By the close of 1882, the inhabitants of the American West had earned their reputation as untamed and dangerous. The line between heroes and villains is narrow and indistinct. The concept that a man may only kill if backed into a corner is antiquated. Lives are worth less than horses. Treasures are worth killing for. And the law is written in the blood of those who came before. The only men staving off total chaos are the few who take the letter of the law at its word and risk their lives to uphold it. But in the West, the rules aren't always played according to Hoyle. U.S. Marshals Eli Flynn and William Henry Washington are escorting two prisoners to New Orleans for trial when they discover there’s more to the infamous shootist Dusty Rose and the enigmatic man known only as Cage than merely being outlaws. When forces beyond the marshals’ control converge on the paddlewheeler they have hired to take them downriver, they must choose between two dangers: playing by the rules at any cost or trusting the very men they are meant to bring to justice.

Return to the world of devoted working dogs and the humans they love in a new book from the best-selling author of Stella. Gus is a livestock guardian dog with one job—protecting his farm from coyotes and foxes. He likes keeping the sheep, the chickens, and his humans safe, and he's very good at it.One day, Diego and his dad come to visit the farm, and Gus immediately connects to the small boy. They both like to sit still and enjoy the quiet, and Gus can tell that Diego likes being around a gentle giant of a dog, that it helps relieve the boy's constant worry.When Gus detects the scent of a bear in the woods, he rushes to protect his flock, injuring his leg in a fight with the dangerous beast. Wounded, Gus needs to rest and heal away from his sheep, so he doesn't risk reinjuring his leg. Diego suggests Gus come home with them to the North Carolina coast.Suddenly, Gus is thrust into a new world of saltwater and sand and neighbors...

What would happen if…? The classic question of science fiction. Supposing the molecular structure of living things could be reshaped: a swarm of bees, a defendant in court, a herd of elephants, a Prime Minister…Amazingly, Dr John West finds just this happening as Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle develop their thesis in the hilarious - and frightening -Molecule Men.The same pawky Yorkshire humour illuminates this volume’s second novel. Here the waters of Loch Ness, and of Loch Mullardoch, are inexplicably warming up. Tom Cochrane, an independent scientist, determines to find out why.

Young Peter, a student of Byzantine Art at Moscow University, receives, through a cryptic sentence in a lecture, a message to buy two books of his choice at a specific hour in the University bookshop. When he opens the package, a third book has been included. It is this third hook which sends Peter on a series of adventures leading to the unravelling of a mysterious power source guiding the destinies of planet Earth. His quest is also intimately linked with his father’s baffling disappearance.

A transcontinental, romantic memoir in the vein of A Year in Provence and Eat, Pray, Love.What do you say when a man you've dated a handful of times asks you to go live with him in a mill by a river in France? The obvious answer is: 'Are you out of your mind?' Maria Hoyle's was: 'Okay.'At the age of 63 she left her life in Auckland—her two daughters, her dog, her friends, a beautiful rental by a beach, and everything she'd loved for more than two decades—to settle in a tiny French village with a partner she barely knew. What could possibly go wrong?Maria arrived in the remote hamlet with trepidation but also a little bravado—after all, with a degree in French, she was confident about communicating with the locals. And yes—that part was mostly fine (apart from some amusing faux pas). The true challenges were learning to communicate with her new partner, Alistair (they were smitten with each other, but also sitting on a pile...

A gripping new novel -nuclear blackmail threatens London

Following a motorway accident in which both his wife and daughter are killed, Jack Vail, now alone in the world, finds himself in London—though it is not quite the city as we know it.While his home in the North of England was stricken with poverty and radiation poisoning, the capital is characterized by consumerism, media-obsession and moral corruption. Basic manufacturing no longer exists, but pornography, show business and money-marketing flourish.Vail is immediately drawn into this sinister world, yet throughout the novel he attempts to maintain a belief in a larger order of things. In such a society, however, it seems impossible to defy the chaos, and it isn't long before Vail is engulfed by the ever-developing anarchy surrounding him.Through his nightmarish vision of the country in a not-too-distant future, award-winning author Trevor Hoyle vividly reflects the grim mood of 1980s Britain, the period in which this cult novel was originally published.

If the sixties were swinging, the seventies were the hangover: darker, nastier, uglier—especially if you lived on a council estate in the north of England.Sixteen-year-old Kenny Seddon is the miserable product of one such estate: a bleak, characterless place that epitomises Nordic frugality. Kenny stumbles through life, from one dead-end job to the next, only finding a release for his all-encompassing despair in the mindless violence in which he indulges. He hates everyone and everything: the Bury fans, the teenagers who roam the streets dressed as their Clockwork Orange anti-heroes, the Pakistanis he mugs for pennies.In Rule of Night Trevor Hoyle creates a chillingly detailed world, with the backdrop provided by Ford Cortinas, Players No.6, the factory and—above all—the relentless struggle to maintain hope. First published in 1975 and pre-dating the vogue for hard men and hooligan novels by twenty-five years, it has since become a cult classic.

