An Observer Best Debut of the YearA Granta Best Young British Novelist‘Mischievous and sexy’ SARAH WATERS‘I loved this book’ JULIA ARMFIELD‘Exhilarating’ MONICA HEISEY'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR'Should be on everyone's summer reading list' iNEWS'Scorching … One of our favourite read...

An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, systems, in K Patrick's ground-breaking debut book of poems. These are notes towards a contemporary queer experience that emerge from the body, dodging and playing with logic to create a brand new poetics. Patrick's subversive and distinct poetic manoeuvres through a marriage and a subsequent divorce, nature writing and 20th Century literary figures...

A harrowing tale of space exploration turned survival nightmare. Filled with aliens, science, and suspense; Magwave blends the futuristic science fiction of Arthur C. Clarke with the twists and intrigue of a Tom Clancy thriller.Fresh off their historic discoveries on the Jupiter moon Callisto, the crew of the Rorschach Explorer and their colleagues in Mission Control should have known better. Space is not a lifeless vacuum.Dark and forbidding, it is a jungl...

Buckle up for this chilling novella tale of first contact!When three probes sent to Mars suffer suspicious catastrophic failures, a clandestine manned mission is dispatched to investigate the probes’ wreckage for clues to explain their demise.The manned mission is led by Lieutenant Colonel Avery Lockett. He is joined by flight engineer, Captain Nick Reed, and mission specialist, Dr. Christine Baker. Together they embark on a dangerous journey aboard the spa...

An Observer Best Debut of the YearA Granta Best Young British Novelist‘Mischievous and sexy’ SARAH WATERS‘I loved this book’ JULIA ARMFIELD‘Exhilarating’ MONICA HEISEY'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR'Should be on everyone's summer reading list' iNEWS'Scorching … One of our favourite read...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Are you constantly questioning your experiences, wondering if you’ve been manipulated, lied to, or abused? Do you feel confused and emotionally drained by someone who should care for you? Was It Even an Abuse? sheds light on the hidden, often overlooked patterns of emotional abuse and gaslighting that can keep you trapped in toxic relationships.✨ In this life changing book, you’ll discover:

No one knows what to make of the mysterious clicks....To Ajay Joshi, the amateur astronomer who discovered the strange sounds with his radio telescope, the clicks represent proof of aliens on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, a theory dismissed as quackery by space agency radio experts. They contend the clicks are nothing more than terrestrial interference, so-called skywaves, or similar electromagnetic interference emanating from Jupiter or Callisto.To Dr. Kier...

Was It Even an Abuse? Uncovering Emotional Manipulation, Recognising Gaslighting, and Liberating Yourself from Narcissistic Toxic Trauma By Zara K. PatrickAre you constantly questioning your experiences, wondering if you’ve been manipulated, lied to, or abused? Do you feel confused and emotionally drained by someone who should care for you? Was It Even an Abuse? sheds light on the hidden, often overlooked patterns of emotional abuse and gaslighting that can keep yo...

At one point during our lunch the famous Sonny Bono asked, "So in other words, we've reached a point where a rescuer can't just say, ‘the heck with the rules' and just do the right thing?"Not in other words, Sonny. Those are the perfect words.Immutable Law #2. Saving lives is not our priorityFollowing our policies is our priority. Protecting ourselves comes next. Avoiding lawsuits comes third. You come somewhere after that.* * *I was not even out of ...

For fifteen years, retired newspaper editor Elliott Madison worked on a book about his great-grandfather's terrifying voyage around Cape Horn and his great-grandmother's tragic journey on the California Trail, the homestead they developed into a prosperous ranch in Mendocino County. Now, in the waning hours of his life, he recalls the day he was contacted by a woman from New York City named Phoebe Crighton, who claims a distant relative was employed as a hired hand on his family's ranch. E...

Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the “Middle Ages” has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects—from nationalism to the discipline of anthropology—have appropriated the Middle Ages for their own ends. Deployi...