The Book of Scotlands outlines 156 possible Scotlands which currently do not exist anywhere but maybe, someday, could. At a moment when, after centuries of desire and unrest, independence seems to be a real possibility for Scotland, Scottish-born, Berlin-based musician/author/journalist Momus, real name Nick Currie, offers a delirium of visions, practical and absurd. Momus, who describes himself as a polymath-dabbler, suggests that the real Scotland is free to embrace or reject this parall...

Nick Currie, otherwise known as Momus—named for the ancient Greek god of mockery, and described by the Guardian as "the David Bowie of the art-pop underground"—has recorded more than thirty albums, published half a dozen works of speculative fiction, and written articles for the New York Times, Wired, Artforum, Frieze, and the Wire. An unknown band called Pulp once asked him to produce their next album. (He said no.) An unknown band cal...

Popppappp is a novel about the visual and the political. Two British graphic designers find themselves imprisoned in a brutalist Syrian media centre by the Kamerads, a fanatical paramilitary organisation intent on making a fundamentalist religion from the lyrics of Sark E. Myth, lead singer in post-punk band the Foul. Popppappp and the Cowardly Minotaur believe they can stay alive as long as their design skills enhance the Sark-e-hideen's broadcasts and magazines. All around them hostages ...

The following narrative is not so much a story as a biography. My hero is not an imaginary one; he was a real flesh and blood man who reigned as King of Norway just nine centuries ago. The main facts of his adventurous career--his boyhood of slavery in Esthonia, his life at the court of King Valdemar, his wanderings as a viking, the many battles he fought, his conversion to Christianity in England, and his ultimate return to his native land--are set forth in the various Icelandic sagas dea...

A Backpacker goes from store to store where he engages in conversations with clerks before killing them and robbing their money, all in search of a something very specific.

Part 1: Powerless, the debut novel by Irish author Niall McCreanor focuses around Lee Sopota, an average man in a not so average world. Due to a premature birth Lee has not developed powers like everyone else on the planet and must hide it from those he loves. Lee's thirst for knowledge leads him on the trail of a far reaching government conspiracy. While investigating his beloved brother goes missing and Lee must use all the training instilled in him by his father to find out what ha...

Mark has finally gotten the attention of the girl of his dreams. Only, his lame attempts at romance through texts and emails seem to be turning her off. When he gets put in the back of the room in an over-full class at school, he begins to discover old notes giving advice about how to write a great love letter. At first he thinks he's stumbled on some long-forgotten notes passed in class ages ago, but every time he reads them they seem directed specifically to him. They also appear at the ...

In "Cabin Fever," B. M. Bower masterfully weaves a narrative that captures the spirit of the American frontier, showcasing the internal and external conflicts faced by its characters. Set against the rugged backdrop of the early 20th-century West, the novel employs vivid imagery and rustic dialogue, immersing readers in the quotidian realities of ranch life. Bower'Äôs distinctive charm lies in her ability to blend adventure with nuanced explorations of gender roles and human relationships,...

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.

She: A History of Adventure is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was extraordinarily popular in its time, and has remained in print to the present day. She is generally considered to be one of the classics of imaginative literature and with 83 million copies sold by 1965, one of the best-selling books of all time. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

️️ Is she protecting the children—or losing her mind? Unravel one of literature's most enigmatic tales in The Turn of the Screw, the enduring gothic novella by Henry James that continues to intrigue and terrify over a century later. When a young governess takes a position at a remote English estate, she begins to suspect the children in her care are being haunted by sinister forces. But are these ghosts real… or is her descent into madness merely her own creation? What makes this no...

A landmark modernist novella portraying isolation and identity through surreal transformation.