A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch’s films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters examining themes including narrativity, aesthetics, artistry, sound, experimentation, metafiction, and patriarchy from the disciplinary pers...

Remarkable at the time of their original publication in the 1990s for their representation of contemporary anxieties and desires over emerging technology—particularly networked digital communications, surveillance and archiving systems—the science fiction novels and short stories of Michael Marshall Smith remain so today in their prescience.In this critical study, drawing on a wide range of sources from fields including media studies, literary theory, sociology and philosophy, Swee...

The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney Coombs reveals, however, it was equally important to Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and critics, for whom the distinction between sensation and perception promised the key to understanding literatu...

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND REACTOR"Anderson writes a curmudgeonly immortal protagonist and a (literally) haunting story full of heart; a delightful novel." —Library Journal starred review**"This heartwarming, thrilling book cleverly uses horror tropes to achieve a powerful effect, suffusing the reader with warmth and kindness." —The Washington Post**In this mesmerizing, wonderfully moving q...

In the style of Indiana Jones, the adventures of Lawrence of Arabia, and the mysteries of Dan Brown.The Great War erupts across the known world, pitting empires against nations. The Middle Eastern desert becomes a battlefield, as the Ottoman Empire battle against the pressing British Forces.A reporter, a spy, an archaeologist, are all proper descriptions of Marion by the age of 18. He ran away from home after his mother passed away, seeking to walk in the f...

“Collins’s piercing exploration of faith, sacrifice, and redemption gives this epic love story an intricate depth often missing in similar titles.” BOOK LIFE by PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“A complex and ambitious adventure for lovers of ancient historical romance.”- KIRKUS REVIEWS“A vivid interpretation and exploration of the legend deserving of widespread acclaim!” – MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW“An incredible story of Valentine’s life!" - HISTORICAL FICTION COMPANYRome, 268 A...

The lore and everyday life of the Caucasus Region had a great impact on Mikhail Lermontov's work. In addition to serious, profound pieces with very clear Caucasus influence, like The Hero of Our Time and Demon, he offers up this very traditional and slightly mischievous tale of a wandering minstrel in search of happiness.

Deirdre always thought she was a human—until her destructive faerie magic was unlocked.Seventeen-year-old Deirdre leaves the orphanage behind to study in Neo-London, a city teeming with conflict between humans and Fae. She crosses paths with two brothers, Iain and James Callaghan. Iain is a soldier in the Iron Guard trying to keep his broken family together. Fourteen-year-old James is fascinated by faeries and plans to run away to find his disappeared mother.After Deirdre d...

Set in the medieval world of the Northern Realms, Shadowless is a sweeping fantasy novel about individuals who were born without shadows. Spawned by the malevolent deities of this world these Godlings are persecuted at every turn. Hunted by the high priests who are carrying out the wishes of their gods, hunted by the Shadow Watchers; armed soldiers who are assigned to each temple, identified by their light-blue cloaks and distinctive armour, and, of course, hunted by the gods them...

A young Irish sailor cast adrift in the sea. A mermaid princess and Irish luck save him from drowning. This adventurous tale owes its inspiration to stories Mike Mirabella heard as a little boy. His sizeable Italian clan swapped such stories during family dinners at the kitchen table."My grandpa and uncles would tell tales of fishing the waters off the coast of California and up through the inland passages of Alaska. I recall Grandpa Angelo telling of the scary times, when he was a...

Sixteen-year-old Harrison Sharma expected temples and tea shops—not prophetic dreams, ancient riddles, or the pulse of something alive beneath the Himalayas.The Heart of Kumari is no myth. It breathes. It calls. And it is waking.As Harrison’s visions intensify, he uncovers a family legacy that marks him as more than a tourist. Legends speak of a Seeker, chosen to restore balance between light and darkness. That balance is breaking—and the Heart is stirring.The Shatr...

***AN AUDIBLE BEST OF THE YEAR PICK for 2024!A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes.***When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left – and whatever came for the others will one day come for them.Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos...