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Helix is a fast-paced action adventure novel following the plight
of four humans when they crashland on what they think is a
desolate, ice-bound planet. Daylight brings the discovery that the
planet is one of thousands arranged in a vast spiral wound about a
central sun. They set off to discover a more habitable, Earth-like
world and come across strange races of aliens, and life-threatening
perils, on their way.
In December 1943, a top secret contract (E.24/43) was awarded to
Miles Aircraft. The contract was to build the world's first
supersonic jet capable of 1000mph. The only reliable source of data
on supersonic objects came from the Armament Research Dept and
their wind tunnel tests on ammunition. From this, Miles developed
an exceptionally thin-winged, bullet-shaped aircraft. the research
was inexplicably passed to the Americans in 1944. By December 1945,
one prototype was virtually complete. The second, destined for an
attempt at the sound barrier was 80 per cent complete. In February
1946, Capt Eric Brown was confirmed as the test pilot and October
1946 was set for the supersonic trials. However, on 12 February
1946, Miles were ordered to stop production. No plausible
explanation was given for the cancellation when Britain was within
six months of breaking the sound barrier. Eric Brown and others
directly involved including Dennis Bancroft, the Chief
Aerodynamicist on the M.52, have now come together to try and
finally solve the mystery behind the cancellation.
In 2025, the Serene arrive from Delta Pavonis V, and change
mankind's destiny forever. The gentle aliens bring peace to an
ailing world - a world riven by war, terrorism and poverty, by
rising conflicts over natural resources - and offer an end to need
and violence. But not everyone supports the seemingly benign
invasion. There are those who benefit from conflict, who cherish
chaos, and they will stop at nothing to bring back the old days.
When Sally Walsh is kidnapped by terrorists and threatened with
death, it seems that only a miracle can save her life. Geoff Allen,
photo-journalist, is contacted by the Serene and offered the
opportunity to work with the aliens in their mission. For Sally,
Geoff, and billions of other citizens of Earth, nothing will ever
be the same again...
Donald Langham and Maria Dupre must navigate a rocky road to find a
killer when a body is found next to a standing stone. Newlyweds
Donald Langham and Maria Dupre have moved to the country. They're
excited about starting a new life in the picturesque village of
Ingoldby-over-Water - and about meeting their new neighbours. But
they've barely moved into Yew Tree Cottage when their new neighbour
at Standing Stone Manor, Professor Edwin Robertshaw, invites Donald
over to discuss some 'fishy business'. Shortly after, a body is
found by the professor's precious standing stone in the manor
grounds. Donald and Maria discover tensions, disputes and
resentment raging below the surface of this idyllic village, but
can they find out which of the villagers is a cold-blooded killer?
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazis...In the neutral zone that divides the rival superpowers in America lives the author of an underground best-seller. His book - a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers - offers an alternative theory of world history. Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others?
Billy's grandfather is a retired astronaut who likes to take Billy
on trips around planet Earth. But when the ship's computer takes
over, they suddenly find themselves zooming away on a grand tour of
the Solar System! But when the computer system fails and Billy's
grandfather is forced to pilot the ship manually through the
treacherous asteroid belt! Will they make it home alive? A fun,
fast-paced story filled with facts about the solar system, and the
perfect celebration of grandparents and grandchildren. Particularly
suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 7+
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War of the Worlds (Paperback)
H. G. Wells; Retold by Eric Brown; Illustrated by Felix Bennet
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No one would have believed that planet Earth was being watched by
creatures more intelligent than humankind.But planet Earth was not
only being watched soon it would be invaded by monstrous creatures
from Mars who strode about the land in great mechanical tripods,
bringing death and destruction with them.What can possibly stop an
invading army equipped with heat-rays and poisonous black gas,
intent on wiping out the human race?This is one man s story of that
incredible invasion, from the time the first Martians land near his
home town, to the destruction of London.Is this the end of human
life on Earth?"Real Reads" are accessible texts designed to support
the literacy development of primary and lower secondary age
children while introducing them to the riches of our international
literary heritage. Each book is a retelling of a work of great
literature from one of the world s greatest cultures, fitted into a
64-page book, making classic stories, dramas and histories
available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full
texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and
to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original
versions."
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Necropath (Paperback)
Eric Brown
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Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean
between India and Burma. Jaded telepath, Jeff Vaughan, is employed
by the spaceport authorities to monitor incoming craft for refugees
from other worlds. When he discovers a sinister cult that worships
an mysterious alien god, he's drawn into an deadly investigation.
