Found as a babe amidst the dead and dying in the wake of a great battle, raised as the beloved son of blacksmith and warrior Hagar Hammersmith, Logan always knew that he was different. And with curses and stares and sometimes with fists, the villagers of Solan Bay did their best to make sure he would never forget it. But on that day, the day the slavers came to Solan Bay and left him for dead in a pool of his own blood, everything changed. Logan learned the truth of his existence, of his d...

Es war einmal vor langer Zeit ... Doch was zwischen dem altbekannten Anfang und dem wohlverdienten Happy-End liegt, könnte sich ganz anders zugetragen haben. Hat wirklich eine böse Hexe die schöne Rapunzel eingesperrt? Und warum leben eigentlich sieben Zwerge miteinander in einer WG? Findet es heraus in dieser bunten Märchensammlung :-)

SWEET SUMMERSTHE CLASSIC CRICKET WRITING OFJM KILBURNEdited byDuncan HamiltonWinner of the Wisden Cricket Book of the Year 2009GREAT NORTHERN‘He was the very best of cricket writers.’Dickie BirdFor more than forty summers, J M Kilburn was one of cricket’s major romantic poets; the Coleridge to Neville Cardus’ Wordsworth. His cultivated essays captured the spirit and beauty of the game and the legends gracing it, among the...

Micky Knight reluctantly takes on two cases, one for money, one for pity. The first is a trawl though archives to solve a century old murder for an arrogant grandson who thinks riches should absolve his family of any sins. The other, to answer a mother’s anguish as she tries to understand her daughter’s suicide. Micky sees no happy ending to either case; the dusty pages of history aren’t going to give up their secrets after holding them for so long. And even if she finds answers for the mo...

Cover artist Jenn Ashton awakens summer spirits with Surfacing. But where serenity resides, so too does the risk of isolation, as seen in 'Killing Time' by feature author Leo X Robertson. Across time and space, the threat of silence looms in 'The Dark Mute' by Lee Nash and 'Frequency Eight' by Sophie Ganic. Meanwhile, magic and music flood the worlds of 'Waheela's Whistle' by Scotty Olsen and 'Their Grandfather's Chair, Part 3 by JM Landels. Welcome the end along with a new beginn...

In This Issue:It's summertime, and the water's fine ... or is it? 'Collector' by cover artist Akem beckons us beneath the surface and between the pages. But in 'A Collection of Secrets' by feature author Rhea Rose and 'The Island' by M Denise Beaton, we discover that some treasures are better left hidden.Back on shore, summer brings around friends both new and old in 'Audrey and the Crow' by Cadence Mandybura

Katie Beth grew up in a small town always vowing to leave and follow her own dreams. Two days before she left, she gave Kegan, her brother’s best friend, her virginity. Her life forever changing after that night in the barn. Four years later, Katie Beth decides it is time to go home. She is no longer the naive little sister. Going home means two things: facing the past and facing the boy she loved so long ago. When she arrives home, the boy from her past is no longer a boy, but a man. Can ...

'HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AMMMAZINNNNGGG!!!!!!!! Hands down one of the most unique storylines I have ever read, and the plot twist was insane!! I need MORE. It was easy to give this 5 stars' Reader review, 5 starsShe's always been the quiet wife. Until now...On the surface it looks like I have everything most people dream of. A beautiful house, a loving marriage to a wonderful man, good friends. But still waters run deep. Back in college I dreame...

In this issue ... The glowing yellow moon by cover artist Joyce Harumi Kamikura shines on forests, fields, and gardens in fiction by Matthew Hughes, JM Landels, and KT Wagner, while birds, ghosts, time travellers, cyborgs, and footnotes lure us away with stories by Elizabeth Nash, Mel Anastasiou, Finnian Burnett, and Mark Budman. Plus, find notable stories...

Enchantment begins with Dreaming Underwater by Claire Lawrence. Friendship carries us forward in 'The Drink We Spill Out on the Ground' by feature author Claire Humphrey, 'Summer Soup' by Kim Harbridge, and 'Stella Ryman and the Curse of Youth' by Mel Anastasiou. Meanwhile, 'Marty' by Kevin Sandefur, 'When A Man Knows Much More Than We Ever Did' by Kelli Allen, and 'Mayflies' by Liza Potvin remind us that family life offers its own kind of adventures. Jennifer Lott, with 'Thirty M...

In this issueSavoury short fiction from Tomson Highway, Jakob Drud, Kim Harbridge, Hannah Van Didden, Dave Gregory, NRM Roshak and R Daniel Lester. Poetry from Erin Kirsh and Peter Norman. Further adventures of Frankie Ray in The Extra from Mel Anastasiou and a brand new Allaigna novella f...

Featured author Kelly Robson shows us that wine making is a labour of love, and sometimes hate, in ‘Good for Grapes’.Matthew Hughes’s magnum opus, What the Wind Brings, debuts aboard the Spanish galleon La Virgen, with an epic struggle brewing on the horizon.Stella Ryman is ready for new adventures in Stella Ryman and the Locked Room Mystery by Mel Anastasiou, while Allaigna must make hasty goodbyes in the final chapter of Allaigna’s Song: Aria by JM Lande...