Mark Webb: 16 books

Ever wonder why aliens don't visit Earth? Or what coffee a demon likes to drink? Or how bureaucracy could really screw up a grand space adventure? A Flash in the Pan? is a collection of speculative flash fiction and short stories that answers these questions and more. The collection includes...

Grant was an expert huntsmen, a mean cricketer and the last best hope for mankind. Scouring the Sub-Manchester Shark Ocean for ancient cans, Grant is enjoying one last foray before reporting for duty at Headquarters. His steed is strong, his will that of iron, but there is a strange, black, sticky...

The Kurent high council has gathered in the Hall of Nichrome and Ash, to direct their far-flung avatars. Half a galaxy away, in Sub-London fake humans make their way into the city centre, intent on passing the security barrier. Two worlds, joined by malice are the backdrop for a story of surreal suspense, told entirely from the point of view of Earth's enemy.

Saul had now lived more of his life post-apocalypse than he lived before it. A dour and broken man, Saul walks the path he has walked for years, through the ruins of Rome. Scavenging and surviving, he visits the cafe of his youth, now a dusty monument and suffers a full blown breakdown on the way back home. Will Saul pull back from his mental abyss or will this nihilistic world consume him?

[NSFW - Very Adult Content] In the brutal, decades long war against the Spheriods, those nations that survive have re-built their cities in subterranean Geo-Domes. The English Inquisition send Tracy, an unhinged murderer-sadist and a mo-hawked, elderly, ninja, dwarf to take on the Spheriod's...

Axioklemat is angry, the sanctuary of his people has been penetrated by human mining operations, many are dead. Fortunately, long ago, his race planted a failsafe in the centre of our world. Having laid dormant for most of the lifetime of the Earth, Alia is finally called to arms, to enact strange,...

Remote, isolated Fovea is populated almost entirely by cyborgs and their mechanical implants have become the root of a fervent religion. To visit is difficult, dangerous and for those who make it to the surface, frustrating in the extreme. Forced to this place is Dyak, a man on a violent mission, but even this seasoned mercenary soon finds that on Fovea, any task is a surreal nightmare.

Visit the website www.thelisteningbook.org.uk to receive James's Blog and a FREE chapter to The Second Listening Book - out later in 2016 About the Book James Webb’s ‘Listening Book’ is a thought-provoking and beautifully written challenge to the way in which we live our lives...

James Webb’s ‘Listening Book’ is a thought-provoking and beautifully written challenge to the way in which we live our lives in a complex world. Through a set of parable-like short stories, Webb offers us an innovative and creative insight into God’s word and, while being engaging and captivating...

The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....

2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region.  Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea.  Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent. Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the...