The Do-Not Press: Catalogue of books k-z

CATALOGUE K-Z
in alphabetical order. In-print titles only. (Check here for out of print titles.) Click on covers for details.

	Kingdom Swann October 1998 - £6.50 Filmed by the BBC as 'Gentleman's Relish' starring Billy Connolly and Sarah Lancashire. A comic foray into the sub-world of Victorian and Edwardian pornography and the double standards that marked art and life. Modern Fiction
	Kiss Me Sadly by Maxim Jakubowski June 2002 - £6.99/£15 An erotic, moving and often disturbing story of two people – a man and a woman of diverse backgrounds – drawn together by coincidence. Sparks fly and lives are changed forever, until a final, shocking, epiphany. Modern Fiction
	Life in the World of Women by Maxim Jakubowski April 1996 - £6.99/£15 'These stories have the hard edge of Henry Miller and the redeeming grief of Jack Kerouac. A first class collection.' – Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene Modern Fiction
	London Boulevard by Ken Bruen October 2001 - £6.99/£15 “The unforgettable Hollywood noir of Sunset Boulevard moves to London, transmuted by the savage pen of Irish noir king of the hill, Ken Bruen” – Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian columnist & owner, Murder One. Crime & Mystery
	London Revenant by Conrad Williams June 2004- £7.99 A madman is pushing people under tube trains… Adam Buckley thinks he knows who it is, but has problems of his own to deal with. Modern Fiction
	The McDead by Ken Bruen October 2000 - £7.50/£15 This final segment of Ken Bruenÿs masterful ¬Whiteÿ Trilogy is a potent tale of revenge, double-dealing and violence, combining black humour with nail-biting tension and characters ¬The Sopranosÿ and Guy Richie would kill for. Crime & Mystery
	Middleman by Bill James July 2002 - £6.99/£15 Times are tough for ‘middleman’ Julian Corbett. He is a half-crooked businessman in what was once the rough dockside of the Welsh capital. But a multi-billion pound redevelopment is transforming the seafront. Big money; bigger danger. Crime & Mystery
	Mr Romance by Miles Gibson June 2002- £6.99/£15 AN EPIC TALE OF LOVE, LUST, JEALOUSY, PAIN & PURPLE PROSE. Skipper shares his parents’ boarding house with their lodgers, lovely Janet the bijou beauty and Senior Franklin, the volcanic literary genius. Life is sweet, until one night the lugubrious Mr Marvel seeks shelter with them. Who is the mysterious fugitive and what dark secret haunts him? Modern Fiction
	No One Gets Hurt by Russell James June/July 2003 - £6.99/£15 No One Gets Hurt is a hard-bitten, multi-layered underworld thriller of nail-biting intensity from ‘the best of Britain’s darker crime writers’ (The Times) When a young woman is gruesomely murdered, her friend and fellow reporter Kirsty Rice feels bound to investigate. But as Kirsty enters the murky world of call-girls, porn and Internet sex, she discovers that she is pregnant... Fiction / Crime & Mystery
	Noise Abatement by Carol Anne Davis November 2000 - £6.99/£15 The Scottish writer's third novel is a taut psychological thriller set in a quiet, typically British street. Stephen and Caroline are an active young couple until the neighbours from hell move into the flat above. Suddenly each day becomes a nightmare. Then Stephen snaps and takes increasingly inventive and extreme revenge on his tormentors... Crime & Mystery
	Oh No, Not My Baby by Russell James September 1999 - £7.50 A gripping noir mystery set against a background of meat processing, incorporating corporate crime, animal rights terrorism and murder. Powerful stuff, with a shocking climax at the Glastonbury Festival. Crime & Mystery
	On Tenderness Express by Maxim Jakubowski May 2000 - £7.50/£15 Maxim Jakubowski's long-awaited private eye novel. Dark, erotic and gripping. When you're a private detective and life's dealing you all the wrong cards, you can never afford to say 'no' to a case. Suddenly things start to turn very sour indeed... Crime & Mystery
	Painting in the Dark by Russell James November 2000 - £7.50/£15 Painting in the Dark is Russell James's most controversial novel - a modern crime novel that also explores some of the darkest secrets of our recent history. Crime & Mystery
	Perhaps She'll Die by John B Spencer September 1996- £5.99 Set amidst the boom and gloom of '80s Britain, Perhaps She'll Die! is classic noir with a centre as hard as toughened diamond. Giles could never say no to a woman, but when he tangled with Celeste he made a mistake. Celeste was married to Harry and Harry walked a dark side of the street that Giles could only imagine. Crime & Mystery
