An incendiary anti-capitalist response to climate change rooted in hope for the future, this book is a tool or a weapon, depending on how you use itDespite the naysayers, climate change is a fact. We know that global temperatures are rising, that weather patterns are changing, that forest fires, droughts, flooding, severe storms, and heat waves are the new normal. We know this planet is teetering on the edge of climate collapse, an apocalyptic event that threatens ...

What happens when you think you've got it made with a perfect lifestyle and then you meet that random somebody who flips a switch inside you... and unwittingly obliterates everything that went before in a tidal wave of attraction and desire? You didn't seek it, you didn't want it and it'll rip your life apart. But somehow you find yourself pinned against a wall outside a bar, overwhelmed by the elemental force of another woman's love and passion - and your own.Well, it happens to I...

In the summer of 1911, Hannah Calder arrives from New York to take up the post of Governess to Annabel and Florence Hailsham, daughters of Sir Jacob and Lady Elizabeth Hailsham at Sefton Hall in the heart of the English countryside.Annabel is thirteen and until now has had the run of the fine Georgian country house and its thousand-acre estate, enjoying the peace and solitude of its isolation to pursue her passions of the flora and fauna abounding in surroundings that have remained ...

Kirion Valonn gets a call from the office of Imperatrix Simianka and she attends the royal's private suite at The Palace to give a private recital. She is a young flautist in The National Symphony Orchestra and Imperatrix Simianka happened to be in the royal box at her performance that day. Kirion had been noticed and summoned!She is asked to give further recitals to the beautiful, but arrogant and demanding Imperatrix who is part of a monarchy that believe they are selected by God...

I thought she hated me… after all I was just another woman prison officer to vent her sarcasm, to flirt with. Sophie van Beringer was due for parole after eleven years in high security institutions for committing a hideous crime as a child and I did my best to keep her out of trouble until her release, but somehow she found ways to make life difficult for me... dear God she was so cynical and manipulative. But here's the paradox: she had grown up to be intelligent and beautiful; a prize fo...

A career in the tax office is a nice, safe, if somewhat dull career for a girl, wouldn't you say?Now fast forward to a time 100 years after Destruction when survivors are just beginning to organise themselves into settlements. They pay taxes to a regional council in return for protection and trading rights but these settlements are often run by ruthless despots who exert control by force and are, shall we say, often not well disposed to paying their dues.Into this volatile ...

Newly married Rebecca and Mark move into their renovated Victorian villa and she immediately senses a presence – a personality.At the housewarming party Rebecca, a little drunk to be fair, is fixing herself another glass of wine when someone comes up behind her and, astoundingly, presses close and begins to seduce her in full view of those in the room. At first, she thinks it's her husband, but then she feels the soft curves of a female body against her back and realises that the pe...

It's Holly's first job interview at a big London finance firm. She can't help but notice the other interviewee is jaw-droppingly beautiful, wearing a short red party dress... and is sick with nervousness. Holly volunteers to go with her in a taxi to make sure she gets home OK and discovers she lives in a luxury West End apartment that's been trashed – and that the girl is far from nervous, but has a mega-hangover. She's arrogant, irritable and ungrateful, but Holly gets her to bed and leav...

It all started with an infantile bet between student friends at a prestigious American college, the handsome and confident Bridgman Hansen, adept at playing the field on campus challenging his peers to put up their cash and wager against him seducing their beautiful art history lecturer. But he's no jock. He's smart and erudite and slyly uses his expensive education to try to captivate Marianne Nicholas, the alluring tutor from London. Sadly for him, she's having none of it and eventually ...

Gina gets chatting to Faye, the girl behind the bar, before an internet date with a guy - the first of a few. Faye looks out for her and they become attracted to each other.Simple you might think. She likes girls more than boys. Ditch the dating site and go out with Faye. But it's actually a big problem, because Gina is a DNA construct, formed for the sole purpose of getting pregnant and taking a baby back to a world in another solar system where sterility is endangering the populat...

Ava is an industry thought leader in digital publishing and employee relationship. She's renowned in the business world for understanding people and how to get the best from them in the workplace, but then on her way to work, she hears the song 'As Tears Go By' hauntingly sung by a girl busking in an underpass. Ava stops to give her some money and is a little spooked when she realises Van looks like a young Marianne Faithfull, who sang the song in the 1960s. She can't get the song or the s...