Brussels 1969: Oskar Lenkeit is a fish out of water at the EEC.He's about to find out how far. Echoes from the past are threatening to disturb the three-year-old truce between France and Germany over the direction of the EEC. At the request of some unlikely sponsors, Lenkeit takes on an Internal Affairs investigation intended to restore the peace, but ends up with a foot on either side of a widening rift.With corruption at the pinnacle of European society, can the project s...

The Chaotic Love Life of a Woman Named HannahLet me say something about Hannah My girl is a winner, real winner. She has that career, independence, lifestyle everyone wants — no strings, no messes, no nonsense. Her life is inexplicably perfect on every front,right on time. Why? She does that to it.Hannah is very intelligent and quick, two thoughts ahead of everyone else, efficient and never lets feelings hinder her progress. She was results orientated, no t...

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine.Raine claims he's acting under the command of a voice emanating from the black hole: Mr Modo. No one believes him.Everyone knows that things go into black holes; nothing comes out.But something in...

Brussels, 1970: Oskar Lenkeit has been enthralled by the darling of the Berlaymont, right from the first day he met her.But for reasons of his own, he bitterly hates her too.As if life isn’t complicated enough, he has to work out why a wartime Italian special forces commander is in cahoots with the Mafia. And then get the East German Stasi to do something about it.'The author has depicted with great care the atmosphere in the Italy of the "Years of Lead" ' - Jérôme

Dublin, 1970: Oskar Lenkeit is a man on a mission, or rather two missions.The East German Stasi want to know why the Irish government have changed their minds about arming the IRA. The French want to know too - just in case they might want to pick up where Jack Lynch’s government left off.Thankfully, for the sake of Cold War peace, each side thinks it should be Lenkeit’s employer, the EEC, which takes the blame if he gets found out.But when Lenkeit gets to Ireland h...

The story of the EEC and the EU, up to 2009, told in the allegorical style of Animal Farm."As a higher animal, he knew it was his duty not to tax the brains of the lower animals with thoughts which would be too complex for them, and only cause distress." - Sunflower the Goat"She had sought to make economies in the farm's outgoings wherever possible, cutting the milk ration to the younger animals and even going to the extent of selling Korolsky's family silver." - Duchess th...

The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allow you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers are growing. Its detractors say it is a cult. But for one journalist, hired to do a puff-piece interview with their CEO, it will change the world forever.Adan just wants to stay at home with his smart-companion Elegy - phone, friend, confi...

Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforgiving and it is everything he knows. Life is hard on the wall, little more than a clinging on for dear life.And then one day Tighe falls off the wall. And falls, and falls, and falls ...Lavishly praised everywhere from Asimov's magazine to Interzone, ON is proof positive that Adam Roberts is a new author whose potential for greatness is rapidly being realised.ON is at ...

Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing.Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant.As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Ka...

Voltaire's weapons of choice? Satire, wit, and absurdity.His target? The Church and State.His goal? Nothing short of enlightenment.In this exciting new edition, WordFire Press presents A Voltaire Triptych: Micromegas, Plato's Dream, and Candide, compiled and edited by Carrie Christopher. With a compelling foreword from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning writer and British scholar Adam Roberts, readers will gain new insights into Voltaire's writings.In Micromegas...

For fans of Alison Espach's The Wedding People and Dolly Alderton's Good Material, a delectable comedy of manners about cooking, ambition, and friendship set in the food world as a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook for a famous (and famously chaotic) Hollywood starlet.Isabella Pasternack is a food person. She revels in the beauty of a perfectly cooked egg, she daydreams about her first meal at Chez Panisse, an...

Adam Roberts' new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war - a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the world's first truly democratic army to take on the British army and wrest control from the powers that be.Taking advances in modern communication and the new eagerness for power from the bottom upwards, Adam Roberts has produced a novel that is at once an exciting war novel and a philosophical examination of war and democracy.It shows one o...