Assassin is the shocking account of writer Christopher Robbins as his life becomes entwined with that of the deadly Carlos Evertsz. Forced into a volatile friendship after accidentally insulting the killer, he later winds up on his notorious ‘hit list’.

It is the complete dossier of an agent licensed to murder and who doesn’t hesitate to list his record of shocking atrocities, brought to us by the journalist who knew him best.

Explaining himself as “a liquidator just doing his job”, Evertsz ricochets between the high life in London, Madrid and the island paradise of the Dominican Republic – and some of the world’s most horrific jails.

Told by the masterful Robbins, author of bestselling Vietnam War title The Ravens, we also meet Dr Manuel Sosa, a demonic intelligence chief with a taste of orgies, torture, blackmail, voodoo and murder.

A staggering story that is hard to believe were it not so carefully documented, Assassin is available now for Kindle, Kobo, iPad and iPhone, and from thousands of e-retailers worldwide.

New York Times bestseller Melissa Jo Peltier turns her attention to the brilliant, back-stabbing world of prime-time television in a wickedly funny new novel.

Peltier has worked in entertainment for more than 20 years, making the darkly funny Reality Boulevard a true insider’s view of Hollywood and some of America’s biggest shows.

In it, we see Oscar-winning producer Marty Maltzman and his staff out of a job – and out on the streets – when long-running docu-series Lights and Sirens is unexpectedly axed. But the Hollywood the team now faces is full of Kardashians and Real Housewives, and they need to survive in a world where it’s very hard to tell what’s true and what isn’t – both on and off screen.

Oscar and Emmy winning documentarian and veteran reality producer (Big Brother, Rescue 911) Arnold Shapiro called the novel “the best satirical look behind the scenes of reality television ever written”, adding: “It contains more truth than you would believe.”

Todd Milliner, producer of Grimm and Hot in Cleveland, said: “During her 20-plus years in the business, Melissa Jo Peltier had a front-row seat, watching it all unfold. In this novel, she puts her dry wit and storytelling ability to good use, pulling back the curtain to reveal what really goes on.”

Peltier is a double Emmy Award-winning writer and producer behind international hits such as TV’s Dog Whisperer, recent multi-festival indie feature White Irish Drinkers, and co-author of seven non-fiction books including five NYT bestsellers. In 1992, her multi-network simulcast Scared Silent hosted by Oprah Winfrey was hailed as television’s most watched documentary ever, and earned Ms. Peltier the coveted Humanitas Prize.

The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County became a global bestseller in the Seventies, hilariously skewering a self-obsessed age of  psycho-babble, meditation, zen jogging, pet psychiatry – and bucket-loads of organic granola.

Now, to mark 35 years since it was first published, the novel is going on sale in e-book form for the first time, with new artwork, bonus features, interviews and reviews from the time, plus a new preface by author Cyra McFadden.

Described by Newsweek as “one of the most delicious acts of cultural sabotage since Mark Twain” and author Lisa Alther as “the funniest book ever written”, it mercilessly satirises the inhabitants of Marin County, California in counter-culture-gripped 1976.

There are also bonus features, reviews and an interview with Cyra McFadden from the time, plus a look back at how the inhabitants of the San Francisco community reacted as their area – and habits – became the focus of world attention.

Published by Apostrophe Books, The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County is available to readers of Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook, Kobo and other e-readers priced US $5.99 / UK £3.75 (RRP).

The satire documents Kate and Harvey Holroyd’s attempts to leave their ‘straight’ lives behind and join their fashionable neighbours in the fine art of staying ‘hip and loose’. In 52 week-by-week instalments, we see them try scream therapy, consciousness-raising sessions and a disastrous foray into having an open marriage.

Author Cyra McFadden said: “I’m delighted that The Serial is coming out as an e-book but don’t expect Marin to be as happy that it’s back.  Am I going to be scraping dried egg off the front of my house again, I wonder?”

