Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and powers deep in the Earth.Inspector Vissarion Lom is summoned to the great capital city of Mirgorod to catch the terrorist Josef Kantor. He's been chosen because he's an outsider, impartial to the capital's cruel politics - though not for long.His investigation opens his eyes to a city teeming with corruption: a murky world of secret police and revolutiona...

For readers of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin**, this is the story of one family's** battle for survival in a world where evil has already won.As they fight their way across a dying land, Shay and Cass will do anything to keep their daughter, Hope, alive. The family faces unimaginable dangers as they try to stay together, and stay alive, long enough to reach safety. But when the heart of a dragon starts to beat in Hope's chest, they fear they'll...

The eccentric Roland Hellmantle and his cousin search for a map that if found might lead to an upheaval in the way we look at the story of Jesus. Motorcycling offroad through the Sierre Madre mountains in the Philippines and obstacles that would have deterred other men, Hellmantle attacks his fate with zeal and finds the map, which points them to a colonial prison in north Vietnam. A new clue leads them to Kashmir Valley where they discover a truth that some never want to emerge.

Meeting in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia after not seeing each other for seven years, identical twins Remy and Trapp McFlynn drive their campers across Canada looking for a writer's cabin. Never letting mischief get in their way, the brothers waste no time taking advantage of their changing geography but the good times only last so long until unforeseen developments threaten to derail their road trip.

WRITTEN IN THE TRADITION of Robert Pirsig's Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, this motorcycle adventure follows the dialogue and reunion of Stüffle von Schöngait and his identical twin Edward, who have been separated from each other for twelve years. Both inseparable when young, they went to different universities but both studied philosophy, however, Edward, an earnest student and philosopher in his own right, dedicated his life to testing the many philosophies in the canon of West...

A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands around it, slowly - inexorably - killing everything it touches. Alone in the wilderness, it reaches out with its mind.The endless forest and its antique folk lore are no concern to Inspector ...

Following the acclaim for Learning Outside the Classroom in 2012, this latest book more deeply explains how well constructed outdoor learning experiences can benefit children and young people’s academic development and health and wellbeing.Outdoor Learning Across the Curriculum outlines the theory and practice to enable preservice and experienced primary and secondary school teachers to systematically incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into thei...

A new edition with glorious new cover art.Peter Higgins' Vlast is a superbly imagined 'other' Russia, an epic land of trackless forest, sentient rain and deep powers in the Earth. Its capital Mirgorod is home both to a brutal dictatorship centuries old and fleeting glimpses of the houses and streets of another city. Compared to the works of of both China Mieville and John Le Carre WOLFHOUND CENTURY was a hugely original creation. Now Peter Higgins returns to that world.Inve...

IT IS VERY EASY FOR AN INDIVIDUAL today to isolate themselves and let life pass them by; this is what Aaron Noble did until he learned of a fatal disease he had with a year to live. Having ostracized himself from a mother who was an alcoholic, a father who lived thousands of miles away who had started a second family, and a brother in and out of jail who was now a Bandito biker, the only person he was close to was his sister, married in Florida. Happy to let life go by counting his pennies...

A concise handbook of Viking-Poet morality, this pamphlet of philosophical first principles describes a moral code that leads to danger, creativity and evolution. Recorded by Stüffle von Schöngait and his identical twin brother during a motorcycle journey after the September 21 earthquake in Taiwan in 1999, this philosophical work will give you the philosophical framework to build your worldview. A provacative title because the philosophy is spicey, the small book is not for the weak. Can ...

IN THE MODERN ERA of over-populated cities, the decimation of forests and the emphasis on computers and working in offices, there is a man who takes the opportunity to begin a new life with his ten-year-old son when he inherits his uncle's property on the largest freshwater island in the world on the Canada-US border. Having been abused by an intolerant father and in adult life crippled by insecurity and shyness, Kurt Legge is a computer programmer in Detroit who avoids people and engaging...

NEVER HAS THERE BEEN a novel written with such honesty and insight into what it is like being an identical twin. This is not only because it is based on a true story but because the author is a twin. After seven years apart, separated after having a fight and Trapp McFlynn leaving for the Far East to work as a professor at the University of Hong Kong, the brothers lose touch with one another, each following different paths. When Trapp is relaxing at a café in Hong Kong he meets a doctor wh...