Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it's the secrets they keep that might kill them.Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection became mindless killers, spreading the disease with a single scratch. Now, a year later, civilization lies in ruins, and Zach is the town's sole survivor. Desperately lonely, he longs to return to his family in Seattle, bu...

Meet Millicent Gearwright, an ingenious young clockmaker from the world of Gearturn, where time is literally falling apart. Days blur into nights, seasons clash, and history unravels in disarray. To save her home and the universe, Millicent must find the cause of these time malfunctions and fix the Time Core before it's too late.Joined by her trusty robot Quark, her poetic friend Orin, and the daring time-stealing pirate Barnaby Blackwater, Millicent embarks on a thrilling adventur...

Great Britain is on the verge of social collapse. After eight years of disastrous rule under the Labour Government, the country is ready for change. The far right administration of Lawrence Pelham is swept to power on a tide of hope and expectation that his Party can rejuvenate Britain. But Pelham's remedies are radical and things are about to get worse. Much worse. When disgraced former political correspondent Harry Clarke acquires a disc containing the Government's five year plan, he rea...

Every story you've been told about the border — by the right, by the left, by the activists, by the cartels, by the State — is a partial truth, and this book will hand you each one in turn until you have no choice but to think for yourself."A compelling vision of a possible future, filled with insightful commentary." — Kirkus ReviewsIn a world eerily parallel to our own, life is bisected by the Barrier—a m...

Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it's the secrets they keep that might kill them.Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection became mindless killers, spreading the disease with a single scratch. Now, a year later, civilization lies in ruins, and Zach is the town's sole survivor. Desperately lonely, he longs to return to his family in Seattle, bu...

This book considers how the African philosophy of Ubuntu can contribute to the study of the youth in Africa.Reports from the United Nations indicate that by 2050, more than a third of young people in the world will be in or from Africa. However, most existing youth studies remain framed by Global North paradigms, creating a risk of generalising or globally universalizing the stage of life between childhood and adulthood. This book challenges this imbalance by proposing an approach ...

Mindweavers II: Attack plunges readers into a sprawling conspiracy where genetic warfare, ecological disaster, and covert power collide. When Interpol agent Jack Kavanaugh and his elite ISO6 team investigate cryptic murders of Middle Eastern defense contractors, they uncover links to the Black Lambda virus—a decades-old biological weapon that crosses species barriers and hijacks human behavior at the neural level.When seventy-three sperm whales strand themselves on...

In this vicious, genre-bending ghost story, The Outsiders meets The Crow in a sharp examination of the lust for power, the legacy of redemption, and what happens when the haunted want revenge.In the shadowy world of the Lower Alleys lives a gang of delinquents known as the Creeps. Living just to survive, they fight and steal without regard for who they hurt—after all, it’s their victim’s own fault they have food and money and are standing right th...

Paradise fit in a van; the apocalypse fit in eight bars.Charlie has been deaf since he was nine. He's spent his whole life watching the world happen to other people — reading lips, carrying a laminated card, living out of a converted van he named Mrs. Driscoll because she always demanded to be treated like a lady.Then a Scottish madman with a V6 engine crammed into a child's toy car hands him a map to a hidden canyon in the Arizona backcountry — wa...

Harry Clarke is the iconic symbol of resistance against the brutal regime of extreme right-wing Prime Minister Lawrence Pelham. Imprisoned and put on trial for his life by a military court, Harry fears that he will not live to see his son again.In the corridors of power, Pelham's dictatorship, propped up by a ruthless Secret Police and paramilitary forces, is decaying from within. Exposed to cyber attacks and covert dissent, the foundations of his power are being eaten away.

What if the deadliest weapon of World War II wasn't the atomic bomb… but something hidden in your DNA?When a wave of mysterious viral outbreaks strikes across Europe, Interpol agent Jack Kavanaugh is thrust into a dangerous investigation that leads straight to a buried family secret. Decades after WWII, a long-forgotten Nazi experiment—helmed by Jack's own grandfather—has resurfaced in the hands of a radical eco-anarchist group determined to reshape humanity throug...

A serial killer looking for a sweet tooth. A pound of flesh for any wish you want. Illuminati pizza conspiracies. Hollywood vampires. Werewolves on the moon. Helpful zombies. Bigfoot hunting poachers. An Elf rebellion at the North Pole. A steampunk internet. Jailbreaks, heartbreaks, lost loves and lost chances.Twenty stories that explore fear, depression, injustice, the horror of triumph, and the beauty of failure.