Apostrophe Books founder and bestselling writer Martyn Forrester said: “I was thrilled when Cyra McFadden agreed to let us republish The Serial. It’s an iconic book, one of my all-time favourites. Tom Cervenak creating a new piece of artwork just for this edition was the icing on the cake.”

Read the Pacific Sun’s front-page feature about the re-release of this iconic book.

THE HEART-WRENCHING true story of how legendary TV reporter Michael Nicholson smuggled an orphan out of war-ravaged Sarajevo is being released as an ebook to mark 20 years since her rescue.

Natasha’s Story, which went on to become the award-winning film Welcome to Sarajevo, tells how Nicholson resolved to bring nine-year-old Natasha home to England while reporting the horrors of the Bosnian War.

Forging her name into his passport, he faced the ordeal of getting them both out of the country in one piece – and then protecting Natasha from the press as she settled into her new home.

The gripping first-hand account is both an indictment of the horror and futility of the war and a tribute to one girl’s courage as she began a new life in England, 1,000 miles from her native land.

Bought up to date with new material and never-before-seen photographs, Natasha’s Story is being released as an ebook for the first time, alongside two other books by Michael Nicholson.

His gripping autobiography, A Measure of Danger, is a vivid account of the 18 war zones he has braved in his career with Britain’s prestigious ITN, where he was one the world’s most travelled foreign correspondents.

The new ebook edition has been updated to include the Gulf Wars – his reporting of which led to Nicholson being awarded the OBE – and his return to the Falklands in 2012. It can be downloaded now from more than 100 ebook retailers around the world, including Amazon and Apple’s iBookstore.

Also going digital is his novel Pilgrims Rest, the story of Mary, a Welsh widow who resolves to forge a new life with her children in 1870s South Africa after her husband is killed in a battle with English miners.

However, after overcoming a dangerous journey beset by deadly animals and hostile warriors, all is not as they had hoped in the village of Pilgrims Rest. Conflict has come to South Africa and Mary, Huw, Ianto, William and baby Tom are right in the middle of it.

The Michael Nicholson trio have been published by Apostrophe Books, a young company dedicated to bringing bestsellers from the recent past into the digital world, as well as uncovering the writing talent of tomorrow.

Nicholson said: “I’d always thought that my printed books would remain, resting quietly and unseen on my bookshelves. Then, hey presto, the genius of e-editions, the press of a button and the promise of a whole new generation of readers. Forgive the ego trip but I shall now buy myself the magic box and read my own stories all over again.”

Apostrophe Books founder and bestselling author Martyn Forrester added: “Michael Nicholson is one of the world’s most decorated foreign correspondents, an absolute legend. I’ve been gripped by his books over the years so it was an immense honour that he chose Apostrophe as his ebook publisher.

“The first three ebooks we’re bringing out were all bestsellers, and Michael has added thousands of words of unique and fascinating bonus material to Natasha’s Story and A Measure Of Danger, and dozens of photos that have never before been seen.”

THE INCREDIBLE true story of the daring US pilots who flew in the secret war in Laos is told today as The Ravens goes digital for the first time.

Christopher Robbins‘s meticulously-researched work – hailed by Tom Clancy as “a book of outstanding integrity” – reveals the brutal truth about the men who served in the Vietnam War’s most dangerous unit.

Flying without uniforms or ID in planes that were officially off the books of the US Air Force, the Ravens undertook near-suicidal missions to protect Laos’s Hmong people from the troops invading their country. Alongside the pilots were the shadowy officials of the CIA, who provided support via Air America – the airline they covertly ran.

Honest, humorous and often heart-wrenching, this is the story of a band of courageous men fighting against enormous odds.

The Ravens is the second book to be published by Apostrophe Books after the bestselling biography The Test of Courage: Michel Thomas.

THE NICK COOK jet-fighter adventure Angel, Archangel went digital today, as the novel was made available for Kindle, Kobo and iPad e-readers.

