Bøger af Alan Baxter

A Scottish metal detectorist looks back on a successful career in unearthing artefacts from the country's turbulent history, from coinage to jewellery and other items from centuries past, accompanied by full-colour photography.

Alan began beekeeping in the Loire Valley in France, where he lived and worked for 23 years. His apiary there was the target of heavy predation by Asian Hornets.He moved to England in 2020 and now manages 20 colonies and breeds queens in 3 apiaries in Hampshire.He serves as Hampshire Beekeepers Association Asian Hornet Coordinator and is the author of the Hampshire AH Contingency Plan.Alan writes regular blogs and articles, and gives talks around the country on Beekeeping, the Asian Hornet, the Wines of the Loire Valley, and the 1982 Falklands War.He is blissfully married to the disability advocate, speaker, author and blind baker Penny Melville-Brown OBE.

Ghost is possibly the best bounty hunter in the universe and he always gets the job done. At least, that's the reputation that he rides on. When the DAP employ him to track down and capture a rogue Magicker who's running across the galaxy killing anyone who gets in his way, Ghost realises that this is a job that could cost him his reputation. It's also a job that could cost him his sanity. A sci-fi noir novella from the author of RealmShift and MageSign.

From cosmic terrors in underground caverns to warrior nuns protecting humanity to invisible aliens decimating a faraway world, within these pages you'll find six stories of military horror. Taken from the pages of (or inspired by) the SNAFU anthology series, where the remit is for stories crammed with extreme action, monsters, and military mayhem, everything here will leave you breathless.Lock and load, people. It's going to be intense.This volume includes: "In Vaulted Halls Entombed" - originally published in SNAFU: Survival of the Fittest, Cohesion Press 2015, Winner of the Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award for Long Fiction 2015, translated into German in Best of SNAFU, (Festa, 2018), and adapted for S3 of the Netflix Original Series LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS"Raven's First Flight" - originally published in SNAFU: Black Ops, Cohesion Press 2016, Finalist for the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella"The Throat" - originally published in SNAFU: Last Stand, Cohesion Press 2019"The Demon Locke" - originally published in SNAFU: Medivac, Cohesion Press 2020"And Fire Poured Forth" - original to this collection, previously unpublished"Under Calliope's Skin" - originally published in SNAFU: Future Warfare, Cohesion Press 2016

"I know your secret."Alex Caine is a martial artist fighting in illegal cage matches. His powerful secret weapon is an unnatural vision that allows him to see his opponents' moves before they know their intentions themselves. When enigmatic Englishman, Patrick Welby, shows Alex how to unleash a breathtaking realm of magic and power, Alex is drawn into a mind-bending adventure beyond his control.A cursed grimoire binds Alex to Uthentia, a chaotic Fey godling, who leads him towards chaos and murder, an urge Alex finds harder and harder to resist. Befriended by Silhouette, a monstrous Kin beauty, Alex sets out to recover the only things that will free him-the shards of the Darak. But that powerful stone also has the potential to unleash a catastrophe which could mean the end of the world as we know it.Bound is dark urban fantasy at its best!PRAISE FOR ALAN BAXTER AND THE ALEX CAINE SERIES"If Stephen King and Jim Butcher ever had a love child then it would be Alan Baxter." -Smash Dragons"I was completely blown away when I read this. The world he's built rivals anything by Jim Butcher.... I'm reminded of Benedict Jacka and Kevin Hearne..." -Kylie Chan, author of The Dark Heavens, Journey to Wudang, and Celestial Battle trilogies"Kick ASS!" -Sean Williams, New York Times #1 bestselling author"I had a lot of fun reading Alan Baxter's Bound...It's a teeth-gnashing, shadow-chasing, magesign-riddled sexy beast of a thing!" -Margo Lanagan, award-winning author of Sea Hearts and Tender Morsels "A genuine page-turner from a major new writer." -The West Australian "...an escalating adventure that mixes epic dark urban fantasy with thriller pacing... I'd compare this series to Jim Butcher's work in terms of Urban Fantasy, though whereas Butcher riffs off hard boiled tropes, Baxter most definitely riffs off the thriller genre." -Sean Wright, Adventures of a Bookonaut "I highly recommend Bound to anyone who likes a good supernatural action thriller." -Traci Harding, bestselling author of The Ancient Future and The Timekeepers"...a relentless whirlwind of magic, sex, and violence. Bound is a rollercoaster of gritty magic, evocative settings, and brutal action: a solid intro to a new urban fantasy series." -Billy Burmester, Aurealis Magazine"Alan Baxter delivers a heady mix of magic, monsters and bloody fights to the death. Nobody does kick-ass brutality like Baxter." -Greig Beck, bestselling author of Beneath the Dark Ice and Dark Rising (Alex Hunter series) "It kept me hanging in there, eagerly flipping pages to find out who was going to be the next brutalized victim or what twisted deed would be performed next. This story packs a punch!" ML Spencer, Grimdark Magazine

The Jade Dragon protected Long-En for centuries - until it was taken.When the Jade Dragon is stolen from the temple in the quiet village of Long-En, the locals are stunned. The very idea of such a theft is unimaginable. And without the protection of the powerful icon, what awful fate might befall the peaceful hamlet?Two young cousins, Li Yong Fa, a martial monk recently returned from years of training at the Shaolin Temple, and Li Zi Yi, a potent geomancer, team up to track down the thief, recover the priceless statue, and return it safely to Long-En. Little do they know how far afield they will be taken, and what dangers they will face in strange and inhospitable lands, before they even get close to their goal.A short historical fantasy novella from award-winning, Alan Baxter.

Something is wrong in the small outback town of Morgan Creek.

Strange things happen in The Gulp.The residents have grown used to it.Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems.

Gay For Pay, Arlene's Descent and Casting Stones are contentious plays. In our daily lives, most of us go out of our way to avoid explosive, crass and bigoted people. But in these plays, such characters are fascinating to watch. In one play, A San Francisco father, Justin Scott, finds out that his 19-year old son has probably run away from home, only to find out that he has become lost in the pornographic world of Montreal, Canada. When Scott arrives in the Quebecois city, he has an encounter with a film producer, Jack Hemmings, whom he had a strange relationship within his California high school. In the other, Arlene Price never recovered from her Best Actress Oscar defeat twenty years ago. Determined to be celebrated and remembered by the Academy and her fans alike, Arlene begs her friend Jeff to write another script. Yet such a request has devastating results. In the last play, The Reverend Paul Keebler, a minister of a progressive Christian Church in 1968 in Washington, D.C., is caught in a tight dilemma. Located in the ground zero of the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination, Paul must contend with very vociferous protestors, as well as a dysfunctional marriage in his own personal life.

"Alan Baxter's poetry explores with clarity our deepest and most personal feelings-----the right touch of nature laced with human nature." -Evie Ivy, author of The First Woman Who Danced and host of the Green Pavilion Alan Baxter's poetry is a delightfully eclectic, enlightening smorgasbord of humor, pathos, and social commentary----with spicy, often playful variations of rhythm, rhyme, precise imagery, and poetic form. Alan's poetry always leaves me with a heightened sense of the spirituality and ethics of everyday life, everyday people, extraordinary moments in life, and extraordinary people. Wonderfully subversive yet sincerely compassionate, this book is sure to inspire." -Robin Small-McCarthy, Co-founder and Co-host of Kairos Poetry Café, Poet, Singer-Songwriter