"Crowds gathered on the northern and eastern promenades, straining against the glare of the cloudless early-morning sky for their first glimpse of the airship."The wild pod of Syrenis beneath the town is dwindling. Gentleman explorer Basil Foagues and his airship offer a chance to revitalise the population, but the Syrenis hold a dark secret that threatens the voyage.Martlet is working with Splinterton's diplomatic team. Her violent past and unconventional methods ...

Steam-driven Sci-fi in an alternative 1920s BritainWinter grips Western Europe. Splinterton is an oasis of volcanic warmth in a frozen sea.Martlet is trapped far beyond help. An unlikely alliance is forged to reach out to her, hoping to bring her back.The enigmatic Tudor Jones, always cheerful, pathologically unreliable, haunts the undertown. Whether he will be a force for good or ill is a question balanced on a knife-edge.Its people scattered, Splinterton s...

A post-technology retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - A Modern Prometheus. This is not a horror story.The time of cities has passed. The Long War left only fragmented villages linked by the travelling Trader families.Edgar Henge is an outcast. Despised for his profession, tolerated for the necessities that only he can bring to the village. He walks a line on the edge of the Lore, until a discovery in his landfill site pushes him far, far beyond.Prometheus Fou...

Splinter Town takes you to an alternate Britain where geography and history have been fractured by an ancient cataclysm into an environment that is excitingly new, yet eerily parallel to our own.Operating in the 1920s of a distorted reality, Martlet is a strong female agent for hire, combining espionage skills with a mythic undercurrent. Her story is as compelling at the height of her power as in her unravelling after a disastrous assignment. Martlet's psychological and political j...

A blasted future where cities have turned predator. Stalking robotic hunters who cannot die. And Tom, a humble London apprentice who's just stumbled upon a terrible weapon... and a betrayal that will smash his world apart.

PRAISE FOR C.J. ARCHER'S GLASS AND STEELE SERIES:"Part romance, part mystery, part magic; all of which a joy to read." - Dreamer J's Book Reviews"This story has everything I look for in a quality, entertaining piece of fiction. 1) A strong female lead, 2) a dark and mysterious male character (I admit, they are my weakness), 3) eloquent writing, and 4) lots of quirky humor and banter." - Danaye from Young @ Art book reviews"a page-turner with great c...

* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 *'Masterly . . . A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' Guardian'A 1984 for our times.' Daily ExpressKavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall.If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he o...

Set off with Wolf Girl and her pack on the thirteenth exhilarating adventure in this million-copy selling series!When Gwen and her pack fall from Castle Winter into the churning sea, she wonders if this might be the end of their adventures ... but then they are rescued by an unlikely group a boy, a girl and two dolphins. Together the new alliance sets out to Rocky Bay to search for their lost families and are met by a strange sight prisoners hauling glowing rocks f...

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the di...

Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran plunge readers into the dark side in this deeply unsettling short-story collection curated by legendary horror editors Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar.THE OLD DUDE’S TICKER by Stephen KingRichard Drogan has been spooked ever since he came back from Nam, but he’s no head case, dig? He just knows the old dude needs to die.THE RICH ARE DIFFER...

The shots were so close they seemed to explode inside Vithy's head. He threw himself to the ground and clapped his hands over his ears . . . It's Cambodia. The killing machine that is the Khmer Rouge is in power. Vithy has lost everyone and everything he loved – except his older brother, Mang. They've escaped from almost certain execution, but the brothers become separated and Vithy is left alone to 'follow the lines . . . to the border' – his brother's last instructions. ...

THE 2025 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVELLAThe hair-raising follow-up to the award-winning What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia, only to be confronted by a strange new horror.When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, Britain's foremost mycologist Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The ...