Is the Wanderer really hidden aboard the Glimmer or is Kaira losing her mind? The uncertainty is terrifying. If she is losing her mind, then how much damage did the devices attacking her body cause before they were stopped? And if not, why is Tarkus lying when he knows it makes her question her sanity? Kaira needs time to process the whirlwind of recent events. Instead, she and Tarkus are dragged into trying to help a group of slaves who’ve managed to free themselves. Between the danger and excitement other thoughts get pushed into the background. But as events unfold the question of her sanity is forced to the fore once more, with the freedom of thousands depending on one question... is she losing her mind?

Tarkus and Kaira, aboard the legendary Wanderer, are on a mission to expose the Pradagash Corporation's dark secrets, but their plans are thrown into chaos when the freighter carrying thousands of freed slaves is sabotaged. They are forced to seek refuge in the rebellious system of Stormharbour... just as an immense Corporation fleet closes in to crush all resistance. Faced with an impossible decision, Tarkus must confront his deepest fears and Kaira her darkest trauma. With an old enemy hunting them and time running out, the fate of Stormharbour and the freed slaves hangs in the balance. Can Tarkus and Kaira turn the tide and keep the rebellion alive, or will everything be crushed under the Corporation's might? Prepare for a pulse-pounding adventure where the line between hope and despair blurs, and every choice could mean the difference between freedom and annihilation. The rebellion starts now!

The Empire will kill him for stealing this ship... but they have to catch it first! To the Empire the Wanderer was just another booby-trapped ship to claim, and Jess was just another worthless slave to be sacrificed. Things didn’t go to plan. Jess survived the dangers and when he sat in the pilot’s chair the ancient ship came to life for the first time in centuries. Acting on instinct, Jess seized the chance, firing up the engines and fleeing the Imperial forces. Now Jess and the ancient self-aware ship are on the run, their freedom and their very existence on the line. The smart thing to do would be to run like hell and never stop, but Jess finds he can’t ignore pleas for help from those in danger. With the powerful Wanderer at his command he can truly make a difference... but at what cost? Reviews for Wanderer’s Escape include “In the end, I was gripping the arms of my chair as I rooted for the heroes.”, “A fast-paced, can’t-put-it-down Sci-Fi.” and “One of the best books I’ve read this year.” Tens of thousands of people have loved travelling with the Wanderer. Get Wanderer’s Escape now to find out why.

Kaira is in the kind of trouble it would take Jess and the Wanderer to fix, but they’ve been gone for a thousand years. What she gets is Tarkus and the Glimmer, a rundown ship and a taciturn captain who doesn’t even know she’s stowed away. Yet. If she’s lucky Tarkus will throw her off at the next station if he finds her. If she’s unlucky she’ll be ejected into in cold space without a suit. If there were any other options she’d take them. There aren’t. All she can do is huddle in the darkened hold and hope the Glimmer gets her where she needs to go before her world caves in... and before Tarkus realises she’s there. Will she reach her goal? Will she even survive? Read Wanderer - Millennium now to find out!

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research on the Gothic Revival. The Gothic Revival was based on emotion rather than reason and when Horace Walpole created Strawberry Hill House, a gleaming white castle on the banks of the Thames, he had to create new words to describe the experience of gothic lifestyle. Nevertheless, Walpole’s house produced nightmares and his book The Castle of Otranto was the first truly gothic novel, with supernatural, sensational and Shakespearean elements challenging the emergent fiction of social relationships. The novel’s themes of violence, tragedy, death, imprisonment, castle battlements, dungeons, fair maidens, secrets, ghosts and prophecies led to a new genre encompassing prose, theatre, poetry and painting, whilst opening up a whole world of imagination for entrepreneurial female writers such as Mary Shelley, Joanna Baillie and Ann Radcliffe, whose immensely popular books led to the intense inner landscapes of the Bronte sisters. Matthew Lewis’s The Monk created a new gothic: atheistic, decadent, perverse, necrophilic and hellish. The social upheaval of the French Revolution and the emergence of the Romantic movement with its more intense (and often) atheistic self-absorption led the gothic into darker corners of human experience with a greater emphasis on the inner life, hallucination, delusion, drug addiction, mental instability, perversion and death and the emerging science of psychology. The intensity of the German experience led to an emphasis on doubles and schizophrenic behaviour, ghosts, spirits, mesmerism, the occult and hell. This volume charts the origins of this major shift in social perceptions and completes a trilogy of Palgrave Handbooks on the Gothic—combined they provide an exhaustive survey of current research in Gothic studies, a go-to for students and researchers alike.

This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.