Adventure fiction: Westerns
WW Norton & Co Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
Book SynopsisLarry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms McMurtry’s “full- blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) to a love triangle involving a cowboy, his rancher boss and wife, and finally to the hardscrabble citizens of an oil- patch town trying to keep their only movie house alive, McMurtry captures the stark realities of the West like no one else. With a new introduction, Thalia emerges as an American classic that celebrates one of our greatest literary masters. *Just named in 2017 by Publishers Weekly the #1 Western novel worthy of rediscovery.Trade Review"It’s good to see them all together . . . . These novels are three independent attempts to portray that world and what was left in the wake of its passing. Each one is better than the last. . . Among the many pleasures in reading Thalia is observing Mr. McMurtry’s gathering power as a novelist." -- Gregory Curtis - Wall Street Journal"These three McMurtry novels rode over the tired clichés of post-Wister cowboy mythology with iron hooves. They revolutionized hero-heavy western literature. Here were characters plagued by bad love affairs, cranky kitchen stoves, infected by sibling rivalries, coming up against obstinate horses and pain-in-the-ass fathers, whitewashing sexual jealousies with rotten deeds of cheating and lying. Yet the stories showed an undercoating of rust-proof decency that sometimes let an offender face up to himself." -- Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News
£29.82
Trine Day Will Chase, The Sioux Lands
Book SynopsisWith the approval of the Elders that have told this story to the author, now this legend be told in print to the people of the world. This story is based on emotion, the personal identity of Chasing Hawk/ Will Chase, and the personal philosophy that Will embraces as a man who lives in two worlds, as Will Chase/Chasing Hawk lives in both worlds with the highest of personal integrity and honor.
£13.25
Bloomsbury Publishing Outlawed
Book Synopsis
£20.80
Bloomsbury Publishing Outlawed
Book Synopsis
£13.57
Stygian Sky Media LLC The Devoured and the Dead
Book SynopsisThree families traveling through the mountains of North Carolina to claim their share of the gold rush become stranded deep in the forest, overwhelmed by the unrelenting snow and frigid temperatures. It doesn’t take long for the food supply to run out, for desperation and harmful intentions to set in. When one of their own dies, they commit a depraved act to survive, a depraved act that unleashes a curse that will not stop until every one of them is either devoured…or dead!
£15.09
Stygian Sky Media LLC They built a Gallows for You and Me
Book SynopsisWas the threat of death all we needed to die?When smiles act like monsters in the dark who are pretending to be friendly, it's hard to know where to put your trust. As a mysterious sickness starts killing the children in the town of Salinas, the townsfolk find themselves distraught and searching for answers. A new family in town seemed to bring forth the illness. Did they bring it with them? Are they causing it to happen? Or did the family stumble into something dark and sinister, something with witchcraft on its lips?
£10.76
Stygian Sky Media LLC Shadow of the Vulture
Book SynopsisAs Americans move west towards their manifest destiny, they disrupt lives, steal, and murder. What happens when that brutality clashes with witchcraft and the supernatural in the small town of Soledad?A powerful witch goes to the extreme to protect the land. A young woman weaves protective spells into clothing, but what she wants to do more than anything, is soar with the vultures. An ex-soldier accompanied by her dead friend looks for another battle to fight and will do anything to make the American invaders pay in the bloodiest ways possible. When they come together, Texas will never be the same. Power clashes between witches, warriors, brutes and innocents, and over it all hovers the shadow of the vulture.
£10.76
Stygian Sky Media LLC The Magpie Coffin
Book SynopsisThe year is 1875 and outlaw Salem Covington has spent the last twenty years collecting stories, possessions, and lives. Nicknamed "The Black Magpie" for his exploits during the war, Salem has carved a bloody trail across the western territories. Informed that his mentor, Comanche shaman Dead Bear, has been murdered. Salem vows vengeance on the perpetrators. Enlisting the help of an army scout and preserving the body of his mentor in a specially made coffin, he sets out in pursuit. But the choices of Salem's past that earned him the moniker "Black Magpie" are riding hard behind him and the only weapon that can kill him might not be as far away as he thinks.The Magpie Coffin is an unrelenting tale of revenge, with precise brutality and extreme violence.
