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In 2314, Rowena Savalas stumbles upon a story posted to the internet in 2024. Is it an autobiography, fiction, fantasy? The protagonist Fairly walks the titular road, followed by the sinister breathing man, and her life is transformed, and as she reads, Rowena's life is transformed along with it. Whiteley at her most brilliant.

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Fungi are unlike any other living thing-they almost magically unique. Welcome to this astonishing world. . . Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and live between our toes or our floorboards. They are unwelcome intruders or vastly expensive treats, and symbols of both death and eternal life. But despite their familiar presence, there's still much to learn about the eruption, growth, and deca...

A book to take solace in.

From fields, feasts and fairy rings to death caps, puffballs and ambrosia beetles, this is an intoxicating journey into the life of extraordinary organism, one that we have barely begun to understand.

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A book to take solace in.

This autumn, take a journey into the surreal and hidden world of one of our planet's most extraordinary, and little understood, lifeforms: fungi. Beautifully illustrated gift for any nature lover.

The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the awardwinning Aliya Whiteley, deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life with her trademark wit. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass, the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies. Fascinating, and unlike any other writer working today.

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Bio-librarian Penelope Greensmith is whisked away on an intergalactic adventure by the mysterious Horticulturalist in this bizarre and thought-provoking novel.

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Inghilterra, primo Novecento. Shirley Fearn ha 17 anni e il suo destino è già segnato: unica figlia di un proprietario terriero, sarà data in moglie all'uomo che prenderà in eredità la tenuta di famiglia nell'idilliaca campagna del Somerset. Shirley però ha altri piani. Lei che ama la scuola e ha il privilegio di potersi dedicare alla propria crescita intellettuale, è decisa a partecipare al futuro radioso che attende la nazione appena risorta...

From the award-winning author of The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley, Skein Island is a powerful and disturbing look at the roles we play, and how they form and divide us. "Aliya Whiteley is one of the most original, innovative and intelligent writers of speculative fiction working in Britain today." - Nina Allan, author of The RiftSkein Island is a private refuge twelve miles off the coast. Few receive the invitation to stay for one week, free of char...

Nominated for the Shirley Jackson and Saboteur awards, this game-changing story was chosen by Adam Nevill as one of his favourite horror short stories: "What a refreshing gust of tiny spores this novella explodes into, and I inhaled them all with glee".Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their stories in the Valley of the Rocks. Theirs is a world without women, and th...

Love dies, every seven years. As we shed our skins we shed our attachments, but the skin remembers. The memory of love is traded as a commodity. In The Loosening Skin definitions of love, sex and friendship cannot be pinned down, quantified, or even adequately expressed, and love and loss are never the same twice.

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