When Sadie Bartholomew loses her parents in a terrible car accident, she is left to fend for herself and her sister, Jodie. The girls are used to being wealthy, but their father’s assets have been frozen, pending an investigation by the fraud squad. Sadie really wants to be a pop star, but right now, she has more important considerations, such as sorting out a home for the pair of them, and getting herself a job. But then along comes Jordan, a handsome young man who seems to make her feel so comfortable, and helps her to forget all of her problems. What Sadie doesn’t know is that Jordan has an alter-ego. And she also doesn’t know that she’s about to become involved in a horrifying and bloody battle for the leadership of Hell, as Satan himself launches legions of demons to bring about his victory.
It starts with the brutal and apparently motiveless murder of a civil servant in the car park outside the office where he works. A police investigation is launched, but another murder is carried out within a week of the first. The Journal is told in two parts. Firstly, from the eyes of a killer, who writes up his daily thoughts and actions in a journal that acts as his conscience, his own personal confessional booth. Secondly, from the eyes of the dedicated police officer leading the murder enquiry.
The bottom falls out of journalist Rob Murgatroyd’s world when his wife and children are killed in a road traffic accident. Obsessed with the notion that a video of their deaths might exist on an Internet gore site, he trawls the Web hoping to find it. But after seeing the depravation on offer, he soon realizes that the only way to guarantee his own death won’t become sensational entertainment for thousands of death voyeurs is to star in a snuff film. So begins Rob’s descent to the putrid underbelly of the entertainment world. There he will meet a porn baron, a glamour model and a paranoid police detective as he tries to discover who is responsible for making these films.
This is the 3rd edition of Shaun Stafford’s shocking transgressive novel, updated and published by New England Classics.
Saul Castle is in his forties. He lives in a small market town. He used to be a teacher, he used to have a wife, but then he lost it all. Now he’s an alcoholic. Now he works in care, supporting adults with learning disabilities.
The world has judged Saul and now he must decide whether he should continue to punish himself for the mistakes he’s made in the past or start to enjoy life again. But the only way he can do that is to explore his past, examine his mistakes and confront his personal demons.
Benjamin Beerenwinkel is a writer. His wife is about to leave him, and he’s just been told he’s got cancer. And then there’s the young, teenage girl who’s moved in next door who seems to be besotted with him. Life couldn’t get more complicated. Or could it? Benjamin’s life staggers from bad to worse as he comes to terms with his own mortality and his inability to start – let alone even finish – his second novel. With alcohol as a constant friend, we follow Benjamin on a self-destructive and immoral journey to the very depths of his troubled soul. When you have nothing to lose, you should definitely break the rules …
Andy Huxtable, ex-public schoolboy, was ideologically groomed as a teenager, and found his place in society amongst right-wing extremists, first with the National Front, and then with the notorious and violent neo-Nazi group, Combat 18.
After being sent to prison in his early twenties, he learns the power of ideological grooming. After serving a lengthy sentence, Andy is released into a world that has changed, a world where he must build a relationship with the daughter he has never met, and find redemption in a hostile and unwelcoming society.
Marty Smith is a former prison officer, found guilty of manslaughter after a control and restraint exercise in his prison goes wrong and a prisoner is killed. He must adjust to life on the other side of the fence at HMP Welland.
Jonno Dalglish was a training instructor at the Prison Service College at Newbold Revel, before an accident in a training exercise leaves one trainee prison officer dead and another with life-changing injuries. He is removed from his role, and ends up working on the landings at HMP Welland.
Danny Walsh is a new officer, freshly graduated from Newbold Revel, and he ends up working on Jonno Dalglish’s team on F-Wing.
These three officers are thrown together in an unforgiving environment, where violence is just a breath away, and where loyalties can change within an instant. Each of them must decide upon a path, and a fine line between what is right and what is wrong.
They are all loose screws.
DCI Woods has spent the last two years off work with post traumatic stress disorder, and isn’t sure that he is fit for duty on the day he arrives at Stamford Street police station. He is a religious man, and he has little time for pleasantries. His curt attitude and propensity towards saying the inappropriate can make those who work with him feel uncomfortable, but his vivid imagination and his analytical mind make him a tenacious and unforgiving investigator.
When four-year-old Kayleigh Hiscock is abducted from her bed one evening, it’s left to DCI Woods to investigate. Along with DS Mackenzie and DC Kilroy, his two new colleagues, Woods will battle through interviews with people intent on misleading him. He knows that the parents are lying to him, and he knows that their friends and neighbours are also lying to him, but that doesn’t stop him from establishing believable hypotheses for his team to consider.
Determined to find Kayleigh, dead or alive, Woods will trample over everyone who stands in his way until he finds her and brings the guilty to justice.
Ten months into a 30-month trip to Pluto, the XO of the super cargo vessel the God of the Dead discovers the corpse of Captain Rose.
On Pluto, political activist William Thorpe has created his own militia and he plans to seize control of the Pluto Colony. Most of the militia men are convicts from the Pluto Penal Colony. Thorpe’s aim is to seek complete political autonomy for the Pluto System.
The Sol Navy Ship Barack Hussein Obama II is on its way to the Pluto Colony, carrying London Terran investigator Ezekiel Kendall and a small team of marines. Kendall’s job is to root out corruption within London Terran, the corporation which owns the Pluto System.
