In a world devastated by climate change and overconsumption, sixteen-year-old Joe's survival hangs by a thread.Living in a shack beneath towering piles of waste with his father and grandfather, the town's revered storyteller, their community faces constant danger. After a deadly avalanche of rubbish, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out on a quest for help.As Joe journeys towards the city of Madera, the lines between reality and the magical stories his gr...

In a world devastated by climate change and overconsumption, sixteen-year-old Joe's survival hangs by a thread.Living in a shack beneath towering piles of waste with his father and grandfather, the town's revered storyteller, their community faces constant danger. After a deadly avalanche of rubbish, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out on a quest for help.As Joe journeys towards the city of Madera, the lines between reality and the magical stories his gr...

They're late for class — and right on time to save the world.Tyler already has enough on his plate, caring for his mum with chronic fatigue and his autistic little brother, Levi. But when a mysterious crash shatters Morfield Secondary, Tyler and three classmates, dubbed The Late Crew, stumble upon a stranded alien, a deadly creature called The Slime, and an unhatched egg holding more power than they could imagine.As their headteacher falls under alien control and Levi is ki...

They're late for class — and right on time to save the world.Tyler already has enough on his plate, caring for his mum with chronic fatigue and his autistic little brother, Levi. But when a mysterious crash shatters Morfield Secondary, Tyler and three classmates, dubbed The Late Crew, stumble upon a stranded alien, a deadly creature called The Slime, and an unhatched egg holding more power than they could imagine.As their headteacher falls under alien control and Levi is ki...

The 2014 STORGY Short Story Competition Anthology celebrates the continued resurgence of the short story genre and showcases some of the most talented up-and-coming authors from across the world. This outstanding collection features all fourteen finalists and competitions winners, as judged by critically-acclaimed author David James Poissant. These wonderfully diverse short stories will move, amuse, unsettle, and entertain, combining to create the most eclectic collection available online....

Alisha Alva just wants teachers to treat her like a normal human being.Yes, her (super cool) mum has mental health issues she calls her Letters. And yes, staying up late helping Mum on Bad Nights sometimes means it's hard to keep her eyes open in school.But surely if Alisha acts like a very normal, perfectly proper girl, her head of year, Miss Penn, will finally leave her alone.Oh, and don't forget the aliens. Last term, Alisha and her friends, the Late Crew, met ex...

**The perfect page-turning read for fans of All the Light We Cannot See, In Memoriam and Alone in BerlinSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZEONE OF INDEPENDENT'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE YEAR**'An emotionally resonant debut full of music and menace' Mail on Sunday'A confident debut with an original premise' Sunday Times'A hauntingly beautiful

SOON TO BE A STREAMING ORIGINAL MOVIE | OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD | TRANSLATED INTO FIVE LANGUAGES | An aspiring author and a mysterious editor find love in this blend of humorous and sweet. | Perfect for fans of You've Got Mail and The Proposal."Meet Me in the Margins is a delightfully charming jewel of a book that fans of romantic comedy won't be able to put down!" --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling auth...

Alisha Alva just wants teachers to treat her like a normal human being.Yes, her (super cool) mum has mental health issues she calls her Letters. And yes, staying up late helping Mum on Bad Nights sometimes means it's hard to keep her eyes open in school.But surely if Alisha acts like a very normal, perfectly proper girl, her head of year, Miss Penn, will finally leave her alone.Oh, and don't forget the aliens. Last term, Alisha and her friends, the Late Crew, met ex...

Can love flourish amongst the tree tops?When pastry chef Twilight Wilson was a young girl, she would hide from school bullies up in the treehouse at the bottom of her garden in her family home in Sussex. It was her special place, and even as an adult she still loves it.So when her family tell her they can’t afford to live there any more, Twilight is devastated. Not only will they lose their home – but the treehouse too!She comes up with a plan to sa...

How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations about women, gender, and childrearing emerged as essential to modern social theory. Arab writers, particularly women, made sex, the body, and women's ethical labor central to fending off European imperial advances, instituting representative politics,...

The nine narrative episodes of Volume Four of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.Introduction by John Scalzi, with stories by John Scalzi, Stant Litore, Siobhan Carroll, Bruce Sterling, John McNichol, Dave Hutchinson, Marc Laidlaw, and Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon....