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  The Memory Extracts - A...

  Judy Liu

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  When floating among the kelp, Calvin shed all the responsibilities he shouldered and felt free. He felt anything was possible. 
  From an underground tea brewer concocting guerrilla potions to a granddaughter rediscovering her family through an inherited snack shop, this collection of soft sci-fi short stories explores the memories and thoughts of nine in a world of marine biology and memory technology. The Memory Extracts is an independent companion anthology, expanding on the dystopian world created in The Vending Portal.

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  New Adventures of Sherlock...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nora Godwin

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  The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 7:
  Throughout many years, Dr. John H. Watson accompanied his friend and companion Sherlock Holmes in solving countless mysteries and crimes. Beginning in the 1880s and into the 20th century, Holmes consistently held his status as the world’s most brilliant and successful detective. His accomplishments were painstakingly chronicled by Watson in notes that relate the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Many of his accounts have been published and are well-known to a broad readership.
  There were times, however, when Watson would refrain from publishing his writings during his lifetime. He would do so for various reasons: At times, he would find himself forced to keep actual events and background information secret for moral, criminal, or financial reasons. Other times, he would want to either avoid potential political, legal, or social scandals or even damage to his own—or Holmes’s—reputation. Some of Watson’s accounts, however, were simply not published at the time because he was occupied with more important or urgent matters.
  The New Adventures brings to the public for the very first time some of Watson’s accounts of Sherlock Holmes cases previously kept under lock and key.

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  Friday - Women's rights and...

  Zona Gale

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  Zona Gale was born on 26th August 1874 in Portage, Wisconsin.  She was exceptionally close to her parents and later used them as the basis for characters in her works.   
   
  She wrote and illustrated her first story at the age of 7 and by 16 she was being paid for stories from the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.   
   
  After studies at the University of Wisconsin, where she received a degree and two master's, she moved to New York and a job at the New York World newspaper. She was later hired as a secretary to Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet, critic, essayist, banker, and scientist. and immersed herself in his literary circle. 
   
  Gale returned to Portage in 1903 and realized her old world was full of new possibilities. She now dedicated herself to full-time writing. 
   
  Her first novel ‘Romance Island’ was published in 1906 and she also began the popular ‘Friendship Village’ series of stories. In 1920 came ‘Miss Lulu Bett’, which depicts life in the Mid-West. Adapted into a play it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.  It was a stellar achievement. 
   
  After the deaths of her parents her works, both fiction and non-fiction, drifted towards mysticism and her belief that problems could be solved through a kind of transcendentalist enlightenment. 
   
  Gale was a suffragist, a liberal Democrat, an active member of the National Woman's Party and a pacifist.  Much of her time was taken up with advancing opportunities for women both at school and in careers. It was a cause she repeatedly emphasized in her novels: women's frustration at their lack of opportunities. 
   
  In the mid 20’s she began caring for a young relative, Leslyn, and later adopted her. At age 54, she married William L Breese, a childhood friend. Now a widower, he was a wealthy banker and hosiery manufacturer. She also became a step-mother to his daughter, Juliette.  
   
  In mid-December 1938 she went to Chicago for medical treatment and contracted pneumonia a few days later.  
   
  Zona Gale died of pneumonia in Passavant Hospital in Chicago on 27th December 1938.  She was 64.

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  Plum Upside Down

  Valerie Comer

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  Topsy-Turvy… or Right-Side Up? 
  Green Acres newcomer Chelsea Riehl is annoyed. After all, she signed on as an event planner, not to pit plums alongside the mission-minded hippie Keanan Welsh, the only other single on the farm. 
  Discouraged by Chelsea’s lack of spiritual depth, Keanan is confused when she offers to arrange meals for the church Alpha program he is co-hosting. Maybe he misjudged her, after all. 
  When fake it ’til you make it gives way to a leap of faith, both Chelsea and Keanan have some soul-searching to do. Will getting on the same page spiritually be enough to flip their budding romance right-side up?

