A young gentleman in Victorian London is drawn into a dark and dangerous world when he falls for a beautiful flower seller.A dark, Gothic love story for fans of Susan Hill and Andrew Michael Hurley.On a November evening in Victorian London, the moneyed but listless Edward Monteith stokes the fire at his local gentleman's club, listening to stories of supernatural experiences and theories of life after death.His curiosity leads him t...

**An innovative family drama exploring the nature of trust, death, and the things we do in the name of love.SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE**Hapless fifty-something Jeremy Eldritch is scraping together a living in Paris, writing soft-core pornography as 'Nathalie Cray'.When his all but estranged sister tells him that their father is dying, he reluctantly returns to his parental home in the English countryside. Confronted with a life he had always sought to escape, ...

A Martian cadet dreams of glory. Graduation sends Robin not to the skies but to the meat-grinder on Charon, a frozen moon where the Republic and the Federation trade bodies for ground. Outgunned by heavy armor and buried under bad odds, Robin survives his first ambush by wit, nerve, and a secret the war wasn't meant to awaken: a cracked gene-lock that begins to rewrite him. As his squad bleeds for a forgotten outpost and command plays chess with human lives, Robin must decide what he's wil...

A “disquieting” (The New York Times) and mesmerizing tale from an award-winning British author about a mysterious group of children who appear to a disfigured recluse and his country doctor—a tale that “[stirs] the imagination in the manner of Roald Dahl or C.S. Lewis” (Winnepeg Free Press).In a sprawling estate lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflec...

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new anthology includes stories by: Charles Boyle, Reg...

Sometimes you can't hide from the past. You have to fight it.Alina Frame is about to qualify as a doctor in Rome when bureaucratic incompetence and the murder of a foreign sex-worker force her to confront her past.As she fights to protect her marriage, career and, ultimately, life from those who once came near to destroying her and threaten to do so once again, she uncovers a crime she had never, in her wildest nightmares, imagined possible.This gripping psychological ...

**A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert.**Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter - the little girl a mirror image of her own younger self - she becomes convinced she has a true family elsewhere. Four years later, with the help of charming fraudster Patrick, Fiona drops everything to s...

**Described as 'beautifully written and crafted' by Daily Mail, The Children's Home is a beguiling, disarming novel about a mysterious group of children who unexpectedly visit a disfigured recluse in his country home.**In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in quiet study, avoiding his reflection in mirrors and the lake at the end of his garden. One day, two children, Moira an...

Digital Sports Journalism gives detailed guidance on a range of digital practices for producing content for smartphones and websites. Each chapter discusses a skill that has become essential for sports journalists today, with student-friendly features throughout to support learning. These include case studies, examples of sports journalism from leading global publications, as well as top tips and practical exercises. The book also presents interviews with leading sport and club jo...

Meet the hapless Jeremy: a man in his late '50s, he scrapes together a living in Paris by writing soft-core pornography under the saucy guise of "Nathalie Cray".When his all-but-estranged sister tells him their father is on his deathbed, Jeremy reluctantly travels back to his parental home in the depths of the English countryside. Confronted with a life that he had always been eager to escape, his return marks the start of an emotionally fraught journey into the family's checkered ...

"When I was thirteen my father killed my mother."How do you recover from something like that? Carol never quite does. Sent to live with her aunt, who barely tolerates her presence, Carol is grief-stricken, and all too aware she's not wanted. Desperate for love, but unable to ask for it, she nonetheless—and almost despite herself—finds it where she least expected. Her Uncle Joey is the only one to notice her when she's a teenager; years later, he's also the man with...

When Andrew—a second-hand-book dealer—comes across a pile of photographs from police archives, he decides to exhibit them. But then the gallery is raided the day before the opening, and the photos seized with surprising violence. It soon becomes clear that someone, somewhere, wants to keep the images hidden.Who? Why? And who—in a world where kidnap, subterfuge and even murder are the norm, and where no one is safe or above suspicion—can Andrew turn to for help?Contains matu...