When a one-night stand leads to a long-desired pregnancy, Susan will do anything to ensure her husband won't find out … including the unthinkable. But when something horrendous is unleashed around the globe, her secret isn't the only thing that is no longer safe…'An astute, well-researched and convincing novel of ideas' The Times'If you could create a "perfect" baby through genetic engineering, would you? A disturbing and interesti...

Swinging from South Africa to England: one woman's hunt for her birth mother in an all-too-believable near future in which an antibiotic crisis has decimated the population. A prescient, thrilling debut.'Combines the excitement of a medical thriller à la Michael Crichton with sensitive characterisation and social insight in a timely debut novel all the more remarkable for being conceived and written before the current pandemic' Guardian

In an all-too-possible near future, when genetic engineering has become the norm for humans, parents are prepared to take incalculable risks to ensure that their babies are perfect, altering genes that may cause illness, and more . . . Susan has been trying for a baby for years, and when a one-night stand makes her dream come true, she'll do anything to ensure her husband doesn't find out - including the unthinkable. She believes her secret is safe. For now. But as governments embark on a ...

In a Britain where the birth rate has collapsed, two women on opposite sides of the motherhood debate uncover a chilling medical deception at the heart of the government's fight to rebuild the population… Queen of the Ethical Medical Thriller, Eve Smith, returns with a searing, explosive new speculative thriller…'Cements Smith's position as the queen of the speculative crime thriller´ David Goodman'We should all be reading Eve's cautionary ...

One law. One child. Seven million crimes. . . Climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of 'excess' pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now the norm. Kai is a 25-year-old 'baby reaper', working for the Ministry of Population and Family Planning. If any of her assigned families attempt to exceed their child quota, she ensures they pay the price. Until she discovers that an illegal sibling on...

Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over 70 is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed 'The Waiting Rooms', hospitals where no one ever gets well. Twenty years after the crisis takes hold, Kate begins a search for her birth mother, armed only with her name and her age. As Kate unearths dis...

The ability to deploy interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives that speak to interconnected global dimensions is critical if one’s work is to be relevant and applicable to the emerging global-scale issues of our time. The Global Turn is a guide for students and scholars across all areas of the social sciences and humanities who wish to embark on global-studies research projects. The authors demonstrate how the global can be studied from a local perspective and vice versa. They s...

Recent years have seen out of control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authori...

The book highlights the interconnections between three framing concepts in the development of modern western law: religion, race, and rights. The author challenges the assumption that law is an objective, rational and secular enterprise by showing that the rule of law is historically grounded and linked to the particularities of Christian morality, the forces of capitalism dependent upon exploitation of minorities, and specific conceptions of individualism that surfaced with the Reformatio...

A slick lion is about to get sticky this holiday season when he meets his unlikely mate.It’s almost Christmas, and a visiting lion prince is excited to go tree hunting with the Pride ladies. Only a mishap with a squirrel leaves the posh Felix snowed in with a honey-loving bear.Edwina, owner of Honey Pine Farm, is a bear with a serious sweet tooth who prefers comfort over style. She’s counting down the days until she can head south for Christmas, on...

A siren who's terrified of the ocean...with a destiny that involves a hunky shirtless dude.Ever meet a mermaid terrified of the ocean? The closest I get to saltwater is in my bath.As for singing? My siren heritage left me with a killer voice. Literally. Some people can charm animals out of trees. Me? They jump to their deaths rather than listen to another note.I know I'm different. And I'm cool with it. What I'm not cool with is the meathead who dec...

As a single mother, and deadly operative, Tanya knows she can’t screw up. So, explain how she ended up in his bed.A teenage pregnancy left Tanya struggling to survive with a baby. Fast forward years later and she’s established herself as a first-class hacker, working for an elite agency—with benefits.Life is good, and being a secret agent doesn’t stop her from driving her son to compete in a hockey tournament happening in Quebec.What’s not so good is findin...