Who was the real King Arthur? What do the historical documents tell us about the Knight of the Round Temple? It is just a chivalric fantasy? This title uncovers fresh insights into the legend: there is an evidence that the Arthurian legends arose from the exploits of not just one man, but at least t[...]

The Female Detective was published in 1864 and it introduces the first professional female detective in British fiction, Mrs Gladden. Typical of detective fiction of its time, Forrester's book features various cases narrated by Gladden, whose deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those[...]

This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions [...]

In extreme fantasy anything can happen. For too long fantasy fiction has become synonymous with heroic-fantasy adventures in imitation of "The Lord of the Rings", but the genre has always been far greater than dwarves and elves. This book includes 25 stories in this genre.[...]

There have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, o[...]