Tim: 4567 books

Strange stories about houses, homes and families A sentient house is overprotective of its occupants, a husband and wife cope with loneliness on a lengthy space flight, a Greenland shark mounts a supernatural attack on a mother and son, two sisters live in fear of the destroyed world beyond...

Novella (23,000-words). All Detective Inspector Cyrus Kane wants is a bit of peace and quiet after the suicide of his wife, so he hires an isolated cottage in Cornwall for the Christmas holidays, but fate has something else in store for him.

Tom Gabriel has now got his PI’s licence and has been asked to find a woman’s missing husband, but nothing is what it seems. The more he finds, the less he understands.Rae has been promoted to Investigative Journalist, and with Tom’s help is trying to identify a John Doe found on Porpoise...

(Novella: 23,000-words) Detective Inspector Cyrus Kane’s working holiday in Cornwall has come to an end. He has returned to Brick Lane Police Station in London to re-join his partner – Detective Sergeant Jenny Wells. As well as trying to solve the murder of his wife and unborn child three months’...

Tom Gabriel is asked by Giuseppe to go back to Staten Island and find out who killed his friend – the bag lady – Horty. No sooner does he begin investigating her murder, than a sniper tries to kill him. He is soon trying to keep one step ahead of the shooter as he follows the clues Horty left...

Novella (21,000-words): A male corpse is found at the recycling plant in Little Haven, Pembrokeshire missing his heart, live and kidneys. Tigger is back at work, but she has PTSD, so Inigo swaps her for a Constable - Nell Roberts - from Operations who wants to be a detective. They begin the investigation...

The Dean of a Swiss university persuades Sherlock Holmes to investigate the background of a would-be lecturer. To Dr. Watson it seems a very humdrum commission - but who is the mysterious 'Lieserl'? How does her existence threaten the ambitions of the technical assistant level III in Room 86 at the Federal...

Painting with light is magical. The flashlight is your brush and the scene is your canvas. Imagination and experimentation are your workflow. You control how long the beam strikes the subject, which angle it comes from, the color and softness of the light, and which part of the scene is illuminated....

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From...

This informative and practical book covers a wide range of small scale casting techniques, from  cuttlefish to contemporary lost wax casting. In his usual straightforward language, Tim  McCreight explains not only the “how-to” but also the reasons behind the techniques. With  particular...

This Real World User Guide tells of my (sometimes painful) experiences and e-biking realisations whilst riding some 3500kms (2000 miles) on Swiss urban and mountain trails. It also now includes some 2010 and 2011 updates on my current ebike antics/progress!Hopefully my mistakes, learned the...

‘Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’ Canberra Times ‘At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by...

Creating a realistic HDR image with multiple exposures depends on your ability to analyze a scene and translate your impressions into a photograph. Today’s digital camera sensors capture quite a bit, but still fall short of what your eyes see. Lightroom, Photoshop, and Photomatix software provide...

During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold...