The second stunning literary crime novel in the Song Cycle trilogy from the acclaimed author of Booker-longlisted Peacetime, and The Book of the Heathen.In this second book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cradle Song, Private investigator Leo Rivers is approached by the mother of a girl who disappeared a year earlier in violent and mysterious circumstances. Investigating both the background to this disappearance, and the man held to be responsible, Rivers is drawn through a long, hot summer into a world of human-trafficking and governmental corruption at every turn, each unraveled piece of the mystery moving him further from the vanished girl and deeper into a web of exploitation, greed, temptation, revenge and violence from which even he is eventually unable to extricate himself without unforeseen and tragic consequences.

Siren Song

Literature & Fiction

ROBERT EDRIC

Contemporary

DOUBLEDAY

Autumn 1919. Elizabeth Mortlake, companion to her widowed sister-in-law, meets Jameson and Hunter, two ex-officers striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the war - one still hospitalized and awaiting the judgement of a court martial, the other seeking a more personal atonement for his unimaginable sins. Drawn increasingly into their lives here at the calm centre of the changing world, she gradually understands what a fragile peace they now inhabit, and how the ideals and bonds which once sustained and kept the two men alive, now threaten to destroy them completely.

In Desolate Heaven

Black Swan Books, Limited

Elysium

Duckworth

Sanctuary

Literary

Black Swan.

Song Cycle Quartet: Cradle Song #1 [Trade Paperback]

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

PS Publishing

About the Author\nRobert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include Winter Garden (James Tait Black Prize winner), A New Ice Age (runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize), The Book Of The Heathen (the W.H.Smith Literary Award), Peacetime and Gathering The Water (both longlisted for the Booker Prize) and In Zodiac Light (shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize). His previous P.S. publications include The Mermaids, The Lives Of The Savages and The Wrack Line, a trilogy of novellas. His most recent publications include the novel Mercury Falling and a memoir, My Own Worst Enemy.\nWhen the luxury yacht Helen Brooks was last seen on is found abandoned amid the marshlands of the Humber Estuary, foul play is suspected. However, in the absence of a body, nothing can be proven, and the owner of the yacht ―local ambitious businessman, Simon Fowler―is unprepared to offer any explanation as to what Helen was doing on board. A year later, Hull private investigator Leo Rivers is approached by Helen's mother to investigate both her daughter's disappearance and Fowler's own background. Rivers is drawn through a long, hot summer into a world of human trafficking and governmental corruption at every turn. Each slowly unravelled piece of the mystery moves him further from the vanished girl and into a web of exploitation, greed, temptation, revenge and violence, from which even he is unable to extricate himself without unforeseen and tragic circumstances.

Song Cycle Quartet: Siren Song #2 [Trade Paperback]

ABOUT THE BOOK 
In the 1960s and 1970s, New Worlds magazine, edited by Michael Moorcock, became famous for its avant garde approach to SF, energising the genre’s New Wave with exciting innovations in style, content, and presentation. Here J G Ballard and Brian Aldiss shared pages with Samuel R Delany and Norman Spinrad, Pamela Zoline with M John Harrison, Charles Platt with Harlan Ellison. Hilary Bailey with Thomas M. Disch. 
Now PS Publishing, with the enthusiastic endorsement and participation of Moorcock himself, presents the first in a revived New Worlds anthology series. Award-winning co-editors Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers have gathered brilliant new stories by the finest short fiction writers in SF. A sampling: 
Continuing his topical yet timeless Jerry Cornelius sequence begun during the heyday of New Worlds, Michael Moorcock delineates ‘The Wokingham Agreement’. 
Alan Moore, titan of the graphic novel, artfully explores surprising and hilarious events immediately after the Bing Bang in ‘The Improbably Complex High-Energy State’. 
Gwyneth Jones ventures to the outer solar system and probes the perils of posthumanity in ‘The Ploughshare and the Storm’. 
Ken MacLeod explores the subtle dangers of a very wired future Europe in ‘Cold Revolution Blues’. 
Margo Lanagan brings her cunning sidewise sensibility to another England in ‘Tell-Tale Tit’. 
Michael Swanwick slyly and movingly contemplates combat-machine fetishism in ‘The White Leopard’. 
Add tales by Ian R. MacLeod, Lavie Tidhar, Ian Watson, Paul Park, James Lovegrove, M T Hill, Robert Edric, John Grant, a reprint story by Peter Crowther, the first in a series of columns from Steve Aylett, and a knowledgeable Introduction by the noted SF scholar Mike Ashley, and here is New Worlds reborn in all its fabled glory.

New Worlds [Trade Paperback]

Science Fiction & Fantasy

ALAN MOORE

Ian WATSON

Lavie Tidhar

Gwyneth Jones

James Lovegrove

KEN MACLEOD

Michael Swanwick

Nick Gevers

Paul Park

Ian R. MacLeod

M T Hill

margo-lanagan

michael-moorcock

peter-crowther

John, Grant

Science Fiction

My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood

'A small masterpiece' The SpectatorMy Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely.With a novelist's eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished of working-men’s clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman’s place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended – though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father.My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place – the Sheffield of half a century ago – and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong.

My Own Worst Enemy

Swift Press

'A small masterpiece' The Spectator 
My Own Worst Enemy is a wry and moving memoir of a working-class childhood in 1960s Sheffield, and the relationship between a touchy, tragicomic bully of a father and a son whose acceptance to grammar school puts him on another track entirely. 
With a novelist's eye, Robert Edric vividly depicts a now-vanished of working-men’s clubs; of tight-knit communities in factory towns; and of a time when a woman’s place was in the home. And he brings to colourful life his family, both close and extended – though over all of it hovers the vanity and barely-suppressed anger of his own father. 
My Own Worst Enemy is a brilliantly specific portrait both of particular time and place – the Sheffield of half a century ago – and a universal story of childhood and family, and the ways they can go right or wrong.

It is the autumn of 1919. Elizabeth Mortlake, companion to her widowed sister-in-law, meets Jameson and Hunter, two ex-officers striving for some new measure of peace and order amid the ever-lengthening shadows of the war - one still hospitalized and awaiting the judgement of a court martial, the other seeking a more personal atonement for his unimaginable sins. Drawn increasingly into their lives here at the calm centre of the changing world, she gradually understands what a fragile peace they now inhabit, and how the ideals and bonds which once sustained and kept the two men alive, now threaten to destroy them completely.

Firebird Distributing

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