Simon Cooper: 33 books

The second in the Wild Edged Magic series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper, this is a story about unknown potential against untold malice. First paragraph: Mira knew Icanos could be a great sorcerer, but not this way. This was too risky. She stood in the ring of sapling hawthorns...

When a lonely man raises a truly alien plant species from a seedling, strange things happen, and his life takes a sinister turn. The second in the Alien Science Fiction series by Simon J. Cooper, this story journeys into the darker reaches of the mind. Opening: The bright orange...

The fourth in the Modern Irish Fantasy series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper. First paragraph: Barnesmore bog was a remote spot and only visited by an old boy like me. When I had a fall a year ago and bust my leg, they said my days up here were finished. Sure, they would have...

The third in the Modern Irish Fantasy series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper. First paragraph: The silver needle pivoted on the heart line of the man's hand, wagging like a dog's tail but always roughly pointing at the red front door of 16 Kincora Court. Baxter shoved it back...

The first in the Modern Irish Fantasy series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper, this story of murder and mind control takes you to the dark side of an alternate Ireland, where things aren't always what they seem. First paragraph: Letterkenny General’s morgue smelled like the...

A vampire must have blood to survive, even if that vampire is an alien shipwrecked on Earth after a secret landing to harvest human blood. But surviving on human blood comes at a high cost, both for this vampire, and her victims. Third in the Alien Science Fiction series by Simon J. Cooper,...

The fifth in the Modern Irish Fantasy series by award winning writer, Simon J. Cooper. First paragraph: The hospital appointment card floated into the bin like a mini Concorde. The envelope it came in had URGENT written in red letters front and back. I scrunched that into a ball and...

The first five Modern Irish Fantasy stories collected in one volume. Over 25,000 words, about equal to 100 pages paperback reading. All set in present day Ireland, from the tranquil Donegal hills to the Belfast back streets, these stories have a dark edge, with monsters, mind-control and flesh...

When Professor Cree Caarlso receives a desperate call from an old friend, he finds himself the only one who can help. No Cry For Help is a whodunit set on an alien world where a humanoid species have developed from a dolphin like ancestor. This is the first story in the Alien Science Fiction...

When new technology discovered genuine monsters, both mythological and never before imagined, Ireland, like every other country, enforced strict codes of conduct for monsters. It was follow the rules or die. But still, there were rogues who refused to register themselves and were never discovered....

Buddhism, one increasingly hears, is an 'eco-friendly' religion. It is often said that this is because it promotes an 'ecological' view of things, one stressing the essential unity of human beings and the natural world. Buddhism, Virtue and Environment presents a different view. While agreeing that...

How to move 'beyond capitalism' and whether indeed it is possible to do so, has become a question of general interest, rather than simply the preserve of left-literary discussion, since the credit crisis of 2008. This book examines the social nature of the austerity crisis, and whether an anticapitalist...

The advent of the National Primary Strategy has produced a welcome reminder to teachers of the importance of geography within the primary curriculum. This book aims to encourage this renewed awareness and to support teachers in teaching primary geography in different and exciting ways. It will show...

Ranging from humorous to dark and gritty, to the downright dark, every story in the Alien Science Fiction series has one thing in common — aliens. The first five stories here either directly take an alien's viewpoint, or feature the effect of alien life on humans, or journey to alien worlds,...