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Michael Moorcock's triumphant return to Britain's adventuring detective, Sexton Blake! His first published novel restored, revised, expanded... and presented with a brand new prequel story!A deep sea mission...A baffling murder...Beneath a sky of limpid sapphire blue, the research ship Gorgon rolls gently on the scintillating waters of the Caribbean Sea.Below, two men in a bathysphere, lowered more than a 150 fathoms into the crushing depths. ...

A thrilling alternate history adventure from the Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli is a diplomat, an author, a philosopher and historian. An immortal. Touched by a malevolent alien intelligence with a vampiric lust for sensation and misery, Earth stands at a crossroads as many worlds have before it. When a rival species sends a warning to Earth, Machiavelli is t...

Blake enters the roaring '60s in great style, with adventures involving plans for world domination, volcano lairs, psychics, genetically modified monsters and more!

Sexton Blake does not work alone: his adventures are filled with everyone from reporters to adventurers, private detectives to criminals - and lovers! Three classic stories, collected together in one volume for the first time.

The detective at home and abroad! From investigating an attempted murder to clearing the name of an innocent woman accused of espionage, Sexton Blake faces spymasters and suspects at every turn.

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As the battle for the Western Front rages, adventuring detective Sexton Blake pits his intellect and physical prowess against the machinations of the Kaiser. A band of intrepid allies join Blake to take on the forces of evil in three classic stories, collected here for the first time.

A new breed of villain has risen, possessed of extraordinary intellect and violence. Only the brilliant mind and courage of Sexton Blake, scourge of the criminal world, can stop them, in these three classic stories, collected together in one volume for the first time.

With a sharp eye for period detail and a rich imagination, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Burton & Swinburne series establishes a weirdly twisted version of Victorian London on a convincingly realized alien world, and employs them to tackle a profound psychological and moral question.

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A new series of wildly imaginative steampunk adventures which see the return of explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne.

From a haunted mansion to Bedlam madhouse, South America to Australia, sances to a labyrinth, Burton struggles with opponents and inner demons, as he meets the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Florence Nightingale, and the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and now the first moves are being made that will lead to a devastating world war and the fall of the British Empire. Caught in a tangled web of cause, effect, and inevitability, little does Burton realize that the stakes are far higher than even he suspects. A final confrontation comes in the mist-shrouded Mountains of the Moon, in war- torn Africa of 1914, and in Gre...

Burton and Swinburne's third adventure is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and bizarre events completing the trilogy begun in the Philip K. Dick award nominated novel, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.

Freshly knighted by King George V for discovering the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Francis Burton has been made an agent of the Crown. His mission: solve a series of high profile disappearances and - even more astonishing - locate the spirit of a dead mystic, Abdu el Yezdi. Burton and Swinburne are back and fighting for their very existence...

It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders, Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour, Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity, while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with ma...

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London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman, his reputation tarnished, his career in tatters, his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landsca...

It is 1870, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders, Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour, Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity, while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with ma...

From a haunted mansion to Bedlam madhouse, South America to Australia, sances to a labyrinth, Burton struggles with opponents and inner demons, as he meets the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Florence Nightingale, and the father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.