Stark
- Condition: Poor ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Action Comedy
Stark has more money than God and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, they know the Earth is dying, so, deep in Western Australia, a planet-sized plot takes shape. Unfortunately, all that stands in the way of the conspiracy is four inept green freaks.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Non-Fiction
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bryson's style is witty, engaging and makes even the hardest topics understandable.
The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook (1st Ed)
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Non-Fiction
This is the ultimate guide to low-budget movie-making in the UK and around the world. It's bursting with information, guides, hot tips, inspirational case studies, names and addresses, forms, contracts... everything anyone would need to get started in low-budget filmmaking. This is the First Edition.
Day of the Cheetah
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
In this aerial combat story, the author refers to technology only now coming off real military drawing boards and his own hands-on insider's skill. In this novel of high-tech aviation, the story comes to a shattering climax. The author also wrote "Flight of the Old Dog" and "Silver Tower".
Dreamland: Razor's Edge
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Military Thriller
The hunt is on for a mystery weapon that has been shooting down American planes over Iraq. Hidden in the Nevada desert is Dreamland -- an advanced research centre dedicated to developing artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. It is also home to Whiplash -- a covert team of special forces trained to deploy the high-tech weapons in extreme situations. There is no way that conventional weapons could have hit the planes so easily. Can the Iraqis have developed a laser capable of causing such mayhem? Fearing a major international crisis, the President sends a call out to Dreamland. Within hours, some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world are heading for the Gulf, with orders to track down the mystery weapon -- and destroy it.
The Da Vinci Code
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. It appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
Drenai Tales: Volume 3
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
In this omnibus edition, David Gemmell collects three of his classic Drenai sagas (The Legend of Deathwalker, Winter Warriors & Hero in the Shadows) together and compiles them with new introductions. This is no longer in print.
Hero in the Shadows
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
Evil sorcerers and their fearsome beasts are about to break through from another realm. Kysumu, a noble Rajnee swordsman, Yu Yu Liang, a humble ditch-digger come hero, Keeva Taliana, a woman who has a gift for killing, but not desire to use it and the Grey Man, otherwise known as Waylander the Slayer, must unlock an ancient riddle and raise the remains of a legendary army to save mankind.
Quest for Lost Heroes
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
Kiall is a young peasant boy who, blinded by love and glory, sets out to save the girl he loves from the Nadir slavers who took her. But he cannot do it alone, and along the way he is joined by four legendary heroes. Together, they may rescue the girl, but can they also free the world from Nadir domination?
The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
Slavers raid Druss' village and carry off his young wife, Rowena. With his life in ruins, his father dead, Druss must use his fighting prowess to hunt down and save Rowena. He will also need to fight the demon in his axe, Snaga, for it has a bloody past, and its appetite is growing. The early history of the legend who features in many Gemmell novels.
The Legend of Deathwalker
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
A handful of the nomadic Nadir hold their most holy shrine against the might of the Gothir army so they might protect the sacred eyes of Alchazzar and find the one man who will bring glory to all their tribes, the Uniter. A novel of Druss the legend.
Waylander II: In The Realm of the Wolf
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
High in the wooded, peaked mountains of Skeln, the woodsman, Dakeyras, and his beautiful daughter Miriel, live a life of harmonious solitude. Unbeknown to them, a group of grim-eyed, bloodthirsty warriors stalk the mountains. Men who have never known defeat, to whom revenge and torture are meat and drink. For ten thousand in gold they are eager to kill the woodsman.
White Wolf
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
Skilgannon the Damned had vanished from the pages of history. Taking with him his legendary Swords of Night and Day. But the Damned cannot hide forever and now he must travel across a perilous, demon-haunted realm seeking a mysterious temple, and the ageless goddess who rules it. With assassins on his trail, and an army of murderous foes ahead, the Damned sets off on a quest to bring the dead to life. But he does not travel alone. The man beside him is Druss the Legend.
Winter Warriors
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
The world stands on the bring of destruction, demons are waiting to emerge from the darkness and rule again. All they must do is kill the third king, and unborn child. Between them and the king's mother stand three old heroes, the remnants of the once proud Drenai army, but will they be enough?
Backroom Boys
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Non-Fiction
Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, this text tells the bitter-sweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got something back. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race and who are now sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow the cinnamon sands of Mars.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
A satire on the horrors of totalitarianism, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is set in a society run by Big Brother where people are made to conform to orthodoxy by the Thought Police. Winston Smith yearns for truth and liberty, but he comes to realize that he cannot outwit the forces at work.
