The third instalment in Jon Courtenay Grimwood's critically acclaimed series of Ashraf Bey mysteries
Detective. Diplomat. Uncle. Killer.
Ashraf Bey has been many things since arriving in El Iskandryia from Seattle. One thing he hasn't...
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance — to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its...
“They say that generals always prepare for the last war, and now they have a chance to fight it… so why are we still barely holding our own?”
Six months after Britain discovered itself to be in 1940, the war is still raging. From Norway...
The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great "what if" of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and...
It is August 1946 and the world has fallen silent once more.
Peace.
A peace that one Alliance welcomes with open arms, savouring a real chance for the killing to end.
A peace that the leaders of another side welcome, seeing the end of...
Silverberg’s magisterial alternate history is likely the coda to his ongoing exploration of a Roman empire that survived in some form to a time contemporary with our world’s present. The turning point in his version reflects Gibbon’s view that...