Nik Thorn should know better than to get involved with gods.But when a priest of a hated god asks Nik to save his life, Nik can hardly refuse, particularly when the priest knows exactly how, where, when, and why he is going to be killed. How hard can it be?Of course, that’s not Nik's only problem. When is it ever? A god has been murdered, the city’s high mages are about to go to war, and fury is rising in the streets.Agatos will burn.The...

Mystery, murder, and mosasaurs, with a fabulous girl-spy heroine.Mars, 1816. For almost a year, Harriet George has been training to be a spy in the British-Martian Intelligence Service and things are not going well. She has been failing in tasks she knows she ought to be able to achieve. Now she has been given her first assignment, and Harriet knows that if she doesn’t succeed, it will also be her last.Together with her brother-in-law, Bertrand, Harriet has...

Mystery, murder, and adventure on Mars…Mars in 1815 is a world of wonders, from the hanging ballrooms of Tharsis City to the air forests of Patagonian Mars, and from the ice caves of Noachis Terra to the Great Wall of Cyclopia, beyond which dinosaurs still roam.Now the famous jewel thief, the Glass Phantom, has come to Mars, and sixteen-year-old Harriet George’s hapless brother-in-law, Bertrand, has been ordered to track him down. Bertrand has never been mu...

What do a smuggling gang, a curse that won't go away, and a frequently lost dog have to do with each other?Answer: they're all here to disrupt Mennik Thorn's hard-earned peace and quiet.As the sole freelance mage in the city of Agatos, Mennik is used to some odd clients and awful jobs. But this time, one of his clients isn't giving him a choice. Mennik might have forgotten about the smugglers whose operations he disrupted, but they haven't forgotten about h...

Becoming a mage-for-hire hasn't quite turned out the way Nik Thorn hoped.Sometimes you just have to take whatever job is on offer, whether it's a missing pet, a curse to break, or tracking down a cheating husband. And sometimes it turns out to be something else altogether.And if theft, murder, and blackmail aren't enough, there's a high mage involved.This is not what Nik signed up for.Meet Nik Thorn for the first time in this pre...

Fans of Jim Butcher and Scott Lynch will love this snarky fantasy mystery.It was only supposed to be one little job - a simple curse-breaking for Mennik Thorn to pay back a favour to his oldest friend. But then it all blew up in his face. Now he's been framed for a murder he didn't commit.So how is a second-rate mage, broke, traumatized, and with a habit of annoying the wrong people, supposed to prove his innocence when everyone believes he's guilt...

A MISSING MARTIAN. A SINISTER PLOT. A FRENCH SPY.If Edward thinks life is going to be easy in Lunae City, he is very, very wrong. The moment he intercepts a thief escaping from Lady Harleston’s town house, he is caught up in a terrible scheme that threatens the whole of Mars.Soon he’s fighting off vicious sea serpents, battling a small army of heavily armoured thugs, and trying to unpick an impossible mystery. Meanwhile, Putty has declared war on her new governess, a war th...

A ghost searches for revenge in ancient Egypt. A boy unearths the bones of a dragon. A girl risks awakening a dark god to save her dog…He reached out a hand and touched Grace’s cheek. The touch made her shiver. “You can’t save everyone, Grace.”“I don’t want to,” Grace whispered. “Just her.”At the Gates and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen fantasy short stories.Reviews of stories in this collection"This is th...

A missing Martian. A sinister plot. A Napoleonic spy. . . Boundless adventures await in Book 2 of The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb middle grade sci-fi series!If Edward thought life was going to be easy in Lunae City, he was very, very wrong. The moment he intercepts a thief escaping from Lady Harleston’s town house, he is caught in a terrible scheme that threatens all of Mars. Soon he’s fighting off vicious sea serpents, battling a small army of heav...

Mars in 1816 is a world of high society, deadly danger, and strange clockwork machines. Pterodactyls glide through the sky, automatic servants hand out sandwiches at elegant garden parties, and in the north, the great dragon tombs hide marvels of Ancient Martian technology.Twelve-year-old Edward Sullivan has always dreamed of becoming a spy like the ones he reads of in his favorite sci-fi magazine, Thrilling Martian Tales. Instead, he spends his days keeping his eccentric family fro...

'A MAJOR TALENT' George R. R. MartinSet in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams, The Mechanical confirms Ian Tregillis's place as one of the most original voices in speculative fiction.My name is Jax.That is the name granted to me by my human masters.I am a slave.But I shall be free.'Tregillis launches a series with this superb alternate history filled with cl...

The second book in Colin Thompson’s brilliantly funny series about a family of witches and wizards who might be living in your town.Look through the cobwebbed, murky arched window in deepest Patagonia, and this is what you might see...Every day five of the Flood children travel halfway round the world to Quicklime College, the ultimate school for witches and wizards. There's no time for silly games flying around on broomsticks. Sports day is coming up, and ...