Paul Shannon 
Fable of The Geeks 

Each September, thousands of students walk through the doors of University College and Trinity College, Dublin. This year, Olive and Tom will be among them. Eighteen-year-old Olive is fresh from the …

Dark yet disarming, Love is Power, Or Something Like That is a phenomenal short story collection. Where sex is a currency, or a weapon. Where power ends in corruption, or violence. Where the worst th …

For Robert Jacklin – packed off without warning to boarding school in Zimbabwe – everything is terrifyingly new. Branded an outsider from the moment he opens his mouth and unable to decode the subtle …

Bhupinder ”Puppy” Singh Johal – handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised – has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society. Sexu …

The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, corruption and the backwash of empire, this is a world teetering on the edge of chaos. Sam Obeysekere is a Ceylonese lawyer, a …

Newly arrived in New York, Ito is a literate yet tongue-tied sushi chef who recites haiku in his head as he labours over restaurant shopping-lists. Alone in his apartment at night, he reads …

For Jessica and Elizabeth, the sweet life begins at 30… Three years after the events of Sweet Valley Confidential, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are back in Sweet Valley and inseparable once more. …

Diva Geneva Jordan has performed for millions on stage, screen and television but now has a leading role in Minnesota. She has agreed to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy with Down”s …

An awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls’ nest. In a godforsaken barn, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherf …