No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw
People in space must be prepared to encounter the bizarre...the horrifyng...the hostile...and the alien. And in DEADLY LITTER man is threatened from all sides, struggling for sanity and survival against the hazards of space, frantically seeking new ways of conquering the unknown and the
As the student quarter of Paris vibrated to the onset of the 1968 riots, three girls, attending a language school nearby, knew they would never forget their time together. Tricia - child of a strict English Catholic upbringing, beautiful and intelligent, but inhibited by her background. Jan - a
A starship drifted silently through the galaxies with its strange cargo - travelers frozen into a state of suspended animation until the ship should find a new home, a new planet where they could fulfil their mission. But in the icy silence of the Cold Sleep, their peace was troubled by dreams -
Author of Timeliner, Crisis 2000 and The Isotope Man, writes a tale of a grim race with time. The Alpha rocket is the first manned expedition from Earth ever to reach the Moon—but it makes a crash-landing . . . There is enough oxygen to keep alive four survivors for five weeks—or two for ten—or
Vanessa Ratcliffe is just sixteen, daughter of one of the town's richest men. And in spite of her social standing and convent education Vanessa's provocative manner often draws envious eyes in her direction. Angus Cotton is a rough diamond, living in filthy Ryder's Row, but as engineer at Affleck
The year is 1861. Ric Lazare, a brilliant young magician, has mesmerized the fashionable salons of Paris with his aura of opulence, his exquisitely beautiful wife and a fortune-telling machine of unearthly accuracy. But what is the source of his strange gift? Is he a crook, a master of illusion, a
