Bøger udgivet af Cast Iron Books

Sixteen year-old Isabella has been granted early admission to the prestigious University of Oxford. Academically gifted, but severely lacking in social skills, she finds navigating the hallowed halls a trial she can''t study her way out of. Mixing with older students, and struggling to find her place, she sets her heart on the coveted summer internship with her hero, Professor MacLeod. While wondering how to get the letter of recommendation she needs to be considered, she accidentally drops an exhibit from a museum she''s visiting in her bag and Blodwen, the Witch from the Bottle enters her life] Aimed at a young adult audience, and exploring themes of friendship, growing up, and finding your place in the world, Isabella & Blodwen is a story that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt alone and that the world is against them.

The town Bobby lives in is a grey cluster of houses trapped against the sea by a half-ring of factories. Over the horizon, a war is raging. Any day now it may sweep over the town and crush it. And Bobby has fallen in love. Consumed by thoughts of her, Bobby begins to sleepwalk. Days and nights smear into each other. Terror begins to seep into him. It rides in on the draught from the windows. It oozes up through the cracks in the floorboards. He thinks he is going mad. An original dark fable inspired by the author''s experience of growing up in the middle east during the Gulf War, The Boy with Nails for Eyes explores and exposes the paranoia and tension that has crept into modern life, woven into a dream-logic fairy tale. The book, the first in a three-volume series, was longlisted for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition in 2018.

When a plague known as Dark-bark spreads over the land one by one infected villagers disappear into the enchanted forest never to be seen again. A young girl called Grace sets out to destroy the evil witch responsible and save her family by any means possible... Idris, a flamboyant sorcerer, and his talented apprentice Ava, are cast out of their town when their talent for magic is discovered. Determined to find the source of the misery that has made them outsiders, they too begin to hunt the root of the Dark-bark... but all is not as it seems.

One day, Doctor Caim is hired by a village to treat both the rich and the poor. The doctor readily accepts this position, but goes about the work with much trial and error. Doctor Caim encounters patients from all walks of life, experimenting with treatments while monitoring his own health and watching the stars for omens... With the aesthetic of a medieval illuminated manuscript, The Plague and Doctor Caim finds macabre comedy within the history of the bubonic plague.

Time has run out. Humanity is clinging on to an Earth facing imminent collapse. Kay Mielniczuk, fierce optimist, convinces her dying wife, astronaut Murray Mielniczuk, to take on one last assignment. Catapulted through time on a wing, a prayer, and some theoretically correct science, they set out in search of a cure... for Murray and for the planet. Future is a 128-page full colour original graphic novel about time travel, the apocalypse, and finding hope in the ultimate power of love. For Mature Readership.