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Hounded. Haunted. Hunted. She is the most important person in the world. She is The Key.

In the ancient Turkish city of Ruin, American journalist Liv Adamsen lies in an isolation ward staring at walls as blank as her memory.

She knows she entered the monumental Citadel at the heart of Ruin but can remember only darkness. Something strange is stirring within her, whispering that she is ‘the key’.  But the key to what?

For the Ghost, a mercenary operating in the Syrian Desert, Liv could unlock one of mankind’s most potent secrets. For the brotherhood in the Citadel – now cursed by a terrible plague – her return is the only way to ensure their survival. And for a powerful faction in Rome, she threatens the very future of the Catholic Church.

Hunted across continents and caught up in events that defy explanation, Liv turns to the only person she trusts – a charity worker named Gabriel Mann. Together their paths lead to a shocking discovery – one that will tear them apart and change the world forever…

Now to date Simon Toyne’s books has been published in more than 40 countries and translated into 23 languages. This stunning new author’s work has been liked to style of Dan Brown (the Da Vinci Code). And already prices of Simons first edition first printings have reached the hundred pound mark on famous book collecting sites. And he has exclusively signed, lined, dated, numbered and doodled just 20 books for Doodled Books collectors.  So start your collection now!

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (12 April 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007391595
• ISBN-13: 978-0007391592
• Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 4 cm

Mathilda Imlah bought UK and Commonwealth rights to The Grim Company and two sequels through Robert Dinsdale, working in association with A M Heath. Deals are “pending” in the US and Europe.

The Grim Company is described as “a dark, anti-heroic fantasy for fans of Joe Abercombie and Scott Lynch”, featuring a cast of conflicted heroes embroiled in a civil war in a world of gods and wild magic.
Imlah said: “I’ve been searching for a landmark fantasy series for some time now, and as soon as I entered Luke Johnson’s world, full of breathtaking battles, flawed heroes, rotting titans and divine tyrants, I knew this was the one.”

Head of Zeus have published The Grim Company in hardback in March 2013 to already strong positive reviews.
We think Luke is going to be another British phenomenon and we were thrilled when he did an exclusive signing for Doodled Books collectors. Each first edition book is signed lined, dated, numbered and doodled.

The Grim Company is truly an epic fantasy debut that shows all the characteristic strengths of the genre whilst managing to avoid almost all its pitfalls. This is one debut not to be missed and marks Luke Scull as one of epic fantasy’s talented debutants.

This is a world dying.
A world where wild magic leaks from the corpses of rotting gods, desperate tyrants battle over fading resources, impassive shapeshifters marshal beasts of enormous size and startling intelligence, and ravenous demons infest the northern mountains. A world where the only difference between a hero and a killer lies in the ability to justify dark deeds.

But even in this world, pockets of resistance remain.When two aging warriors save the life of a young rebel, it proves the foundation for an unlikely fellowship. A fellowship united against tyranny, yet composed of self-righteous outlaws, crippled turncoats and amoral mercenaries. A grim company, indeed…
Introducing the epic fantasy series of 2013.

About the Author
Luke Scull is the lead designer at game design company Ossian Studios. He lives and works in Warminster.

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Head of Zeus (1 Mar 2013)
• ISBN-10: 178185131X
• ISBN-13: 978-1781851319
• Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm

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Review

few books have made my heart race and blood pressure soar like this one… it had me on the edge of my seat. (Alex Gordon Peterborough Evening Telegraph)

a terrific thriller… the thriller of the summer. It should be thebnbovel that airport booksellers can’t get enough of. (Ben Hunt MaterialWitness.com)

Alex Scarrow’s depiction of Britain as only a few hours away from disintegration is chillingly plausible. This is the perfect book to give to somebody who opposes your plans to build a wind farm. (Daily Telegraph)

Scarrow keeps his foot on the acceleratorin this apocalyptic thriller, which is reminiscent of Frederick Forsyth and john Wyndham (Mike Ripley Birmingham Post)

…Last Light is sensational. (London Lite)

This has everything, from conspiracy theories to highlighting environmental issues facing the world today ¿ Scarrow made my head zing (THE TRUTH ABOUT BOOKS)

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The apocalyptic new thriller from the one of the brightest stars of the genre…

About the Author

Alex Scarrow lives a nomadic existence with his wife Frances and his son Jacob, their current home being Norwich. He spent the first ten years out of college in the music business chasing record deals and the next 12 years in the computer games industry.

