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Welcome to a world where class is dead, decency’s been pegged into oblivion, and Britain’s answer to a burning skip fire is on a global rampage of tits, tech, and total fucking chaos in this special edition of 'The Crackhead' books by Stu Armstrong.

After accidentally selling woodworm-infested wooden dildos to amputees as prosthetic legs, the infamous pair flee Smackelston aboard the Skagsville Express, a stolen luxury train turned mobile crack den. What follows is an utterly deranged, continent-hopping catastrophe of drugs, depravity, and deeply misguided business ventures.

Trevor’s back on the streets and this time, he’s not just on crack… he’s on spice. After serving a slapstick 18-month sentence (of which he served only 12 for “good-ish behaviour”), Trevor reunites with Chanelle his pipe-smoking partner-in-crime and sometime prostitute, sometime businesswoman — outside prison. They return to their spiritual home: Wetherspoons, where £1.99 can still buy you a pint and a sense of delusion. But things have changed. Trevor’s got a new addiction. Chanelle’s got new ideas. And Britain’s most dysfunctional couple are about to unleash hell all over again.

The first book in the thrilling, highly acclaimed Vampire Gene series, mixing horror, dark fantasy and a slice of science fiction, in a definitive new edition from Telos Publishing. He’s looking for a girl; not just any girl, and dark-haired, brown-eyed Carolyn is the one. But does Gabriele Caccini, a student at Manchester University, really know what he wants? When a beautiful curvaceous blonde comes into his life he starts to question his motives and emotions; even a 17th Century vampire can do that.

Christmas carols capture the spirit of Christmas like nothing else, and Carol of the Tales and Other Nightly Noels bring beloved carols to life like never before. Throw your cares away with the tales from sweet silver bells.

When Darkness Falls is about the world finally destroying each other's resources until electricity is the only thing left. The world was sent back to the pioneer days except for three countries—Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The United States has less than three years to find another source.

Martin Keane thought the worst was behind him. A reformed man with a steady job, a loving partner, and a young son, he had left behind the reckless violence of his past. But when a relentless online troll begins tormenting his family, the facade of normal life begins to crack. At first, it's just cruel words on a screen. Then it escalates—threats, humiliation, and psychological warfare pushing Martin to his breaking point.

The small town of Anslem stands as a microcosm of the human soul—steeped in sin, mercy, darkness, and the bloodthirsty urges of its people. Through the weary eyes of Sheriff Dunbar, a man burdened by the weight of duty, witness the harsh cruelties and fleeting joys of life in this rugged frontier town. When justice demands the unthinkable—the execution of a young boy—Dunbar is left to wrestle with the impossible choice that will test his faith.

Award-winning author Felix Alexander returns with his third collection of love letters and poems, and the fourth installment in the Forever Poetic series. A saga about missed chances, unrequited love, longing and hope, and never leaving anything unsaid. The book begins with a series of love letters confessing a secret admiration that slowly evolves into unrequited love.

Charlie Matters’ life has always been a fight for survival. Orphaned with no prospects, Charlie steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he can enlist in the battle against the Germans. He miraculously emerges unscathed from the Blitz, but there’s no telling when the next bomb will fall, and whether it will be the one to end his life.

In a not-so-distant future, Professor Sean Dempsey and his beautiful family are heading on vacation. The means of transportation differ somewhere fifty years from now. Instead of relying on clumsy tools like airplanes or crude landcraft, humanity employs the Shunt—a novel new transporting technology. In an attempt to dispel nerves, the history of, and science behind, the Shunt is carefully explained by Sean to his young daughter, Ava, in a desperate attempt to help her understand both its miracle—as well as its risks.

Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, ducking school but barred from actual work, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.

A decade after the original debut of Dear Love: Diary of a Man's Desire, Alexander returns with a new collection of love letters and poetry. From heartbreak to heartfelt and every heartbeat in between, Alexander eloquently elaborates on the emotions stirred in the hearts of hopeless romantics.

This is a collection of bad poems, short stories, rushed parables, and hastily-written diatribes written over the last 4 years. Shut in my home due to the government’s tyrannical response to COVID, I did a lot of reading, thinking, and reflection. During this time, I came to admit to myself a lot of dismal truths about the “true” state of humanity, especially when it is pushed to the limits by fear and doubt. In such cases, Man becomes savage and focuses on the differences in his fellow men; he leans into his raw savageness to bifurcate and destroy. He is primal. He is reckless.

The '90s was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It was the decade of Lad Culture and Girl Power, of Blur vs Oasis. When fashion runways shone with British talent, Young British Artists became household names, football was 'coming home' and British film went worldwide.

For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early “lady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime field—Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them.

Remaining pure in body, mind, eyes, and heart could be the most difficult thing your kids will face in their preteens and teens—and into adulthood. Jim Burns, author of the Pure Foundations series, goes beyond the printed word with this unique audio resource, designed to open a dialog between parents and their kids about healthy sexuality.

When Alice's wish to visit the Looking Glass world comes true, she can't resist delving deeper and deeper into a land of caustic characters and twisted logic. So begins a game of chess on a grand scale, where the inhabitants of each square have their own set of rules. In her bid to become Queen of the Chess Board, Alice takes advice - and sometimes downright criticism - from such peculiar folk as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Lion and the Unicorn and very helpful gnat.

Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still lurk. Featuring brand-new stories by: Glenn Patterson, Eoin McNamee, Garbhan Downey, Lee Child, Alex Barclay, Brian McGilloway, Ian McDonald, Arlene Hunt, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Claire McGowan, Steve Cavanagh, Lucy Caldwell, Sam Millar, and Gerard Brennan.