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Diana Hamilton is a strong, successful, wealthy woman. She owns the most discreet, exclusive and expensive private members club in Mayfair. But when she decides to expand beyond London she encounters two truly terrible brothers. They have made millions over the years, importing heroin, cocaine, ketamine and illegal immigrants. But they want more. And her business looks like a soft target. "What terrified him the most was the dentist chair and the straps - until he saw the metal rings attached to the ceiling and the rings in the floor below."

In this collection, our intrepid heroine, Lucy Burkhampton, is orphaned and swindled out of her inheritance by her evil nemesis, Lord Diehardt. She must seek a way to prove her right to her family's wealth, to defeat her enemy, and more than anything, to stay alive. These stories are all that is left of this largely forgotten, but utterly unforgettable serial from the golden age of adventure. Lucy Burkhampton is a creation from the mind of Calum Kerr, the writer behind the flash-fiction collections Apocalypse, Lost Property and 31. This book is the second in the 2014 Flash365 series.

Unrelated strangers are being murdered in a brutal fashion. At each scene, the killer is leaving a chess board. The deaths seem to represent moves in some ghastly game. Now it's up to crime-scene cleaner Mike Chambers, with the help of the police, in the form of his friend, DC James Worth, to track down the killer and stop the trail of carnage. The Grandmaster is the latest output from the mind of Calum Kerr, author of Undead at Heart, Braking Distance, Lost Property and 31. This book is the third in the 2014 Flash365 series.

Updated in a new edition, with a new Foreword and including the extra story 'The Second Spark.' Containing 31 stories written in the 31 days of January 2011, this collection of flash-fictions spans a wide range of genres and styles: from science-fiction to an unconventional love story, from pulp noir to the apocalypse, from magical realism to the magic of life. "There's a surreal fantasy about a town struck by an attack of metaphors, a futuristic investigation into prosthetic noses, and a poignant contemplation on holding hands. Calum Kerr's flash fictions are funny and moving and leap off the page with all the immediacy and urgency with which they were written." - David Gaffney, author of The Half Life of Songs "Such a treat... I was reading it thinking ah, so this is what good flash fiction is like. These should have won prizes and been lauded to the skies... The best and most energetic book of flash I've read for aeons " - Cathy Bryant, author of Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature Calum Kerr is the director of National Flash--Fiction Day.

It's the end of the world as we know it. Fire is raining from the sky, monsters are rising from the deep, and the human race is caught in the middle. This collection features 31 flash-fictions in a range of genres and styles, which cross the globe to examine what happens when the planet is faced with ultimate extinction. There is love, excitement, death, mystery, adventure, sex, and humour, all wrapped up in a series of bite-sized stories. Apocalypse is the latest output from the mind of Calum Kerr, writer of Undead at Heart, Braking Distance, Lost Property and 31. This book is the first in the 2014 Flash365 series.

One office. Many lives. It is that time of day: the time for poorly-filled, pre-packaged sandwiches; the time to run errands you won't have enough time for; the time to fall in love, to kill or be killed, to take advice from an alien. It's the Lunch Hour. This collection of thirty flash-fictions examines the life of the workers in an office during the one time of day when they have the freedom to be who they want to be. It is linked series of stories from Calum Kerr, the writer of 31, Braking Distance, Lost Property and the other 2014 Flash365 collections.

An introductory book for new and experienced writers alike, on the wonders of flash-fiction, what it is, what makes it work, and how to write them. Topics include: Using Prompts Crafting Characters Unpicking Plots Using Dialogue Perspective and Structure Experimentation Reflection Editing and Rewriting Dr Calum Kerr, academic, flash-fiction writer and Director of National Flash-Fiction Day UK, shares the knowledge and experience he has gained from years of writing, reading, teaching and publishing flash-fictions.

It is a sunny afternoon in the heart of England and all seems normal. But when a burning truck flies through the air and lands in the middle of the road, it changes Nicola and Tony's lives for ever and sends them on a breathless journey into darkness. In the company of other refugees, on the run from aliens and zombies, this is the story of their desperate attempt to find safety in the midst of chaos. 'War of the Worlds' meets 'The Walking Dead' in this novel from Calum Kerr, author of '31' and 'Braking Distance'.

Scraps is the second anthology from National Flash-Fiction Day. It features more than seventy huge tales told in only a few words. All of the stories in this collection have been inspired by other works of art: paintings, sculptures, TV programmes, films, music and more. As a result they are imbued with something of the original, but then take off into new and often surprising directions. Scraps features stories from Jenny Adamthwaite, Jenn Ashworth, Oliver Barton, Alan Beard, Natalie Bowers, Cathy Bryant, Joanna Campbell, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, James Coates, Claire Collison, Chris Connolly, L.A. Craig, Judy Darley, Ariel Dawn, Vanessa Gebbie, Kylie Grant, David Gullen, David Hartley, Kevlin Henney, Tania Hershman, Sarah Hilary, H Anthony Hildebrand, Eva Holland, Holly Howitt, Thaddeus Howze, Anouska Huggins, Claire Ibarra, Paul Kavanagh, RM Kealy, John Keating, Calum Kerr, Clare Kirwan, Mark Kockelbergh, Emma J. Lannie, Cathy Lennon, Beverly C. Lucey, Amy Mackelden, R A Martens, Ana Martinez, Thomas McColl, Stephen McGeagh, Danielle McLaughlin, Siobhan McNamara, Freya Morris, Andrea Mullaney, Clay Norman, John Paul O'Neill, Sonya Oldwin, Jim O'Loughlin, Amanda Oosthuizen, Jonathan Pinnock, Dan Powell, Amanda Quinn, Eabha Rose, Sam Russell, Shelley Day Sclater, Emma Shaw, Ian Shine, Diane Simmons, Tim Stevenson, Becky Tipper, Stella Turner, Tracey Upchurch, Bart Van Goethem, Alison Wells and Brendan Way. Funny, sad, exciting, intriguing, experimental and traditional, Scraps is a snapshot of the best in contemporary flash fiction.