Alistair McCary wants to dive deeper into his anomaly, even after it obliterates his entire physics lab. His colleague, Davan Yazdani, is equally thrilled by the potential of her anomaly, but her excitement significantly dampens when her nagging roommate is rendered catatonic by it. Elsewhere, a physicist is murdered, and solitary Service Officer Kaleb Martinex is confused by the lack of any physical evidence in the crime. Martinex's investigation leads to a potential cover-up by one of th...

What if we had a direct line into the next world? What would we ask? And what would they tell us?George Woods and Betty Greene had that opportunity and they recorded hundreds of real conversations with people who had died and were reaching out from 'heaven'. Journalist Neville Randall spent two years sifting through these recordings, and he heard voices of the dead describe how they died and what they do now…From voices of long-dead actors and writers, to husbands and mothers...

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international ...

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international ...

Russell Brand grew up in Essex. His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily and taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage during his stand-up shows, and even set himself on fire while on crack cocaine. He has been arrested 11 times and fired from 3 different jobs - including from XFM and MTV - and he claims to have...

Some renegades are born rebels, some forced into it to survive, while others make the choice on principle.The Renegade is an anthology of eleven science fiction short stories by writers from across the globe. It is part of the Newcomer series of scifi anthologies.The stories are:-Conscience - Alasdair ShawFirst - Nate JohnsonAtonement - Rick PartlowThe Stepford Florist - JT LawrenceTyrant - Mark GardnerLive by the Ten, Die by the Gu...

The Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its outbuildings are frustrated when the specialist builder refuses to work there. 'This is a place,' he tells the Prince's land-steward, 'that doesn't want to be restored.'Directed by the Bishop of Hereford to investigate, deliverance consultant Merrily Watkins discove...

When Cameron told his girlfriend he’d do anything for her, he wasn’t expecting her to ask him to commit murder.Teenage love isn't always as it seems — especially when there's murder involved. Cameron's girlfriend, Leah, is due a large inheritance from her grandmother. But there's only one thing standing in the way — her grandmother's beating heart.Conflicted by his love for Leah and her insistence that he must kill her grandmother to prove his love for her,...

Jonathan Bartell is a young man, just out of university, when he signs up for the position of Quarantine Officer at the Orbital Launch Station.He is part of a crop of students who flocked to study exo-biology when bacteria were discovered on Mars, and who are now all making their living flipping burgers, because the jobs are few and hard to get.He is lucky to get a job in space, no matter how mundane.Or so he thinks...Gaby Larsen is a doctor at the tiny hosp...

'[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriott, and every bit as endearing.' - bestselling author Alan TitchmarshLove is in the air in the little village of Barton-in-the-Dale. Anyone can see that Ashley Underwood and Emmet O'Malley are made for each other. They've just got to admit it to themselves . . . But as the saying goes, the course of true love never did run smooth.While romance blossoms on one side of the village, an angry young boy strug...

A young man's future as a priest depends on facing his past in this novel about the Church of England from the New York Times –bestselling author.1968. Proud of his psychic powers, Nicholas Darrow wants to follow in his father's footsteps by becoming an Anglican priest in the Starbridge diocese, famed for its magnificent cathedral. But pride goes before a fall, and when he attempts to use his powers to heal a you...

Ug and his parents live in the Stone Age. And that means stone blankets, stone cold food, an even colder cave and, worst of all, hard stone trousers! Being an inquisitive and intelligent child, Ug suggests a series of modifications to improve the quality of family life. His ideas about heating, cooking, boats, and balls that actually bounce are initially met with a hostile reaction. But with the help of his father, who slowly comes round to his son's way of thinking, Ug comes tantalisingly...