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The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text (Penguin Modern Classics)
by William S. Burroughs Oliver HarrisInspector Lee and the Nova Police have been forced to engage the Nova Mob in one final battle for the planet. This is Burroughs's nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of Johnny Yen's chicken-hypnotizing and green Venusian-boy-girls, of ad men and conmen whose destructive language has spread like an incurable disease; a virus and parasite that takes over every human body. One of Burroughs's most approachable works, The Ticket That Exploded is the climax of his innovative 'cut-up' Nova trilogy - following The Soft Machine and Nova Express - and is an enthralling and frightening image of the future.
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text (Penguin Modern Classics)
by William S. Burroughs Oliver HarrisWith a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his skills to defeat a team of priests, who are using mind control to produce their own private slave race. Dead soldiers, African street urchins, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history and science all feature in Lee's terrifying adventure. A surreal space odyssey, The Soft Machine is the first book in Burrough's innovative 'cut-up' trilogy - followed by Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded - and a ferocious assault on hype, poverty, war and addiction in all its forms.
The Star Diaries (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Stanislaw LemStanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. This is a philosophical satire on technology, theology, intelligence and human nature from one of the greatest of science fiction writers
Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories
by Richelle MeadAn exclusive, never-before-seen collection of stories that sheds new light on the Vampire Academy world and its players: The Turn and the Flame takes a deeper look into the dark stain on the Ozera dynasty . . . From the Journal of Vasilisa Dragomir unearths the princess's private thoughts from a transformative period of her life . . . The Meeting gives us a glimpse of Rose Hathaway through Dimitri's eyes . . . Hello My Name Is Rose Hathaway reveals the chaos that ensues when Rose and Dimitri become unlikely teammates in a high-stakes scavenger hunt . . .
Krindlekrax (A Puffin Book)
by Philip RidleyA very funny school story with weird and wonderful characters by the award-winning author, Philip Ridley.Ruskin Splinter is small and thin, with knock-knees, thick glasses and a squeaky voice, and the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh. Big, strong Elvis is stupid but he looks like a hero. So who is more likely to get the big part in the school play? But when the mysterious beast, Krindlekrax, threatens Lizard Street and everyone who lives there, it is Ruskin who saves the day and proves he is the stuff that heroes are made of after all.
Fiasco (Pirx The Pilot Ser.)
by Stanislaw Lem'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
by Niall FergusonWhat if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never collapsed? And what if John F. Kennedy had lived?In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andrew Roberts to Michael Burleigh explore what might have been if nine of the most decisive moments in modern history had never happened.
Ghost Detectives: The Lost Bride (Ghost Detectives)
by Emily MasonSome ghosts are haunted by their past. When the local museum needs volunteers to help it reopen, Abi, Hannah, Sarah and Grace sign up. The girls discover that the museum has a link to the spirit world when they find an ancient diary and meet a ghost bride from another century. She can't rest in peace until she finds out why her true love left her at the altar. The Ghost Detectives have a romantic first mystery to solve!
Ghost Detectives: The Missing Dancer (Ghost Detectives)
by Emily MasonGhost Detective: The Lost Dancer is brilliant for younger fans of the spy series The Gallagher Girls and also paranormal fiction. Girls of 9+ will love the gentle romance, school friendships and thrilling detective case to be solved. The perfect series for aspiring tweens.Some ghosts are haunted by their past . . .When Abi, Sarah , Hannah and Grace are visited by the ghost of a littl lost girl trying to dance one last time so that her spirit can rest, they jump at the chance to help. But this Ghost Detective case seems to be shrouded in secrets and everywhere they look, people get upset. With clues runing out, can the Ghost Detectives solve the mystery of the missing dancer?Emily Mason is an exciting new Irish author. Her previous book Ghost Detective: The Lost Bride was her debut novel for Puffin. Emily has been a bookworm since she was little. She is now an editor and author but has yet to see any ghosts herself...
