My Fellow Devils

My Fellow Devils
Author: L. P. Hartley
Publisher: John Murray
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1848548672

Margaret Pennefather is essentially a good person - too good, perhaps, for her own good. Her rash and hasty marriage to film star Colum McInnes, and his very different set of moral values, leads gradually and relentlessly to the utter destruction of their love and their marriage. Although she is only a nominal Protestant and he a very lax Roman Catholic, Margaret cannot escape the religious questionings implicit in their union. Her mental and spiritual struggles persist and gather momentum through all the disasters of her married life. Its outcome is the climax to a story that must surely rank as one of the most impressive L. P. Hartley has given us.

The Devil's Staircase

The Devil's Staircase
Author: Helen Fitzgerald
Publisher: Birlinn
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857905791

Bronny, a young Australian, finds herself down and out in London. She's a sweet girl who has spent her teenage years in a fearful, cautious bubble. She's never taken drugs, had sex or killed anyone. Within six weeks she's done all three. A group of backpackers break into an abandoned London townhouse seeking a rent-free life of debauchery. They don't realise someone's already there: a terrified woman bound and gagged in the basement. "The Devil's Staircase" combines a chick-lit voice and a dark crime noir environment. Not for the faint-hearted, "The Devil's Staircase" is funny, sexy and disturbing - it will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

The Devil's Treasure

The Devil's Treasure
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1946022829

"In this searching biography of the writer’s imagination, Mary Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban trapdoor." -- Publisher's website.

Devil on My Heels

Devil on My Heels
Author: Joyce McDonald
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0307433293

It’s 1959 in Benevolence, Florida, and life is as sweet as a Valencia orange for 15-year-old Dove Alderman. Whether she’s sipping cherry Cokes with her girlfriends and listening to the Everly Brothers, eating key lime pie made by her housekeeper, Delia, or cruising around town with the coolest boy in school in his silver-blue T-bird convertible, Dove’s days are as smooth and warm as the soft sand in her father’s orange groves. But there’s trouble brewing among the local migrant workers. Mysterious fires have broken out, and rumors are spreading that disgruntled pickers are to blame. Suddenly, black and white become a muddy shade of gray, and whispers of the KKK drift through the Southern air like sighs. The Klan could never exist in a place like Benevolence, Dove tells herself. Or could it?

Devils in Exile

Devils in Exile
Author: Chuck Hogan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 141655887X

Another fabulous Boston-based thriller by Chuck Hogan, this one involving an Iraq war veteran who gets involved with dangerous big-time drug dealers.

Aftershocks (Colonization, Book Three)

Aftershocks (Colonization, Book Three)
Author: Harry Turtledove
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 932
Release: 2002-01-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345453670

“ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SERIES OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVELS EVER WRITTEN.” –Science Fiction Age World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the 1960s begin, one of Earth’s great powers launches a nuclear strike against the Race’s colonization fleet–and the merciless invaders find themselves confronting a far more complex and challenging species than any they have encountered before. Ultimately, only superior firepower may keep Earth under the Empire’s control–or it may destroy the world. While uprisings and aftershocks of war shake the planet, one nation plots a stunning counterattack . . . “Hugo winner Turtledove lives up to his billing as the grand master of alternative history. . . . This novel is altogether excellent.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Contagion Collectors

Contagion Collectors
Author: Jim McPherson
Publisher: Phantacea Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0978134265

Some 65 decades after claiming credit for abolishing the Death's Head Hellion and more than 50 decades after finally realizing their long-held dream of Panharmonium, Thrygragos Everyman and the Unities of Chaos, Order, and Balance, are horrified to learn that the plagues and poxes ravaging the Inner Earth are far from natural. They're deliberate attempts to end its days.