Silas Morlock: In a world where darkness reigns…

Every burned book enlightens the soul

But when the last book burns, what then?

IMAGINE a world where the printed word is dead and books are a forbidden contraband.

Update: local shops offered online channel to disrupt Amazon’s dominance

Don’t lose your head, support your local indies

Now you can get Citizen Zero and Silas Morlock through Bookshop UK

Thanos thought he was inevitable, so what makes Amazon think it’s any different? A new venture is seeking to harness online power to disrupt the retail titan’s hold on the books market – and create space for local bookshops to live and breathe

Silas Morlock: Hard metal in a post-digital age

Reality is for keeps

There’s something about the symbolism of Caxton’s typewriter that defies obsolescence…

Gallery: UK Indie Lit Fest 2019

We meet again over the pages of a book… 

HELD at the Kala Sangam Arts Centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the latest UK Indie Lit Fest proved itself another rip-roaring success.

Blog: One boozy night in the Earth city

The shadow whispered its name

In the last city on Earth, an alien place of densely packed organic sykscrapers, humanity can no longer look up at the stars. In darkness lurks its only hope…

Blog: Time waits for no Morlock

Read a book and make a dream come true

In the darkness, where evil lurks, it’s all rather relative. Mark Cantrell ponders the nature of time in his dark urban fantasy, Silas Morlock…

Gallery: Nine Worlds Geekfest 2015

Not bad for a first attempt

MY first venture into the world of literary festivals, the Nine Worlds Geekfest in London was a short but sweet affair.

Blog: Nine Worlds Geekfest 2015

First Contact made in the Nine Worlds of Geekdom

Mark Cantrell ruminates on his first venture into the weird and wonderful world of the science fiction and fantasy convention

Press Release: Silas Morlock casts a dark shadow over Christmas

Inspired Quill presents Hartshill author’s horror debut

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STOKE-ON-TRENT, 8 December 2013: Local author Mark Cantrell has made his paperback debut with the publication of his novel, Silas Morlock, released over the weekend by the publisher Inspired Quill.