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Synthesis is a gripping science fiction anthology featuring established authors alongside debut writers. Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf’s Kryten) has written the Foreword and the collection features Drew Wagar, Stuart Aken and Boris Glikman. The amazing artwork is by Alvaro Escudero, and the cover was designed by Heather Murphy.

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In his science-fiction novel, Blood Red Dust, Stuart Aken sets the debates and dilemmas of the early 21st century on to a backdrop of a future where humankind has broken the bonds that tie it to Earth and has begun to colonise new planets. He follows the fate of a Chosen few as they struggle to fulfil their destiny.

Blood Red Dust is the first book in the Generation Mars series.

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It is Christmas 1914. As Europe descends further into the Great War, Christopher Flyte is sent home in disgrace from his school. He returns to the sleepy English village of Alton. There he meets the mysterious traveller, Bailey - a master storyteller who fills the boy's head with stories of King Arthur's time. The more Christopher hears, the more he suspects that Bailey's stories are more than just simple myths. Soon, Christopher finds himself a pawn in a game that has been playing out for centuries....

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Alan Wakeman's delicate new English translation of this wonderful children's classic by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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The seed for Walt Pilcher’s pythonesque On Shallowed Ground might have been born the day his science teacher hurled a six-foot African spear across the classroom demolishing several books and the bookcase in which they had been sitting. Young Walt took a simple lesson from this: You can’t make this stuff up.
That lesson has informed his writing ever since.

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Vanquished by Alex Janaway is a classic fantasy that charts the history of a crumbling empire in the aftermath of a devastating war. From the high-born to the dissolute thief, we are given a fascinating insight into all levels of this society.

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Alex Janaway’s second fantasy novel, Resistance, continues his End of Empire series that began with Vanquished. Resistance is a fast-moving fantasy adventure that picks up the story in the aftermath of the war whose aim was to extinguish all human life and follows the fortunes of four key characters: ex-arena champion, Father Michael, bodyguard to the heir of Tissan; Eagle Rider, Owen Derle; the thief and chancer, Cade; and Captain Sabin Fillion, half-human, half-elf. 

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Inspired by the dramatic north east coast of England and the true story of a child arriving at her new foster carer’s house at midnight dressed only in big pyjamas, Janet Blackwell began to weave a storyteller’s magic around the lone child; and young adult fantasy, The Bridge and the Butterflies, was born.

 

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WINNER of the 2019 CWA Short Story Dagger: The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables is a charity anthology featuring best-selling author, Danuta Reah, and critically acclaimed writer, Mary Brown, alongside the winning entries from our Fantastic Female Fables competition.

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