Fiction – Libriz

The Other Euclid (epub)

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:08:54 +0000

When Cornelius Pye inherits a rare book with supposedly magic properties, he finds it highly amusing. But soon after, the book is stolen, he is kidnapped and, to make matters worse, someone is threatening his girlfriend.

The book, the first English translation of Euclid’s Elements, was once owned by Elizabethan magician and mathematician Doctor John Dee. An enigmatic letter from Cornelius’s uncle explains that it has been passed down through his family for hundreds of years and holds a great lost secret.

Cornelius discovers that the book hosts a sarcastic, invisible alien, who calls himself Euclid—his real name being unpronounceable by humans. He is one half of a symbiotic pair, the other half being a humanoid alien called Tald. Being invisible, Euclid relies on Tald to provide contact with the real world.

Almost 450 years ago they were on their way to meet Dr Dee when they were ambushed by other aliens and crash landed on Earth. Tald was injured but managed to find his way to Dee’s house, where he somehow became Edward Kelley, a noted scholar of the time. Unfortunately, after the crash, Tald lost his connection to Euclid, who was forced to take refuge in the book. Tald went to the continent with Dee and never came back.

Euclid helps Cornelius to escape his kidnappers by enabling him to jump instantaneously to another location. Once free, Cornelius finds that his problems are multiplying. Whoever ordered Cornelius to be kidnapped in the first place believes that the book contains the key to immense wealth and will stop at nothing to possess its secrets.

On top of which, Euclid would quite like to find his other half and go home!

About the author
Mick Scott lives in a small village in North Yorkshire with his wife and his cacti collection. In his 70s, The Other Euclid is his first book. His aim was to write a science fiction book for people who didn’t really like science fiction.

There are enough unanswered questions in this book for a sequel, which he hopes to complete more quickly!

Note to customers
This is an epub, which requires an epub reader such as Adobe Digital Editions. It is not a PDF.

When you check out, hit ‘Place order’ as usual, and a download link will appear afterwards on a subsequent page.

The Other Euclid is privately published, distributed by us on behalf of the author.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

admin — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 04:04:14 +0000

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Eric Arthur Blair, writing as George Orwell, takes a dystopian look at what society could be like 35 years hence, when he penned his novel for publication in 1949. Although 1984 is now our past, some of Orwell’s warnings remain unsettlingly relevant: the desire by some to rule and cement their control, the manipulation of the population to achieve their means, and the spreading of disinformation to subvert what should be incontrovertible, objective truth. Though not meant to be a prediction, Orwell reminds us that it is all too easy for basic values to be destroyed, and for people to forget our collective history, regardless of the political system we live in.

Nineteen Eighty-Four’s impact is such that we now know words and concepts such as Newspeak, doublethink, Thought Police, and, indeed, Orwellian. Many other works bear its influences: Fahrenheit 451, V for Vendetta, Black Mirror and Brazil, to name a few.

For over 75 years, Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to remind us it takes our collective efforts to defend family, truth, honesty and integrity against totalitarianism.

This edition features a new foreword paying tribute to George Orwell’s wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy.

Printed in the UK, 304 pp. on 80 g/m² bond stock. Perfect bound, softcover. Dispatch takes place a minimum of three working days from the time of your order.

ISBN 978-0-473-73797-9

A Farewell to Arms (uncensored and unabridged)

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:15:29 +0000

The Ernest Hemingway classic, the novel that established him as one of the 20th century’s most important literary talents, in the form that he intended, uncensored and unabridged. A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a young American, Frederic Henry, who volunteers for the Italian ambulance service during the Great War, and falls in love with a British nurse, Catherine Barkley. This intense tale, drawing from some of the author’s own experiences as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, recalls the suffering and anguish of war, and remains one of the great wartime love stories.

N.B.: As this edition is uncensored and unabridged, the author’s original strong language is used, including one racist word.

Ernest Hemingway was born in Cicero, Illinois, in 1899. After graduating from high school, he went to work for the Star newspaper in Kansas City as a reporter. In World War I, he served as an American Red Cross ambulance driver and was severely wounded in 1918 on the Austro–Italian front. Hospitalized in Milano, he fell in love with a Red Cross nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, who eventually declined his marriage proposal. In 1921, he moved to France as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. In Paris, he mixed with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound, who encouraged him to publish his non-journalistic work. A number of books were released before his seminal A Farewell to Arms in 1929. He continued his writing as well as his journalism in the ensuing years. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) was set during the Spanish Civil War, and some regard this as his finest novel, surpassing A Farewell to Arms. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961.

Cover illustration: Isola Bella In Lago Maggiore, by Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–80).

Printed in the UK or the US, 268 pp. on 80 g/m² bond stock. Perfect bound, softcover. Dispatch takes place a minimum of three working days from the time of your order in the UK, seven working days in the US.

ISBN 978-0-473-73715-3