Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R. B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City .The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.The oppressive heat of Summer sits like a woole...

The first volume of Funemployment Quarterly. Ten excellent science-fiction and fantasy tales along the theme of work & free time.This is the digital edition, which is provided in e-reader friendly formats.Featuring short stories from:Amita BasuAlex HerstedtBen SheridanDennis A. HerbEve MortonJon DowdallRick DanforthJacob AustinM. Kelly PeachDerek Des Anges

With the number of UK cases hitting a hundred, it’s clear that KBV is a problem which isn’t going away. Downing Street have released the following statement: “The total number of KBV cases in the UK is still comparatively small, and we are confident that the disease can be contained. NHS leaflets advising on lifestyle and behaviour changes which can help protect against infection will be available soon. We ask the public to remain calm and to continue to behave responsibly about their heal...

A rogue surgeon is about to be offered the opportunity of someone else's lifetime. An artist's model and aristocrat's mistress is about to discover even seedier underbellies than she's ever dreamed of in her already troubled imaginings. Elsewhere, righteous fury is brewing beneath the streets of the city, and almost every single horror has the stamp of one mysterious man upon it. This is London as you've never seen it before and hopefully never will again: a world where Lamarckian inherita...

What if not only everything you knew about yourself was wrong, but everything everyone else knew about you was wrong too? // Pig is in hell. // He’s been in hell for the twenty years since half a continent was atomised; since his own ignominious and contentious escape from a fate that never came; when a face from his past comes offering alleviation, he inadvertently drags behind him a young revolutionary, an extracted spy, and an admin assistant way out of her depth on an unexplained missi...

The year is 1900. An Earl, an engineer, a suburban philosopher, and an enigma meet at University and make a pact to learn the art of conjuring. But nothing among the friends is quite as it seems, and soon the happy four are plunged into worlds of political activism, crime, despair, sordid trysts, and a Faustian compact which seems set to threaten their very lives, one by one...

An Undertaker's Diary is based on the diariesthat the authorkept during his 7 years as an undertaker.The stories are told 'through his eyes' and in a raw and down to earth way that will absorb the reader in each and every varied encounter with death.This is not for the 'fainted hearted' and contains gruesome and often disturbing accounts of tragedy and death from plane crashes to house fires, murders to hit and runs. If you have ever wanted to be a 'fly on ...

From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyIn the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. Geor...

**She took a peaceful walk in the woods—and found death waiting. . . .“The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe**Elizabeth and Quentin Nightingale. A happy couple who lived quite graciously at Myfleet Manor in the gentle English countryside.Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one nig...

In the shadows of Victorian London, a tale of obsession and redemption unfolds.Margaret Prior, an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes.Selina...

The thirteenth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! Ryan is on his first mission, and it's as big as they get ...Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the billion-dollar Aramov criminal empire. But he's got got no idea that this routine job will lead him into an explosive adventure involving drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and human trafficking, or that his first mission will turn into one of the biggest in CHERUB...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermottA LOST MANUSCRIPT. A SAVAGE MURDER. A DEADLY SECRET.While on a business trip to the UK, Ben Hope makes an impulse decision to attend a college reunion at his former university, Oxford. There he meets an old friend, Nick, now an internationally-renowned classical musician.But storm clouds are soon...