A dryly observant Sussex vicar finds his orderly life upended by the return of Edmund, his brilliant, reckless younger brother, whose charm has always been matched by disaster. Against a backdrop of springtime calm, family decline, military disappointment, and clerical routine, the narrator looks back on an education shaped by money trouble, an unwanted path into the Church, and a lifelong affection complicated by exasperation, protectiveness, and mistrust. Edmund drifts from school failur...

« Le vent hurlait sur la mer, emportant avec lui des secrets plus anciens que les pierres sous nos pieds. À ce moment-là, j'ai su que rien ne serait plus comme avant.Bienvenue dans Un mystère méditerranéen, où le frisson de l'aventure rencontre les sombres courants sous-jacents du dilemme moral, sur fond d'eaux vastes et traîtresses de la Méditerranée. Dans ce récit captivant, Edmund se lance dans un voyage qui promet la liberté, mais qui offre bien plus que ce qu...

As the 1950s dawned America was a colossus militarily, economically and culturally. It bestrode a globe it was doing so much to shape in its own image. But it had concerns; the threat of communism. And for the Movies and Radio there was another concern: the emerging rise of Television.For Radio, still in its golden age of mass audiences and star filled programmes, they had a handy solution with ‘The Big Show’. Its premise was simple but effective. Take 90 minutes of air-time and fi...

“The wind howled across the sea, carrying with it secrets older than the stones beneath our feet. In that moment, I knew—nothing would be the same again.”Welcome to A Mediterranean Mystery, where the thrill of adventure meets the dark undercurrents of moral dilemma, set against the vast and treacherous waters of the Mediterranean. In this gripping tale, Edmund embarks on a journey that promises freedom but delivers far more than he bargained for: intrigue, betraya...

I HATE the sight of those terra-cotta envelopes that telegrams come in. They have often announced ill news to me, and even in the absence of ill news they bear with them an atmosphere of emergency, suggestions of sudden action, which is always detestable to me.Bates stood by while I read the ugly puce form which announced, had I known it, the opening of the curious chapter in my otherwise quiet life which I am now trying to recall and to record in its incredible details.Incre...

MYSTERIES / SUSPENSE / ADVENTURE“Promised Land” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins [Michael Bracken Presents short story]Security specialist Erie Hollar uncovers a sinister conspiracy on the moon’s Shackleton City. After discovering a body and surviving a brutal attack, Erie races against time to unravel the truth, dodging dangerous enemies and bureaucratic traps in a tense, moonlit sci-fi mystery.“The Great Diet Duplicity,” b...