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  • Farewell, Earth's Bliss

    by D G Compton ...
    On board an obsolete ship, nine weeks out from home, the latest batch of colonists arrive at their destination. A grim penal settlement in a wilderness worlds away from the homes they will never see again. TASMANIA? BOTANY BAY? No.For this is tomorrow, not yesterday. The dumping ground for social outcasts and political deportees is Mars, barren, unproductive, but invaluable as a convict settlement ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Nomansland

    by D G Compton ...
    The Attrition. It was a bloodless, bureaucratic word, chosen to hide the appalling reality of the plague that had changed the face of civilisation.Now Dr Harriet Ryder-Kahn, born four years into the Attrition, thinks she may have an answer. But in a world convulsed by trauma she finds there are those who do not want a solution.And they are prepared to go as far as it takes to silence her . . . ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Ragnarok

    by D G Compton, Dr John Gribbin ...
    The day of ice and fire, that brings in its wake devastation to the world.Dr Robert Graham, noted nuclear physicist, has campaigned hard and long for disarmament.Now his patience is at an end.With an ill-assorted handful of desperate, like-minded 'terrorists', he plans to hold the human race to ransom. His bargaining power is terrifying - nothing short of Ragnarok itself. The world governments ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • D.G. Compton SF Gateway Omnibus

    Synthajoy, The Steel Crocodile, Ascendancies

    by D G Compton ...
    D.G. Compton is best known for his prescient 1974 novel, THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE, which predicted the 21st century's obsessions with media voyeurism and 'reality television'. It was filmed as DEATH WATCH in 1980 by Bertrand Tavernier. This omnibus collects three of his incisive SF novels, ASCENDANCIES, SYNTHAJOY and THE STEEL CROCODILE.ASCENDANCIES: Into a future where a depleted fuel ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ascendancies

    by D G Compton ...
    Into a future where a depleted fuel supply had the world spiralling down into grinding poverty and constant war came . . . Moondrift. Mysterious white flakes of alien matter that was the perfect fuel - clean powerful, dependable.But the aliens - or whatever they were - who sent Moondrift seemed to demand a heavy ransom in return. After each Moondrift comes an eerie sound, as pure as a children's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dead First

    by Johnny Compton ...
    From the Bram Stoker award-nominated author of The Spite House comes a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can’t die.When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton Braith, she’s more than a little suspicious. The last thing she expects to see that night is Braith’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Blossoming Bookshelf: 43 Classic Books on Gardens and Plants

    The Wild Garden, Colour in the flower garden, The Pears of New York, Cocoa and Chocolate, etc.

    by W. Robinson, Gertrude Jekyll, J. G. Wood, E. T. Cook, R. M. Kellogg Co., Arthur William Knapp, F. M. Hexamer, L. H. Bailey, F. A. Waugh, H. Harold Hume, Albert H. Benson, Rose Georgina Kingsley, Rosalind Northcote, Thomas Shaw, Edith A. Browne, Carl Weschcke, Samuel Arnott, James O'Brien, Australia. Department of External Affairs, M. G. Kains, H. S. Adams, H. S. Coe, George Howard Alford, U. P. Hedrick, Luke Joseph Doogue, D. A. Compton, Edward Money, Alphonse de Candolle, Matthew Crawford, Henry H. Saylor, Cyril G. Hopkins, Gustavus A. Eisen, Bernice Brilmayer, Frederick Boyle, B. W. Jones, Edward Payson Roe, F. F. Rockwell, William Keane, M. C. Burritt ...
    The Blossoming Bookshelf: 43 Classic Books on Gardens and Plants is a remarkable anthology that captures the essence of horticultural wisdom through a tapestry of literary voices. Spanning various styles, from poetic musings to meticulous scientific observations, this collection showcases the rich diversity and significance of garden literature. Enthusiasts and scholars alike will find standout ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Back of Town Blues

    by D G Compton ...
    Alec Duncan, King of Swing, it says on the billboard outside Tony's. a black man playing a white piano; just what you need to tart up a dodgy Liverpool nightspot. Forty quid a session, plus tips - about all a black Scots ex-copper with nimble fingers and a record of violence on the job can hope for.But now, with Trevor Bladon, his girlfriend's killer, safely banged up for the rest of his natural, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Missionaries

    by D G Compton ...
    The spaceship landed on the planet Earth to bring it the message of a new religion and a new way of life that would fit the terrestrial barbarians to take their place in the great community of the Galaxy.Their motives were beyond reproach. Their objectives were honourable. It was not their fault that humanity distrusted their motives, repudiated their objectives - and did its best to drive the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Justice City

    by D G Compton ...
    In a governmental Punishment and Protection centre, Charge Nurse Landon is wondering why one of the new inductees seems familiar. Meanwhile Chief Inspector Duncan is driving home from a stakeout in Liverpool. When the two men's destinies meet, the result is a complex mystery with a political edge. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Palace

    by D G Compton ...
    The palace was several hundred years old, a sort of haphazard medieval city containing church buildings, stables, army barracks - and the offices and homes of the ministers of the Revolutionary Government, in a Communist satellite country somewhere in Europe. The palace rose starkly and threateningly out of the marshes, its three great gilt domes reminding observers of the glittering monarchies ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Synthajoy

    by D G Compton ...
    Series Book 176 - Gateway Essentials
    Edward Cadence was a brilliant man, and a dedicated scientist. He had invented Sensitape, a means of recording the thoughts and emotions of great musicians, religious figures, etc. so that others could experience at first-hand just what it was like to play a magnificent concerto, or to slip peacefully toward an untroubled death with the sure expectation that Heaven lies waiting. And he had added ... Read more

    $2.99 USD