The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the ...

Simon Weekes becomes an overnight celebrity after his heroics during the 7/7 Bombings. But Simon can't afford the newfound fame and attention - he has too much to lose.July 7, 2005. Simon Weekes is travelling on the London Underground when his tube carriage is wrecked by a bomb blast. Virtually everyone is killed and almost all the survivors are severely injured. Except for Simon.Having quickly and calmly organised the small band of survivors out of the wre...

Life today is often portrayed by a "bigger, better and faster" motto. While the constant access to people and information can create endless opportunities, it is can be accompanied by an increase---or overload---of stress. And when we're stressed, we lose sight of common sense solutions. Full of enlightening information, useful exercises and personal stories, "It Just Makes Sense" will show you how to create clarity, purpose, and harmony in all aspects of your life. Gain confidence in your...

Author Zack Kaplan and artist Stephen Thompson team up again to create an enigmatic comics thriller tangled in a secret society.When an ambitious and troubled video game programmer dares to audition for a secret society in the gaming/tech industry, composed of cutthroat, genius masterminds that promise to help their members achieve their wildest dreams, he and his rebellious co-worker find themselves in a gauntlet of real-life puzzles that quickly turn deadly. But ...

Although Thomas Stephenson and Cassandra Borden worked together in the past, neither is aware the other is now working in post-war Kosova. Both are forensic microbiologists, although Tom appears ostensibly as a magazine writer on assignment. Through his e-mail correspondence it quickly emerges he is working undercover for the Microbiology Intelligence Network (MIN), a Canadian organization with links to government. Cassie is a novice in foreign assignments. She is helping re-establish a di...

Join THE MIDNIGHT, one of the world’s top synthwave bands, comprised of Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan, on an electrifying and original sci-fi graphic novel adventure inspired by the poetic storytelling and the neon-soaked aesthetics of their music.Jason has spent his life running from his problems, but now he and his childhood sweetheart are on the precipice of parenthood, and he’s struggling with the loss of his adolescence. Then he re-discovers his favorite old video...

**"A deftly blended genre mashup"-Kelley Kombrinck, Night of the Living Podcast"Magic and Mayhem in the Old West"-David Lee Summers, *Author of The Clockwork Legion"This weird western is nothing less than magical."*-K.M. Latch, Author of Winchester County LegendsMcCray is a bounty hunter who specializes in hunting Mystik outlaws. Spenser Townshend is a Mystik conman who uses magic to commit crimes. To...

Join the crew of the Enterprise in these all-new adventures featuring the characters from the Original Series! Step aboard with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original five-year mission and boldly go into an uncertain future in this new continuing Star Trek series! Collects issues #712.

Join the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise in all-new adventures as they near the end of their five-year mission, featuring the characters from the Original Series! The crew of the Enterprise left Earth four years ago. They've traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they'll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they be...

***This eBook includes three-panel cartoons and is best-suited for devices that can display content in landscape orientation.***The long-awaited third Red Meat collection is a glittering mother load of twisted hilarity mined from the award-winning alternative comic strip. Cannon's internationally popular strip features a disturbing and sidesplitting cast of characters that includes latex-clad fathers, sadistic milkmen, vomiting robots, malformed neighbors, incontinent interdimension...

Jem, an aspiring playwright living in Notting Hill, has just been dumped by his girlfriend. He dreams of fame and acclaim but is still no closer to achieving either. And, just when he thinks things can't get worse, the career of his best friend and fellow playwright begins to take off . . . Set in London and Edinburgh, Meet Me Under the Westway is a painfully funny and acutely observed account of modern friendships and ambitions. Straight talking, fresh and extremely entertaining, Stephen ...

Subtitled "The Photographic Eye of Jack E. Thompson, Reflections Through A Special Lens is a tribute to the author's late father. Jack Thompson was a well-known photographer and newspaper editor in Parry Sound, Ontario. The author, Stephen Thompson, has assembled 50 of his father's black and white photographs of the rocks, clouds, trees, wind and water, and some birds, insects and plants, of the Parry Sound area on Georgian Bay. The photos of this collecti...