He has sold over one hundred short stories, articles and reviews to a variety of anthologies and magazines, and has edited several fiction anthologies, one of which, New Fears (Titan Books, 2017), won the British Fantasy award for best anthology. He has also written original novels for popular TV and graphic novel franchises such as Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spartacus and Hellboy, and is the author of several official movie tie-in novelisations, including Noah, The Great Wall and (co-written with Christopher Golden) The Predator. The paperback edition of his first novel, Toady (Corgi, 1990), was a top-ten bestseller in the UK, since when he has written over two dozen further novels, among which are Stitch, The Immaculate, The Secret of Anatomy, Fiddleback and the Obsidian Heart trilogy for Titan Books. Mark Morris is an award-winning writer of novels, novellas, short stories and audio drama scripts, specializing in speculative fiction.
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These few sentences handed me a vocabulary for a hitherto inexpressible private reality: standing “in the midst of the sharp chatter of ambitious young people” (128) who look nothing like me, who speak effortlessly in a language that was not native to me and was therefore still twisting my tongue into spirals, and being aware, to an almost abject degree, of the incalculable distance that separated me from them. I was immediately struck by a powerful sense of recognition. And yet it wormed into her every time she bit her tongue, every time she didn’t know a word or the precise connotations of a phrase.” (128) Teixcalaan was made to instill the longing, not to satisfactorily resolve it, she knew that. It made her jealous in a way she recognized as childish: the dumb longing of a noncitizen to be acknowledged as a citizen. “She could follow about half of the allusions and quotations that slipped in and out of their speech. 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In Occupied Paris, choices as black and white as the words on a page become a murky shade of grey - choices that will put many on the wrong side of history, and the consequences of which will echo for decades to come. But then the Nazis invade Paris, and everything changes. When war is declared, the Library is determined to remain open. Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, and her new job at the American Library in Paris - with its thriving community of students, writers and book lovers - is a dream come true. 'Delightful, richly detailed' PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY 'An irresistible, compelling read' FIONA DAVIS 'I devoured The Paris Library in one hungry gulp. 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In these unsettling tales from a neuroscientist every bit as quirky as the more famous Oliver Sacks, Ramachandran sets out his beliefs that no matter how bizarre the case, empirical, strikingly simple testing can illuminate the ways brain circuitry establishes ""self."" In a chatty, nearly avuncular style, he (along with his coauthor, a New York Times science writer) snatches territory from philosophers on how we think we know what we know. |