The best short science fiction and fantasy published by authors from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018, collected together for the first time.This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018.Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you mi...

The story unfolds in Iraq in 2014. ISIS is on a roll. The protagonists are Major Michelle Wilson, age 32, callsign Sparkles, a US fighter pilot, and Karim Hamid, age 21, callsign Black Flag, a US soldier of Iraqi descent, raised in the US and planted inside ISIS by the CIA.Both commit serious infractions, albeit for reasons readers will applaud, breaking away from their assigned duties. To atone for their dereliction, they find themselves forced to team up on a perilous mission fro...

A pungent cocktail of choppy romance, corporate larceny and the thrills and spills of sailboat racing, Windward Legs is the rousing and captivating story of a woman's journey to rediscover who she is.Fast and risky action, both on and off the water, is what keeps Alice going. After a bad marriage breakup, sailboat racing and men have become her prime distractions. The sailing is going well, the other, not so much.Windward Legs chronicles Alice's exploits and her struggles, ...

Fresh, gritty and laced with dry humour, Attitude is a fast-moving story readers of all ages won't want to put down.Fourteen-year-old Lyle Prince is a cynical near-dropout with a severe case of attitude. His mother can't stand him, his father is in jail and he knows perfectly well that Laura, the girl of his dreams, will never give him a second look. Life in the struggling small town of Southmead, Huron county, is a burden relieved only by Lyle's wingman Garth, borderline autistic ...

The title and meaning of this book is obvious to those who endured, suffered and ultimately felt the feeling of success and the emotion which embodied arguably the greatest season in the history of Oldham Athletic. This was created following the famous ‘Pinch Me’ Season, which was so out of the blue, and so unexpected that many fans and media people didn’t expect what was to come the following season. Following our exploits in the 89/90 season the bookies had OAFC down at 25-1 to get promo...

“Dave Moore's work on this collection is simply awesome.... It should become and remain the definitive reference book for Beat scholars forever.” —Carolyn CassadyNeal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac’s muse and the basis for the character “Dean Moriarty” in Kerouac’s classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Kesey’s merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus “Further,” immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ...

In a refreshingly clear-headed and informed approach to addiction, noted writer and radio host Bill Manville sums up what he's learned in more than forty years of research . . . twenty as a demon-driven drunk and twenty in recovery.From his popular show "Addictions and Answers," broadcast from KVML in Sonora, California, Manville has compiled a list of 88 questions and answers from, as he says, "a ton of plain and fancy drunks and dopers and their friends and families." As well, he ...

Lancashire Cricket Club: Every Day of the Year is a chronological record of facts, figures and trivia that have occurred on every day of the year during the life of Lancashire Cricket Club and tells the story of Lancashire's long and eventful history. With individual diary entries for every day of the year, plus multiple listings on busier dates, it is full of Old Trafford heroes (and villains) and tells the tales of the matches and the characters, the promotions ...

It’s hard to believe that it is a quarter of a century since little Oldham Athletic shook up the football world with an amazing period of success that made them the whole country’s favourite ‘second’ team. They took on the might of Leeds United, Arsenal, Southampton, Everton, West Ham, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday... and they wiped the floor with them all in their quest to reach the holy grail of the First Division of English football. These matches along with with...

'Out of Our League: Defunct and ex-Football League Teams' is the ultimate guide for football supporters and soccer historians as it contains information about every football team that has ever graced the Football League but no longer does so. It explains why the teams left the League and gives details of their League records, FA Cup records and League Cup records. Notable players and managers are mentioned along with club records and individual player statistics.Ea...

'Out of Our League: Defunct and ex-Football League Teams - Volume Two' is the ultimate guide for football supporters and soccer historians as it contains information about every football team that has ever graced the Football League but no longer does so. It explains why the teams left the League and gives details of their League records, FA Cup records and League Cup records. Notable players and managers are mentioned along with club records and individual player statistics. Each ...

101 Things That Get Our Goat About Football is an amusing look at the state of the game, both in the UK and worldwide. Rick Holden, as an ex-Premiership player, has identified 101 things that really annoy him about the sport and Dave Moore, as a dedicated fan of the game, gives his perspective on the irritants that Rick has singled out. Sometimes the duo are in sync but other times they are opposed. Whether or not the duo are of the same mind or not, the comparisons make c...