Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs ...
In 12th Century England, Guillame Mareschal is an old soldier whose family have held Herraton Bonville since the conquest. 40 years earlier, during the Anarchy of Stephen, his father Ralphe sustained a fatal wound. Guillame, ageing and uneasy, emba...
A collection of nine stories in settings from the Nineteenth Century to the present day, varying in length and subject....
Pataphysics, at once a literary trope and a branch of philosophy (and science), has influenced an array of prominent artists, writers, and musicians since the early 20th century. Members of the Paris-based Collège de 'Pataphysique have included Marc...
When politicians are bought and sold, when ancient monarchs prowl the earth looking for kingdoms to rule, and when common citizens are corrupted by dreams of an alien anarchist utopia, the time has come for the world to be destroyed at any moment. In...
Are you prepared to meet your future robot overlords? According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we only have until 2045 to prepare for the singularity -- the moment AI achieves human-level general intelligence. That’s where The Singularity Survival Guide...
Meet Jee the Ninja Pants Detective. He's a big brother with big responsibilities, solving every mystery he finds, whether it is saving the world or helping line his stomach. Every adventure has a twist and turn that Jee must overcome, and there is al...
Sick of poverty and wanting a better life for his family, James is determined to change his son's future and tells him he must leave the village in country Ireland and puts the sixteen year old on a cart for Belfast. Swept along by fate and determina...
Jee the Ninja Pants Detective is a superhero in training, but where do his powers come from and how will he know when he is ready to use what he has been taught? As Jee faces his first challenges, let's hope he can overcome the dangerous obstacles he...
Jee the Ninja Pants Detective is a superhero in training, but where do his powers come from and how will he know when he is ready to use what he has been taught? As Jee faces his first challenges, let’s hope he can overcome the dangerous obstacles ...
After a brush with the law, William decides to leave Australia and return to Ireland. He joins a ship at Melbourne, only to hear talk of gold in New South Wales. Simmering gold fever is in his being, and it takes little to rekindle the desire. Again ...
Enchanted Bedtime: Tino, Billy, Pakky, and the Tales from Under the Seas to the Forest Depths, the fifth book in the series, takes readers on a magical bedtime adventure that spans from the depths of the seas to the enchanting forest depths. Tino, al...
Tino's Bedtime Adventures with Billy and Pakky is a captivating five-book series that follows the delightful escapades of Tino, Billy, and Pakky as they embark on imaginative journeys before bedtime. Each book in the series presents a unique adventur...
It's 1851 and Joe is a policeman in Sydney. He doesn't mind cutting corners and through the theft of a locket, attempts to compromise a police sergeant into the same way of thinking. The sergeant has problems of his own and what starts out as a rando...