From her council flat in Galleon Heights on the edge of Newcastle, riding high above the desolate urban landscapes of post -Thatcherite Britain, she discovers to her surprise a warm community and a living history that help her come to terms with the tragedy of her past. Fiona Cooper boldly incorporates elements of fairy tale and legend into her portrayal of Britain in the 90s to produce a novel that is complex as well as comic, savage but full of sympathy.

    A debut novel from this author.

    Who says that history has to be written by the winners? A tantalizing, evocative account of some of the lesser-known losers of the Trojan war, and how their herstory might have been.

    In a world of the future, Quincy Alexander engages in a deadly contest of wits with the technocratic world government; finds a remote celestial hideaway that is anything but deserted; suffers a dangerous attraction to a mysterious woman.