**A USA Today Bestseller!“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built**A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF.After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to dete...

For the first time, A.S.Chambers collects the popular stories of the vampires that feature in the expanded universe of his paranormal investigator, Sam Spallucci.Follow Justice the Wild West gunslinger as he tries to come to terms with his newfound supernatural abilities and heavy weight of being a king in waiting. Then, when finally reunited with his father and newborn sister, tragedy strikes.Accompany Nightingale, the all too human regent, as she creates her first offspri...

Journey with teenage orphan Bobby through the devastated world known as the Divergent Lands. Over the course of five complete stories find yourself drawn ever deeper into a world of violence and conspiracy as the human race tries to throw off the yoke of the being that reduced them to a pitiful remnant: Kanor - the Black Dragon.

WELCOME TO LANCASTER!When the whiskey-drinking, chain-smoking, trumpet-playing, sci-fi-watching Sam Spallucci sets up shop as an investigator of the paranormal at 15a, Dalton Square, Lancaster, he thinks that his greatest challenge in his first week on the job will be trying to build a new desk that has arrived flat-packed and with unintelligible instructions.He couldn't be more wrong...WHAT LURKS IN THE SHADOWS?During his first seven days, not only is Sam a...

For the first time, A.S.Chambers collects seventeen of his best-loved tales of horror into one memorable volume.With stories ranging from homicidal teeth to a creepy child prodigy, from a human-devouring monster down a well to the contents of the biscuit tin of doom, be prepared to be whisked away into the deepest, darkest depths of the quirky mind that brought you Sam Spallucci, the whiskey drinking, chain smoking investigator of the paranormal.

Return, for the penultimate time, to the Divergent Lands where the decimator of humanity, Kanor, rules supreme. Journey with teenage orphan Bobby as he enlists the help of a zealous vampire and a reluctant archangel in a daring attempt to rescue his sister, Katy, from the insidious clutches of the Lady of the Sea, the fallen angel Asherah.As Bobby tries to pry his sister from the grasp of the seductive Fallen he will encounter all manner of trials and tribulations. There will be wi...

What could possibly be worse for your health, smoking or the cure for the common cold? Is a former wild child, now in her final days, still able to defend herself from the not so romantic advances of a past lover? Can an oppressed wife use a dinner party as a means to release herself from her overbearing husband?As well as these quirky tales of horror, A.S.Chambers also draws to a close the Justice and the Nightingale vampire trilogies. In doing so, he paves the way for the well-lo...

Fate is snapping at the heels of orphan Bobby Normal in this, the last instalment of the five stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of the Divergent Lands.Having lost his sister Katy to the clutches of the fallen angel Asherah and then parted ways with Claw, the sole-surviving member of the vampiric Children of Cain, Bobby encounters the enigmatic three-in-one personification of the Abyss, the omniscient ocean that encompasses the three Realms.Bobby may be desperate to ...

Edinburgh Papers. Edinburgh Merchants and Merchandise in Old Times is a fascinating historical account that delves into the commercial life and mercantile traditions of Edinburgh, Scotland, during earlier centuries. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources, anecdotes, and personal recollections, the book paints a vivid picture of the city’s bustling markets, thriving trade, and the enterprising spirit of its merchants. Readers are taken on a journey through the narrow closes and grand tho...

Winner of the Hugo Award!In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future.It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.One day, the life of a tea monk is upend...

Lysander Winterbourne appears to lead a charmed life. Handsome, amiable, and a renowned sportsman, he is the darling of London society. As far as Adam Freeman is concerned though, Lysander is just another spoiled aristocrat.A wealthy mill owner, Adam has no time for the frivolous world of the ton, but when his younger brother becomes engaged to Althea Winterbourne, he reluctantly agrees to be introduced to society–with the Winterbourne clan's golden boy as his guide.Resigni...

If you can’t trust your family…A family at war. A mother who comes out fighting…Maureen Hutton’s life has never been easy. Married to an alcoholic and stuck on a council estate in East London, she scrimps and saves to bring up her three children alone.Murder, the underworld, drug addiction – over four decades, Maureen sticks by her blood through thick and thin. But then the unforgivable happens. Maureen is told a terrible secret which threatens to rip her family apa...