The Traitor Game
10 best books like The Traitor Game (B.R. Collins): The Woman in Black, Possession, Time and Time Again, The Yellow Wall-Paper, The Wicked Cometh, Lie With Me, The Comfort of Strangers, The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, Solitaire, A Study in Brimstone
| Author | Susan Hill |
| ISBN | 1567921892 |
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller--one that chills the body, but warms the soul with plot, perception, and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story written by Jane Austen?
Alas,...
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679735909 |
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from...
| Author | Ben Elton |
| ISBN | 0593073576 |
It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.
Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness...
| Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN | 1558611584 |
‘It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .’
Based on the author’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper'...
| Author | Laura Carlin |
| ISBN | 1473661374 |
The year is 1831
Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's vulnerable poor as they disappear from the streets.
Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate...
| Author | Philippe Besson |
| ISBN | 1501197878 |
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.
We drive at high speed along back roads,...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0679749845 |
This was exactly the novel I didn’t want to read, but at least it’s official now – NO MORE IAN MCEWAN BOOKS FOR ME, EVER. I would like to tell you how stupid this novel is, but Maciek beat me to it – see his great review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So let me tell...
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.
The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.
The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory...
In case you’re wondering, this is not a love story.
My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year – before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start...
Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes.
Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot. A good man, perhaps; a font of arcane power, certainly. But he’s brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn’t deduce his way out of...
Nine Stones - Danno Critico
Sogni inquietanti agitano le notti di Alistair "Allie" Jacobi. Ma la sua realtà non è tanto migliore. Il padre, un boss di un'organizzazione criminale, decide che il figlio deve iniziare a farsi le ossa nella malavita. Così Allie, a 19 anni, si ritrova a fare "tirocinio" in un discount gestito dal...
Nine Stones - Il re dei topi
| Author | Sara Spano |
| ISBN | 8869114333 |
Questo volume ha il pregio di andare dritto al feroce nucleo della storia. Se nella prima parte c’era la storia d’amore, qui c’è la violenza, la vendetta, lo splatter. La cosa mi ha colpito, e in alcuni momenti mi ha stupito. Il che è più positivo che negativo.
I disegni rimangono attraenti,...
| Author | Ben Elton |
| ISBN | 0593061926 |
For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab.
But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives,...
Marina, 'the gypsy scholar', a writer and academic, and her psychoanalyst husband, Jacob, were each born on a kibbutz in Israel. They meet years later at a university in California, Marina a grad student and Jacob a successful practitioner and teacher who has a young son, Ben, from a disastrous marriage....
A taut, gripping novel set in the future, when the lives of a family existing on the margins of a dramatically changed society are upset by a mysterious stranger.
In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off from the rest of the world....