The Trials Of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor Ser. {PDF) #1)
by Jessica TownsendWINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2018 YOUNGER FICTION CATEGORY International bestselling new series. Enter the Wundrous world of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor - the most fantastical children's series of the year. "Exciting, mysterious, marvellous and magical ... quite simply one of the best children's books I've read in years" - Robin Stevens, author of Murder Most Unladylike "An extraordinary story full of magics great and small" - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars "Endlessly inventive, with a fresh delight on every page. Nevermoor rewrites the genre of the Chosen Child novel. This is a special book" - David Solomons, author of My Brother is a Superhero "A full-speed joy of a book; funny, quick-footed, and wildly, magically inventive" - Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers
I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six's Legacy (I Am Number Four: The Lost Files #1)
by Pittacus LoreNumber Six - when John meets her in I Am Number Four she's strong, powerful, and ready to fight. But who is she? Where has she been living? How has she been training? When did she develop her legacies? And how does she know so much about the Mogadorians? In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six's Legacy, discover the story behind Six. Before Paradise, Ohio, before John Smith, Six was traveling through West Texas with her Cêpan, Katarina. What happened there would change Six forever . . .
And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As heard on BBC Radio 4 (Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Ser.)
by Eoin ColferDiscover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featuring original cast members including Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey and Sandra Dickinson.Arthur Dent led a perfectly ordinary, uneventful life until the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hurled him deep into outer space. Now he's convinced a cruelly indifferent universe is out to get him. And who can blame him?His life is about to collide with a pantheon of unemployed gods, a lovestruck green alien, a very irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese. If, that is, everyone's favourite renegade Galactic President can get him off planet Earth before it is destroyed . . . again.'A triumph, fabulous. Colfer has given us a delight' Observer'I haven't read anything in a long time that made me laugh as much' The Times'Chock-full of fanciful, inventive one-liners and asides, brimming with a burning sense of the ridiculousness of life' Independent on Sunday'The best post-mortem impersonation I have ever read' Mark Lawson, Guardian
The Trial of Fallen Angels
by J. P. KimmelWith shades of both The Book Thief and The Lovely Bones, James Kimmel Jr.'s first novel, The Trial of Fallen Angels, is a story about what happens when we can't - or won't - let go.I remembered telling my husband I loved him and knowing I did. I remembered picking up my daughter at the end of the day and her squeals of delight when she saw me . . . And then my memories vanished, as if a plug had been pulled. When young lawyer Brek Cutler finds herself covered in blood and standing on a deserted railway platform, she has no memory of how she got there . . . For one very good reason: she's dead.But she's not allowed to grieve for her lost life, her widowed husband, or her beautiful but now motherless baby daughter - because she has a job to do. She's been chosen to join the elite lawyers who prosecute and defend souls at the Final Judgement.In a seemingly deliberate coincidence, her first client seems to hold the key to unlock the chain of events that led to Brek's death . . . A chain that stretches far back into the past and an array of shocking, secret crimes. And so Brek embarks on a quest that sees her traverse Heaven and Earth to bring her killer to justice. If she's ever to learn the whole truth about her death, though, she must also place her own soul on trial - and make a choice that will potentially echo throughout eternity.Telling a story of life, death and ever after, James Kimmel Jr.'s The Trial of Fallen Angels is unique, haunting and utterly unforgettable.James Kimmel Jr. received a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Pennsylvania and now works as a lawyer. This is his first novel.He lives in the United States.
A Working Theory of Love
by Scott HutchinsA Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins is a recklessly witty, outrageously honest novel about sex, love and artificial intelligence.'Tremendous, big, clever. Every once in a while a novel comes along and speaks to a generation ... has much to say about what it means to live, love and lose in the twenty-first century' GuardianSilicon Valley: home of online start-ups, couture coffee, sexual meditation, and the future. In its midst, Neill Bassett is helping to build the world's first artificial intelligence - a computer that talks, thinks, lies, and if all goes to plan, feels bad about it too. But when the experiment swerves in an unexpected direction, Neill is forced to confront a few buried feelings of his own - for his ex-wife, for his dead father, for his twenty-first-century life, and for a very twenty-first-century woman called Rachel, who might just hold the answer to it all...'Electrifying. Clever, funny and very entertaining' The New York Times'Worthy of Chuck Palahniuk ... Hutchins's satirical take on 21st-century existence is sharply observed' Independent'Touching and extremely funny, Neill Bassett is a disenchanted bachelor for the Noughties generation. Brilliantly achieved' GQ'Inventive, intelligent, hilarious. One of the pleasures here is Hutchins' terrific grasp of the zeitgest' San Francisco Chronicle'Terrific. Throughout, Hutchins hits that sweet spot where humour and melancholy comfortably coexist' Entertainment Weekly'Mixes the everyman likeability of Nick Hornby with a splash of the offbeat intellect of Douglas Coupland' MetroScott Hutchins teaches at Stanford University, California. His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Rumpus, The New York Times and Esquire. This is his first novel.
