Terrifying true story Assassin goes on sale

THE TRUE STORY of one of the most dangerous hit-men who ever lived is on sale now. 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... Read More

Sex, videotape and lots and lots of lies

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 –... Read More

‘Funniest book ever written': front-page news

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... Read More

Teen vampire sensation goes on sale

VAMPIRE thriller Blood Prophecy: The Fated Three has gone on sale, with legions of e-reader owners sinking their teeth into the supernatural novel. The three-part e-book sees 17-year-old Selene Giovanni’s dull and lonely world change dramatically when a new student starts at her school. It turns out there is a lot more to the mysterious Gregori than meets the eye, and together they are plunged into a world of danger, excitement and vampires, as... Read More

The breathtaking Fingerless Gloves goes on sale

FINGERLESS GLOVES, the prize-winning novel from New Yorker Nick Orsini, went on sale to e-book readers around the world today. The story, which won the prestigious Fiction Fast-Track new writing competition earlier this year, charts the most difficult night in 25-year-old Anton Duchamp’s life. When his best friend James Squire is mysteriously rushed to hospital, Anton begins a night-long journey that takes him from shady, marijuana-smoke-filled... Read More

Legendary war reporter joins Apostrophe Books

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... Read More

Apostrophe publishes online poetry sensation

JOHN LAVAN HAS long been one of the internet’s most prominent poets, with hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. Now, his poignant, funny and heartbreaking poetry has been turned into an e-book, with the launch of Familial: Selected Poems. More than 100 exceptional pieces of work have been hand-picked by the Yorkshireman across a variety of subjects. These range from love poetry to poems of place – and even poems about poems. Many are... Read More

Secret war in Laos revealed in The Ravens

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... Read More

Fighter-jet thriller Angel, Archangel takes off

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... Read More

‘Jemuru’ author collects prestigious award

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... Read More

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