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Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.

Ian Rollins has been thrown to the lions, arrested by the German Empire on trumped-up charges of piracy and expecting a death sentence. Just getting to the trial will take all of his strength and determination as he struggles to survive in a damaged dirigible some 20,000 feet in the air. He's forced to use his engineering skill to repair the German airship, not to save his own life, but because the Germans also hold the clever Miss Danjella Tesla, a talented engineer in her own right.

Under the command of Ian Rollins, the HMS Thunderbolt has been playing a game of cat-and-mouse with the Kriegsmarine off the Cape, but their tense standoff with the Germans turns unexpectedly to a tense alliance after they are ordered to aid in the rescue of a disaster-stricken German Antarctic expedition. The boat is forced to operate with merely a skeleton crew and to navigate with experimental equipment beneath the ice. Can they even locate the island before the survivors succumb to the frigid land?

In the catacombs beneath Prague, adventurer alchemists race against a deadly foe for what they think is the ultimate source of knowledge.

The British Empire is in danger of collapse and teeters on the brink of war with the Kaiser Reich. Spies and saboteurs play at deadly games in the British shipyards as each side seeks naval superiority. Ian Rollins is collateral damage in their shadow war. The "accident" and his grievous injuries are about to bring his naval career to an ignominious end.