Unexpected humour and tenderness intertwine with loneliness and hopefulness in this remarkable book from an already acclaimed writer. In nine richly varied stories, written in intense, clear-eyed prose, the reader is led into an exploration of the hu...
The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts and their hunt for the Golden Fleece is one of the most enduringly popular of all of the Ancient Greek heroic myths. Accepting the quest in order to regain his kingdom, Jason assembled a crew of legendary heroes,...
He robbed from the rich to give to the poor, or so the legend goes. But who was the outlaw known as Robin Hood? How did his legend develop, and how has it changed over the passing centuries? This new title in the Osprey Myths and Legends series takes...
A gripping tale of how dark the world can actually get when we always take the wrong option and deny more-advanced-than-human robots their freedom, initiating the destruction of humanity through war and saving of it through simulation....
An investor who puts a supreme value on money is thieved. What's true in an unconventional fairytale with a short-height perspectivist? A nihilist zombie apocalypse survivor must learn to deal with others who still hold onto their morals....
Without a care, Tim Roth, lives at home with his illegal cannabis-growing hippie mother and secretly he makes a living posing as online girlfriends to unknown men, while his brother Berbert wants nothing to do with the family he came from, living a c...