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Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically, something else. 
Welcome to the astonishing secret world of fungi. 
_____\nFungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and thoughts; live between our toes or our floorboards; they are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats; symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth and decay of their interconnected world.\nAliya Whiteley has always been in love with fungi - from a childhood taking blurry photographs of strange fungal eruptions on Exmoor to a career as a writer inspired by their surreal and alien beauty. This love for fungi is a love for life, from single-cell spores to the largest living organism on the planet; a story stretching from Aliya's lawn into orbit and back again via every continent.\nFrom fields, feasts and fairy rings to death caps, puffballs and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating journey into the life of extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun to understand.\n_____ 
'Accessible, inviting and revelatory... Aliya Whiteley animates the hidden world of fungi in prose as rich and beautiful as the strange organisms she turns her attention to.' - Alice Tarbuck, author of A Spell in the Wild

The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World

Science & Math

Aliya Whiteley

Biological Sciences

Elliott & Thompson Limited

Will you visit the island? Skein Island, a private refuge twelve miles off the coast, lies in troubled waters. Few receive the invitation to stay, but those who do may stay for one week, free of charge. Those few who are chosen must pay for their stay with a story from their past - a Declaration for the island's vast library. What happens to your Declaration after you leave the island is none of your concern. From the monsters of Ancient Greece to the atrocities of World War Ii, from heroes to villains with their seers and sidekicks by their sides, Skein Island looks through the roles we play, and how they form and divide us. Powerful and disturbing, it is a story over which the characters will fight for control. Until you realise the true enemy is the story itself.

Skein Island

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Dog Horn Publishing

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their stories in the Valley of the Rocks. For when the women are all gone the rest of your life is all there is for everyone. The men are waiting to pass into the night. The story shall be told to preserve the past. History has gone back to its aural roots and the power of words is strong. Meet Nate, the storyteller, and the new secrets he brings back from the darkness. William rules the group with youth and strength, but how long can that last? And what about Uncle Ted, who spends so much time out in the woods? Hear the tales, watch a myth be formed. For what can man hope to achieve in a world without women? When the past is only grief how long should you hold on to it? What secrets can the forest offer to change it all? Discover the Beauty. This is a bold and striking novella to shake up the New Weird and does contain strong imagery and events. The beautiful and the terrible exist side by side. Encompassing post-apocalyptic setting, science fiction and horror, this is a story you will never forget.

The Beauty

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Unsung Stories

Penelope Greensmith lives a small, dedicated life, collecting plants with the mysterious Vice she inherited from her father. Then the enigmatic and charming Horticulturalist arrives in her garden, asking to see her collection—he tells her it could hold the key to stopping a terrible plague sweeping the universe.\nPenelope is whisked away on an intergalactic adventure by the Horticulturalist, witnessing the vast and bizarre mysteries that lie among the stars. She is thrust into a bewildering life of the strange and fantastic—where string powers interstellar travel, where birds fight terrible wars on the bodies of giants, where plants grow to the size of planets—hoping to help Hort save the day.\nBut as this gentle woman searches for a way to save the universe, her daughter Lily is still on Earth, struggling to survive the terrible plague sweeping the planet. Penelope must fight a way to stop the rot once and for all.

Greensmith

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