Item category 1: Read Past/Discover Future

In 3010, humanity lives in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the planet will be habitable again. Now a hundred juvenile delinquents are sent on a high-stakes mission to re-colonize Earth. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive...

In the near future, humanity has experienced a great schism. The larger part is ruled by instinct and pleasure: they are ageless, beautiful yet wholly dependent on technology designed by previous generations to sustain them. Having no social structure or self-consciousness to speak of, to the min...

In 2013, James Robertson wrote a story every day. Each was exactly 365 words long. A year later, on a daily basis, the stories were published on the Five Dials website. Now the 365 stories are gathered together in one volume. Some draw on elements of ancient myth and legend, others are outtakes f...

This book takes the reader on a journey from the wastes of Antarctica to the South African Highlands, from Canada's prairies to Australia's vineyards. It visits cities and deserted villages, scales mountain peaks and calls in at far-flung islands. All these places have one thing in common - the f...

The Radch are conquerors to be feared - resist and they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier' - one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people. The colossal warship called the Justice of Toren has been destroyed - but one ship-posse...

In 1950 'austerity' Britain was in full swing but as the decade progressed food technology gathered pace - with the fish finger came the arrival of the first convenience foods and the advance of each new decade saw massive change resonating in kitchens across the country. 'Back in Time For Dinner...

In a fast-paced narrative spiced with genuine wit, this novel describes the billionaires' banquet going on around us daily in contemporary Britain - who feasts and who pays the bill. Intriguing, disturbing and hugely entertaining, 'Billionaires' Banquet' is an immorality tale for the 21st century.

Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challeng...

'The Book of the New Sun' is an epic set a million years in the future. Earth is transformed to a time when present culture is no longer even a memory. This edition contains 'The Shadow of the Torturer' and 'The Claw of the Conciliator'.

'The Book of the New Sun' is an epic set a million years in the future. Earth is transformed to a time when present culture is no longer even a memory. This edition contains 'The Sword of the Lictor' and 'Citadel of the Autarch'.