Alex and James thought they were just like any other university students, liking nothing more than waking up in the afternoon and skipping lectures in favour of watching daytime television. But today their elusive third housemate Hannah had a more heroic pursuit in mind for them. Only time would tell if she would be able to coerce her lethargic cohabitants into saving themselves from the twin foes of their past combined with an altogether different threat.

The Pope is dead!... ...felled by simple old age or so they said...but unbeknownst to the wider world was the true reason...murder by nefarious hands! And so the gargantuan machine that is the Catholic Church grinds into action to elect the successor...but the choice and method causes shock and consternation throughout the world. Elsewhere four chosen ones travel from far-flung corners of Italy to converge on the great walls of the Vatican City. Their destiny is to thwart a new threat but ...

True-life drama of paranormal experience. Fact can be stranger than fiction. A lost soul, craving justice; of superstition, witch-hunts and murder, of haunting, devils and demons, a terrifyingly real thriller. The uninvited ghost says she is Elizabeth Frye, that she was wrongfully hanged as a witch in 1692, over 300 years ago. She begs for help, believing herself cursed. A series of spine-chilling supernatural events follow. Can Elizabeths soul be saved without endangering Frances as she i...

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.”Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps endless—forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the Vorrh bends time and wipes memory. Legend has it that the Garden of Eden still exists at its heart. No...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a s...

An independent novel set in the world of Hawklan.Sinister changes are afoot in Arash-Felloren. Pinnatte, the street thief, has been marked, literally, for a fearful destiny. Imorren, the first woman to lead the Kyrosdyn - the crystal workers - has secretly ordered the transfer of the Jyolan Fighting Pits to Barran, the mercenary who controls most of the crystal trade. It will give him great power in the huge and ancient city. But why would Imorren do this?And why would she ...

A genre-defying page turner that fuses thriller and speculative fiction with dark fantasy in a hidden world in the heart of Cold War Europe.Europe. 1963. And the true Cold War is fought on the borders of this world, at the edges of the light.When the assassination of a traitor trading with the enemy goes terribly wrong, British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter must flee London. In a tense alliance with a lethal, mysterious woman named Karina Lazarova, ...

'Simply amazing, so brilliantly written . . . almost intolerably exciting at times, and at others, equally poignant' ANTONIA FRASER'A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous . . . consumes utterly - but the experience is all pleasure' SIMON SCHAMA'She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher . . . a tour de force of storytelling' AMANDA FOREMAN'An erotic and gripping thriller . . . ...

Vic Reeves' vivid, enchanting, and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece.Before there was Vic Reeves, there was a boy called James Moir who was much the same as any other lad.Obsessed with owning a pet crow, a master at writing his name and terrified of his father's immense moustache. Growing up in Yorkshire and then CountyDurham, the boy who would be Reeves somehow managed to escape the attentions of 'Randy Mandy' and get a crash course in pig castration, befor...

The most horrific of outcomes has been avoided, but fate has other plans for those with fire and fury in their hearts. Silar must pay the price for his murderous act and follow his conscience, while King Tallyn of House Jade'an must come to realise the true implications of his abilities.In Hestavos, a vile business awaits the attention of our heroes. Union is essential if they are to set things right, but that union may cause problems of its own.Artemi's decisions of her pr...

Even the dead have a story to tell...Naples, 1566.During a sweltering summer, eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San Domenico Maggiore and is admitted to the Dominican Order - despite doubts over his tendency to ask difficult questions. Assisting in the infirmary, Bruno witnesses an illicit autopsy performed on the body of a young woman. Her corpse reveals a dark secret, and Bruno suspects that hers may not have been an accidental death. His investigat...

A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself.Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine. Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back.Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of a...