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Science Fiction / Humour. Should appeal to fans of Terry Pratchett, Discworld, Ernest Cline, Jodi Taylor, Douglas Adams.Age range: Teen to adult. Female protagonist.This is the second book in the Sputteridge Chronicles and picks up the story from the bestselling Dangerous Physics: Adventures in Sputteridge.Hugo Crean has made a mind-boggling leap across realities. Using a stolen Transition Vehicle he has jumped from a dysfunctional society ruled by a corrupt elite called the Regency, to Abbuth, a world whose fair-minded if rather naïve and party-loving occupants have made remarkable scientific progress. Hugo's mission was to consolidate the Regency's grip on Abbuth and to help pervert their science to advance the Regency's military power. Hugo has no such plans. He intends to warn the Abbuthians of their peril, and also to meet Bettony Gullivant, the feisty hero whose journal forms the major part of book one of this series - Dangerous Physics: Adventures in Sputteridge.Unknown to anyone, Hugo's contact on Abbuth - TMB - is a psychotic killer who is pursuing a private vendetta against Bettony. TMB hunts Bettony across realities but completely underestimates her. Pretty soon, the hunter becomes the hunted.The fast-paced story moves across different variations of Earth including one populated by a lethal cross between a turtle and a snake, and a world which seems to be centred around celebrity game shows and nostalgia tourism. Along the way, Bettony meets up with old friends and discovers how Bob has had his own mission sidetracked by the opportunity to appear in a holiday theatre production.

When Humans nearly destroyed themselves with catastrophic climate change and the resulting wars, they were contacted by the seven-billion-year-old galactic federation known as Concord. The aliens granted Humans probationary membership in Concord and helped us begin to reverse the damage done by centuries of neglect. Select individuals were allowed to serve as crew on Concord spaceships. Five hundred years later, Emma Fuji is the sole Human among a million aliens aboard a spaceship the size of Pluto called Violet Enforcer. Her official job is to introduce Humans to the other Tribes of Concord, through interviews and personal encounters. She succeeds in large part because her pet terrier, Moondog, becomes a superstar celebrity among the aliens, who have never seen a pet before-let alone a feisty, gray-and-white pup who won't stop climbing on aliens and begging for tummy rubs. When an unknown group begins sabotaging the surveillance drones in several systems, and Violet itself is nearly destroyed, the initial suspicion that Humans are responsible is dismissed out of hand: the sabotage technology is within Human capabilities but it's not quite like anything Humans ever used, and Humans have no reason to sabotage themselves. But a Human-crewed ship is vaporized by the same tech, and a group of fanatics on Earth who have renounced any dealings with Concord claims responsibility. Humans are once again under suspicion. The goal of the Renouncers is to convince humanity to withdraw from Concord, and if they are truly responsible they'll get their wish. Unfortunately, history shows that Tribes that resign or are banished from Concord don't last long. If Humans have actually been sabotaging Concord, and are responsible for the tens of thousands dead so far, it will mean the end of the Human race. As the number of sabotaged systems continues to climb, Emma and her closest alien friends race to prove that Humans are blameless. Ranging across an entire quadrant of the Milky Way, from the globular cluster where all the AIs ever created have retreated to a scoured neutron star, to the planet being terraformed to be a second Human homeworld, to Earth itself to interrogate the Renouncers, Emma and her team search for clues to the true identity of the saboteurs. In the end Emma's strength, intelligence, and compassion are nearly enough to solve the problem. But the final evidence is revealed by the charm and instincts of the galaxy's most famous canine, Moondog.

" 'Wake up, my love, it's morning.' ...Now I have placed the sound ...Rain sputtering in the gutter.His lips brush my forehead. I catch the fresh morning scent of him, that hint of lemon which enticed me right from the start."A heart-warming story of enduring love, and a portrait of life at a particular historic moment seen through the eyes of one close-knit community in the East of England. It is 1920. In the market town of Widdock, Rose Pritchard has her husband Leonard back from World War 1, physically in one piece but haunted by nightmares. She cares for him and for her brother Jack while still running the two bookshops that she and Leonard own, but pressures build, not least when Leonard meets the cultured and charming Italian wife of a diplomat.This is a beautiful historical novel with many resonances in the uneasy world of the 2020s.Can be read as a standalone novel or as the sequel to The Testing of Rose Alleyn, also published by 186 Publishing (ISBN 978-1-7397814-0-8)

When her marriage implodes, Rose Summer must leave behind everything she loved: Her husband, her home, her shop, even her dog. With nowhere else to go, she returns to the only other place she ever felt happy: Key West, a bawdy tourist town at the tip of the Florida Keys. Working as a waitress in the same busy restaurant she served when she was young, and living with two other women-a stolid bistro manager and a rowdy singer/songwriter-her once joyful life has grown small and bleak.Then she meets Kurt, a wanderer with a tragic past of his own. Following an instinct she can't explain, Rose tries to draw him out of his shell and back into the world. Overcoming mistakes, misunderstandings, and the unwanted attentions of a potentially dangerous stalker, Rose opens her heart to Kurt and convinces him that life could be better.Together, these two wounded souls can find happiness again, but only if they can overcome the obstacles that life throws at them. Like a turtle on the beach, they must navigate off the rocks and take one slow, careful step at a time across the sands toward fulfillment.

This is the stand-alone first book in a light, science fiction adventure series based around a female protagonist with a sense of humour and a black belt in Taekwondo.'Only by the act of looking at it do we make an object's position definite. The paradox of Humdinger's Cat, we call it, after the physicist Gerhardt Humdinger who lost his cat and then claimed he never had one in the first place.'Bettony Gullivant has taken a break from her boring office job and her broken relationship and gone on holiday to Cornwall. There, she stumbles across a strange, deserted village and a marooned alien spaceship disguised as a toilet block. The spaceship does not travel through time or space but moves across alternative realities, remaining geographically stationary whichever version of West Cornwall it finds itself in.The visitors from planet Abbuth who crew the spaceship come from a civilisation that - inspired by scientists such as Humdinger - has an advanced understanding of quantum physics. They are gentle and kindly, and Bettony quickly learns to trust them. But their craft is damaged, and they are struggling to repair it. As Chief Operations Officer and part-time village policeman Bob Jenkins explains in slightly dodgy English, keeping technical complexities to a minimum,'If I'm honest Bettony we're up shit creek without a pedallo, good and proper.'Bettony's adventures take her to very different versions of Earth - including a world that has not progressed beyond a medieval culture, and one where time seems to be suspended - as her martial arts skills help her to escape from a sadistic dictatorship, flee across an alien version of England, and learn the true reason for her new friends' problems.

"A distant voice in the darkness... So on the ocean of life we pass" - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA chance meeting at university leads to a relationship that spans marriages, the world and the decades in this sweeping and fulfilling novel from acclaimed author Leela Dutt, a story that reaches from the British countryside, through the glamour of Rome and the exhilaration of India to the turbulence of the South African invasion of Lesotho. Through it all, Eleanor Larsen-Bruun pursues a successful career and yet never loses her love for the man she met so many years before. At the peak of her success, fate seems to offer the chance to begin again something that was started so many years before...