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
by César Aira Chris AndrewsCesar Aira's An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter captures a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas. Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However, this is not a biography of Rugendas, but rather a work of fiction which weaves an almost surreal history around Rugendas' trips to Argentina where he strived to achieve in art the 'physiognomic totality' of Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. A brief and dramatic visit to the pampas gives him the chance to fulfill his ambition but a strange episode that he cannot avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly marks him for life . . .Praise for Cesar Aira:'Once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop' Roberto Bolaño'Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W. G. Sebald' Los Angeles TimesCesar Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. One of the most prolific writers in Argentina, Aira has published more than seventy books.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 1 Temple)
by G. W. DahlquistEmbark upon an adventure like no other in a Dickensian style ebook serialisation of the fantastical The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist.A SPY. A KILLER. AN IMPOSTER.THREE EXTRAORDINARY HEROES. ONE UNIQUE NOVEL.Three most-unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process':Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes only to learn why her fiancé Roger broke off their engagement ...Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man, but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it and why ...Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals ... An adventure like no other, in a mysterious city few have travelled to, featuring a heroine and two heroes you will never ever forget. . .'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic' Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 2 Cardinal)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 2, Cardinal, the second part of the ebook serialisation of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel. Feisty Miss Temple has escaped from the mysterious masked ball in the labrynthine country house and from an attempt on her life, but she fears her attackers may pursue...'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 3 Surgeon)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 3, Surgeon, the third instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Assassin Cardinal Chang is hot on the pursuit for a murderer but stumbles across an eerie chamber in which a book-like object made of glass pulses with an indigo blue light . . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 4 Boniface)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 4, Boniface, the fourth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Surgeon Dr Svenson has agreed to assist the beautiful but deadly Contessa Lacquer-Sforza but finds himself kidnapped and bundled into the trunk of a carriage, which he must share with the body of a murdered man. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 5 Ministry)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 5, Ministry, the fifth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Our three heroes have finally met one another, but as they attempt to make sense of the mystery of the blue glass, Miss Temple disappears. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic' Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 6 Quarry)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 6, Quarry, the sixth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson have split up to recover Miss Temple. But after a thrilling chase, Chang finds himself hanging by his fingertips on the edge of an unknown drop. Gripping on for dear life, he can hold on no longer. . . he let's go . . .'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 7 Royale)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 7, Royale, the seventh instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Dr Svenson is trapped in a quarry with only one means of escape, one which looks like it may just be out of reach . . .'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 8 Cathedral)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 8, Cathedral, the eighth instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.Miss Temple is being held captive by the dreaded Comte d'Orkancz, who claims she must be 'redeemed'. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 9 Provocateur)
by G. W. DahlquistThe adventure continues in The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 9, Provocateur, the penultimate instalment of the ebook serial of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel.After witnessing the horrifying experiment on the cabal's victims and the hideous transformation of Angelique, Cardinal Chang looks up to see Miss Temple in a feathered mask, the tell-tale scarring around her eyes - has she been subjected to 'the process'. . . ?'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth'A page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying' Giles Foden, GuardianG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Chapter 10 Inheritrix)
by G. W. DahlquistThe final chapter in the ebook serialisation of G.W Dahlquist's fantastic fantasy novel The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters chapter 10, Inheritrix.All is becoming clear and the cabal's dastardly plot is slowly revealed, as the unlikely trio battle to save themselves, and the world, from the power of the deadly blue glass. . . 'If HBO are looking for a project to follow Game of Thrones, they need seek no further . . . an epic'Scotsman'Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven' Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthG. W. Dahlquist is a novelist and playwright. When he fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. He is the author of the acclaimed The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, he now lives in New York.