During his long, late-night drives along the motorways of Britain—through Manchester, London and the South Lancashire mill towns—our narrator falls victim to a series of psychoses. Soon these familiar landscapes are no longer what they seem, taking on a nightmarish quality as he descends into reminiscence and doubt, and the objective world crumbles to dust in his hands.The Man Who Travelled on Motorways is a cult classic, the first novel to exploit the mystique of motorway travel—the realities, unrealities and fantasies that take over the mind of the long-distance driver—from award-winning novelist Trevor Hoyle.

Novelisation of the BBC TV Series A for Andromeda

While working with another scientist on decoding texts from ancient history, myth technologist Christian Queghan discovers his colleague's plans to use the research to alter history.Queghan must now draw upon his abilities to pass into alternate realities in an attempt to stop him.

Another star is due to pass close to the sun, close enough for conventional spacecraft to reach it. The first planets observed are four gas-giants, but then an inner 'Fifth Planet' is found. Signs of chlorophyll are detected, suggesting that it supports life. Rival Soviet and US expeditions are launched to visit it.

In this fictional memoir, one of Britain's favourite cult authors takes us on a trip back to the 1950s, and to the secret world of childhood.The war may be over, but Britain is still struggling to surface from beneath the long shadow it left in its wake. While the inhabitants of one northern cotton town fight to emerge from years of rationing, life for the moment remains characterised by a 'make-do-and mend' attitude. On the wasteland between their houses, gangs of kids are still fighting the enemy, their young heroism fuelled by the exploits of Hollywood tough guys and the tales of dads and uncles who served in the forces.But it's all just innocent fun—until the arrival of one boy's uncle, an ex-Desert Rat who bring a piece of the war home with him.

From award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes a new young adult novel, Meet the Sky, a story of love, letting go, and the unstoppable power of nature.It all started with the accident. The one that caused Sophie's dad to walk out of her life. The one that left Sophie's older sister, Meredith, barely able to walk at all.With nothing but pain in her past, all Sophie wants is to plan for the future—keep the family business running, get accepted to veterinary school, and protect her mom and sister from another disaster. But when a hurricane forms off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks and heads right toward their island, Sophie realizes nature is one thing she can't control.After she gets separated from her family during the evacuation, Sophie finds herself trapped on the island with the last person she'd have chosen—the reckless and wild Finn Sanders, who broke her heart freshman year. As they struggle to find safety, Sophie learns...

A large, dense, frightening novel from the UK author of This Sentient Earth. In 1990 the ocean's oxygen-producing plankton are dying from pollution. Maverick oceanographer Theo Detrick predicts a disastrous drop in the air's oxygen content within 20 years. Nobody believes him. Polluter-industrialist J.E. Gelstrom is furiously empire-building. The US/USSR military have abandoned nuclear weapons for a better deterrent--environmental warfare. Marine biologist Gavin Chase teams up with Detrick's daughter Cheryl to gather facts & alert the public. The climate warms, the protective ozone layer thins, equatorial regions become uninhabitable. The military, led by maniacal Major Madden, unleashes environmental weapons while retreating to secret, sealed labs to breed mutants able to survive anaerobic conditions. Eventually the dying Gelstrom has a change of heart & gives funds to Chase & friends who work desperately to reverse the ecological transformation. Hoyle's ear for American dialog is nonexistent. His narration is sluggish, weighed down by self-conscious message-mongering. But the apocalyptic premise here is plausible. In the final 100 pages his morbid imagination propels matters to a tensely absorbing conclusion.--Kirkus (edited)

This game just got out of hand . . . A dangerously exciting thriller from Tom Hoyle, author of Thirteen, Spiders and Survivor.Ben's been grieving for his best friend, Will, who suddenly disappeared from their tiny village a year ago. But when twins Sam and Jack begin at the school, things start to look up. Cool, good-looking and popular, they draw Ben into their world and introduce him to The Challenge. What first appears to be a fun internet game quickly turns sinister as Ben's tasks become wilder and more dangerous, starting to raise questions over Will's disappearance. But once you're involved with The Challenge, it's very hard to get out . . .

