Amolibros: 74 books

When Johnny Vince’s counter-terror mission goes wrong, he fights for survival in the desert heat, but his real problems have only just begun...In the blistering heat of Afghanistan, Johnny Vince battles to survive after a mission to eradicate a new breed of terrorists, L-khaba-a, goes wrong. Fleeing...

Six years after her family of ten children had assembled in her home for a party, Sheila Malone has to endure another reunion weekend with all but two of her children. The occasion this time is a wedding and she is even less happy about this celebration than she had been for the party for her fourth...

An English family travel from a small town in Norfolk in search of Rumtek Monastery, in Sikkim. When the Karma Kagya sect fled Tibet, from the invading Chinese in 1959, they carried their ancient relics, statues and sacred objects across the Himalayas. Andrew, Cherry, and five-year-old son Thomas,...

A novel based on the short and eventful life of Englishman William Reynolds. Sailor, soldier, prisoner, coalminer…Reynolds’ story switches from Victorian Portsmouth to Nova Scotia, to Civil War torn America. Come April 1865 and in the aftermath of the momentous events at Ford’s Theatre – the...

When Pam Smith finally plucks up the courage to escape from her loveless and abusive marriage, she sets in train a course of events that will not only irrevocably change her life, but disrupt the lives of her ex-husband, shady antiques dealer, Roger, and his shrewish daughter, Karen.Terrified...

Janko Vygoda’s parents spend their time drinking themselves to an early grave at the village inn; their farm is mortgaged to the hilt to the three local moneylenders, a Pole, an Armenian and a Jew. Janko swears he will keep his inheritance intact, will not sell one square inch of his land. The man...

‘Anyway, what I want to know is, if it’s possible to have my two eldest children put away somewhere. They are causing a terrible lot of unhappiness between my husband and me. So I feel sure that if they were away there would be much more happiness all round…’ The true story of a little...

The Roman poet Juvenal is widely regarded as the greatest satirist who ever lived. He is also one of the most politically incorrect writers of all time. In spite of this, he is one of the classical authors with most to offer to the contemporary general reader.Juvenal’s descriptions of dictatorship...

When Ginny agreed to take her sister’s place as au pair to two children on a skiing holiday in Austria, she wondered what she’d let herself in for. She’d been warned that Gareth Chilton, the children’s uncle and guardian, was an arrogant – if good-looking – man, and was soon to experience...

‘This troubled rite of passage takes the reader back to 1950s’ Southern Ireland and the extraordinary characters of a small fishing village. Some Lesson s in Gaelic is at times touching, evocative and sinister, woven throughout with the wry, sometimes savage self-deprecating humour of a desperately...

Poignant, whimsical, funny, this chronicle describes what it feels like to be looking for love in your sixties, through The Sunday Times ads, when you look back at your past experiences and wonder: could I live up to a new challenge? Would I make the same mistakes? Could I be happy with a man at last? Whatever...

Ambitious art historian Bill Maguire searches Paris for a subject for his doctoral thesis and follows up faint clues about once famous abstract painter Alexander Golden. He finds himself in Carmel listening to the death-bed confessions of Joe Rembrandt, an art forger on an industrial scale, and meets...

Working for the Distress Call Agency, Tara Dereham travels from London to the seaside town of Silverstrand, to help Mrs Ward run her guesthouse. But when Mrs Ward falls ill, Tara has to manage the business and care for her client’s grandson, helped by one of the guests, Steven Harris. But there...

From the recent past, to sometime in the distant future – from the possible, to the highly improbable, Walking in Darkness is a collection of thirteen short stories with characters trying their best to overcome life’s little problems.Meet bounty-hunter Donald MacKenzie getting more than he bargained...