General Fiction

With this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships - with friends, roommates, siblings - while trying to move forward into an uncertain future.

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans 40 years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, author Alan Moore presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality.

'A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray'. An escapee from a cult in Japan; an animal activist with something to hide; a cafe-owner in Sydney reconnecting with her e...

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'The Infected' tells the tales of four superheroes who are reborn as the Infected - corrupted versions of some of DC's greatest heroes who were gifted with extraordinary new powers, but whose souls have been blackened by the evil of the Batman Who Laughs. The heroic lives of Shazam, the Blue Beet...

General fiction.

The title is a Potteries' saying that means it's looking a bit bleak, a little like rain - an expression that sums up this fabulous debut collection of award-winning stories by Lisa Blower. Blower celebrates her characters with stories that they wouldn't want told. She makes the bleak funny, in a...

Another Superman has fallen. Across the multiverse, Kal-Els are being murdered. Val-Zod, the Superman of Earth-2, believes only one man can help stop the killing - Kal-El's son, Jon Kent! Jon will have to step across dimensions and face the killer of the Kal-Els, the monstrous Ultraman, the man w...

In the whole Marvel-Verse, nobody is as skilled a hunter as Kraven - and these are the tales that show how nobody is safe from his predatory prowess! Sergei Kravinoff and his family will prove more than a match for a trio of action-packed arachnid adventurers - Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy and Miles ...

Five close friends in their 90s meet - as they have for decades - for their monthly 'ladies lunch', to puzzle, and laugh at, the enigmas and affronts of ageing. When one of their number is placed unhappily in a home the others conspire to spring her. Lore Segal's witty, yet poignant, short story,...