The year is 1929 and the German republic, born out of the ashes of the First World War, looks to the future with optimism. After a turbulent beginning the republic has become the economic powerhouse of Europe once more with Berlin as the cultural centre of the continent. Many call it a golden age.However, the ghosts of the republic?s formation refuse to be laid to rest. On the right, a jealous Prince awaits an opportunity to reign as Kaiser in a restored Empire, a Third Reich. On t...

Adolf Hitler is regarded as history's most notorious villain for good reason. As an individual filled with hate, he was a natural convert to the extremist movements spreading around Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and his warped ability to harness the desperation of millions of dispossessed Germans enabled his regime to slaughter countless victims. The Nazi movement that he founded was, and is, universally regarded as a dark reflection of the nature of mankind.But ...

In August 1945, Japan was hit with two nuclear weapons. This, along with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, caused the government to surrender.What if it had not?Paul Hynes imagines a world in which a fanatical junta takes over Japan and pledges a fight to the bitter end. Using real-world plans relating to the invasion of the Home Islands, along with an extensive knowledge of American, British, Soviet and Japanese attitudes and capabilities at the time, Hynes crafts a story ...

The year is 1946 and despite the nightmarish sacrifices of the American invasion, Japan remains a battlefield.The leadership of the fanatical junta which ignored the Emperor's wishes to end the war has been beheaded yet those who have survived remain just as resolute in their ultimate goal, to fight to the last Japanese subject and take as much of the rest of the world with them.In the second and final part of the Decisive Darkness series, Coronet, Paul Hy...

What if you could see your own soul... and your best friend's, too?Talon expected another brutal training session. Kiara expected a fight. Their mentor Silak had something else in mind.Deep within the shimmering Glass Realm, the three sorcerers begin a new spiritual exercise-one that tears away the barrier between the physical world and the hidden realm of the soul.What do they fear? What do they regret? What secrets do they keep?The magical...

Ireland is a country that is, in many ways, still defined by the British occupation and the nature of its partition and independence and so there is much room to explore how it could have evolved differently in different circumstances.What would home rule have looked like in practice? What struggles would an Ireland that won independence in the late 18th century have faced? How would Ireland have positioned itself if the Nazis had won the Second World War?In this collection, thirteen talen...

What if Remain had won in 2016? What if Britain had never joined the EEC? What if groups other than Europe had decided to unite?In this EU-themed collection from Sea Lion Press and edited by Tom Black (Agent Lavender, Shuffling the Deck, Zonen), you will find some worlds very like our own, and others very dissimilar indeed. Questions as simple as “what if Maastricht failed?” are posed, along scenarios as complex as an ideologically-reversed Cold War or a federalised Britis...

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

This Critical Companion to the work of one of Ireland's most famous and controversial playwrights, Sean O'Casey, is the first major study of the playwright's work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland with which O'Casey's most famous plays are associated, it provides a clear and detailed study of the work in context and performance.James Moran shows that O'Case...