SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. This is the Collector's pack including all 12 episodes.The year is 2012. In CERN, the huge research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, a crucial experiment is reaching its final stage. Its objective: to send a manned space probe to a distant planet, in order to find a cure for Earth's dwindling mineral resources. But then, something unforeseen happens. Lost in an unknown place, the crew of the SURVIVOR is revived from a deep-freeze s...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 11.In the submarine complex he and his fellow crew members have discovered, Ryan Nash has got hold of a new power cell for the stranded space probe SURVIVOR. Now he must find the rest of the crew and the ship itself to take them home. In an attack by the Overseers, who are pursuing him, the wall is breached, and Nash escapes into the outer sea. Aided by his strange ability to breathe under water, he finds the unconscious Mari...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 6.Dr Gabriel Proctor and his fellow members of the SURVIVOR crew are looking for some possibility of recharging the empty energy module of their space ship. A group of rebels leads them to a hall, where the Chinks, the slave workers of the huge industrial complex, are being cultivated by a breeding machine. The embryonic invitros dangle in their cocoons from a central contraption like fruits from a giant tree. This tree is po...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 8.Maria, Proctor and Ai, crew members of the space ship SURVIVOR, are prisoners of the rebel forces. When the rebels are attacked the three companions manage to escape. Soon they come to realize that the factory plant they are trapped in is actually not a subterranean complex but lies at the bottom of the sea. Recaptured by the rebels, they are taken by submarine to their headquarters, where Maria hopes to be able to cure the...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 4.The crew of the space ship SURVIVOR is lost in a subterranean factory complex marked by rust and decay. A group of rebels offers to take them to their hidden quarters. Among the crew, there is Maria dos Santos, who grew up in the Peruvian Andes. By her ability to influence the feelings of others she has saved her native village from guerrilla fighters. She also has healing powers, which is why the sick from many nearby vill...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 9.Dr Gabriel Proctor, chief scientist of the SURVIVOR mission, has joined forces with the rebels of the submarine world. He has tried to contact the "Free", another political group, who are apparently living on the surface. But the Free for some inexplicable reason name him a traitor, and afterwards nobody seems to trust him anymore. Proctor is determined to try and escape from the rebel quarter and convince the Free of his i...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 1.The year is 2012. In CERN, the huge research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, a crucial experiment is reaching its final stage. Its objective: to send a manned space probe to a distant planet, in order to find a cure for Earth's dwindling mineral resources. But then, something unforeseen happens. Lost in an unknown place, the crew of the SURVIVOR is revived from a deep-freeze sleep. Three of its members have no recollecti...

The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state could provide superior guardianship to 'unfit' parents. In the late nineteenth century, the juvenile-court movement led the way in forging a new and more efficient system of child removal that severely curtailed the p...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 10.Ai, who had been seriously injured, has been left in the headquarters of the rebels by her fellow members of the SURVIVOR team. Healed from her wounds in a mysterious way, she manages to escape from the medical station. But the Overseers are quick to take pursuit. During her flight, Ai passes through a giant hall used for growing plants. The garden is lit by artificial suns and has grown into a dense jungle. In her fight a...

All Souls' Day: In Madrid, Canadian Dan Durand is approached by shadowy strangers offering him a job. Once a high-achiever, Dan has hit rock bottom and is living a makeshift existence. His under-the-table assignment is to trail a suspected criminal-a woman with a mysterious history. Dan begins to sense that their stories may intersect more than he at first realized. He also realizes that he has become unwittingly involved in a life-and-death chase. When pursuer and pursued eventually come ...

For almost a century the islands of Orkney and Shetland were under the rule of the Stewart earls, father and son, a rule remarkable for its infamous reputation in island history. Robert Stewart was an illegitimate son of James V, king of Scots, who seized power in Orkney in the 1560s and was created earl of Shetland in 1581. Robert's son was the extraordinary and ill-starred Earl Patrick, 'Black Patie', whose execution for treason in 1615 brought the era to a close. This book has its found...

In 2001 Peter Anderson was 37 and had the perfect life: very much in love and recently married with an infant daughter he adored; an intelligent and sensitive man working a job he loved as a popular secondary school teacher and a talented sportsman training for a marathon...The bubble was about to burst.Peter was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a physically crippling disease that destroys nerve cells controlling muscular movement. He was told that over time his ...