A top-secret commando raid into Occupied FranceFrench Resistance fighters uncover the position of a secret German store containing files and reports of vital information on the movement of troops. The details are passed to British Intelligence, who formulate an ingenious plan – to break into the heavily guarded store and steal the information – thus gaining the upper hand for a precious few hours.This was a job that demanded a tough, ruthless, highly trained band of men. Men who could parachute into enemy-occupied territory and efficiently carry out an operation that depended on split-second timing – and who could get out again with the vital papers. Men like those of commando unit Special Group 404...Another thrilling commando raid novella from a master of the genre, perfect for fans of Max Hennessy and Alan Evans.

Elina lives for the money. She works hard to get it, but her line of work directly contradicts her upbringing and her family's values. That's why she has never told her parents. What they don't know can't hurt them, she thinks. But when someone walks into her best-kept secret, it may not be a secret for much longer. Julian had no idea a night out would bring him face to face with his best friend's little sister—the same girl he used to have a crush on. When he sees her, he's both happy and shocked. She's not the same young woman she used to be. She's all woman now. But her lifestyle is all about making fast money—by any means necessary. Now, he's left wondering if it's still a bad idea to get involved with his best friend's kid sister—or if they're free to move forward.

Alien technology built by humans—but was it a gift? Or a weapon? What was really the prime directive of the mission? Were the soldiers sent as security there to protect them? Or to silence them?

An interstellar craft is decelerating after its century-long voyage. Its destination is V538 Aurigae ?, a now-empty planet dominated by one gigantic megastructure, a conical mountain of such height that its summit is high above the atmosphere. The ship's crew of five hope to discover how the long-departed builders made such a colossal thing, and why: a space elevator? a temple? a work of art? Its resemblance to the mountain of purgatory lead the crew to call this world Dante. In our near future, the United States is falling apart. A neurotoxin has interfered with the memory function of many of the population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses. But life goes on. For Ottoline Barragão, a regular kid juggling school and her friends and her beehives in the back garden, things are about to get very dangerous, chased across the north-east by competing groups, each willing to do whatever it takes to get inside Ottoline's private network and recover the secret inside. Purgatory Mount, Adam Roberts's first SF novel for three years, combines wry space opera and a fast-paced thriller in equal measure. It is a novel about memory and atonement, about exploration and passion, and like all of Roberts's novels it's not quite like anything else.

On the small space station Azura, Maxion Belmont is constantly torn between his two passions—engineering and music. Both are hobbies handed down from his father, who died two years ago. While his hydrodriver is great for repairing starship parts, his father's old string instrument tugs at the latent grief Max hides from his mom and classmates with each chord he strums.When a foreign starship appears on the horizon, Azura welcomes its first tourist in years. But there's something weird about Mr. Hames, the stranger-turned-substitute-teacher. He has no idea how to teach and keeps raving about the existence of alien creatures in the vacuum of space: star whales.As Max and the rest of Mr. Hames's class-turned-starship-crew begin to uncover the mysteries of the star whales, they discover they aren't the only ones looking for the elusive creatures—and not every whaler has good intentions.

An emotionally compelling story of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds between families, lovers, and readers under the shadow of war.London, 1943: War and dwindling resources have taken their toll on the book-publishing industry, but Alice Cotton, a young editor at Partridge Press, has seen her star begin to rise. She has a knack for creating new books to distract readers from the grim realities of the war. And the demand for books is greater than ever, both on the battlefield and the home front. But just as her hard work seems poised to pay off, Alice unexpectedly falls pregnant. Facing the stigma of being an unwed mother, Alice flees to a small town to give birth to her child, Eadie, whom her family has promised to help raise. Instead, her mother sells the newborn to 'baby farmers' who plan to give the child...