Not only must he attempt to solve the murders, but he has to save
himself from the psychopath out to kill him. Necropath is Eric
Brown's triumphant return to hard SF.
For ten years, Paul has scrabbled for survival among the
sand-shrouded ruins of the once-great city of Paris. The seas have
dried up, deserts cover much of the Earth's surface, and humanity
has been all but annihilated, as much by the drought as by the
nuclear and biological conflicts following the great Breakdown.
Desperate bands of humans still survive. Some scrape a living in
the remains of shattered cities; others resort to murder and
cannibalism to survive. When Paul is rescued from one such group of
killers, he joins his benefactors in their journey south in search
of water and salvation. Guardians of the Phoenix tells the story of
the last survivors on planet Earth, their desperate fight for
survival and their last hope to save the world.
The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history. In 1939
Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in
Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came
to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in
the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown
joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot
in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else.
During his lifetime he made a record-breaking 2,407 aircraft
carrier landings and survived eleven plane crashes. One of
Britain's few German-speaking airmen, he went to Germany in 1945 to
test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and
Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket
plane, and tested the first British jets. WINGS ON MY SLEEVE is
'Winkle' Brown's incredible story.
"It's time to let bygones be bygones. Water under the bridge,
right? What happened . happened a long time ago." When Langham's
literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the
weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh
Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really
happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917,
nearly forty years before - and why has it had such a devastating
effect on Charles? Accompanying his agent to Connaught House,
Langham and his wife Maria discover that Charles is not the only
one to have received a letter. But why has Denbigh Connaught
gathered together a group of people who each bear him a grudge?
When a body is discovered in Connaught's study, the ensuing
investigation uncovers dark secrets that haunt the past of each and
every guest - including Charles Elder himself .
From his knowledge of German aviation, Brown has selected the most
important and promising aircraft employed by the Luftwaffe and
those evolved from that air arm in Germany during World War II. He
described their background and characteristics, and provides an
in-depth assessment of the contribution made to the annals of
military aviation.
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Time Machine (Paperback)
H. G. Wells; Retold by Eric Brown; Illustrated by Felix Bennet
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On this machine, I intend to explore time ... The time traveller
has invented a time machine. Its capabilities are beyond even his
fertile imagination.Hundreds of thousands of years in the future,
the beautiful Eloi people live in a Garden of Eden. But why are the
Eloi so fearful of the dark? What horrors lurk beneath the surface
of their world?What will the time traveller learn about the future?
Will he survive the evil he encounters? Even if he can find his
stolen machine, will it return him safely home?What does his future
hold? What is the future of the human race?"Real Reads" are
accessible texts designed to support the literacy development of
primary and lower secondary age children while introducing them to
the riches of our international literary heritage. Each book is a
retelling of a work of great literature from one of the world s
greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic
stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young
readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting
access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely
ever to read the original versions."
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Time Machine, The (Hardcover)
H. G. Wells; Illustrated by Felix Bennett; Retold by Eric Brown
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The time traveller has invented a time machine. Its capabilities
are beyond even his fertile imagination. Hundreds of thousand of
years in the future, the beautiful Eloi people live in a Garden of
Eden. But why are the Eloi so fearful of the dark? What horrors
lurk beneath the surface of their world? What will the time
traveller learn about the future? Will he survive the evil he
encounters? Even if he can find his stolen machine, will it return
him safely home? What does his future hold? What is the future of
the human race?
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War of the Worlds, The (Hardcover)
H. G. Wells; Illustrated by Felix Bennett; Retold by Eric Brown
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But planet Earth was not only being watched - soon it would be
invaded by monstrous creatures from Mars who strode about the land
in great mechanical tripods, bringing death and destruction with
them. What can possibly stop an invading army equipped with
heat-rays and poisonous black gas, intent on wiping out the human
race? This is one man's story of that incredible invasion, from the
time the first Martians land near his home town, to the destruction
of London. Is this the end of human life on Earth?
NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES 'Truth, she thought. As terrible as
death. But harder to find.' America, fifteen years after the end of
the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their
spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by
the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war -
lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne
Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life
for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the
Allies. . .
