Title: The Handmaid\’s TaleAuthor: Margaret AtwoodPublished by: VintagePublication date: 1985Genre: Dystopian Sci-FiPages: 324Format: PaperbackSource: Bury Library Blurb/Synopsis Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means \’of Fred\’. She has…
Title: Warhammer Adventures: Claws of the GenestealerAuthor: Cavan ScottPublished by: Black LibraryPublication date: 19th Feb 2019Genre: Science-Fiction/War/Young AdultPages: 200Format: PaperbackSource: Personal CollectionSeries: Warhammer Adventures Affiliate Links Buy the Book – Amazon Buy the Book – Kindle Buy the Book – BookDepositry Blurb/Synopsis Having crash-landed on a remote ice planet, Zelia Lor and her friends Talen, Mekki, and the super-intelligent alien-ape Fleapit…
Blurb/Synopsis A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and…
Title: Starship TroopersAuthor: Robert HeinleinPublished by: Hodder PaperbacksPublication date: December 1959Genre: Science FictionPages: 288Format: PaperbackSource: Private Collection Blurb/Synopsis 5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defense: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as \’Bugs.\’ This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico, from…
Title: City of the DeadAuthor: Jonathan KellermanPublished by: Cornerstone, PenguinPublication date: 17th Feb 2022Genre: Thriller/MysteryPages: 322Format: PaperbackSource: Publisher Blurb/Synopsis At 5am in the upscale neighbourhood of Westwood Village, two removal men are making a routine pick-up when they make a fatal hit. It\’s a man – who appeared from nowhere – naked and with no means of identification. Not long after,…
Title: A Flicker in the DarkAuthor: Stacy WillinghamPublished by: HarperCollinsPublication date: 3rd Feb 2022Genre: Psychological FictionPages: 360Format: eBookSource: NetGalley Blurb/Synopsis Chloe Davis’ father is a serial killer.He was convicted and jailed when she was twelve but the bodies of the girls were never found, seemingly lost in the surrounding Louisiana swamps. The case became notorious and Chloe’s family was destroyed….
Title: SnapShotAuthor: Josie JaffreyPublished by: Silver Sun BooksPublication date: 3rd Jun 2021Genre: Science FictionPages: 38Format: eBookSource: Private Collection Affiliate Links Buy the Book – Kindle Blurb/Synopsis In Legacy A, sunlight is a privilege. Miss a day of your assigned job, turn up late or misbehave, and your rank drops. Let your rank drop too low and you\’ll be on the night…
Title: The PrimarchsAuthor: Short story AnthologyPublished by: Black LibraryPublication date: 30th July 2015Genre: Science FictionPages: 440Format: PaperbackSource: Private CollectionSeries: Horus Heresy Blurb/Synopsis Created in the Emperor\’s own image, the Primarchs had long thought themselves to be princes of the universe and masters of their own destiny – they led the Space Marine Legions in glorious conquest of the galaxy, and no…