Modern fiction

Jeff Lint was author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the twentieth century. This work follows Lint through his Beat days; his immersion in pulp SF, psychedelia and resentment; his disastrous scripts for "Star Trek" and "Patton"; the controversies of "The Caterer" comic...

Yul has incurred Magus' wrath by challenging him for the leadership of the community. The sunrise ceremony amongst the great standing stones was a disaster for Magus, with Yul lighting the Solstice Fire and receiving the powerful earth energy in his place. But Magus still holds the power, and emb...

* A devastating portrait of a love affair played out at the height of one of the most violent episodes in British colonial history. For its British population, the India that swelters in the late spring of 1857 is a place of amateur theatricals, horseracing and flirtations under the aegis of the ...

Contains "Pangbourne"; "Snap"; and other stories. Jane Gardam's delightful short stories range from the Lake District to Dorset; from Wimbledon, where an old Victorian mansion has been converted into a home for unmarried mothers, to wartime London, where a hospital is the scene of a job interview...

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's ...

Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives -- but it might just destroy her to take it! The gritty new tale from the bestselling author of NOBODY'S GIRL. Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives -- but it might just destroy her to take it! The...