Best Books: Fiction

1 Cold Sweetheart

Cold Sweetheart

Ria F | Romance

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Two years after coming out of a coma, Catherine finds out that she has a daughter who her snobby parents thought was an embarrassment and sent to live with her father. Now Catherine wants a relationship with her child, even while her daughter's father thinks she's just like her parents. And maybe, she wants more than her daughter in her life too.

2 The Summer of 75

The Summer of 75

Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery

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Almost a decade after finding himself working for a shadowy Government department, ex-Detective John Gallagher is sent on a task that will become his most testing yet. Armed only with a two inch revolver, 12 bullets, some cryptic clues and a sense of humour, his mission is to assist a high ranking East German foreign intelligence operative to...

3 Sexbot

Sexbot

Patrick Quinlan | Sci-fi Fantasy

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What if you could be immortal? And what if the price was to give up everything first, including your very life? Robotics engineer Susan Jones has discovered the key to immortality - downloading human awareness into intelligent machines. About to be murdered for her secret, she downloads herself into the most intelligent machine available - Sexbot...

4 THE FIGHTING NOSTROMO

THE FIGHTING NOSTROMO

Michel Poulin | Sci-fi Fantasy

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This novel is a sequel to MIGHTY NOSTROMO and is the sixth novel in the Kostroma Series. Its actions take place during the early 24th Century, when Humanity has finally been able to break out of the Solar System and is now expanding through the habitable star systems close to our own system. The armed merchant ship NOSTROMO is being completed...

5 A NEW ERA

A NEW ERA

Michel Poulin | Sci-fi Fantasy

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'A NEW ERA' is the seventh novel in the Kostroma Series, continuing the adventures in Space of Tina Forster and of her mighty cargo ship NOSTROMO. While the threat from the carnivorous aliens called 'Space Predators' has apparently receded, Tina now has to deal with the growing racism shown towards her sentient security androids. Then, a...

6 IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE

IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE

Michel Poulin | Sci-fi Fantasy

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Kin was saved from death some 52,000 years ago, after having his family killed by cave hyenas. Kin and another Neanderthal child were then adopted by a field agent of the Time Patrol and brought up at the organization's base. Now eighteen, Kin decides to serve the country of his birth, France, and enrolls in the French Army in 1955. Will Kin...

7 Tom the Telephone Boy

Tom the Telephone Boy

Frank V. Webster | Mystery

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The apartment was a small front one, and contained two sewing machines, and, from the cloth, patterns, needles and thread scattered about, it did not need a sign to tell that dressmaking was conducted in it.

8 The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician

The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician

Edwin Lester Arnold | Romance

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Imagine you fall asleep today and wake up in three hundred years! That's the story of Phra, the Phoenician, who has a rare gift of death-like sleep which makes him almost immortal. A reader gets introduced to Phra, a traveling Phoenician warrior, as he saves a slave girl, falls in love with her, and decides to bring her back home to Britannia...

9 The Summer of 66

The Summer of 66

Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery

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In what could be considered a prequel to the Leveller Trilogy, Special Branch Detective Constable John Gallagher is seconded to a British Home Office Statistical Unit for what he considers a minor violation of trust. He's not well pleased; he knows nothing of statistics and had been hoping for a much less boring end to his year. The summer of...