Foundation
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
The first volume of Asimov's saga, which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. The ostensible task of Foundation, a group of savants established by Seldon on the remote planet Terminus, is to compile the "Encyclopedia Galactica", a complete account of human knowledge.
Foundation and Empire
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
The second volume in the "Foundation" saga. Catastrophic events unfold as predicted by Hari Seldon. The First Galactic Empire is crumbling at its centre; conflict rages at its periphery, where the Traders of the Foundation based on Terminus have become a mighty power.
Child of Time
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Based on an Asimov short story, "The Ugly Little Boy". A children's nurse is hired as part of a scientific project aimed at bringing a living being from the past to the present. A four-year-old Neanderthal boy is snatched from his home and hurled 40,000 years into a terrifying future.
The Lord of the Rings
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ruling Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-Earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Three books in one.
Game Ten
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
TV reporter, Claire Merrick, fronts National TV's crime show. The survivor of a previous scandal, she discovers irrefutable evidence of election rigging and that someone is out to destroy her credibility again. The world's most powerful and secret club is at work, and Claire goes on the run.
Pride and Prejudice
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Romance
Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other sin. That makes her sound like a goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character who, if provoked, is not above skewering her antagonist with her exceptionally sharp, yet always polite, 18th-century wit. The real point of the book though, the critical question which will keep you fixated throughout, is: will Elizabeth and Mr Darcy hook up?
George Lucas
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Biography
George Lucas is one of the most innovative bigtime players on the movie scene, responsible for the Star Wars films, the Indiana Jones series and more besides. Yet Lucas remains an enigma and a recluse. He has specially built the Skywalker Ranch a long way from Hollywood - a Victorian village community in a redwood forest where he and his friends can work in splendid isolation, free of studio pressure but with the highest technology. This is his story.
Steven Spielberg
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Biography
Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful film-makers in history. His hits include "Jaws", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial", "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List". This biography charts Spielberg's career from his boyhood 8mm home movies to the epic sweep of "Schindler's List" and beyond. It tells the story of his unhappy adolescence on the fringes of American society to his present unrivalled position of power.
The World According to Garp
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: General Fiction
Garp is a book that captivates all who read it. Peopled with the most extraordinary characters you will ever meet, here is a novel that will make you laugh, make you weep, and, above all, make you think.
Effendi: The Second Arabesk
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Among many other things, Ashraf Bey is a fugitive from the US justice system (definitely); son of the Emir of Tunis (possibly); and chief of detectives in the El Iskandryian police force (apparently). Small wonder that he's a little confused... Raf's ex-fiance Zara still doesn't want to see him, so she says. His nine-year-old niece is busy doing things with computers that are strictly illegal. And when the city suddenly starts to fall apart and Zara's father is accused of mass-murder, Raf begins to learn the true cost of loyalty... Ashraf Bey must become both saviour and avenger. It's not an easy trick, but someone has to do it...
Felaheen: The Third Arabesk
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Detective. Diplomat. Uncle. Killer. Ashraf Bey has been many things since arriving in El Iskandryia from Seattle. One thing he hasn't been, as yet, is a son to Moncef, Emir of Tunis - the father Raf has still to meet. And now it may be too late, since the rumours that don't have Emir Moncef escaping assassination have him hovering on the edge of death. It seems Raf has his own part in an unfolding political crisis.
Pashazade: The Third Arabesk
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Ashraf Bey is not who he seems--a rich Ottoman aristocrat to whom the Iskandryia of a rather different 21st century is more or less his oyster--nor is he simply what he thinks he is--a minor street criminal shipped off to North Africa when he fell foul of his employers. Accused yet again of murders he did not commit, he finds out on the run that he is better than he thinks he is--smarter and more capable and also someone whom people trust and love.
redRobe
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Ex-assassin Axl Borja has agreed to do one last hit - only he hasn't told his gun yet. Cardinal Santo Ducque faces political ruin if he can't regain the Vatican's missing billions. Mai's a Japanese kinderwhore held hostage on a space habitat. As they collide their actions could change the world.
Battlefield Earth
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
A science fiction novel set in the year 3000, when Earth is an empty wasteland full of aliens, and one man decides to marshal the survivors to rid Earth of the alien invaders. Much better than the film, thankfully, but a little cheesy.
