Impromptu in Moribundia is a satirical fable about one (nameless) man\"s trespass (through a fantastical machine called the \"Asteradio\") into a parallel universe on a far-off planet where the \"miserably dull affairs of England\" are mirrored and transformed into an apparent idyll of bourgeois English imagination....

West Kensington - grey area of rot, and caretaking, and cat-slinking basements. West Kensington - drab asylum for the driven and cast-off genteel!\" Patrick Hamilton was acutely conscious that his third novel (first published in 1928) was longer and \"much grimmer\" than his previous and well-received productions....

Measuring out the wartime days in a small town on the Thames, Miss Roach is not unattractive but no longer quite young. The Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, where she lives with half a dozen others, is as grey and lonely as its residents....

In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down - and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on - the young Patrick Hamilton, with loving, horrified fascination, first mapped out the territory that he would make, uniquely, his own....

This is a brilliant collection of six short stories and a novella, set in the same universe as Peter F. Hamilton\"s Night\"s Dawn trilogy. The author presents us with a compelling mix of human dilemmas, imagined technologies and extraordinary new cultures....

Set in the near-future, over three hundred years before Pandora\"s Star and Judas Unchained, Peter F. Hamilton\"s Misspent Youth is a gripping introduction to the world of the Commonwealth Saga. Jeff Baker is granted the gift of eternal youth....

\"Beyond the fact that it was, in face of a vivid and calamitous ending, to reveal from his own experience the ardent splendours of Youth\"s adventure, he didn\"t quite know what his novel was going to be about.\" Monday Morning wryly tells the story of Anthony, a young man taking his passionate first steps in life, in London, and in love....

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George....

Ernest Ralph Gorse\"s heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles his victims. With great deftness and precision Hamilton exposes how his dupes\" own naivete, snobbery or greed make them perfect targets....

The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid\"s secret love for him, swirls the sleazy life of London in the 1930s....

Lawrence Newton always dreamed of adventure amongst the stars. Now the ultimate prize is within his grasp, but what will he risk to get it? Lawrence is the sergeant of a washed-out platoon, taking part in the bungled invasion of yet another human colony world....

Humanity welcomed the Olyix and their utopian technology. But mankind was tricked. Now these visitors are extracting a terrible price. For two years, the Olyix have laid siege to Earth, harvesting its people for their god. One by one, cities are falling to their devastating weaponry....

Fight together - or die alone . . . In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane’s investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we’ve almost no time to fight back....

An alien shipwreck is discovered on a planet at the very limits of human expansion - so Security Director Feriton Kayne selects a team to investigate. The ship\"s sinister cargo not only raises bewildering questions, but could also foreshadow humanity\"s extinction....

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