Alexandria by Paul Kingsnorth

Alexandria by Paul Kingsnorth'Like Robert Macfarlane re written by Cormac McCarthy.' Telegraph'Beckett doing Beowulf.' London Review of Books One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island a group no larger than an extended family are living in a post civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth's only human survivors. But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security,

TWO FAMILIES

of around 250 species worldwide

Detective Colborne is retiring

alien abductee

" Dr Jess French"A superb adventure of friendship

where she becomes a house-girl to the cruel Big Madam

dives into Egypt

In Deacon King Kong

In their haunted

'How am I to dress up in my finery

A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of 100 scary stories to read with the lights on

His final poems are imbued with a lyrical beauty and great sadness at leaving that world just as the spirit was burning as brightly as ever