Robert Shearman visits worlds that are unsettling and strange. Sometimes they are just like ours - except landlocked countries may disappear overnight, marriages to camels are the norm, and the dead turn into musical instruments. Sometimes they are quite alien - where children carve their own tongue[...]

There were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, explored the future and the past, new worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining. But every good story has to come to an end...[...]

A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the "Book of Judgement" to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the[...]