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Portals to another world Eight fantastic stories from a shadow Copenhagen - past, present and future - inspired by amazing artworks. Otto Frello (1924-2015) was a Danish painter of fantastic scenes who lived in the centre of Copenhagen for most of his life. Billy O’Shea is an Irish writer of fantasy and speculative fiction, and a long-time admirer of Frello’s work. Both of them are concerned with opening doorways to other worlds, for the rest of us to step through and explore.

Karl Nielsen er ved at fortvivle. Kongen har givet ham en umulig opgave. En maskine som ingen i historie bygget før, og det kan umuligt komme til at virke. Og så bliver man ovenikøbet viklet ind i farlige hofintriger mellem magtfulde folk.

Langt oppe nordpå har en hemmelighed ligget skjult i århundrederI 1992, blev H.C. Andersen’s originalmanuskript til Den lille havfrue stjålet fra et dansk museum. Sagen blev aldrig opklaret.Flere århundreder senere bliver militærsamaritten Daniel Manston sendt til Kantarborg – det rige, der tidligere hed Danmark – for at finde og tilintetgøre et hemmeligt dokument. Hans mission mislykkes, og han bliver mistænkt for mord og landsforræderi. Han ender langt oppe mod nord på øen Svalbard, hvor han skal vælge mellem kærlighed og sin skæbne.I et land fyldt med mystiske hændelser og fængslende mysterier – hvad er virkelighed, og hvad er ikke? Og kan man se forskellen, når ens liv afhænger af det?Den anden havfrue er oversat til dansk af Charlotte Kirketerp.

Clockmaker Karl Nielsen has not been having a good day. He thought he was taking a short Yuletide trip to the city. Now he stands accused of treason, robbery and murder.The darkly humorous third volume in the Kingdom of Clockwork series features a king disguised as Santa, a prime minister who might be an alien, a pregnant Irish monk and a long-forgotten Danish monster.

In a future Denmark, Karl Nielsen, Royal Clockmaker, is recalled to the Round Tower to design the King's most ambitious project yet - a vehicle to travel into space.The second volume in the Kingdom of Clockwork series is a quirky, humorous tale of Nordic monarchs, Irish monks, jazz records, airships, submarines, spacecraft and conspiracies.

In a future Denmark, the King's clockmaker becomes enmeshed in a web of court intrigue, and undertakes a fateful journey to the far north."I love this book. It's alternate history, it's historical fantasy, it's steampunk. It has a literary feel without being pretentious or alienating. Maybe by 'literary' I simply mean 'damn well written'." - Autumn Barlow, author of The Letter in the Briefcase

Now a major film starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy. It's 1940. In a small advertising agency in Soho, Catrin Cole writes snappy lines for Vida Elastic and So-Bee-Fee gravy browning. But the nation is in peril, all skills are transferable and there's a place in the war effort for those who have a knack with words. Catrin is conscripted into the world of propaganda films. After a short spell promoting the joy of swedes for the Ministry of Food, she finds herself writing dialogue for 'Just an Ordinary Wednesday', a heart-warming but largely fabricated 'true story' about rescue and romance on the beaches of Dunkirk. And as bombs start to fall on London, she discovers that there's just as much drama, comedy and passion behind the scenes as there is in front of the camera... Originally published as Their Finest Hour and a Half.