A hugely engaging adventure set in a Victorian-style world - a fantastical version of Dickens - that will appeal to fans of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman.

 Two orphans are more than they seem. And one megalomaniac will stop at nothing to find them.

 When Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to return to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack. For Molly carries a secret deep in her blood, a secret that marks her out for destruction by enemies of the state. Soon Molly will find herself battling a grave threat to civilization which draws on an ancient power thought to have been quelled millennia ago.

 Oliver Brooks has led a sheltered life in the home of his merchant uncle. But when he is framed for his only relative's murder he is forced to flee for his life. He is accompanied by Harry Stave, an agent of the Court of the Air - a shadowy organization independent of the government that acts as the final judiciary of the land, ensuring that order prevails. Chased across the country, Oliver finds himself in the company of thieves, outlaws and spies, and gradually learns more about the secret that has blighted his life, but which may also offer him the power to avert the coming catastrophe.

 Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but Molly and Oliver are joined by indomitable friends in this endlessly inventive tale full of drama, intrigue and adventure.

The Court of the Air

When Captain Lana Fiveworlds seizes on a lucrative contract to fly a rough-and-ready bunch of grave robbers between the worlds of long-extinct civilisations, she's expecting a nice easy ride for her misfit crew on board the starship Gravity Rose. After all, those unlucky perished alien species died of climate change, atomic wars, comet strikes, plagues, and mass solar flare ejections thousands, if not millions of years ago. So, what can go wrong? Plunder a few failed planets for priceless abandoned antiques and lost technologies and make out like an interstellar bandit! Sadly, the karma of the universe has other ideas - and easy, it surely ain't. When their troubles slowly mount, Lana, Calder, Zeno, and the other crew members battle for far more than their lives. The ultimate cost could be more than the captain - or her dear friends and family - can bear. ---------------ABOUT THE BOOK  'Voyage of the Void-Lost' is the 6th book in Sliding Void series. It's a completely stand-alone adventure, not directly linked to the first five books. --------------- ABOUT THE AUTHOR Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other science fiction authors, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury. ---------------REVIEWS  Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels:  'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.'- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT 'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL 'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN 'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT  'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement. a wonderful escapist yarn!' - INTERZONE 'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks. affecting and original.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS 'A curious part-future blend.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS 'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES 'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT 'A ripping yarn . the story pounds along. constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked. the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE 'Put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter... an exciting tale.' - SF REVU  ---------------FORMAT Full novel - a stand-alone adventure. Book 1 - Sliding Void Book 2 - Transference Station Book 3 - Red Sun BleedingBook 4 - Anomalous ThrustBook 5 - Hell FleetBook 6 - Voyage of the Void-Lost

Voyage of the Void-Lost - Sliding Void, #6

It is the far future. The artificial intelligences created by humanity are now gods, and mankind mere ants who scrabble in their shadows across a million worlds. The Lords of the Great Houses on the ever-night Moon of Hexator are suspected of the murder of one of their own. And merchant William Roxley, once a magistrate-priest, is unwillingly coopted to uncover the truth behind the killings.  With only the help of his naive young assistant and a brutish robot bodyguard, the man they call 'Sweet William' digs into the Moon's eerie existence. A collapsing society where many strange, terrible things are happening under night's unsettling cover.  Hexator is a place where nothing is what it seems, perhaps not even William Roxley himself! -------------------------------- ABOUT THE AUTHOR  Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other science fiction authors, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury. -------------------------------- REVIEWS  Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels:  'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.'- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT  'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL  'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN  'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES  'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT  'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement. a wonderful escapist yarn!' - INTERZONE  'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks. affecting and original.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY  'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS  'A curious part-future blend.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS  'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT  'A ripping yarn . the story pounds along. constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked. the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE  'Put on your seatbelts for a frenetic cat and mouse encounter... an exciting tale.' - SF REVU

Empty Between the Stars - The Songs of Old Sol, #1

It is the final years of the 18th century, but a world which few would recognise.  The people of Europe shelter in small islands of safety, havens from the enchanted wilderness - the strange boundless forests people call the Tumble. It is across this demon-haunted landscape that the low-born officer Taliesin must lead his men, caught up in the deadliest of intrigues while fighting wars for a noble class which despises him. With vicious murderers from the worst gutters in the Realm marching behind him, and the forces of the most powerful nations of the mainland arrayed against him, the odds are stacked against Taliesin. Heavily. Yet he will fight on, battling armies, sorcerers, assassins, beastmen and cross into the face of hell itself. Not for loyalty, or grudging respect for his scheming monarch - not even for the small mountain of silver the Island Queen has promised him if he succeeds. But because fighting is all he and his pressed band of cut-throats and thieves have ever known. >>>> ABOUT THE AUTHOR  Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' fantasy series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other best-selling fantasy authors, George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien, Raymond E. Feist and C. S. Lewis.  >>>> Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels:  'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.' - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT  'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL  'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN  'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT  'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement. a wonderful escapist yarn!' - INTERZONE  'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks. affecting and original.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY  'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS  'A curious part-future blend.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS  'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES  'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT  'A ripping yarn . the story pounds along. constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked. the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE

