Twelve authors have conspired to entertain you with seventeen short stories connected by an interpretation of a single word, Obliquity.What is obliquity?OBLIQUITY DEFINITIONdeviation from moral rectitude or sound thinkingdeviation from parallelism or perpendicularityindirectness or deliberate obscurity of speech or conduct,an obscure or confusing statementSome writers saw humour, others saw ...

Twelve authors have conspired together to entertain you.None of the stories in this collection are straightforward. Some have twists, others have hidden meanings. Some stories are heartwarming while others are designed to chill the bone. Certainly all of them fit the description of the title word: 'obliquity'.What does obliquity mean?deviation from moral rectitude or sound thinking(making bad decisions or not thinking clearly)devi...

Since humankind was able to imagine, stories about the future both immediate and far-reaching have been passed on. We ask ourselves:Will we, as a species, be able to overcome our differences and work together?Will planet Earth be salvaged or abandoned?Will we be able to connect with other humans in a digital age?Will we be able to recognise ourselves and our society in twenty years' time? How about in fifty or a hundred?F...

What's Your Dark Secret?Everybody has something to hide; whether it's out of embarrassment or fear, denial or resentment. We are human because we are flawed... but what happens when our flaws take over?The Evil Inside Us is the third volume of The Australian Pen, written by authors born or are living in Australia. The anthology contains twenty-three stories about the human condition—with topics ranging from mental health to jealousy to betrayal to m...

Love can linger in the unlikeliest of places—on bridges and moors, in old hotels and hidden laboratories, and in the spaces between the living and the dead.This collection brings together romantic and paranormal tales where hearts merge with the uncanny. A Parisian bridge worker in 'Broken Locks, Broken Hearts' finds that cutting love-locks carries an emotional cost, an island holiday in 'Plenty More Fish in the Sea' offers a sunlit romance that isn't quite what i...

We all have our secrets. What's yours?Everybody has something to hide; whether it's out of embarrassment or fear, denial or resentment. We are human because we are flawed... but what happens when our flaws take over?The Evil Inside Us All is the third volume of The Australian Pen, written by authors born or are living in Australia. The anthology contains twenty-three stories about the human condition-with topics ranging from mental health to jealou...

Love can linger in the unlikeliest of places-on bridges and moors, in old hotels and hidden laboratories, and in the spaces between the living and the dead.This collection brings together romantic and paranormal tales where hearts merge with the uncanny. A Parisian bridge worker in 'Broken Locks, Broken Hearts' finds that cutting love-locks carries an emotional cost, an island holiday in 'Plenty More Fish in the Sea' offers a sunlit romance that isn't quite what i...

Since humankind was able to imagine, stories about the future both immediate and far-reaching have been passed on. We ask ourselves:Will we, as a species, be able to overcome our differences and work together?Will planet Earth be salvaged or abandoned?Will we be able to connect with other humans in a digital age?Will we be able to recognise ourselves and our society in twenty years' time? How about in fifty or a hundred?Find out what twenty Australian a...

**Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International**Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out ima...

Waverley is a small cat with a big miaow and he lives with Mr and MrsTurner and their son Jonathan at number 10, Marten's Drive.Waverley likes the house at number 10, Marten's Drive because it haslots of good places to sleep and a back garden that seems to go onforever. Beyond the wooden fence at the bottom of the garden there isa children's playground, green fields, and then the woods. All daylong Waverley snoozes in the sunny spots around the ho...

"Rogerson is a master of fresh and sparky writing… a spirited novel by a writer of considerable gifts"THE GUARDIANDramatised on BBC Radio 4's Woman's HourShortlisted for Creative Scotland Book of the Year Award 2010Ana thinks she understands love. As a marriage counsellor she deals with the death of love every day. But when a new man unexpectedly enters her life, she finds that, for the first time ever, her heart is ruling her head and her strict rules of love a...

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the fie...