	Pick Any Title by Russell James April 2002 - £7.50/£15 A magnificent crime caper involving sex, humour, sudden death and double-cross. ‘Lord Clive’ bought his lordship at a ‘Lord of the Manor’ sale where titles fetch anything from two to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? A glorious caper novel, set between the USA and England. Crime & Mystery
	Quake City by John B Spencer April 1996 - £5.99 Cracking third title in the Charley Case cri-fi series finds Spencer in tip-top form. Charley Case is the hard-boiled investigator of the future. But of a future that follows the 'Big One of Ninety-seven' - the quake that literally rips California apart and makes LA an Island. Crime & Mystery
	Safe as Houses by Carol Anne Davis New Edition June 2004 - £6.99 Women are vanishing from the streets of Edinburgh and only one man knows the answers. David is a sadist with a double life. He divides his time between the marital home – shared with devoted wife, Jennifer and young son – and his Secret House. Crime & Mystery
	The Sandman by Miles Gibson November 1997- £7 The notorious modern classic about the life and crimes of a loveable serial killer. Black comedy has never been blacker. Wild, wicked and very funny. 'A splendidly macabre achievement. As an account of descent into homicidal mania, it has seldom been bettered...' - Time Out Modern Fiction
	The Sandman/Dancing With Mermaid (set) by Miles Gibson June 2001- £7 Two of Miles Gibson's finest early novels packaged together for the price of one. Modern Fiction
	Shrouded by Carol Anne Davis April 1997 - £7 The taut and enthralling début. Douglas likes women - quiet women - the kind he deals with at the mortuary where he works. Douglas meets Marjorie, unemployed, gaining weight and losing confidence. Crime & Mystery
	Small Change by Jerry Raine September 2001 - £6.99/£15 The long awaited follow up to “SMALLTIME”. Chris Small has been lying low for seven years, then he meets Edie, a waitress with a talent for blackjack. Together they hatch a plan to outwit London’s casinos. But things don't go at all to plan… Crime & Mystery
	Smalltime by Jerry Raine October 1996 - £5.99 Taut, psychological crime thriller, set among the seedy world of petty criminals and no-hopers. In this remarkable début, Jerry Raine shows just how easily curiosity can turn into fear amid the horrors, despair and despondency of life lived a little too near the edge. Crime & Mystery
	Split by Bill James September 2001 - £6.99/£15 Simon Abelard – black 'redbrick' graduate from Cardiff’s dockland – was recruited by British Intelligence as a spy. But since the Berlin Wall came down he finds that he’s working as a glorified cop. Then Abelard is given the dangerous job of ‘bringing back’ a colleague who’s turned bad… Crime & Mystery
	Stitch by John B Spencer September 1999 - £7.50 A Runyonesque tragedy of manners set in a west London populated by a cavalcade of users, abusers and three-time losers. 'Stitch' is John B Spencer at his very best. Crime & Mystery
	Taming the Alien by Ken Bruen October 1999 - £7.50 Second part of the groundbreaking White Trilogy, featuring Detective Sergeant Brant and his boss, Inspector Roberts of the Metropolitan Police – as sleazy and as ruthless as the villains they are out to get. Crime & Mystery
	That Angel Look by Mike Ripley November 1997 - £8 A chance encounter (in a pub, of course) lands streetwise, cab-driving Angel the ideal job as an all-purpose assistant to a trio of young and very sexy fashion designers. The 8th and possibly best Angel book. Crime & Mystery
	Thirteen by Marc Atkins May 2002- £13 Photographic nudes by Marc Atkins ‘illustrated’ with text specially commissioned from thirteen internationally acclaimed writers, ranging from twice Booker Prize nominated novelist Julian Rathbone to New York columnist Maggie Estep via Bill Drummond (KLF) and Groupie author, Jenny Fabian. Plus Nicholas Royle, Stella Duffy, James Sallis, Mick Farren and others. Art/Photography
	Tooth & Nail by John B Spencer February 1998 - £7 A dark, Rackmanesque tale of avarice and malice-aforethought in West London from one of Britain's most exciting and accomplished writers. Crime & Mystery
	Vinegar Soup by Miles Gibson October 1998 - £6.50 Gilbert Firestone, fat and fifty, works in the kitchen of the Hercules Café and dreams of travel and adventure. When his wife drowns in a pan of soup he abandons the kitchen and takes his family to start a new life in a jungle hotel in Africa. Modern Fiction
	Vixen by Ken Bruen November 2003 - £6.99/£15.00 For the south-east London police squad, things have seldom been worse. There's a bomber on the loose and the police have problems of their own. The fantastic follow-up to Blitz and the White Arrest trilogy. Crime & Mystery