Amolibros: 74 books

‘A wall of window high up. The child watched the night close in, several times huffing against the glass to mist it up, pressing her hand into the condensation and watching the imprint slowly fade. The moon rose. Little lights, street lamps, appeared like early evening stars, sparks in the gathering...

“I enjoyed Outrageous Fortune immensely. Its wonderful mix of the personal and the legal makes it hugely gripping and very moving. It’s a terrific read.” David Hare“A harrowing tale of one man’s long - and ultimately losing - struggle against the legal system and its representatives. One...

In this compelling novel, the vulgarly rich Gilmertons and the ancient but impoverished Henryssons are families on the verge of extinction while existing, reasonably comfortably, in coastal South West Scotland, guarding their secrets and presenting a contented face to the world. When the Troubadour...

Josef Kyselak, an almost exact contemporary of Schubert, was the Austrian Kilroy. He wrote his name in all kinds of places — cliffs, caves, buildings, bridges — throughout the Austrian Empire, becoming a legend in his own lifetime, until ordered to stop by the Emperor. He was also one of the first...

It is the summer of 1917. Isaac Rosenberg has been on the Western Front for over a year, having barely survived a terrible winter on the Somme. Temporarily attached to the Royal Engineers, he helps load barbed wire on limbers, hauls it by mule train up to the front at night, and repairs damage to...

Annie was five when she overheard her parents for once agreeing on something – their only child was a nuisance they wished didn’t exist. That’s when she concluded that life only offered something – like security, love and affection – to those who were prepared to go searching for it.Annie...

When a young boy is found on a Cornish beach in the year 1085, many of the suspicious locals are all for throwing him back into the sea. But he is saved and brought back to the village only to end up enslaved and in the hands of a villager who has brought pain and suffering to others for a long time....

When Lucy inherits her father’s millions, the best of everything that life can offer seems to beckon for her and her younger husband, Richard. Richard, however, who has not yet learned his trade as a stockbroker, is determined to prove his masculine credentials in the running of a small engineering...

1930: Salter’s Creek, former trading post, an isolated settlement in NW Canada, long-fallen into decline after rumours of a gold strike turned out to be false, serves scattered outlying homesteads hacked out of the surrounding forest by immigrant Scottish families dispossessed of their Highland...

The German Cardinal Karl Richter, the Vatican’s most talented theologian, politician and apologist, has been invited to spend some days with Professor Matthew O’Keefe at his home on the Gulf of Mexico.O’Keefe nurtures one ambition – to become The Moral Voice of America. He has a particular...

Edgar is an English Bulldog. He lives with his human companions Sir Charles and Lady Christina Whintney-Henderson in the county of Hampshire, South-east England.There are altogether fourteen dogs in the neighbourhood; all different breeds. They refer to their human co-inhabitants as companions...

Follow the life of a dog fox during the last part of his life. The description of English countryside and the behaviour of the animals who inhabit it, are the result of the careful observation and close attention by the author Hazel Peel, who has already written successfully for children about animals and the countryside. These books include Pilot the Hunter and Untamed.

Three men whose lives are inextricably linked to one woman meet at her funeral, an event which has profound consequences for them all. For Robert Moray there is the unwelcome revelation of a secret he has kept hidden for years; for John Rufford, the anguish of learning the truth; and for twenty-four-year-old...

The division of Germany into two separate countries during the Cold War disrupted many lives, leaving many in the East to become the victims of a vicious system. Anni struggles to come to grips with memories of those who sought to oppress her and vivid recollections of a passionate love affair that ended with her escape to the West.