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  Kill Code - A BRAND NEW gritty...

  Alex Shaw

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  The next BRAND NEW edge-of-your-seat action thriller from author of Wolf Six, Alex Shaw 💥 Perfect for fans of Tom Wood and Mark Greaney! 📚 
  'A gritty, action packed adrenaline rush!' - Alan McDermott 
  Taking a life isn't hard, when you've already given your own. 
  Ruslan Akulov, the legendary Ukrainian assassin known as Wolf Six, wakes to find the plane he’s on plummeting, and with no real memory of how he got there… 
  Surviving the crash, only to be detained by a small-town sheriff and accused of two murders, that for once he didn’t commit, Akulov must piece together the fragments of his concussed memory to understand how his last mission in Canada as a black asset for the CIA went so catastrophically wrong. 
  Yet far darker forces are hunting him. A growing number of relentless adversaries including Triads baying for his blood, and the mysterious organisation known only as the ‘Syndicate’, determined to keep the truth buried. 
  With danger closing in, Akulov is alone on a sea of deceit and betrayal, and when Martin Basson, Akulov’s former colleague turned nemesis, enters the fray, Wolf Six is forced to fight his darkest fears, and the trained French assassin hell bent on destroying him. 
  Praise for Alex Shaw: 
  'A master of the violent, jet-propelled international thriller which at times make Jason Bourne look like the innocent plus-one on a SAGA cruise.' - Mike Ripley 
  ‘Another excellent stripped-back, razor-edge thriller from Alex Shaw’ - New York Times bestselling author James Swallow 
  'Shaw knows how to write an action-packed thriller and his latest is no exception. Fans of Eisler, Greaney or Wood, craving their next fix of deadly assassin action should reach for Wolf-Six, the first in an explosive, brand new series. It’s seriously good.' - Matt Hilton 
  'An action-packed page-turner, rounded out with doses of realpolitik and melancholy for what can be lost. I was gripped' - Antony Johnston 
  'Wolf Six is a stunning piece of work. No-one builds tension like Alex Shaw. In the field of high-stakes international intrigue, Shaw knows his stuff and is at the top of his game.' - Humphrey Hawksley 
  'Wolf Six keeps you raving for Akulov to escape the most harrowing situations and come out at the top when all odds are stacked against him. It’s bold, strong, and unforgiving in its violent nature and an unnerving mission to entertain you.' Kashif Hussain - Best Thriller Books 
  ‘Compelling and authentic. An explosive new series with an uncompromising hero’ Tom Wood 
  ‘Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around!’ Stephen Leather 
  ‘Alex Shaw is a master of the action thriller. Grabbed me from the first page and never let go’ Michael Ridpath 
  ‘Sizzles across the page like a flame on a short fuse!’ Matt Hilton 
  ‘A perfect blend of spy fiction and political thriller’ Matt Lynn 
  'Totally Brilliant!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 
  'Amazing read. Gripping from start to finish! Couldn't put it down!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 
  'Plenty of twists and turns, right to the end.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 
  'Exciting and fast-paced' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 
  'Immensely enjoyable and tightly written' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review

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  The Fatal Scroll - A Herculaneum...

  Eric Siblin

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  Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient Rome or perhaps an ancient recipe for personal tranquility, but it’s unreadable unless Marcus can figure out a way to unroll the scroll without destroying it. His quest takes him to Naples, where he befriends a Google software engineer days before the man is found dead. Marcus is interviewed by an investigative journalist, Kristi Grainger, and they find themselves on parallel paths leading to a Neapolitan trafficker in antiquities, a tech mogul obsessed with the distant past, and a clutch of academics searching for the lost library of Herculaneum. In a seaside city that is by turns lush and lethal, Marcus must confront the unraveling of more than a scroll.
  		 
  This novel is inspired by a real place — the Villa dei Papri, the only library from antiquity to have survived — and coincides with the Vesuvius Challenge, a real-life international competition to decipher Herculaneum scrolls.

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