The Fortress in the Frost - The Triple Realm Duology, #2

Captain Lana Fiveworlds might be flying with the same motley crew of misfits, but her problems are all-new. Lana believes that a demanding and difficult client on board her beloved starship - the Gravity Rose - is the sum of her woes. But that was until she has to emergency ditch inside a star system which holds a full range of deadly secrets. There are the murderous intentions of the local government with its slave-owning aristocracy to contend with, not to mention the ruthless rebels trying to overthrow the regime. And then there's the moon-sized unknown alien vessel that jumps into the system every few centuries, along with the chance to claim untold riches. Or the chance to die, well, really quite horribly. With Calder, Zeno, Skrat, Polter and the chief still helping Lana, there's the smallest of chances the crew might survive. But as every spacer knows, it's not where you jump into hyperspace that counts. It's only ever where you end up! ABOUT THE BOOK 'Anomalous Thrust' is the 4th book in Sliding Void series. It's a completely stand-alone adventure, not directly linked to the first three books (although 'Anomalous Thrust' is set chronologically a year after the end of the previous books). ABOUT THE AUTHOR  Stephen Hunt is the creator of the much-loved 'Far-called' series (Gollancz/Hachette), as well as the 'Jackelian' series, published across the world via HarperCollins alongside their other science fiction authors, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury. REVIEWS  Praise for Stephen Hunt's novels:  'Mr. Hunt takes off at racing speed.'- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Hunt's imagination is probably visible from space. He scatters concepts that other writers would mine for a trilogy like chocolate-bar wrappers.' - TOM HOLT  'All manner of bizarre and fantastical extravagance.' - DAILY MAIL  'Compulsive reading for all ages.' - GUARDIAN  'An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.' - THE TIMES  'Studded with invention.' -THE INDEPENDENT  'To say this book is action packed is almost an understatement. a wonderful escapist yarn!' - INTERZONE  'Hunt has packed the story full of intriguing gimmicks. affecting and original.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY  'A rip-roaring Indiana Jones-style adventure.' -RT BOOK REVIEWS  'A curious part-future blend.' - KIRKUS REVIEWS  'Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension.' - TIME OUT  'A ripping yarn . the story pounds along. constant inventiveness keeps the reader hooked. the finale is a cracking succession of cliffhangers and surprise comebacks. Great fun.' - SFX MAGAZINE

Anomalous Thrust - Sliding Void, #4

The future is beautiful ... just not for everyone! Ash must escape from his broken war-torn country, fleeing towards mythical Europe, or face murder at the hands of a brutish local warlord. The one slight problem is, few ever survive the horrifying packs of ravenous hunting machines roaming across the depopulated border zone! But his perilous odyssey might be worth it. For in this future Europe, nobody goes hungry or poor. Crime has been as good as abolished, and everyone can pursue their dreams, whatever their passions may be. But when you have the perfect utopia, just how far do the clock's hands need to sweep to strike dystopia? Masterfully imagined and written, this haunting vision of our future questions what it means to be human, and firmly crowns Stephen Hunt at the vanguard of the science fiction genre.

The Pashtun Boy's Paradise

The power struggle begins . . .
The people of Weyland always believed the slavers raids, which destroyed families and homes like a natural disaster, were a misfortune that couldn't be averted or stopped. 
But it's not true. 
King Marcus struck a deal: his people in exchange for technology and a powerful alliance with the Vandian civilisation.
And now everyone knows.
Jacob and Carter Carnehan escaped the slavers - along with the true king of Weyland - and have returned home with both the truth, and a Vandian princess as their hostage. Their purpose was to avoid war . . . instead, the truth prompts a civil war at home - while an invasion force focused on reclaiming the captive princess starts to gather on their borders.
Jacob and Carter will be separated once again - and this time they're fighting for something bigger than their lives.

Foul Tide's Turning

Carter has been kidnapped. Enslaved. But he's determined to fight to the end.
Jacob is a pacifist. His family destroyed. He's about to choose the path of violence to reclaim his son.
Their world has changed for ever. Between them, they're going to avenge it.
Jacob Carnehan has settled down. He's living a comfortable, quiet life, obeying the law and minding his own business while raising his son Carter ... on those occasions when he isn't having to bail him out of one scrape or another. His days of adventure are - thankfully - long behind him.
Carter Carnehan is going out of his mind with boredom. He's bored by his humdrum life, frustrated that his father won't live a little, and longs for the bright lights and excitement of anywhere-but-here. He's longing for an opportunity to escape, and test himself against whatever the world has to offer.
Carter is going to get his opportunity. He's caught up in a village fight, kidnapped by slavers and, before he knows it, is swept to another land. A lowly slave, surrounded by technology he doesn't understand, his wish has come true: it's him vs. the world. He can try to escape, he can try to lead his fellow slaves, or he can accept the inevitable and try to make the most of the short, brutal existence remaining to him.
... unless Jacob gets to him first and, no matter the odds, he intends to. No one kidnaps his son and gets away with it - and if it come to it, he'll force Kings to help him on his way, he'll fight, steal, blackmail and betray his friends in the name of bringing Carter home.
Wars will be started. Empires will fall. And the Carnehan family will be reunited, one way or another ...

The Court of the Air

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