Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by George R. R. Martin and Gardner DozoisFrom pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age scien...

Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon & Audible bestselling author, RR Haywood. One of the most downloaded indie authors in the UK with more than four million books sold and over 35 Kindle bestsellers.Disgraced former detective Mike Humber is at rock bottom when he takes a night security job at a bleak fish processing plant and private dockyard on the Bristol Channel.He soon sees a way to make some quick cash — but only if he can navigate the small-town secrets, betr...

Meet Jim Greene.An ordinary detective constable trying 'not' to solve a murder.The remote and isolated Cornish island of Gallymay was meant to be the perfect place for a break. But things don’t quite go to plan when Jim stumbles across a body on his first day.Which is the last thing he needs. But it’s fine. He’ll call Devon and Cornwall Police. They’ll sort it out.Except the storm, and the island, have other ideas. Cut off from the mainland during a mid-winte...

Disgraced former detective Mike Humber gets off a train in the bleak autumn countryside, his mind haunted by a dark past.A new job awaits. Huntington House needs a live-in security guard to prevent access during an inheritance dispute.This is exactly what Mike needs: a new start in a new place and a chance to turn things around.It all seems perfect, especially when he meets Tessa.But Huntington House holds dark secrets. Bumps in the night. Flickering lights....

From multimillion bestselling Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Audible author RR Haywood, creator of the worldwide bestselling Extracted, and The Code trilogies, the phenomenal Undead Series, and the heart-pounding thriller DELIO PHASE ONE, comes Fiction Land, a laugh-out-loud blockbuster adventure"Imagine John Wick wakes up in a city full of characters from novels - That's Fiction Land""Brilliant, original, and very funny""Haywood writes on another ...

A BBC Radio 4 semi-autobiographical play by BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston, telling the story of Charlie, who suddenly re-discovers the passion and energy of his youth. 'Small Acts of Kindness' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 March 2011. In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable entrant to art school. His teacher changed the course of his life. 'Small Acts of Kindness' catches up with Charlie as his mentor's death shifts everything once mo...

Known to thousands of rugby fans as a knowledgeable, passionate and witty broadcaster, and as an entertaining and popular after-dinner speaker, Phil Steele’s confident demeanour and humorous disposition mask a life-long battle against depression and anxiety heightened by heartbreak and tragedy in his personal life. Nerves of Steele is a remarkable story and reveals the real Phil Steele, a man known only by his very closest friends and family.