Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written. In...

A woman gets arrested for the murder of her friend based on flimsy evidence.Then the murdered woman returns and leaves solid evidence as well as hints with various people, including a hard-nosed detective and his solicitor friend, who finally put their doubts aside.An international drug ring is broken up with the help of a naughty ghost, and the lives of all involved are changed irrevocably.

The First Minister is missing... Scotland is divided… The referendum is in crisis...Only Robert Castle has a vision for Scotland that could unite both sides in the independence debate.Helen Castle fears that politics could destroy Robert. As the campaign intensifies she must face one of the hardest decisions of her life.News that the First Minister of Scotland is missing, with only four months until the referendum on Scottish independence, challenges...

When Dead's not Quite' … Written in the first person, this is an account from a man who finds himself stuck between mortal existence, the next phase and beyond. Life is reviewed, revenge is extracted, and souls are healed. 'Beyond the white light' stories have been done before. This one goes the extra few yards, posing and answering many questions … take what you will, and use what you need, or perhaps you have an entirely different idea at what...

What do you do when you are involved in a love triangle? What if the situation continues even when one partner dies?Sophie has been living a life of duplicity in a love triangle for decades, so that she could save her marriage.Now her grand-daughter, Karen, faces a different challenge and a love triangle in her marriage. Karen has a near-death experience which changes her life and her marriage.The only way to for everyone to make sense of their situations...

WHAT IS THE POINT OF KNOWING IF NOBODY WILL LISTEN?Ancient Sumer, 3800 BC. Indentured and forced into prostitution to survive, a reluctant seer known only as Girl, finds herself experiencing cataclysmic visions. Kaylem, most junior scribe of the Temple and her one, true friend, realizes Girl is the mouthpiece of the gods and is the only one to believe her. Somehow, Girl and Kaylem must convince the corrupt priestcraft of Ur to heed Girl's message...

Overwhelmed by the discovery of her mother's deception and the secrets of her ancestor's origins, a young Seattleite slips deeper into prescription opioid addiction. Braided tells the story of how she discovers her true purpose during a deadly fentanyl overdose. Mira's body lies lifeless in her designer recliner, an empty pill bottle on the floor beside her. Her frozen eyes are no longer able to see the Seattle city lights sparkling below, and...

The man appeared in the air ... about a metre above the statue of Dr Johnson, at the rear of St Clement Danes church. I stopped immediately I saw him. A rather frail-looking man of Mediterranean appearance, hair brushed back en brosse and wearing a Burberry trench coat, bumped into me, held his hands out open palms towards me in a gesture of apology, and said, 'Pardon Monsieur. Totalement ma faute. J'étais loin.'The man in the air seemed to be around...

It all starts when a mischievous artist kicks off a game of graffiti tag by painting the phrase, "Uh-oh" on an overpass. Next, an anonymous interlocutor writes back: "When?" Then someone slyly answers: "Just a couple of days." But exactly what will happen in just a couple of days? Readers don't have long to wait before Professor Blip Korterly is arrested and his molecular biologist friend Dr. Flake Fountain is drafted into a shadow-government research...

"It is as he said, I have spoken, and the whole world is falling apart." Young Lady Ashling destroys more than her chains when she defies all she has known to save the life of an innocent man. Her public accusation against the vindictive and powerful Feeney, sets off a murderous chain of events and forces her to flee the imposing walls of Brennyn Hall into a society she's never experienced. Hunted by the Hall and armed with nothing but a cryptic...