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Under The Mountain
£9.50After an underground tunnel containing strange technology is accidentally discovered in Phoenix Arizona, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to expose the government cover up of alien existence. It’s 1952 in Phoenix Arizona and hapless career criminal Marco Delucci is fleeing the scene of a botched robbery with the police in hot pursuit during the worst electrical storm in twenty years. Just when things couldn’t get much worse for Marco, he is thrown from his car while attempting to evade capture on a mountain road and finds himself miraculously in one piece and in some kind of underground tunnel containing what appears to be alien technology. Sensing an opportunity, rather than a setback, Marco shares the discovery with two friends – Arnold, a disgraced scientist who used to work at Area 51, and ex-con Syl. Together the unlikely heroes plunge headlong into a game of cat-and-mouse with the FBI and military as they try to expose the government cover up of alien existence… and make a heap of money into the bargain. Under The Mountain is a marvellous romp through a past America so bizarre, so outrageous… you’ll be hooked immediately. ROBERT STARLING is a child of the fifties born and raised in Bristol, England. He is an accomplished guitarist and songwriter and the founder member of New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Stormtrooper. He played and programmed most of the instruments on Eye Of The Storm, the latest album by classic rock outfit Stormhunters. Under The Mountain is his first novel.
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Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
£9.00A collection of stories, set in an often surreal landscape of human conditions and preoccupations, about people living on the outside of society trying to survive deep-rooted fractures to get through the challenge of life. A man stands in a vets’ surgery, sobbing and stroking the frozen head of his beloved cat. A god oversees an arbitration of fate, performing to an afterlife audience, holding a human to account for the sins of his life. A sister, living in a care home, kills her brother with a frying pan and then steers the police to help secure a conviction. A haunted painting brings a man face-to-face with his dead father, presenting him with a choice of survival or destruction. STEPHEN A. BROTHERTON is an English writer who has used his three decades of working as a social worker to create these characters and, in particular, his interest in the psychology of survival. He now lives in Shropshire but grew up in the West Midlands. He currently works for the NHS and is a member of the Bridgnorth Writers’ Group and the Shrewsbury Writers’ Lab. His novel, Fractures, Dreams and Second Chances, was published in 2021, and his first collection of short stories, Watching the Wheels, was published in February 2023.