Black Hawk Down
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Non-Fiction
Recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid.
Eaters of the Dead
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Historical Thriller
Whilst on a mission up the Volga, a representative of the ruler of Baghdad meets a Viking chieftain who has been summoned back to Scandinavia by his besieged relatives. The two men journey together northwards to engage in mortal combat with the dark, hairy brutes who threaten to empty the land. This book was the basis of the film The 13th Warrior.
Jurassic Park
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
The novel which became a Spielberg film of the same name. An island off Costa Rica is to become the world's most famous theme park - a dinosaur preserve, for a biotechnology company has succeeded in cloning 15 species of dinosaur. But the scientists' dream turns into a nightmare.
Timeline
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole" and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off or cage you up. This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller.
Spares
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Jack Randall never had much luck. He spent five years on a farm with the Spares, cloned humans whose entire life consists of waiting for people to come and claim bits of them. Now all he wants to do is get some money and disappear. Unread.
What You Make It
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
The first ever collection of Michael Marshall Smith's award-winning short stories. The first piece of fiction Smith ever wrote -- a short story called The Man Who Drew Cats -- won the World Fantasy award. It's included here along with many others, some unpublished, which show the incredible versatility of one of the most exciting writers working in Britain today.
Courage Under Fire
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Action
This is the novelization of the film of the same name. The film centres on the Gulf War and stars Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan.
Barracuda 945
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Thriller
He was one of the world's most skilful submariners. Trained by the best in the business - the Royal Navy - and now at the peak of his powers and skill, he finally comes into his own. Now he works for Arab terrorists. And he aims to strike at the West. His weapon? A lethal submarine - Barracuda 945 - that he hijacks before setting off in search of the pipelines he will destroy. And the Barracuda, like the shark it is named after, is swift, silent and deadly. Who can stop him? Only the Special Forces and the submariners of the West's navies, but only if they can trace him in the first place and eliminate him before he destroys the oil supply routes.
HMS Unseen
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Large Format Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
Following "Nimitz Class" and "Kilo Class", this is the story of the world's deadliest submariner's dream of revenge. Betrayed by Iraq, he defects to Iran, planning to steal a submarine and convert it to a new type of weapon. And blame for the havoc it inflicts upon the US will neatly point to Iraq.
Kilo Class
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Crime Thriller
China has ordered ten Russian-built Kilo Class submarines, but this order is the last thing the Pentagon will allow. With the subs in Chinese hands, Beijing will gain control of the Taiwan Strait. The order goes out from The White House: stop the delivery, with deadly force.
The Shark Mutiny
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Large Format Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
It is the year 2006, and a succession of massive underwater explosions has left three of the world’s largest oil tankers burning fiercely in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz. United States military intelligence conclude that the Iranians have carried out their long-standing threat to lay a minefield across the narrow seaway leading to the Persian Gulf. Worse yet, they plainly did it with the active assistance of the People’s Republic of China. Iran can be contained. But Admiral Morgan rounds on China, and develops a plan to eliminate their brand new oil refinery in Hormuz, and then flatten their equally new base in Burma. In the dead of night, the Navy Seals go in, delivered by the ageing submarine USS Shark, for two sensational clandestine attacks. But in Burma they are on the run, pursued by the Chinese across the long, flat rice-growing deltas of the Bassein and Irrawaddy rivers.
USS Seawolf
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Large Format Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
Silent and lethal, USS Seawolf, the US Navy's most up-to-date stealth submarine, is on an ultra secret mission - to spy on China's brand new, hugely-improved Xia-Class submarine. This latest thriller is from the bestselling author of HMS Unseen.
A Second Chance at Eden
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
This novella and six stories are set in the same universe and time-line as the "Night's Dawn" trilogy. For die-hard enthusiasts of Night's Dawn, "Escape Route" tells the intriguing story of the last flight of Joshua Calvert's father and his spacecraft, Lady Macbeth. And the novella "A Second Chance at Eden" is Hamilton's attempt at revenge; apparently when he wrote his second novel A Quantum Murder, too many of his friends solved the mystery and identified the murderer--this time he throws down the gauntlet to stunning effect.
