Turnbull: 227 books

The Garden of Allah Hotel on Sunset Boulevard — Hollywood’s most infamous hotel during Hollywood’s most famous era. Right before talking pictures slug Tinsel Town in the jaw, a luminous silent screen star converts her private estate into the Garden of Allah Hotel. The lush grounds soon...

The Garden of Allah Hotel on Sunset Boulevard — Hollywood’s most infamous hotel during Hollywood’s most famous era. 1940s Hollywood was a perilous time. First came World War II. Over the lights and music of the Hollywood Canteen hung the fear that some of these brave boys won’t make...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. We're kicking off the new year with a new dark fantasy story from Natalia Theodoridou ("What...

Set in the early 2070’s, this story gives the reader a taste of what life might be like for young Mars colonists sixty years from now. Having been born and raised on Mars, things such as having to wear pressure suits to go outdoors, night-time temperatures over a hundred degrees below zero, travelling...

It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof. Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, while the Great Wall of China was an attempt to build a barrier along the most vulnerable border of the entire country. Yet...

The Japanese invasion and occupation of Korea, which lasted from 1592 to 1598, was the only occasion in Japanese history when samurai aggression was turned against a foreign country. During the occupation of Korea the Japanese built 25 wajo or castles. Unlike the castles built in Japan, these fortifications...

Death is chasing Maliha Anderson and it's catching up. Time is running out and the man who has turned out to be her nemesis has created an impossible situation to kill everyone she knows one by one. How can she possibly defeat a man with so much power he can make an honest man kill....

Second of the Alien Artifact books, this novel is set in the 2070's, on the same past and future time track as The Man Who Conquered Mars and Titus Andronicus Scott. This story transports the reader billions of miles across the Solar System, from Earth, to Mars, to Callisto and to Luna. With Augie...

Girls Just Want to Have Fun gives parents all the information that they will need to know about when talking to their daughter about various aspects associated with puberty. Whether you are a mother or father you will learn everything you need to know about the facts on puberty from your daughter’s...

The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation....

In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States or Sengoku Jidai. In this book Stephen Turnbull offers a masterly exposition of the Sengoku Jidai, detailing the factors that led to Japan's disintegration into warring...

This is my third and maybe last "Random Thoughts of a Stupid Man" book, so I guess that means I have written a trilogy. Don't be concerned if you haven't read the first two ["Random Thoughts of a Stupid Man" & "More Random Thoughts of a Stupid Man"] They are not as complicated as Harry Potter...

I guess that is what More Random Thoughts of a Stupid Man is: a sharing of my life and the thoughts that enter my somewhat-demented mind on occasion. I’ll admit, writing those thoughts has become more therapeutic than artful and brings me a deep feeling of comfort.I can only hope that you...

What would you do if your mother advertised for a date for you, on digital-billboards across the London underground system, using a photo only a mother could love and a caption that begged ‘Date My Daughter (please)’? Kate Turner gets arrested for vandalism and then blackmailed by her mother...