A dangerously exciting new thriller from bestselling author Tom Hoyle, author of Thirteen and SpidersOne mysterious death on the Ultimate Bushcraft adventure holiday is tragic, but a second, then a third is suspicious . . . But who can you trust when everyone around you is a suspect? As numbers dwindle, the chances of survival plummet. Staying alive has never seemed so guilty. Nobody is safe . . .Perfect for fans of Michael Grant

Thirteen boys were born at midnight on the stroke of the new millennium. Twelve of them are dead. A violent cult called "The People" has executed each one and will stop at nothing to reach its last target: thirteen-year-old Adam. But Adam has no idea he's in danger. Raised by adoptive parents, he doesn't know his real birthday connects him to the other victims. Adam's life goes up in flames when a cult deserter tracks him down with a warning. He has until New Year's Eve to thwart the cult's plans to kill him—and the clock is ticking.

By the close of 1882 in the American West, the line between heroes and villains is narrow. Total chaos is staved off only by the few who take the law at its word and risk their lives to uphold it. But in the West, the rules aren't always played according to Hoyle.US Marshals Eli Flynn and William Henry Washington—longtime friends and colleagues—are escorting two prisoners to New Orleans for trial when they discover there's more than outlawry to the infamous shootist Dusty Rose and the enigmatic man known as Cage. As the two prisoners form an unlikely partnership, the marshals can't help but look closer at their own.When forces beyond the marshals' control converge on the paddle wheeler they've hired to take them downriver, they must choose between two dangers: playing by the rules at any cost, or trusting the very men they are meant to bring to justice.(This title is a revised and edited second edition, with minor new additions, of According to Hoyle...

A group of scientists on the planet Earth IVn are attempting to duplicate the human brain—and they've chosen that of Adolf Hitler as their prototype.While investigating their research, Christian Queghan, scientist and myth technologist, unveils an alternate universe in which Germany, and not the United States, developed the first atomic bomb.Queghan must avert this threat to the known reality; but to do so, he must first enter the alternate universe.

Peter Holford is on the run, wary of both the police and a mysterious figure he believes is stalking him. He is also on the trail of the man he believes murdered his wife, and he is determined to get revenge. But it isn't long before the hunter becomes the hunted, and Peter finds himself the prey of the brutal henchmen of his intended victim.Moving from climax to climax, Blind Needle takes the conventional elements of the thriller genre and twists them to reveal a deeper, darker exploration of the nature of identity and the fracturing of personality.

With just nine days left to live, death-row inmate Frank Kersh is made a very strange offer by a powerful cult called the Messengers: in return for his salvation and the fulfilment of his every desire, he must thwart any threat to the cult's plans for world domination.With nothing left to lose, Kersh agrees, and soon finds himself elevated to a god-like position, and with more power than he could ever have imagined. His success would appear inevitable, were it not for one man.Cawdor. Unbeknown to him, his history is entangled with that of the Messengers, and over the generations he has unwittingly become their arch nemesis. To gain immortality, Kersh must destroy Cawdor, both in the past and present, but Cawdor proves a determined adversary. And he may just have found a way into Kersh's realm—that frozen moment between life and death in which Kersh now exists.But time is ticking, and for Cawdor it may already be too late.

Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim.Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be ecstatic when Chatham shows interest, but she has a problem. She hasn't told anyone about her epilepsy.Emilie lives in fear her recently adjusted meds will fail and she'll seize at school. Eventually, the worst happens, and she must decide whether to withdraw to safety or follow a dead poet's advice and "dwell in possibility."From Golden Heart award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes The Thing with Feathers, a story of overcoming fears, forging new friendships, and finding a first love, perfect for fans of...

Christian Queghan is a myth technologist and a highly respected scientist on the planet known as Earth IVn, a planet created to be as much like Old Earth as possible, although Old Earth itself is now the stuff of myth and legend.Now, a machine has been developed that will project a researcher into one of the infinite number of possible futures of Earth IVn, and Christian Queghan would be the ideal subject. He cannot resist the idea of going where no man has gone before; despite the fact there's only a 50% chance that the machine will bring him back again.

Sci-fi adventure from award-winning novelist Trevor Hoyle.

Can immortal man ever outwit the airlines? What if dumb animals could be trained to “appreciate” the communications media of the human world? How does agent Number 38, Zone 11, respond when he sights a U.F.O.? What happens to Slippage City when the Devil decides to think big? These—plus a remarkable sex comedy—are some of the intriguing themes of Element 79, the new Hoyle galaxy that ranges the full scientific spectrum and beyond into the furthest reaches of the imagination. Author Fred Hoyle is an internationally renowned astronomer and much of his fiction is rooted in the realm of what is possible—scientifically and psychologically—on earth and in space, in the present and the future. His vision of his fellow humans is disquieting, hilarious, and sometimes frightening; his social commentary is often etched in acid. In Element 79 Mr. Hoyle steps forward to take a backward glance at our world—deftly balancing his followers between the unreal and the real, between a chuckle and a shudder.