Anywhere: The ministry of time (Keywords)

In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a job in a new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel. Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as '1847' - Commander Graham...

Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia - the Great Game - and, towards the end of the century, East ...

In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a job in a new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test the limits of time-travel. Her role is to work as a 'bridge': living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as '1847' - Commander Graham...

'Stunning' DAZED'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK'A book of extraordinary sentences' MEGAN HUNTERFrom the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.There's no way to bury a body in earth ...

Twenty early short stories by one of the world's best loved authors, each accompanied by original woodcut illustrations. These are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. Meet Og the inventor, the first caveman to cultivate fi...

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black and white, a wizard cautiously entered a smoky tavern in the evil, ancient, foggy city of Morpork...A truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen ...

Dark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of time-travel, totalitarianism and terror, written by some of the masters of speculati...

DCI Mackenzie and Atticus Priest are back, but can they work together to solve a conspiracy? A dog walker finds a human bone on lonely Salisbury Plain. DCI Mackenzie Jones investigates the grisly discovery but cannot explain how it ended up there. She contacts disgraced ex-detective Atticus Pri...

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black and white, a wizard cautiously entered a smoky tavern in the evil, ancient, foggy city of Morpork. These are rediscovered tales that Pratchett wrote under a pseudonym for newspapers during the...

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth — or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak — altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts, breaking ’the lo...

All Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep - John Owenya, detective inspector wi...

Mollie Sugden and Deryck Guyler star in this vintage 1970s sitcom about life in retirementWilliam and Olive Wheeler are an old-fashioned couple, who call each other 'Mother' and 'Father', and are happy in their traditional roles as breadwinner and housewife respectively. But now William has retir...

Feature-length sequel from Aardman Animations following Shaun (voice of Justin Fletcher) and his flock of sheep as they try to help a lost alien find its way home. Shaun and his friends on Mossy Bottom Farm receive an unexpected visitor when friendly alien Lu-La (Amalia Vitale) crash-lands in...

P. Djeli Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of "A Dead Djinn in Cairo", with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities - handlin...

George Orwell's last novel has become one of the iconic narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become part of the language - from 'Big Brother' to the 'Thought Police', 'Doublethink', and 'Newspeak' - and seem ever more relevant in the era of 'fake news' and 'alternative...

What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?! Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Espec...

What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and - tentacles? Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"?What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especia...

Continuing the school-based fantasy manga series. What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and tentacles?! Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"?What would it take to justify such an...

What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and - tentacles? Ever caught yourself screaming, "I could just kill that teacher"? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especi...

What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher's alien technology, bizarre powers and - tentacles? Ever caught yourself screaming, I could justkillthat teacher? What would it take to justify such antisocial behavior and weeks of detention? Especially...