Alex Scarrow spent the first ten years out of college in various rock bands trying to get a record deal. Then, failing miserably at that he went into the computer games business as a digital artist.

After a decade in the games business, he ended up as a senior designer working on high-concept projects for next generation consoles.

Finally he got bored of all of that and turned his hand to writing. His first manuscript, A THOUSAND SUNS was published in the UK by Orion in 2005. He now has a number of thrillers out and written the nine-book teen series TIMERIDERS which has won a number of awards, been nominated by Puffin as BEST ADVENTURE FANTASY in their recent BEST SEVENTY CHILDRENS BOOKS OF ALL TIME press release.

And coming soon, released exclusively on Amazon Kindle, is the ELLIE QUIN SERIES, which Alex describes as a chase story across a future universe that looks a bit like ‘BladeRunner meets Douglas Adam’s Hitch-Hikers Guide’. He has also described it as ‘Bridget Jones in Space’.

Which is intriguing.

Alex Scarrow is fast building a reputation as one of the UK’s most original writers.

“Alex is plugged into the zeitgeist – his themes of religious chaos, environmental catastrophe and the dangers of unchecked power are perfectly in tune with the times.” – Orion Books.

Alex is represented by Veronique Baxter at David Higham Associates

Product details

• First Edition First Printing

• Hardcover: 416 pages

• Publisher: Orion; First Edition edition (25 July 2007)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0752886142

• ISBN-13: 978-0752886145

• Product Dimensions: 16 x 3.5 x 24 cm

Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Expo and a leading expert on anti-democratic, right-wing extremist, and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

Title In This Collection:-
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
A young girl lies in a hospital room, her tattooed body very close to death — there is a bullet lodged in her brain. Several rooms away is the man who tried to kill her, his own body grievously wounded from axe blows inflicted by the girl he has tried to kill. She is Lisbeth Salander, computer hacker and investigator, and the man is her father, a murderous Russian gangster.

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium Trilogy)
He had delivered to his publisher three remarkable crime novels; the initial book in his Millennium’ sequence, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, had enjoyed an unprecedented success in his native Sweden before the translation took the UK by storm. Larsson had made a considerable mark as a crusading journalist, with a speciality in tackling political extremist groups.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy)
Intelligent, complex, with a gripping plot and deeply intriguing characters. The author’s early death is a great loss’ Philip Pullman, Guardian. ‘As vivid as bloodstains on snow’ Lee Child. ‘What a cracking novel! I haven’t read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping’ Minette Walters. ‘I doubt you will read a better book this year’ Val McDermid.

Reviews
SFX
a mind-blowing read that’s genuinely like nothing you’ve ever read before..expanded fantasy’s limits like nothing published in years.

Dreamwatch
A Confident debut…a compelling alternative look at the world and its history.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Constable and Robinson (28 Jul 2005)
• Language English
• ISBN: 1845291301

When Langdon’s revered mentor, Peter Solomon – philanthropist and prominent mason – is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend’s life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him.

Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America’s most historic city into the unseen chambers, temples and tunnels which exist there. All that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.

A brilliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret which hides in plain sight…

Product details

• First Edition First Printing
• Hardcover : 508 pages
• ISBN-10 : 059305427X
• ISBN-13 : 978-0593054277
• Product Dimensions : 16.2 x 4.2 x 24 cm
• Publisher : Bantam Press; 1st Edition 1st Printing (15 Sept. 2009)
• Language: : English