Sun, with mysterious powers... powers which force Perry and his mutant crew to clash with... THE REBELS OF TUGLAN! Views: 88
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband's new lover. Externally calm, but torn apart inside, Tomo dutifully begins the search for an official mistress. The Waiting Years was awarded Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Noma Prize. Views: 88
About the AuthorSpike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. While serving in World War II (on our side) he began his career as a band musician (affiliation less clear) but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992. He died in 2002, leaving a vast body of work and a reknowned comic legacy in his corpse's path.Puckoon was his first novel. Views: 86
