Auk Authors imprint: 758 books

In olden times an alien craft crashed in the sea not far from Edinburgh. Its only surviving passenger burrowed into the ground and took up permanent residence. This deadly parasite from outer space controls all it surveys while the human population, its food, is unaware of the creature’s existence....

A Search for Donald Cottee is a comic tragedy about individualism. Donald, nicknamed Donkey, is an internet Quixote, bent on doing good works. Donkey Cottee and his wife, Poncho Suzie, have retired to Benidorm on Spain’s Costa Blanca from their Yorkshire mining village. Don has left behind his incessant...

Tumbling Down is a mystery novel from new author Marylyn Palmer that takes readers into a world of misadventure, intrigue and murder. A clash of personalities and a grudge about not getting a job, lead the supervisor and deputy at a children's nursery to become arch enemies. Conflict quickly builds between...

Cockshut Grange is a tale of witchcraft, murder and revenge centred around an historical family feud. When Dr. Stuart Carney, together with his wife and their two children, decides to move away from the pressures of city life and into the green tranquillity of the Irish countryside, little does he suspect...

Lee Hoyle - philosopher, man on the street or genius? Perhaps after reading this book you will make your own mind up. Unedited from his original manuscripts, this eBook contains a large number of 'mini articles' with Lee's thoughts on everything from films to planets, cranes to drugs and almost everything...

Touched By Grace is a love story which embraces Chris Simon’s altruistic love for Grace Foster. The two meet by chance one night in a hospital. Chris, years removed from being one of America’s most prominent artists, battles his drinking demons as well as his cancer. Grace, a nurse and single mother...

A warm debut novel from a new author who follows the lives of a seemingly normal, happy family living in rural Northumberland whose comfy world is disrupted by bereavement and betrayal. The novel traces Isabella's leap of faith from dependent young wife to strong and sexually confident young mother....

A volcano erupts. In Upoverland scientists prepare to drop into its smoky cone. In Goneunderland rumours spread that the blast has uncovered a mass of luxite crystals. The scramble is on and as the two worlds are about to collide, Sir Ockham Bally-Ping and his team of misfit adventurers find themselves stuck in the middle.

The England and Spurs goalkeeper is assassinated in central London. Others will follow as the vengeance of an international betting group on professional football cheats continues to take effect. As Albie loses his wife to a lethal bomb blast meant for him, and his boss is killed by a female suicide...

Jack Bailey’s life wasn’t worth living until someone tries to take it away. Scarred by his childhood, and working as a counsellor at a domestic crisis centre in York, Jack Bailey often thinks of ending what he sees as a worthless life. But when he is targeted by a ruthless serial killer, who seems...

Peace in the elegant market town of Adley is shattered by a series of gruesome attacks on police officers and Detective Inspector Donald Crossfield and his team are called into action once again to try to stop the trail of bloodshed. When the girfriend of a member of the team becomes the prime suspect...

My Lot is a two act comedy that is a tribute to the modern day family who, despite the issues with 21st century living, can and do still carry the strength and values family life needs. Despite how it may appear from the outside. The characters within the piece have been specifically chosen to represent...

A collection of time-twisting, brain-warping tales to tease, inspire and amuse. Characters are wrenched out of their everyday lives and thrown into new and bizarre situations, forcing them and us to confront mind-bending questions about the nature of time, space and existence. An extraordinary set of stories from award-winning author, Alex Woolf.

Willie Blair was a young boy born in Glasgow, with five other siblings… Charlie Blair was Willie’s elder brother being only a few years older than Willie, but Charlie was more attractive to the girls as he was blonde and had blue eyes and his job as a bricklayer on a building site gave him a tan...