The anomeric effect is a well-defined and much studied example of a deep- seated and very general effect in organic chemistry. It involves a fundamental interaction between the lone pair electrons of oxygen and the antibonding orbitals of adjacent b…

Every serious student of chemistry should try to develop a `feel' for the way molecules behave - for the way they are put together and especially for the rules of engagement which operate when molecules meet and react. This primer describes how ster…

They come for Christmas and they just won't leave... They eat you out of house and home... And they're oblivious to the pain they're causing you... They drive you mad. Blood is thicker than water, they say, but your family at Christmas causes you to…

'Hangingstone' is a supernatural tale of madness, motherhood, and revenge. Set on the wild Yorkshire moorland near Ilkley, it is the story of one mother's desperate attempts to reconcile herself with the (ghostly) child who was taken from her many y…

Welcome to the first volume of the collected works of writer A.J. Kirby. There's something in this mix for everyone; from straight literary fiction to horror and from flights of the fantastic to bizarro. Stick your feet up, crank up your favourite t…

"In my line of work you kind of get to know other people's stories. I used to call it 'the osmosis of carrying the sack'. I'm the mailman and I carry your secrets. Once you get down to the brass-tacks of it, life behind the hedges and up the garden…

A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.Alex's…

"I'll never forget the first thing he said to me, the way he curled all his thorny knowledge into that one barbed comment stopped me in my tracks." Welcome to The Art of Ventriloquism: a baker's dozen of short, sharp, shocking crime fictions from th…