"The British Woodlice" by Charles Sillem and Wilfred Mark Webb is a comprehensive exploration of the diverse and fascinating world of woodlice found in Britain. This book delves into the biology, ecology, and behavior of these crustaceans, providing readers with detailed descriptions and illustrations. The authors meticulously document various species, their habitats, and their roles in the ecosystem, making it an essential resource for both amateur naturalists and professional biologists....

Magical waste disposers – the pay stinks but the hours… yeah, they're pretty bad too.Ulanda and her apprentice Jareck make their living at the edges of the Desolate Lands, doing the only work mages are still allowed to do in pretty much the only place they are allowed to do it. Afterall it was mages that caused the wastelands in the first place. Reclaming the effects of the Blight was probably the least they could do. And they were getting by. Kind of.At least they...

Australian Native Plants provides a comprehensive guide to the horticulture of our native plants. Based on nearly 50 years of experience at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, the book describes the necessary growing conditions for mainly Western Australian native plants and covers some of the more technical aspects such as plant propagation and grafting, the use and benefits of tissue culture, methods of seed collection and storage, and the role of smoke in improving germination. Western...

Ever wonder why aliens don't visit Earth? Or what coffee a demon likes to drink? Or how bureaucracy could really screw up a grand space adventure? A Flash in the Pan? is a collection of speculative flash fiction and short stories that answers these questions and more.The collection includes the following speculative fiction stories:Flash fiction- Shipwrecked (500 words)- The Gloriously Cunning Plan (500 words)- Make Mine a Macchiato (500 words)- ...

The Heritage of DressByWilfred Mark Webb

The Voq are a harmless alien race on a small and insignificant planet. But the virus that's now destroying them must be contained before it spreads to other worlds, especially to Earth. Dr. Roland Price has been summoned to space station Observer I to assess whether the eighty million Voq can be saved. If not, the military plan to annihilate the entire race before their disease harms anyone else.But could Price's mother be right, as she remains on the infected planet to argue for th...

Hostile aliens nearly eradicated humanity. Will the next encounter finish the job?Sixteen billion dead. In humanity's last brush with the Merkiaari, it was nearly wiped out in a war that spanned decades. When survey ship Captain Jeff Colgan discovers a new alien race, he's required to investigate.As the aliens discover Colgan's ship and begin to hunt him down, the captain's mission changes from one of study to one of survival.Hard Duty is the first ...

She's protecting a bestselling vampire author. Too bad nobody protected the assistant.Mimi Capurro has seen some things. Cheating husbands. Insurance fraudsters. One very uncomfortable stakeout involving a coffee can. But nothing in her private detective career prepared her for walking into the dining room of her current client's home that night.Now Mimi's juggling a book tour bodyguard gig, a murder investigation she was specifically told to stay out of, and the su...

Ellie Colson is the only one who believes in the end of the world.As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus—one she believes will wipe out mankind. With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiance Chip to safety.But he's already been scooped up and quarantined—and so has his adopted daughter. Pursued by her own agency, Ellie will stop at nothing to break Chip out before ...

Book one in an exciting time travel series...Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't.Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Manhattan, there are more tha...

The bestselling, award-bedecked Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell are reunited in this irresistible fairytale reboot, with vibrant red ink adding lustre to an amazingly beautiful book.'Suffused with joy and melancholy ... It is absolutely a retelling for our age, but also for ages still to come' GuardianWeaving together hints of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty with a shimmering thread of dark magic, this twist on classi...

The first four volumes of The Fireblade Array.Artemi, Morghiad and Silar fight fate, nature and themselves to stay alive, to stay together and to keep the world from burning.The bundle includes the books City of Blaze, Nation of Blaze, Anomaly of Blaze and Blazed Union.