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Past, present and future collide in E. J. Swift's The Coral Bones, as three women battle against ecological disaster in three different eras. A powerful elegy to the disappearing world of Australia's unique and fascinating ecosystem, a novel of intertwining stories for the climate change era - and a vision of a more hopeful future.

This debut short story collection from Sam Thompson (Communion Town, longlisted for the Booker Prize) creates a landscape all its own - a place where a single moment can be the catalyst to turn the very nature of reality upside down. Shot through with an unsettling strangeness, it confirms Thompson's place as a major talent in weird fiction.

Rym Kechacha (Dark River, British Fantasy Awards finalist 2021) spins a wild fantasy from Remedios Varo's surrealist paintings, a world in which the moon's daughter holds the key to mankind's fate. Set in Mexico City and a fantasy world populated by witches and a lion made of leaves, To Catch a Moon is a fearless ode to the power of Varo's vision.

In the exact same moment, all possible versions of Prentis O'Rourke will cease to exist. Prentis will not simply die. He will go extinct, and his demise will echo across the dimensions. Scientists, artists, ex-nuns, taxi drivers, time travellers and aliens - something unprecedented will happen, and it will colour them all.

Doggerland, 6200 BC. London, AD 2156. Two mothers, more than 8, 000 years apart, struggle to save their children from the rising waters and a bleak future as the odds stack against them.

Toni inherits a manor house in Hertfordshire. What she needs is cash to save her business, but all she finds is a crumbling building and overgrown gardens. Soon the history of the house, and those who tended the gardens over centuries reveal the stories of those who loved this garden across the centuries, and how those lives still touch us.

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

Software engineer Isobel fell into the job that leads her to the the rapidly melting arctic. Her advanced software, Proteus, will map everything and a great icebreaker leads their way, but the days grow longer and the polar bears ever more hungry... For fans of Adam Robert's The Thing Itself, polar bears and intelligent science fiction.

In the aftermath of war, a young boy tries to hold his family together. As his sister recovers from a terrible assault by their father, she teaches him about the magic in the land, the tombs of ancient kings, about the treacherous Red Cap and the places where the adults don't go.

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This anthology of new short stories draws together leading science fiction writers - famous for their visions of our near future - and asks them to look into our future, to the year 2084. Warnings or prophesies? The path to Paradise or destruction? Will we be proud of what we have achieved, in 2084?Our future unfolds before us.

Aisling Selkirk is a young woman beset by unexplained blackouts, pseudo-seizures that have baffled both the doctors and her family. Sent to recuperate in the Suffolk countryside with ageing relatives, she seeks solace in the work of William Blake and writing her journal, filling its pages with her visions of Feodor, a fiery East Londoner haunted by his family's history back in Russia. But her blackouts persist as she discovers a Tudor priest h...

Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Award 2015. A unique blend of science fantasy, hardboiled crime and epic verse. In the dark city of Vox, three hearts bring light. Prometheus, liquid light, is the drug of choice. Virgil Yorke investigates a murder when one of the hearts is stolen. Vox needs a hero, but Virgil has had a long cycle and doesn't feel like a hero.