£13.95
Stygian Sky Media LLC The Night Silver River Run Red
Book SynopsisSome things, according to Cody McCall, are worth risking a whipping. Such as, sneaking out with your friends after dark for a peek at the traveling show setting up just outside of town. Oddities, the signs promise. Marvels. Grotesqueries. Exotic attractions and mysterious magics.Not as if they'd be allowed to attend otherwise, not with parents and preacher and schoolmarm all disapproving. But how often does a chance like this come along? There isn't much else by way of excitement in quiet, peaceful Silver River, a once-prosperous boom town slowly gone bust. Worth risking a whipping, sure. Worth risking life and limb, and maybe more? Worth risking being ripped to pieces by ravenous, inhuman brutes? Worth crossing paths with those strange, silent cult-folk from the high valley? Worth all the fire and bloodshed and horror and death?Because something far worse than any ordinary traveling show has come to town, and one thing is for certain: those who survive, if any, will never forget the night Silver River run red.
£13.95
Stygian Sky Media LLC Starving Zoe
Book SynopsisTo most, 1865 was an eye-opening year. The American Civil War was officially over and the soldiers fortunate enough to survive the bloody conflict returned home to collect the pieces of their former lives. To young Arizonan, Robert Jack, the fateful desert homecoming marked the end to all he once knew. Forgiveness is overrated. Death is final. Revenge, however, dances between the fine lines of mortality and eternity.Love always finds a way.
£11.35
Death's Head Press Here Comes the Sun
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Death's Head Press Cruel Angels Past Sundown
Book Synopsis
£16.19
Counterpoint The Widow Nash: A Novel
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Reading the West Award A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThis gorgeously written historical novel follows Dulcy, a young woman in 1904 who attempts to flee her late father's business problems―and her violent ex–fiance's grasp―by traveling west and posing as a wealthy widow. ―Entertainment Weekly Dulcy Remfrey has traveled the globe with her eccentric father, Walton, a wealthy entrepreneur obsessed with earthquakes and catastrophe, searching to cure his long battle with syphilis through any crackpot means necessary. Their deep connection is tested, however, when Walton returns from an African expedition without any of the proceeds from the sale of his gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the great sum of money, his health declining rapidly. Her father's business partner (and her ex–fiancé) insists Dulcy come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic notebooks—a dozen in all, wrapped in brightly colored silk—which may hold clues to the missing funds. Yet when her father dies before they can locate the money, Dulcy falls under suspicion. Petrified of being forced to spend the rest of her life with her ex–love, Dulcy decides to disappear from the train bringing her father's body home. Is it possible to disappear from your old life and create another? Dulcy travels the West reading stories about her presumed death and settles into a small Montana town where she is reborn as Mrs. Nash, a wealthy young widow with no burden of family. But her old life won't let go so easily, and soon her ex–fiancé is on her trail, threatening the new life she is so eager to create. The Widow Nash is a riveting narrative, filled with a colorful cast of characters, rich historical details, and epic set pieces. Europe in summer. New York in fall. Africa in winter. The lively, unforgettable town of Livingston, Montana. And in Dulcy, Jamie Harrison has created an indelible heroine sure to capture the hearts of readers everywhere.Sweeping and richly hued . . . features a character set loose to wander the American West at the turn of the 20th century, a woman whose early experiences seem drawn from the worldly peregrinations of the era of Henry James . . . Harrison has rendered her imagined world anachronistically, but Henry James might still have approved. ―The New York Times Book Review
£12.99
Amazon Publishing Spiced Right
Book SynopsisJillian Parks doesn?t need her hybrid scorpion pepper to set her pulse racing. Wildly charismatic rancher Jack Reed does that all on his own in this scorcher from Gigi Templeton.Don?t ever think I didn?t want more time with you, darlin?.Those were her college boyfriend?s last words to her after a phone call summoned him home to Texas. In the ten years since, Jack Reed has taken over his family?s ranch, and Jillian Parks has experienced devastating losses with traumatic repercussions.Now a reclusive insomniac, she podcasts about the specialty hybrid chili peppers she grows in her Seattle greenhouse, keeping a closed door between her and the past. But when Jillian?s producer coaxes her to make a surprise call in to Jack?s YouTube BBQ channel, their chemistry still sizzles!An invite to the ranch for a follow-up collab is a scary proposal for Jillian. But forward movement is key to her recovery, and it?s time to take the bull by the horns. With Jack?s commanding yet soothing presence, maybe this charismatic cowboy is just the right ingredient to help her heal?while adding a different kind of spice to her life.
