Brilliantly funny and intriguing, Tuppenny Hat Detective is a nostalgic mystery story set in Sheffield, England as the city struggles to recover from World-War-Two. Salty Ess"The world of Billy and his friends is realised in a full and convincing way. There are some splendidly tense and poignant scenes."Prize winning author Alex Martin"A real page turner - with a very winning central character. Despite the murders it was thoroughly good fun and a graphic picture of ...

Set in Anglo-Saxon England. This tender love story is also a warrior's tale of heroic adventure. Orphaned by famine, Wynflaed is rescued and raised in a hall of plenty. But the calm and security of her life is soon shattered. She must fight to defend her warrior husband's name and to recover her children."A really excellent read…a genuine page turner"…The Historical Novels Review

A corpse is found floating in a swimming pool under a dance floor. A blood soaked head gapes up from a shallow grave in a local beauty spot. A woman is clubbed to death and left to rot in medieval tunnels beneath the city streets Three brutal murders, ten years apart. What connects them? Why is a senior police officer determined to hide the truth? What really happened under cover of an air raid that killed seventy Christmas revellers in a popular city centre pub?Another Billy Perks ...

Wynflaed is a foundling who against all the odds rises to become a rich warrior's wife. When he is lost in battle she loses everything, even their children. Her fight to win them back recalls the terror of the shield wall, the harsh lives of convict slaves, and the challenges a lone woman must face in a male dominated heroic age. The Historic Novels review said, " This is really excellent read, a page turner that gives a vivid and convincing picture of 7th century Mercian Engl...

The newly hybridized Mirai seeks to bring her newfound salvation in Leng to her home world. Space marines Bea and Joe find themselves with incredible new powers to take to the front lines. Students make an amazing discovery on an alien asteroid but are forced to leave one of their own behind. Chydi must find their own path, no matter the wishes of their admiral father. A richly storied comet returns on its 1,000-year orbit, bringing both hope and doom.Explore the fringes of the kno...

A Stonehenge archaeological dig turns into a nightmare when young Jack Shire is blasted into a terrifying prehistoric world, simultaneously unveiling a deadly, 21st century secret. Communicating across millennia, he and girlfriend Tori Morris, battle against powerful, sinister forces to uncover a megalomaniac's plot to control the world with stolen time travel technology.

Sheffield Shorts is a collection of short stories, poetry and first chapters that showcase emerging literary talent from the city. With work from eleven authors, from a variety of genres, readers are bound to find a story they enjoy in this collection.

2024 Aurora Award winner for Best Anthology!2024 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Anthology!Award winners. Award finalists. Hidden gems. All Canadian. All in one anthology.Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One showcases the powerful, award-winning fantastical fiction being written by Canadians today.Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada’s finest establ...

2025 Aurora Award Winner for Best Anthology!“Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction belongs on every Canadian reader’s bookshelf.” - Amazing StoriesThe Aurora Award-winning series returns with a new volume!Venture into extraordinary realms of imagination with the essential collection of the year’s best Canadian fantasy and science fiction.Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada...

“Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction belongs on every Canadian reader’s bookshelf.” - Amazing StoriesThe World Fantasy Award finalist and two-time Aurora Award-winning series is back with an all-new volume!Step into worlds of wonder with the definitive showcase of the best Canadian fantasy and science fiction of the year.Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada’s most celebrated authors and rising st...

The Anna Katharine Green Mystery Megapack selects 35 novels and stories by the classic author, including the complete Amelia Butterworth series and the complete Violet Strange series. If you are not yet familiar with Green's work, you will soon be a fan -- she was a major influence on the development of the modern mystery story and a strong influence on Agatha Christie. (Miss Marple was modelled after Amelia Butterworth.)THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOORLOST MAN’S LANETHE CIRCULA...

"Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America."—Peter StraubFrom multi-award–winning anthologist Ellen Datlow, The Big Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy features groundbreaking works from some of the most distinctive voices in speculative fiction.Set in far futures, the near past, or alternate realities; infused with elements of horror, mystery, and mysticism; and featuring aliens, ghosts, and people from history, these imaginative a...