1999: On the threshold of a new millennium, the novelist Daniel
Langham lives a reclusive life on an idyllic Greek island, hiding
away from humanity and the events of the past. All that changes,
however, when he meets artist Caroline Platt and finds himself
falling in love. But what is his secret, and what are the horrors
that haunt him? 1935: Writers Jonathon Langham and Edward Vaughan
are summoned from London by their editor friend Jasper Carnegie to
help investigate strange goings on in Hopton Wood. What they
discover there - no less than a strange creature from another world
- will change their lives forever. Almost ten years in the writing,
The Kings of Eternity is a novel of vast scope and depth, full of
the staple tropes of the genre and yet imbued with humanity and
characters you'll come to love.
2110. Earth is suffering major resource shortages, and the impact
of climate change is peaking,with much of the planet’s equatorial
regions turned to lifeless desert and populations
displaced.Colonies have been established on Mars and the Moon, but
these cannot hope to sustain any morethan a scant population of
hundreds of citizens. Attention has turned to the need to discover
an extra-solar colony world. European scientists, using discoveries
made at CERN, have identified the means of creating awormhole in
the space-time continuum, which would allow interstellar travel.
However, to do sothey must first physically transport one end of
the wormhole to where they want it to be, so settingup a wormhole
will always rely on physical travel first of all. A ship is sent to
Mu Arae, earth-like planet discovered 10 years before. It is a
journey that willtake 80 years, the crew, who will eventually set
up the wormhole on the planet, kept in suspendedanimation. But only
a few years into the trip, catastrophe strikes and the ship blows
up en route, killing allaboard. 2190, eighty years after the
starship set out. Gordon Kemp is a detective working in the cold
case department in London. Usually he works oncases closed ten,
twenty-five years earlier. Now, however, he has been assigned a
murderinvestigation closed, unsolved, over eighty years ago. What
he unearths will change history andthreatens everything we know
about what the powers that be have planned for Earth. The
tragedythat befell the ship 80 years before is not what it seems
and the past and the present are radicallydifferent to what
everyone on Earth believes. We made the journey. Why has it been
kept a secret?
The search for a missing artist draws Donald Langham and Ralph
Ryland into London's criminal underworld, with deadly consequences.
London. April, 1957. Private investigator Donald Langham is
approached by retired businessman Vernon Lombard to find his
missing son, Christopher. But what appears to be a simple case of a
missing artist becomes far more alarming when Langham realizes
there's more to Christopher's disappearance than meets the eye, and
then makes a terrible discovery. Meanwhile, Langham's business
partner Ralph Ryland's search for a missing greyhound forces him to
confront a shameful secret from his own past, with terrifying
consequences. Can Langham navigate London's criminal underworld,
fascism and deception to track down a killer and save Ralph's life?
Survival Is All In The Mind A downed terraforming ship. An ice
planet. A hostile alien race. Delia Kemp has had better
expeditions. Stranded, alone and hunted by the native Skelt for her
scientific knowledge, Delia is chased across the undiscovered world
of Valinda as its long winter comes to an end and a blistering
summer approaches. Strange new companions, phantasmagorical
landscapes, and a death-defying dash across Valinda's fiery equator
lead Delia ever close to the valley of Mahkanda - where salvation
just might be waiting...
And then there was one . . . can Donald Langham and Maria Dupre
stop a killer who's picking off victims one by one? December, 1956.
Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupre receives a chilling invitation to
attend a death at the home of Maxwell Falwell Fenton in Essex. The
once-prominent artist has a number of enemies, and has faded into
obscurity since the war ended. Is the invitation to his own death
or someone else's? Arriving at Winterfield on a cold winter
evening, Donald and Maria meet five strangers who have also
received numbered invitations. They all had a reason to hate or
fear Maxwell - including Maria, who reveals a secret from her own
past. But is she telling the whole truth? The soiree produces a
gruesome and dramatic twist, but it's about to get much worse when
someone starts picking off the six, one by one. Can Donald untangle
lies, betrayal, and incredible revelations to identify the killer
before Maria becomes the next victim?
The search for a missing artist draws Donald Langham and Ralph
Ryland into London's criminal underworld, with deadly consequences.
London. April, 1957. Private investigator Donald Langham is
approached by retired businessman Vernon Lombard to find his
missing son, Christopher. But what appears to be a simple case of a
missing artist becomes far more alarming when Langham realizes
there's more to Christopher's disappearance than meets the eye, and
then makes a terrible discovery. Meanwhile, Langham's business
partner Ralph Ryland's search for a missing greyhound forces him to
confront a shameful secret from his own past, with terrifying
consequences. Can Langham navigate London's criminal underworld,
fascism and deception to track down a killer and save Ralph's life?
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