The Four Gospels: And Other Texts, A Critical Handbook of the New Testament

Religion & Spirituality

Dick Butler

Christian Books & Bibles

Barbican Press

Environmental and Social Transparency Under the Companies Ac

ClientEarth

A dystopian novel from an award winning author, in the line of Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale. Ectopia takes place sixteen years into a baking world in which no more girls have been born. It's set in London, in the flatlands around Heathrow. Planes don't fly any more. Heathrow is now Cromozone, a genetic research station. The streets are run by teensquads, state-sponsored groups of boys. A lead runner among them is Steven, the gay twin of the last girl Karen. Their mother swells in size. Their Dad treats Karen as bait. He turns the house into a fortress and draws a teensquad into battle. Meanwhile a Council of Women is inventing an Eden, and aim to put Karen and Steven at the heart of it. Ectopia takes themes of gender, feminism, climate change, cloning, psychedelics, racism, and genetic modification and mixes them into a 21st Century Brave New World.

Ectopia

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Goodman, Martin

Science Fiction

Sphinx: the Ancient Gods are Awakening. Are We Ready? When a team of westerners discovers a mysterious code hidden deep within the fabric of the Great Pyramid, they unearth a secret that has been hidden for millennia. As they peel back the layers of an ancient puzzle, their actions trigger a series of inexplicable events that thrust their exploits under the glare of the media spotlight. With the eyes of this world and others watching on, powerful forces are awakened, the likes of which no one has witnessed before. Undeterred by the dangers that lay ahead, the team delves headlong into a quest that could unlock the origins of the human race… or potentially trigger the end of it.

Sphinx: The Second Coming

Literature & Fiction

Thornton, James

Genre Fiction

A modern teenage dystopia set in London. The earth has baked, and for seventeen years no females of any warm-blooded species have been born. Karen is the last girl born on Earth - and Steven is her gay twin brother. As their father turns their home into a fortress, they need to find some way to run into their own lives.

Literary

Freewill, love, death, revolution - a student has the themes for his creative writing PhD. He pins them to Elsie Stewart and embarks on her biography. Love takes Elsie to the Spanish Civil War while the story hurtles off into the maelstrom of Ukrainian twentieth century history. Can Professor Thrub's post-structural guidance haul the project back on track? Will love and surgery redeem our student's struggles for a good life, significance and a doctorate? This biting comedy of love, desperation and existence offers a thrilling ride into the world of a major new writer.

The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub

Johnston, D.D.

Humor & Satire

A literary gothic, in the tradition of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Valerie Martin’s Mary Reilly. A startling new sequel to Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein. Told from the perspective of the girl Victor Frankenstein transformed into a Bride for his monster. To a tiny island in the Scottish Orkneys, peopled by a devout community of twenty, comes Victor Frankenstein, driven there by a Devil's bargain: to make a wife for the Creature who is stalking him across Europe. In this darkly-wrought answer to Frankenstein, we hear the untold tale of the monster's wife through the perspective of the doctor's housemaid.

The Monster's Wife

Horsley, Kate

221b Baker St., London, early 1890s. For three Victorian slackers—to say nothing of their dog—becoming Sherlock Holmes’s neighbors is very nearly the death of them. Jerome and his friends are planning a jaunt when Miss Briony Lodge calls at Baker Street. The beautiful young schoolmistress is in deadly danger. But what match are a bank clerk, a lawyer’s assistant, a dog and a novelist for an international gang of desperadoes? None whatsoever. It would take an intellect of Sherlock Holmes’s proportions to set things to rights. Or maybe, perhaps, an otter.

The Mystery of Briony Lodge

Bagchi, David

Classics

A contemporary classic from the Czech Republic. To support his family, a man submits himself to a solo science experiment in the High Andes. A cosmic adventure story of big ideas and murder. Your business is dead. It seems like a deal - leave your family behind in Prague for a year, isolate yourself in a research station in the Andes, and come home with a fortune. With a treatise on black holes for company, Jakob settles in at altitude. The air is thin. Strangers pass by on dangerous pilgrimage while his young wife and kids take life in his mind. In mountain starkness, the big questions take shape - like what happens to love inside a black hole?

The Fifth Dimension

Vopěnka, Martin

In the harsh Arctic seas of 1968, three trawlers from Hull’s fleet sank in just three weeks. 58 men died. Lilian Bilocca put down her filleting knife, wrote a petition, and stormed into action. With her army of fishwives she took her battle to the docks and led a raid on Parliament. They changed the shipping laws. Lillian Bilocca became an international celebrity. The lone survivor of the tragedies made headlines too. In a tight fishing community, it’s dangerous to stand out.

The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster

Biographies & Memoirs

Lavery, Brian W.

Community & Culture

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