<p>Fearing his talent is gone, a former best-selling author cannot write until he starts hearing a train at night in his imagination, and as the pages pour forth on his typewriter, the train draws ever closer while the writer cannot stop or shake his sense of foreboding</p>

Escardy Gap

Literature & Fiction

Lovegrove, James

Crowther, Peter

United States

St Martins Pr

The Hope

Contemporary

Pan/Macmillan

Sceptre

Trade edition paperback, new In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Untied Kingdom (Gollancz S.F.)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gollancz

An extraordinary new fantasy of a world where everyone has supra-normal powers, from one of the UK's most exciting authors.

Worldstorm

After a series of disasterous political decisions the United Kingdom has finally fallen foul of the International Coummunity. Ostracized and bombed at random, the country has fallen apart. With the infrastructure in ruins, tiny communities struggle on relying on ancient traditions and myth for their structure and identity. In the village of Downbourne the mayor has styled himself the Green Man. But even he is powerless to stop a raid on the village by a London based gang who kidnap a number of the village's women. One of them is the schoolmaster's wife. Their marriage was an arid disaster, but the schoolmaster feels bound to do the right thing and sets off on a journey through an England at once terrifying and magical to get her back. But does this particular damsel even want to be rescued?

Untied Kingdom (Gollancz SF)

The Families.O Insanely rich and richly insane.O With world-spanning business interests, glamour and power, they are monarchs, Mafia and movie stars rolled into one.O Since theOBorgias and de'Medicis united in the 17th century,Othe FamiliesOhave transfixed, transformed, and ruled, the world. Top British FamilyOthe Gleeds areOhosting the social event of the year, their annual ball.O Venice has been reconstructed in all its glory in the grounds of their estate, Dashlands, and should provide the perfect romantic backdrop for Provender - the young, disaffected Gleed heir upon whom the Family line, and status, depends - finally to find a wife.O But Provender shows no sign of settling down with any of the social beauties his mother parades before him ...and in the moment whenOloveOdoes begin to blossom, Provender is kidnapped by an anti-Familial revolutionary. The future of the Gleeds, and of Europe,Odepends onOthe skills of two Anagrammatic Detectives - while Provender's own future depends on the dark eyes and equally dark wit of a girl called Is.

Provender Gleed

Humor & Satire

Provender Gleed (Gollancz)

The Families. Insanely rich and richly insane. They are monarchs, Mafia, and movie stars rolled into one. Since the Borgias and the Medicis united in the 17th century, the Families have transfixed, transformed, and ruled the world. The Gleeds, the top British family, are hosting their annual ball. The perfect opportunity for Provender—the young, disaffected Gleed heir—to finally find a wife. And, as it turns out, the perfect opportunity for anti-familial revolutionaries to kidnap him. The future of the Gleeds, and of Europe, depends on the skills of two Anagrammatic detectives—while Provender's own future depends on the dark eyes and dark wit of a girl called Is.

Science Fiction

A former bestselling author sits at the typewriter day after day, fearing his talent spent, unable to produce a sentence. The typewriter taunts him, and he abandons it for days until the night he hears the sound. It is faint, at first, but grows louder. It reminds him of something he can't quite place. He begins to type, describing the sound - the first words he's written in months. On the page, a train appears far in the distance, speeding across the plains. As he continues to write, the train's destination appears on the horizon: a small town from the 1950s - Escardy Gap. Escardy Gap is a re-creation of the writer's hometown in the Midwest. The characters that begin to appear - Mayor Raymond, Station Master Walt - are all memories from his childhood. A pack of boys abandons their baseball game, running toward the unexpected train, and with a start the writer recognizes himself as one of them. Who or what is on the train and why it has come to Escardy Gap does not seem important. The words are flowing faster than they ever have. But the writer has a terrible sense of foreboding, and though something doesn't seem quite right about this train and its passengers, he can't stop writing. This may be the blockbuster novel that saves his career. Or it may be the beginning of his descent into madness as the disturbingly real creatures of his imagination threaten to take over both the story and his life.

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Escardy Gap

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Escardy Gap