Category: General Fiction/Classics

The Accidental Malthusian by James Callum
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Overview: “”This quest for truth will only bring you more and more misery. Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and knowledge can only lead to further fear.”” Dr Mark Taylor wakes to discover that in the darkness, he has no idea where he is or how he got there. Yet the choices he makes that night unknowingly to him will lead to a maelstrom of events that he could never predict. Seventeen years later, documentary-maker Adam Hartmann and his team have completed filming the unique relationship between the Lyaelima People and The Bonobo Ape, in the rainforests of Congo. On their trek out of the jungle, they make a discovery which would change the fortunes of many lives, including their own. The events in the African jungle lead Adam’s friend Duncan McCraith on a quest and in doing so, he unearths a past purposely hidden for fifteen years, including a dark philosophy encompassing the beliefs and actions of the mysterious ‘Programme’ – an organisation who prefers to remain in the shadows. What rapidly emerges is the darker side of humanity and the question of how far someone should go to uncover the truth, and as a consequence, how far people are willing to go to protect themselves.
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Utopia PR by Adam Bender
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 10,4 MB
Overview: Public-relations extraordinaire Blake Hamner (the “n” is silent) put off his honeymoon for his big break: joining a major political campaign for president. Now, the “Hammer” struggles to make time for his marriage as Crisis Communications Manager for Our Leader, who since taking power has become increasingly mad and totalitarian. The Hammer starts to reconsider his career choices when one of Our Leader’s savage steel hounds attacks the Comms team at a press conference. When a revolutionary levels grave allegations against Our Leader—and implicates Blake for the cover-up—the PR rep who thought he could talk his way out of any crisis finds himself utterly trapped in a dystopian job. “In a tale that’s reminiscent of political farces such as the HBO TV series Veep, Bender employs a smooth, amusing, and straightforward prose style that’s briskly paced,” says Kirkus Reviews. “Its tone is irreverent, and readers looking for a quick chuckle will likely enjoy Bender’s winking comedy, which is punctuated with genuinely sweet, sincere moments.” “A dystopian novel laced with intrigue, science fiction, romance and humor,” writes Gail Kaufman in a review for Reedsy Discovery. “I recommend this book to fans of dystopia who would appreciate a comedic writing style and the underlying themes of marital challenges, finding your purpose, diversity and manipulation through social media.” Adam Bender is an award-winning journalist and author of speculative fiction that explores modern-day societal fears with a mix of action, romance and humor. He is the author of The Wanderer and the New West, Divided We Fall and We, The Watched.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics



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Josephine Tey Complete Works by Delphi Classics
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 10 MB
Overview: The Scottish novelist and playwright Josephine Tey, pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh, wrote popular detective novels praised for their warm and engaging style. They feature the indefatigable Inspector Grant, whose cases often involve the darker side of humanity, as Tey’s works fashioned a bridge between the Golden Age of Detective Fiction and contemporary crime novels. Her masterpiece ‘The Daughter of Time’ sees Grant investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower. It went on to win the prestigious distinction of being the greatest crime novel of all time, as judged by the Crime Writers’ Association, even eclipsing the works of Doyle, Sayers, Chandler and Christie. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Tey’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics



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The Tablet of Destinies: A novel of ancient Mesopotamia by Peter Henne
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 455 KB
Overview: Thousands of years before Rome, the peoples of ancient Mesopotamia built magnificent cities, developed writing and literature, and inspired the religious beliefs that would later be codified in the Bible. Nahor is a seemingly minor player in this wondrous civilization: an Amurru outsider working the fields and carrying on a secret love affair with the daughter of a wealthy Akkadian nobleman. When war comes, he is forced to flee and becomes the leader of a band plundering the ancient treasures of Sumer. Nahor cannot escape the political turmoil, however, and is soon swept up in the rise of the new Akkadian Empire. He finds himself conscripted into an adventure that will determine the future of political and spiritual power in the known world.

The Tablet of Destinies is a fast-paced adventure, as Nahor and his friends explore ancient tombs, dodge shadowy forces, and navigate political unrest. It is also a speculative work on the connection between the Akkadian Empire and the emergence of Judeo-Christian religion. But at its core it is a universal story about the destructive potential of grand ambitions and the happiness of a simple life.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics



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City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 4.5MB
Overview: In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored

“City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria—and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through

“Where are the hysterics, those magnificent women of former times?” wrote Jacques Lacan. Long history’s ghosts, marginalized and dispossessed due to their gender and class, they are reimagined by Maud Casey as complex, flesh-and-blood people with stories to tell. These linked, evocative prose portraits, accompanied by period photographs and medical documents both authentic and invented, poignantly restore the humanity to the nineteenth-century female psychiatric patients confined in Paris’s Salpêtrière hospital and reduced to specimens for study by the celebrated neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his male colleagues.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics



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