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An atmospheric historical novel where greed and counterfeit silver fuel a forgotten American hoax “…He knew there was a price to be paid, and he was tired of waiting for the bill to be delivered.” History often leaves behind unanswered questions. Fiction gets to imagine the rest. Drawing on the real “Great Bakersville Riot” hoax […]

A centuries-old war captures the attention of an alien behemoth in this thought-provoking political sci-fi adventure. It has been two hundred years since the people of Umoja escaped an increasingly hostile Earth. The planet, ravaged by environmental destruction, had split into those who had the power and those who didn’t. Like countless times before, the […]

Children in the White Mountains village of Shereford used to skip rope to a rhyme about colours. Red witch, blue witch, black or white; one for love, one for fright. Nobody could explain it. Nursery rhymes rarely survive on sense, and New England has never been short of witch lore. Then a dog starts digging […]

A gripping, contemporary echo of Joyce’s Ulysses that bursts with its own creative vigor Thom Evans’s experiences over twenty-four hours at the end of his work day bear similarities to those of his century-old predecessor from James Joyce’s Ulysses, Leopold Bloom. Like Bloom, Thom is the everyman antihero, living an unenviable humdrum life: getting chubby, […]

A moving story about a complex, intimate friendship between two unlikely people Don first meets Alice Roland at his father’s funeral, a time that is mired in grief. The sister of Don’s friend, Alice comforts Don by simply asking how he is doing, an innocuous but meaningful question. The premature death of his father has […]