£13.11
Sourcebooks, Inc Forever My Cowboy
Book SynopsisAuthor June Favor takes you to the ranch for a contemporary cowboy romance that'll leave you breathless.The Garrett family have been ranchers and cowboys for generations—they love the land, and the joy of family and children.Cade Garrett's orderly life is upended when his sister and her husband are killed in a plane crash. He's ready to step in and take care of their two young children, but he's thrown for a loop when the children's aunt is named their guardian and plans to take the children with her to Dallas.Unexpected sparks fly when he meets Jennifer LaChance. Can Cade and Jenn band together for the good of the children—or only create all kinds of opportunities for friction?Praise for June Faver's Dark Horse Cowboy series:"Guaranteed melt-your-heart romance."—Romancing the Book for Do or Die Cowboy"June Faver is a must-read author."—Harlequin Junkie for When to Call a Cowboy"A story to make you feel good."—Long and Short Reviews for Cowboy Christmas Homecoming
£9.19
Sourcebooks, Inc High Country Justice
Book SynopsisFans of William Johnstone will love this unique and riveting historical western series. A perfect gift for birthdays and holidays for the men in your life.It will take all this lone frontiersman's skills to save his only friend from murderous outlaws.Caleb Marlowe carved out his own legend as a frontier scout and lawman before arriving in the Colorado boomtown of Elkhorn. Famous for a lightning-quick draw and nerves of steel, he is mysterious, guarded, and unpredictable. Now, he wants to leave the past behind. But the past has a way of dogging a man…When Doc Burnett, Caleb's only friend in town, goes missing, his daughter Sheila comes seeking Caleb's help. Newly arrived from the East, she hotly condemns the bloody frontier justice of the rifle and the six-gun. But this is outlaw country.Murderous road agents have Doc trapped in their mountain hideaway. To free Doc, Marlowe tracks his kidnappers through wild, uncharted territory, battling animals and bushwhackers. But when Sheila is captured by the ruthless gunhawks with a score to settle, Marlowe will have to take them down one by one, until no outlaw remains standing.
£9.12
Sourcebooks, Inc One Hot Cowboy Wedding
Book Synopsis
£11.25
Two Dollar Radio The Drop Edge of Yonder
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Belt Publishing One of Ours
Book Synopsis
£20.76
Woodhall Press New Madrid
Book SynopsisImagine a world in which the Salem witch trials never ended…It's the early 1800s and Jack Ellard is a reluctant lawman of the growing river town of New Madrid, Missouri. Expelled from the army for his role in a brutal Native American massacre, Jack has carved out a solitary life as sheriff and rebuffed several offers to become marshal. Despite his desire to avoid controversy and conflict, trouble follows him out west. When a young girl named Abigail Duncan goes missing, everything changes. Jack is forced to delve into the town's secrets and confront his feelings for the girl's mother, Sarah. But when a firebrand preacher named Elijah Prescott, and a city-raised Native American named Chata, arrive and offer to help find the young girl, Jack is unsure of their motives. Neither is who they claim to be. Even Sarah seems to be hiding things from him, and Jack begins to fear the preacher's criticism of her bold and uncompromising demeanor.Trade Review"To step into New Madrid is to step into a new reality entirely. From the first sentences, it is immediately felt that the world that Robert Tomaino has built is not the world we know." -- Maudlin House
£16.10
Artemesia Publishing, LLC A Cowboys Dilemma
Book Synopsis
£16.66
Blackstone Western Dead Ringer: A Western Trio
Book Synopsis
£17.86
Penguin Adult Ralph Compton The Kelly Trail
Book SynopsisWhen rustlers stampede his herd and injure his sons, Bull Kelly will do anything to protect his own.
£7.59
Penguin Publishing Group The Sweet Blue Distance
Book Synopsis
£27.55
Wattpad Webtoon Studios, Inc. Western Heat
£14.29
£20.83