Fallen Dragon
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Born in a colony world in 2310, Lawrence Newton hankered after the golden era of starships exploring the galaxy. But the age of human starflight was drawing to a close, so this hot-heated teenager ran away from home in search of adventure... Twenty years later, he's the sergeant of a washed-out platoon taking part in the bungled invasion of another world. The giant corporations call such campaigns 'asset realization', but in practice it's simple piracy. While he's on the ground, being shot at and firebombed by local resistance forces, Lawrence hears stories about the Temple of the Fallen Dragon -- and a sect devoted to the worship of a mythical creature that fell to the ground millennia ago and a treasure large enough to buy lifelong happiness -- which information prompts him to mount a private-enterprise operation of his own.
His Dark Materials Trilogy
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
This stunning box set contains the three books in the trilogy: The Subtle Knife, Northern Lights and The Amber Spyglass, and is the perfect gift for anyone who is looking for a challenging read.
Days of Drums
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
When an influential and respected senator is killed while under the protection of rookie US Secret Service Agent Holland Tylo, her career appears to be in ruins. But then she stumbles on a vast conspiracy which not only jeopardizes her life but threatens to devastate the US Senate.
Enigma
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Historical Thriller
March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.
Pompeii
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Historical Thriller
A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the mighty Aqua Augusta - has suddenly ceased to flow... Through the eyes of four characters - a young engineer, an adolescent girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction.
The Bourne Supremacy
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Crime Thriller
The Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China has been brutally murdered, by an assasin who doesn't exist. The Far East stands on the brink of war, ready to drag the rest of the world with it. The plot to take over China must be stopped. Only one man has the skills for a job like this: Jason Bourne, the mythical assasin someone has brought back from the dead.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Historical Action
A film tie-in edition of the story of Robin Hood, his infamous deeds, and his Merrie Men, as portrayed by Kevin Costner in his film of the same title.
Time to Hunt
- Condition: Normal ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
Sent to Vietnam, Donny partners Bob Lee Swagger, one of the most accomplished snipers in the US armed forces. The Sniper King, a Russian, is trailing them; Donny cannot understand why, but the final showdown will be in the USA, not Vietnam.
Guards! Guards!
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Fantasy
This is where the dragons went. They lie...not dead, not asleep, but...dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless, they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere there's a key...
Hannibal
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. He's back and hungrier than ever in a masterpiece of suspense - a dazzling feast for the imagination. Unread.
Net Force: Hidden Agendas
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
The Net Force are facing their toughest challenge yet. It begins when Louisiana's state capitol building is destroyed using a top-secret chemical weapons formula swiped from the Net. If Net Force can't solve the deadly puzzle, then someone is going to get away with the most daring robbery ever.
Net Force: Night Moves
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
When a top-secret cargo train carrying materials for a nuclear weapons programme is destroyed, it's the first incident in which information is stolen and deciphered. If Net-Force don't track the perpetrator down, he could re-draw the map of the world.
Powerplays: Ruthless.com
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
Following the deregulation of computer encryption codes, an unforeseen Pandora's Box is opened. Terrorists now have a potential back door into the nation's defence computers, and someone plans to use it. One man understands the danger and has the resources to act before it's too late.
Powerplays: Shadow Watch
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
In this novel, a near disaster prior to a space shuttle launch provides the first evidence of a global terrorist plan to bring the USA to its knees.
Rainbow Six
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Hardback
- Genre: Crime Thriller
Rainbox Six is a secret global force of elite troops designed to fight terrorism wherever and whenever. Through several incidents a pattern starts to emerge, but are they ready to take on a group who want to cleanse the Earth with a biological weapon? This is a monster, low price due to postage costs being so high.
Shadow Warriors
- Condition: Excellent ?
- Type: Large Format Paperback
- Genre: Non-Fiction
The training, resourcefulness and creativity of the US Special Forces soldier make him capable of jobs that few other soldiers could handle, in situations where traditional arms and movement do not apply. Tom Clancy traces the transformation of the Special Forces from the small core of outsiders of the 1950s through the cauldron of Vietnam and to the rebirth of the SF in the late 1980s and 1990s as the bearer of the largest, most mixed and most complex set of missions in the US military.
The Hunt for Red October
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Thriller
A deadly game of hide-and-seek played out in 18 days over 4000 miles of ocean. Red October is the Soviet Navy's newest ballistic missile submarine. When the whole crew decides to defect, the Soviet fleet sets out to destroy it, while the US and British fleets attempt to prevent them.
Neuromancer
- Condition: Good ?
- Type: Paperback
- Genre: Science Fiction
Tells the story of Case, a burnt-out software cowboy forced to do one last job in the infinite bytes of cyberspace. The original cyberpunk novel.