From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understood narratives of history. The Silk Road is rapidly becoming one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of the twenty-first century. Yet, for much of the twentieth century the Silk Road received little attention, overshadowed by nationalism and its invented pasts, and a world dominated by conflict and Cold War standoffs...

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two-thirds of the world’s population. But what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty-first century?Geocultural Po...

Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the site has become an intense focal point of competing agendas. Angkor’s immense historical importance, along with its global prestige, has led to...

Around Haslemere and Hindhead From Old Photographs offers a fascinating glimpse into life in the southA ]west corner of Surrey over the last hundred years or so. More than 230 images illustrate the changes that have overtaken the area in and around the old market town of Haslemere and Hindhead. This charming book introduces us to the famous people who made their home in the area, people such as Alfred Lord Tennyson who lived at Aldworth and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw wh...

Claiming my true name could upend a kingdom.Winter's Realm gets colder by the day, fae are dying, and our powers are weakening.I may have the power to stop all of this. My love, Vale, believes in me. My friends do too. However, I can't do so alone.I need allies from the great houses of the Kingdom of Winter. Powerful families with armies and enough influence to take on King Magnus. To gain their loyalty, finding the long-lost Ice Scepter is of the u...

In The Black Veil, Jack the Ripper terrorizes Victorian London with ritualistic killings that are linked to ancient magical artifacts. Blind occultist Miranda Griffin is plunged into a chilling mystery that blends history, literature, and the horror found in the arcane myths of Britain. Made invisible by a cursed ancient relic, Miranda steps into the darkness to uncover the truth behind the legendary Thirteen Treasures: objects that wield terrible power. Those who seek them leave bloody tr...

A tea-loving mortal with a warm heart. A worldly fae prince in disguise. Midwinter is brewing something magical.At the enchanting Winterfrost Market, renowned for its Midwinter celebrations, Elsie is run off her feet at her family's cozy traveling tea house.But the quaint town's festivities lose their luster when her mother fails to return from her journey to Midwinter Haven—a fairytale land in the north, rumored to be inhabited by elves, witches, and fae.

With the King of Winter's vile threats hanging over me, I have two choices: Marry Prince Vale—or run and, most likely, die.Then again, perhaps I'll die anyway when the King of Winter learns I killed a vampire prince...I might even want to die if I started a war between the fae and the vampires, but I can't just turn away from the trouble I've created. Nor take away the honorable prince's dream to find his fated mate. So I accept Vale's protection under one ...

Tim Winton delivers a truly spine-tingling thriller with In the Winter Dark.When a man dreams things from the past, you’d think he’d be able to rearrange them in new sequences to please himself. But no. In my dreams, it all happens as it happened, and I see it and be it again and again and the confusion never wears off.People drift to the valley called the Sink out of loneliness, hardship or an affinity with the land. It i...

Travel from distant planets on the edge of space to enchanted worlds filled with magic. Laugh with plucky thieves and cry with aging mages. Discover ancient wisdoms, rise above unbeatable odds, and reflect on personal sacrifices.ALL FOR HONOR!Honor is an exciting new anthology from Golden Griffin Press, featuring twenty-two SF&F authors. Each of them is a rising star in independent publishing in their own right, but we bro...

Betrayal, treachery, and blood wash across the battlefields of Tenumbra. Alliances crumble from the inside, and a new power rises in the north, a dark cabal able to raise the dead and harness the destructive gods of the old ways. As the old order disintegrates, a new tyranny imposes its harsh will on the world.Malcolm Blakley once again finds himself on the run. Old enemies emerge to exact their vengeance, while former allies flee. Malcolm must rebuild his alliance, finding s...

The Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery in this festive installment of the series. A tribute to classic Golden Age crime novels which is perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and Lucy Foley.When music-hall comedy duo Rolly Daconey and Irina Matei are threatened by a mysterious blackmailer, they turn to the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency for help. But the agency is experiencing turmoil and, unbeknownst to Muriel Carew, Henry Jekyll is ever mo...