Palmer: 1916 books

Halloween, 1977. Mayhem always seems to find Johnny Jump, and always when he least expects it. It found him the night he is pushing his hack with the vivacious Catherine Dupree sitting next to him, when he's flagged down by a fare. Mayhem’s name was Rose MacMillan. She's young, no more than twenty,...

Maria Lantos is a post grad Yale student researching illicit 18th-century literature. She’s become exceptionally well-versed in the narratives of classic erotic fantasy. She’s also Claudine, an in-demand escort specializing in sexual role play for an elite clientele. Anonymous. Satisfying....

'This is first class SF.' - Tony Ballantyne Data detective Mary Vine is visiting relatives when she uncovers a Chinese programme of AI development active within her own family. Ulu Okere has only one goal: to help her profoundly disabled brother, whose unique feats of memory inspire...

1915 Following a horrific experience at Verdun, Private Tommy Catkins - shell-shocked and suffering head injuries - is sent to a mysterious island hospital in Wiltshire, where he is subjected to the primitive treatments of the era. But the island appears to be a portal to the enigmatic land...

Imagine a film made in black-and-white. Now imagine a novel written in black-and-white. The Rat And The Serpent is a gothic tale relating the extraordinary fate of Ügliy the cripple. Raised as a beggar in the soot-shrouded Mavrosopolis, Ügliy has to scramble for scraps of food in the...

Zaïdmouth is a far-future paradise. Its five communities are intertwined by artificial flower networks so complex they combine to create the virtual realities through which Zaïdmouth is run. Yet into this vivid world a bad seed is about to be sewn. Mansuruquyn, Priestess-Interpreter,...

It is 1911. Returning to Britain from Africa, Erasmus and Roka find themselves thrown into a perilous sequence of chase, capture and escape. Yet they must return to Sheffield as fast as they can, and in secret, there to prepare for an inevitable confrontation inside Sir Tantalus Blackmore's...

With the diabolical agents of the Clockwork Garden on their trail and Sir Tantalus Blackmore's crooked men closing in, Kora and her best friend Erasmus Darwin must survive from day to day and try to uncover the monstrous plots surrounding them. Yet even though they have friends and allies,...

Photographs of a selection of Spring and Summer flowers including blueberry, irises, wisteria, roses, tulips, tritonia, rhododendrons, flowering currant, moth orchids, periwinkles, a peace lily, water lilies, laburnum, a carnation, ranunculi, camellias, pansies, honeysuckle, gorse, trollius, and magnolias.

Photographs of a selection of Summer flowers including comfrey, roses, yellow corydalis, euphorbia griffithii (Fireglow), water lilies, pansies, kniphofia (red hot poker), hibiscus, kangaroo paw, gloxinia, campanula, astilbe, arum lilies, a dandelion, moth orchids, a gerbera, honeysuckle, palm flower, osteospermum, dicentra, polemonium, hydrangea, and sea campion.

Lifelong landscape design means thinking about more than your garden. It involves encouraging your community to be a well-rooted environment consisting of friends who share home-grown produce, walk in the neighborhood, recycle, water harvest, compost and are watchful of each other’s well-being. Lifelong...

In the early 20th century, South Bend, Indiana�s population more than tripled. Established industries like Studebaker and the Singer Sewing company rose to unprecedented heights of production, new businesses took root, and immigrants flooded into the area. Photo postcards, originally a quick and inexpensive...

Is this book for programmers?  Written specifically for graphic designers and production artists already comfortable working with Adobe InDesign, this book teaches you how to automate publishing without learning a lot of scary code. XML simplifies the process of moving content in and out of your layouts...

The most heartfelt and moving novel yet from favourite Australian rural romance writer and bestselling author of The Family Farm. Indianna Wilson is a country girl through and through. She'll do anything she can to save her beloved home town from disappearing off the map – even if she has to die...