The Ilkley Literature Festival, a chance to meet authors and publishers, to discuss new works and classics, to relax in the historic West Yorkshire town in the company

It’s been twenty-five long years since destiny came calling for William S “Bill” Preston, Esq and Theodore “Ted” Logan outside the San Dimas Circle K; they passed their

A pioneer of early film and of science fiction, and also of trick photography and special effects which have remained so central to the cinematic illusions of that

The Marchbank Hotel, San Francisco, where a killer bides his time feeding a stray cat, waiting for confirmation of a hit: a time, a place and a name,

“Becky is as strong-willed and vindictive as they come.” Perhaps not a recommendation in the traditional sense, particularly from a prospective step-parent when speaking about her fiancé’s thirteen-year-old

Entropy increases. A fundamental tenet of the physical universe as described by the third law of thermodynamics, once an action has been taken to shift a system from

Five troubled teenagers and twenty-somethings, the only patients in a sprawling, run-down hospital, locked in their rooms at night as though they were prisoners, miles from the nearest

The eighties are remembered as an era of excess and success, but like the crumbling pyramids of Egypt or statues of slave traders waiting to be toppled it

In the Anhangabuá Valley deep in the Amazon Forest respected archaeologist Galvani Volta oversees a dig, but the funding for the expedition is provided by less-than-respectable businessman Tack

Australia, a land of sunshine and surf, of great tracts of unspoiled land, of high living standards and affordable property, but also of poisonous snakes and spiders and