Russell's ebook Library
The Dollmaker [August 8, 2020]
Nina Allan
Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's maga...
The Race [August 8, 2020]
Nina Allan
A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds... A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder... Far away a young woman prepares for her mysterious future...In a future scarred by fracking and ecolog...
The Angel of the Crows [August 8, 2020]
Katherine Addison
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.London 1888. Angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well...
Concrete Island [June 21, 2020]
J. G. Ballard
An architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control and crashing through the motorway barrier.When he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impos...
Xeelee: Redemption [June 21, 2020]
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [8]: Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape...This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousa...
The Brightfount Diaries [June 21, 2020]
Brian W Aldiss
In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount’s, which he describes as a ‘shabby outpost of literacy’.Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-s...
The Eighty Minute Hour [June 21, 2020]
Brian W Aldiss
A Space Opera. An ambitious, incredible - Space Opera! A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song - a genuine space opera. Quite possibly Aldiss’s strangest novel, and that is saying something.
The Male Response [June 21, 2020]
Brian W Aldiss
Written at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive.Events move fast in Umbalathorp, the capital city of the new African republic of Goya. When affable young PR m...
The Steel Crocodile [June 21, 2020]
D. G. Compton
In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or will not - be.But Matthew Oliver is flesh and blood and full of questions - no...
Margaret and I [June 21, 2020]
Kate Wilhelm
Someone is thinking about Margaret."I wondered about Margaret, and what she would do next. I didn't care unless she went the route of drugs. They make her try and get at me sometimes, and that can be bothersome. She is so terribly afraid of me."Who s...
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