A hiker plunges to his death, a child is kidnapped and a man has his throat slashed to keep him from telling secrets that lure stolen art sleuth, Rane Lavita, and her pal, Chanlee, into the labyrinthine underbelly of the murderously lucrative world of forgeries and porn. A world where fakes are terrifyingly real, love is threatening and mundane realities like baseball caps and innocent smiles become sinister weapons in a to-the-death struggle to outwit 10,000 suspects.

The Ghosts of Earth is the first book of the Truthfarer series which describes the beginnings of a universe – the origins of space and time, and of consciousness itself. These cataclysmic events set in train the Truthfarers` quest, and the account of their journey Homewards. This history follows the adventures of two of these beings as they travel from the skies of an ancient planet to the realm of the gods, and then onwards to the freezing landscape of a new world, before finally encountering the subterranean regions of the Gaki. These creatures are a strange race indeed, inexorably driven by an insatiable hunger towards madness, to an insanity that holds within itself the key to the next stage of their path towards ultimate knowledge.

Jimmy Biffman’s life has just cratered. His wife dumps him for Dr. Dwayne the periodontist, he’s downsized out of a job, and he’s living in a trailer in his best friend Erica’s backyard. So, when Erica hatches a wild scheme to recapture Jimmy’s lost youth, he’s powerless to resist. RUNAWAYS is the journey of two 40 somethings looking for a life they’re convinced has passed them by. With a naive belief in what’s possible and a foolish misunderstanding of the risks they end up completely out of their element and in way over their heads. The unsavory predators who suck them into their world know exactly what they’re doing unlike Erica and Jimmy, who, like two giddy high schoolers cutting class, have no idea what they’re in for. Their new lives won’t turn out remotely as they’ve planned…

Perhaps man may be more properly distinguished as an idle animal; for there is no man who is not sometimes idle. It is at least a definition from which none that shall find it in this paper can be excepted; for who can be more idle than the reader of the Idler? Scarcely any name can be imagined from which less envy or competition is to be dreaded. The Idler has no rivals or enemies. The man of business forgets him; the man of enterprise despises him; and though such as tread the same track of life, fall commonly into jealousy and discord, Idlers are always found to associate in peace, and he who is most famed for doing nothing, is glad to meet another as idle as himself.

Ever wondered what makes a writer tick? Who influenced them? Why they decided to become a writer? In Reading the Writer, author Annette Gisby includes an interview with her, as well as extracts from three of her books, Drowning Rapunzel, Silent Screams and Shadows of the Rose. The book is free to download and browse.

Itchy Donner doesn’t have much going for him. A rashy eleven-year-old growing up fatherless in a dying backwoods Idaho timber town, Itchy is obsessed with the past-specifically, his family’s past. Itchy’s the great-great-great grandson of Tamsen Donner, the Donner Party’s famous matriarch, and Itchy studies his ancestor’s history with the relentlessness that only a true nerd can muster. He and his mother Irene live poor but happy in a ramshackle singlewide, and Irene encourages Itchy’s interest and pride in his illustrious ancestors. But their predictable lives are forever turned upside-down when the wandering gyppo logger Red Donner-Itchy’s blustery, larger-than-life father-blows back into town looking to make amends for his past and put his family back together again. ITCHY DONNER is a tragi-comic tale of liars and dreamers, of the distant Donner ghosts who haunt Itchy’s present, and of Itchy’s quest to understand the past, know his father, and make his family whole again.

The slender framed boy stood and watched the beetle crawl across the rotted body of a dead cat. The wind gently ruffled his short black hair. He picked up a stick and poked at it. More beetles swarmed out of its body cavity. The English summer sun gently shined down on him causing a small bead of sweat to appear on his lip. Edan sat down beside the dead animal. Fascinated, he pushed one of its eyelids up and tried to pop out the cat’s glazed over eye.

Join nerdy and sexy art sleuth Rane Lavita, and share in the thrills 'n spills, murderous mayhem, love and laughter of her first case, TEN THOUSAND SUSPECTS: A hiker plunges to his death, a child is kidnapped and a man has his throat slashed to keep him from telling secrets that lure stolen art sleuth, Rane Lavita, and her pal, Chanlee, into the labyrinthine underbelly of the murderously lucrative world of forgeries and porn. A world where fakes are terrifyingly real, love is threatening and mundane realities like baseball caps and innocent smiles become sinister weapons in a to-the-death struggle to outwit 10,000 suspects. For more original writing, photography and art, visit: www.RayandaArts.com

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"What if someone nuked your favorite playground?" The Last Days of Las Vegas is a new political thriller from Roy Hayes, the best-selling author of The Hungarian Game, which sold over 500,000 copies in 6 languages worldwide, and earned critical praise from major reviewers at Publishers Weekly, The Times of London, and others. Hayes has often been compared to John le Carre and Len Deighton by reviewers and readers.

This free eBook of JM Barrie's timeless children's classic Peter Pan was specially commissioned by COOL-ER for guardian.co.uk.

TRAVELLER WEDDING is the debut novel from award-winning Irish film director Graham Jones. The story is narrated by a nomadic woman called Christine who is furious at the release of a violent videogame about a traveller wedding for the Christmas market. "Have a fight with your cousin and get 500 points," says Jones. "Smash a window in the pub, get 1000 points. It's the old cliché about travellers in the form of a violent videogame but it's good because it provokes Christine into telling the story of her people more authentically..." In the past, Jones was criticised for falsely translating Japanese interviewees in FUDGE 44 and encouraging Irish school students to steal exam papers in HOW TO CHEAT IN THE LEAVING CERTIFICATE.

“Closer Than Breathing” is a full length novel which, among the characters, includes gay men and lesbians leading busy lives. It tells the story of Ben, a young gay man new to the metropolis, who is confronted by a series of odd, eccentric people, including drug dealers, goths, psychics, veteran author Loyd Larcher and ageing rock musicians Rick Schwagger and Heath Prityards. Ben survives the dangers of the world of sex, drugs and rock and roll, engaging all comers with goodwill and good humour. Making use of opportunities along the way to achieve success, he ghost writes a rock star’s autobiography, and finds true love with a level headed and down to earth boyfriend. Together they deal with life’s distractions, enticements and challenges. Whilst the ‘straight’ world around them becomes ever more weird and out of control, the couple are determined to be true to themselves and each other.