An example of the law of unintended consequences: as a result of buying a Sony Reader I now listen to a lot more radio. Turns out it’s per...

Kröd Mändoon (Sean Maguire of Meet the Spartans) becomes a leader of the resistance, and with his merry band of outlaws searches for a way t...

Eight men find themselves in a life raft with no memory (or so they say) of how they got there. It’s an odd kind of raft – basically a hoop ...

Alexander Stark is a university professor who goes missing; this book contains accounts of his life – or rather lives – from that point on. ...

This collects issues one to nine of The Girly Comic, an indie anthology title of strips with female protagonists. Part of the appeal here is...

Saint-Clair, the Nyctalope, is a twentieth-century Riddick, able to see perfectly in the dark. It’s not much of a superpower, but it’s enoug...

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Warehouse 13 is reminiscent of the much-lamented Middleman, in that it’s about two beautiful people who work for a secret organisation that ...

“At a little after 3.15, the whole world had turned white, just for an instant, and then everything had gone back to normal.” But of course ...

Different Skins collects two novellas, “Even the Dead Die” and the shorter “In the Skin”, both by Gary McMahon. They share certain themes – ...

In this sequel to Infected, a prologue quickly brings new readers (and a new President) up to speed. The infected develop welts, kill their ...

Quentin Coldwater is a rather sour over-achiever from New York, whose favourite books are the Fillory and Further series, which bear an un...

This very enjoyable little book sees G.K. Chesterton, having been mistaken for H.G. Wells, abducted by Martians. An energetic and rather unp...

Mister Gum is a creative writing tutor who illustrates the rules of good writing – beginning of course with “Show, don’t tell” – with a seri...

King William IV is dead, and Princess Victoria takes the throne aged eighteen. England and its monarch are threatened by the forces of darkn...

With the tenants of a run-down tenement building facing what seems to be a zombie attack, this seems at first like an unofficial remake of [...

The Razalians take the sun’s contempt in good part. The nature of their planet has long inured them to disappointment – hope, too, but this ...

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I went from The Smell of Telescopes , one of Rhys Hughes’ earliest books, to this, one of his most recent. The decade or so that separates t...

This is a new edition from Eibonvale Press from 2007 of a collection of short stories first published by the highly respected small press, T...