Altered CarbonThis must read story is a confident, action and violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi award winning author. Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the

The Chamberlain's Men

Two more novices will die before -- in a stunning denouement -- the author reveals the killer

who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station

one happy to die for God

The greatest literary sensation of recent times and now the inspiration for a major BBC series

He only works when his cash runs out

Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career and why should the woman he loves reject him

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alternating chapters

while at the same time revelling in the impossibility of such a task

The Shore is a mesmerising

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