A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most…unusual…way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equ...

This crackling, authentically drawn courtroom drama finds San Francisco's assistant D.A. Dismas Hardy immersed in not one but two murder trials when he di...

Brand-new stories by: Dennis Lehane, Stewart O'Nan, Patricia Powell, John Dufresne, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, Russ Aborn, Itabari Njeri, Jim Fusilli, Brenda...

When explorers arrived on Venus, they thought they were in a wild, primeval world. But everything turned out to be not quite so....

Katya Vinskaya, a young graduate of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, is entrusted with a very unusual research by her supervisor. Russian b...

Fairy tales are not for the faint of heart: they are either hit or miss. However, since childhood, we have been attracted to their world - not the same as ou...

Finding himself in the Nemedian city of Shikas, Conan finds himself drawn into a tangle of intrigue surrounding the royal treasury and the statue of the anci...

England Away operates on three levels - past, present and future. Retired man Bill Farrell recalls his experiences during the Second World War, Tommy Johnson...

Sonchai Jitpleecheep – John Burdett's inimitable Thai police detective – is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career. Solvin...

At the start of Burdett's superb third mystery-thriller to feature Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep (after Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo), Jitple...

The charming story of Pippinella, the green canary, as told by Pip herself to the Doctor. Although much of the material had been printed originally in 192...

When he discovers that animals from all over the world want to communicate with each other, Dr Dolittle has the wonderful idea of setting up the Swallow M...