Set in the dying days of the Second World War, the thriller sees the Third Reich starting to crumble. However, the Russians have anything but peace on their minds. Two British spy pilots have uncovered Operation Archangel, a Soviet plot to defeat both the Nazis and the Allies and take their battle right to the English Channel. But to halt it, one man must steal the single piece of military hardware advanced enough to prevent the plot: the latest German bomber plane.

Angel, Archangel is the second Nick Cook novel to go digital after the all-action Aggressor, which was published by Apostrophe Books in January.

Gem TV’s Wondwossen Dereess, Adanech Admasu and Jemuru author Bob Maddams at last night’s ceremony

APOSTROPHE AUTHOR Bob Maddams joined his Gem TV colleagues on stage in London last night as they collected a prestigious One World Media Award.

The Gem TV team, whose breathtaking films about Ethiopia are helping transform the lives of many in the country, picked up the Special Award at the ceremony, which honours media coverage in the developing world.

Bob’s new book, Lights, Camera, Jemuru – Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia, tells the incredible story of his involvement with Gem TV. Once a high-flying advertising executive, he quit his job to work with the back-street community film-makers in Addis Ababa following a chance encounter at a party. He stayed for ten years, travelling the country and changing his perception of Ethiopia forever.

The book is available to preview and download on Kobo, Kindle and Apple iBooks devices from today.

Gem TV’s independent film-makers, many of whom were street kids, have a string of successes to their name, bringing topics such as HIV and girls’ education to the Ethiopian public’s attention. Its drama-documentary Stolen Childhood, which addressed the subject of early marriage, even played a part in getting new legislation passed when it was shown in the Ethiopian parliament.

ANOTHER CHICK-LIT classic is going digital with Apostrophe Books today as Sue Margolis‘s hilarious novel Apocalipstick goes on sale.

The story of the turbulent love life of beauty columnist Rececca Fine, it is available to download now on Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and most other retailers. In the book, it seems Rebecca’s fortunes are looking up when she meets dashing new colleague Max Stoddart, but trouble is around the corner in the shape of her high school nemesis, ‘Lipstick’, who is now engaged to her widowed dad.

Can a big story that takes her to Paris and to the heart of a scandal in the cosmetics world take her mind off it and win her the recognition she wants? Download to find out.

Apocalipstick is the second book by the bestselling Sue Margolis to be released by Apostrophe after the huge success of Sisteria, which was published digitally for the first time in January.

THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT… or is it? Apostrophe Books is lifting the lid on what the rest of the 21st century holds in its latest e-book, A Brief History of Tomorrow.

Written by leading technology journalist Jonathan Margolis, this fascinating book takes a witty look at the successes and failures of futurologists by talking to some of the experts in the field – and explores whether modern-day predictions are likely to be any better.

Margolis reveals how bright sparks in today’s tech industries manage to earn a living – and a good one at that – keeping their bosses up-to-date with the possible courses of world history. But are these modern-day seers likely to be any better at predicting the future than you, me or Nostradamus?

In 100 years, will we be laughing at the ridiculous fad that was the internet? Will we be wearing those silver one-piece jumpsuits beloved of 20th-century film-makers? Or going to work in flying cars (how long have we been watiting for those?) and cryogenically freezing our heads in the hope that surgeons will one day be able to reattach them to healthy bodies?

A Brief History of Tomorrow is the 11th book to be brought into the digital world under the Apostrophe Books banner. To read more or to buy this title, click here.

Cris Freddi‘s chilling collection of short stories was today made available for download on all e-readers. Pork is the tale of a group of wild animals in a wood where wonder is around every corner – but terror is never far away.

Hailed as “brilliant, unsentimental tales” by Newsweek, these best-selling stories are being made available on digital devices for the first time today.

The San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Sometimes the stories bewilder; sometimes they disturb. Frequently, they are exciting, wonderfully suspenseful, and always they enthrall.”

To read more about the title, and to download it, click here.

Pork is the seventh e-book to be released under the Apostrophe Books banner, cementing a commitment to bringing the best writing from every genre into the digital world.