Simon: 5480 books

A house clearance job sounds like easy money, but rising floodwaters, an unstable landscape and a surprise find are going to make life very difficult for Hal and Clunk. Set in the distant future, where humanity spans the galaxy and robots are second-class citizens, Big Bang is the seventh novel in...

A wealthy patron is sponsoring a series of art exhibitions, and Hal Spacejock has been employed to transport the valuable pieces from one venue to the next. The only question is which of them will last longest ... Hal or the artworks? Set in the distant future, where humanity spans the galaxy...

From being abducted off the streets of Los Angeles in the middle of the night, to facing off with the German mafia in a Bavarian nightclub, to wandering lost in a forest at the foothills of Mt. Fuji with ten people he just met, you won't find stories like these in a Conde Nast magazine. Travelling...

From being mistakenly besieged by an adoring crowd in a Gothenburg bar, to being pulled over by Arizona highway patrol with an arsenal in the boot of the car, to having a wild elephant stop him from getting a cold beer in Zimbabwe, you won't find stories like these in a Lonely Planet guidebook. Travelling...

From being stalked by muggers on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, to insulting a FIFA World Footballer of the Year while at lunch, to almost getting a divorce over ordering an UBER to the airport, you won't find stories like these on a Getaway program? Travelling - it leaves you speechless then turns you into story teller - Ibn Battuta Drinking also helps - Simon Williams

From diving into an icy river on a white-water rafting trip in Nepal to go to the bathroom, to going headfirst over the handlebars of a moped in the Greek Isles, to struggling to understand the complexities of the bar fine system of a Thailand whorehouse, you won't find stories like these in a Frommer's...

In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes, is a hopelessly terrifying place–with endless...

The 1st of a series of sequels to THE FIRST CHRISTMAS OF THE WAR. Take a trip back in time to spend the first Thanksgiving of World War II with the Coleman family and the return home to Pittsburgh of the two older sons--Jonathan and Joseph--for a brief holiday furlough in the middle of their...

Short collection of horror stories by World Fantasy Award-nominated author Simon Kurt Unsworth. What happens when the mundane, the everyday, the boring, are not what they seem? Can those things we ignore each day of our lives suddenly turn, harm us? Should we confident, or is the best way to...

Debut novelist Simon Kurt Unsworth sends the detective novel to Hell. In The Devil's Detective, a sea change is coming to Hell . . . and a man named Thomas Fool is caught in the middle. Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and filing reports on the endless...

IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! **THE LEGION is the action-packed tenth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden.**'Scarrow's [novels] rank with the best' Independent Egypt, AD 49. Cato,...

This is not a book for the squeamish.  It is written about the Celtic people who were being driven from their lands by the Saxon invasion of England. Life was hard and brutal.  No quarter was given and this book attempts to take the reader into that life and give them an insight into the conditions...

In the course of her personal and professional life, author Honora Gloria Simon embarked on a search for greater knowledge of spirituality with a parallel interest in what has been revealed within particle accelerators on the microscopic level. These interests provide a wider understanding of the...

The final volume of the trilogy that began with The Smoking Diaries finds Simon Gray determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters?...