In this collection, prize-winning Irish essayist Chris Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a girl's ear, a vulture's egg, the letters in a Scrabble game, a sprig of witch-hazel, and the chasms of complexity contained in an ordinary moment. Whether he's writing about owls, leaves, a street in his hometown, the symbiotic interrelationships in the stomach of a termite, a souvenir cigarette box from a ship sunk in World War II, or the coincidence of three hearts beating simultaneously to...

In What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer, prize-winning essayist Chris Arthur looks into life's mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book's fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted. Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a patch of lichen growing on a windowsill, memories of a childhood barber's shop...

In his latest collection, Hummingbirds Between the Pages, prizewinning Irish essayist Chris Arthur muses on subjects ranging from Charles Darwin’s killing of a South American fox to the carnal music sounding in a statue of the Buddha, from how Egyptian seashells contain echoes of World War II to a child’s first encounter with death. Whether he’s looking at skipping stones, old photographs, butterflies, the resonance of a remembered phrase, or being questioned at an army checkpoint...

The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of the ordinary unerringly gets to the heart of the matter.Bringing a diverse range of material into play, from fifteenth-century Japanese Zen Buddhism to how we look at paintings, a...

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and writers to their stylistic forebear.Though it’s been over four hundre...

This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller.The book brings new information to light by examining through a jigsaw of connections throughout Dark Age Britain, especially Wales and Cornwall, as King Arthur is revealed to have been a hereditary King of the ancient land of the Silures in South Wales. In this way, Chris Barber has set out to reveal the true identity of King Arthur, whose identity has been ...

THE WINNER OF THE 2013 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST NOVEL CATEGORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST COVER DESIGN (SI SCOTT)SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BSFA AWARDSYou live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneath the Forest's lantern tre...

When market researcher Arthur Cathcart emerged from a coma and set out to track down whoever murdered his wife, the results were far from preordained. Wounded and alone, grief stricken and hiding off the grid, he thought the only mystery was who killed Florencia—and why. But the quest for justice uncovers a host of fresh mysteries, beginning with an elaborate fraud and embezzlement scheme, complete with dummy corporations and offshore numbered accounts.In place of "who killed Flore...

Seventeen Authors Share Advice for Crafting, Publishing and Promoting Your WritingAsk the Authors is the ultimate writer's reference, with tips and advice on craft, publishing and marketing. Seventeen authors share what works for them and offer their keys to success in traditional publishing, hybrid, and indie. You'll learn industry wisdom from Lilly Rayman, Mark & Kym Todd, RA Winter, Tim Baker, Margareth Stewart, Tom Johnson, Janet Garber, Arthur Rosch, ...

The fascinating Eden trilogy, now, for the first time, collated as one e-bookFirst novel in the Eden trilogy, won the extremely prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year 2013.Mother of Eden and Daughter of Eden were both been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award, in 2015 and 2016.Dark EdenYou liv...

Arthur C. Clarke Award-Winning Author'An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent... Beckett offers an intelligent, visceral reminder that unless we change what today looks like, tomorrow will be turbulent indeed.' - GuardianAmerica, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting betwee...

'A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand.' Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost th...