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...

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 ...

With his loving evocation of a dark and fantastical realm that owes much to the myth and history of 20th-century Russia, and his rare ability to combine poetic writing and kinetic plotting, Peter Higgins has created one of the most original and critically lauded works of recent years. Adored by critics and authors such as Hannu Rajaniemi, Ian McDonald and Richard Morgan the Wolfhound Century novels now reach their extraordinary conclusion.In RADIANT STATE we discover both the glory...

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...

Roland Hellmantle, freelance computer writer based in Hong Kong, finds himself drawn into a journey to find a Dutch minister living in the Philippines who has information concerning a buried map at a French prison in North Vietnam. Hellmantle's grandfather, a French Legionnaire and researcher in family history and the legends of the Blonde Acquitaine, buried a map said to shown the whereabouts of buried scrolls written by Jesus and Thomas in Kashmir Valley, India. Hellmantle, suffering fro...

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...

This coming-to-age story begins during Reid's first week of university, a whirlwind that swept into a storm. Called this generation's Catcher in the Rye, Visigoths in Tweed touches on the multiple coming-of-age forces at university including an overbearing father. When Reid enrolls in a philosophy class because of a girl, he discovers a new world that holds the secret to life. The storm breaks when his best friend suffers a heart attack when they are out running. Handcuffed by painful shyn...

The story follows players involved in a conspiracy to silence and extract a world-renown whistleblower who has been under house-arrest at the Ecuadorean embassy in London for five years. Publishing classified information via his website PortalLeaks, Paddy Leith has been playing a dangerous game for nearly a decade, flaunting his secure 'submission platform' to those brave enough to submit sensitive documents of wrongdoing and crimes in an effort to achieve transparency. This however, has c...

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...

This coming-to-age story begins during Reid McFetridge's first week of university, a whirlwind that swept into a storm. Called this generation's Catcher in the Rye, Visigoths in Tweed touches on the multiple coming-of-age forces at university including an overbearing father. When Reid enrolls in a philosophy class because of a girl, he discovers a new world that holds the secret to life. The storm breaks when his best friend suffers a heart attack when they are out running. Handcuffed by p...

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.