This is a true account of a journey I once took as a young man of twenty-three years, and though at first glance it may seem insignificant by today’s jet-setting, backpacking gap-year students, it was nothing less than an immersion into events I could hardly predict. As it is often said: “fact is stranger than fiction,” as are some of the characters I met equally stranger than any I could make up. In 1973, I decided on a whim to hitchhike from my hometown of Huddersfield to Newquay, in Cor...

Mila is a young African boy who finds his idyllic life shattered when his tribe cast him out for betraying a visiting merchant. Knowing nothing about the outside world of 1830, Mila naively sets off to find ‘civilization’ and the trader to atone for his crime. African corsairs, slave traders, a Spanish pirate girl, an evil travelling show owner and an English railway engineer are among the characters that mould Mila’s perception of humanity on an incredible journey that will sweep the read...

What do a vicar, an archaeologist, a gardener, two workmen and a dark, skulking figure that hides behind walls and under hedges have in common? Not a lot…unless you include murder, witchcraft, mystery and the supernatural. Ed and Baz are contract workers unwittingly digging up something they just weren’t meant to find. Ever curious, adventurous and sometimes downright reckless, the two best friends apply their unique brand of street wisdom to solve a ghostly crime mystery from the distant ...

*contains scenes of violence and swearing* DC Roberta Sharp is more than just your average police detective. Outspoken, sassy and determined to make it up through the ranks, she's assigned to follow the case of a body found in the sea only to find herself the one being pursued. Far from being a run-of-the-mill murder tale this gripping page turner takes the genre by the horns throwing it in a totally new direction. A nightmare of a tale that challenges the very philosophy and motivation be...

Prepare for another journey to a place far away and long ago in this sequel to The Ray Hunters, a charming and captivating tale, rich with character and an absorbing plot. Three years have passed since Mila and Julieta were reunited and travelled to their new life on the island of Kerkyra. Having survived the horrors of the past, their simple lives with Trader and his new wife seems idyllic on their peaceful, secluded homestead away from the troubles of the outside world. But soon that idy...

It’s 1980 and crime author Angelo Fox, creator of private eye Jimmy Finn has escaped the publicity back home with a holiday to Corfu. Dave Barton, an annoying guest in the hotel where Angelo is staying, is murdered. The hotel waiter is arrested as the main suspect after poison is found in Barton’s soup. Two elderly ladies at the hotel, fans of Angelo, who seem to know more about how Jimmy Finn works than Angelo himself, recognise him from the image on the back cover of one of his paperback...

* Provides specific examples of germplasm research related to climate change threats * Edited by internationally renowned experts in the field * The final chapter of the book draws a synthesis of the many issues raised within the book

Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged through cities and regions, but less attention has been paid to the secret life of cities, and the changing nature of everyday life in the wake of such changes.This book challenges current researc...

“An amazing audio adventure…David Warner is a terrific Rune…the thing’s so flipping entertaining, you’d be perfectly happy to sit through another six-and-a-half hours. 5/5” – SFXThis is the tale of two incredible people – one who knows he is incredible and the other who learns to be incredible. Set in 1960 in the UK south-coast resort of Brighton, self-styled guru and magus Hugo Rune rescues a young man from drowning and persuades ...

Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can carry out only one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions; you won't be able to do that.But what if modern technology was... literally terrifying? What if there really was a ghost in the machine? Prepare to travel through the bad gateway as acclaimed actor, writer and comedian Tom ...

Chaos Reborn - The Audio AdventuresChaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures is the exciting new videogame adaptation from the producers of Elite: Escape Velocity. Featuring Andy Secombe (Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace) and Samantha Béart (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and based on Julian Gollop's game of Wizard battles.Episode One - A Unicorn MurderThe wizard, Dagan, is continually defeated in his attempts to rid the realm of a cruel master. Broke and desperat...

“I’d seen a gun like it. In the film Get Carter. A bad guy’s gun. Two wide barrels hack-sawn to size along with the stock. A neat little homemade assassin’s device you could slip down your pants and still walk down the street without limping. Both barrels looked me square in the eyes. I put my hands up. There was nothing in here I could grab and Drago could see it.” Engineers Jake and Charlie believe the death of a colleague crushed in an industrial machine was no accident and talk each ot...