Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it's the secrets they keep that might kill them.Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection became mindless killers, spreading the disease with a single scratch. Now, a year later, civilization lies in ruins, and Zach is the town's sole survivor. Desperately lonely, he longs to return to his family in Seattle, bu...

Meet Millicent Gearwright, an ingenious young clockmaker from the world of Gearturn, where time is literally falling apart. Days blur into nights, seasons clash, and history unravels in disarray. To save her home and the universe, Millicent must find the cause of these time malfunctions and fix the Time Core before it's too late.Joined by her trusty robot Quark, her poetic friend Orin, and the daring time-stealing pirate Barnaby Blackwater, Millicent embarks on a thrilling adventur...

"In Japan, broken pottery is mended with gold so the damage becomes the most beautiful part of the object. This is a novel about a woman who lived that way."In 1862, a Swedish farmer in Michigan sells his ten-year-old daughter to a Detroit textile mill for ten dollars. Her name is Linnea Karlsson, and the mill is only the beginning of what her life will ask her to survive.Broken Objects follows Linnea across forty years — from the factory ...

Great Britain is on the verge of social collapse. After eight years of disastrous rule under the Labour Government, the country is ready for change. The far right administration of Lawrence Pelham is swept to power on a tide of hope and expectation that his Party can rejuvenate Britain. But Pelham's remedies are radical and things are about to get worse. Much worse. When disgraced former political correspondent Harry Clarke acquires a disc containing the Government's five year plan, he rea...

In this vicious, genre-bending ghost story, The Outsiders meets The Crow in a sharp examination of the lust for power, the legacy of redemption, and what happens when the haunted want revenge.In the shadowy world of the Lower Alleys lives a gang of delinquents known as the Creeps. Living just to survive, they fight and steal without regard for who they hurt—after all, it’s their victim’s own fault they have food and money and are standing right th...

This volume examines Greenland’s challenging paths towards independence and explores the fundamental tension between Greenland’s aspirations for sovereignty and the geopolitical realities of Arctic strategic competition. The book provides a comprehensive framework for understanding Greenland’s strategic options through detailed examination of its socio-economic, foreign, security, and defence policy, the Kingdom–Greenland relationship, and external pressures and offers from major powers. I...

Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it's the secrets they keep that might kill them.Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection became mindless killers, spreading the disease with a single scratch. Now, a year later, civilization lies in ruins, and Zach is the town's sole survivor. Desperately lonely, he longs to return to his family in Seattle, bu...

This is the first book to fully examine – in depth and breadth – the topic of sport as soft power.With nation states increasingly realising the potential of sport as a geopolitical tool, and with sporting organisations becoming increasingly visible and influential as political actors on the global stage, this book explores the international politics of sport and the geopolitical trends that are likely to shape international sport for decades to come. The book begins by defining “so...

Harry Clarke is the iconic symbol of resistance against the brutal regime of extreme right-wing Prime Minister Lawrence Pelham. Imprisoned and put on trial for his life by a military court, Harry fears that he will not live to see his son again.In the corridors of power, Pelham's dictatorship, propped up by a ruthless Secret Police and paramilitary forces, is decaying from within. Exposed to cyber attacks and covert dissent, the foundations of his power are being eaten away.

Disgraced former political correspondent, Harry Clarke has witnessed the collapse of democracy in Britain. Prime Minister Lance Pelham controls a despotic right wing regime intent on eliminating all immigrants in the country. Deportation camps have been set up nationwide and conditions are appalling, made worse by a virulent and deadly disease sweeping through the camps. Following a disastrous attempt to rescue his family from one camp, Harry is forced to flee and try to escape the country...

Paradise fit in a van. The apocalypse fit in eight bars.If the blindfolds in Bird Box kept you up at night, the silence in The Rhythm Is Going to Get You will finish the job. If you've ever had a song lodge in your head and play all day long, consider this your warning. Invasion of the Body Snatchers gave you neighbors who came back wrong. Station Eleven gave you a world worth mourning. This gives you both, and one man who can't hear it coming.

Mindweavers II: Attack plunges readers into a sprawling conspiracy where genetic warfare, ecological disaster, and covert power collide. When Interpol agent Jack Kavanaugh and his elite ISO6 team investigate cryptic murders of Middle Eastern defense contractors, they uncover links to the Black Lambda virus—a decades-old biological weapon that crosses species barriers and hijacks human behavior at the neural level.When seventy-three sperm whales strand themselves on...