Step into the VARscape… A secret school lab. A virtual world that looks more real than reality. An AI that doesn’t just predict the future—it builds it. And an autistic boy who has a special talent for spotting the nuances that everyone else misses. When twelve-year-old Alec Raven pushes open…

When a group of millennials set sail for a summer in the Mediterranean, they expect sun, parties, and escape. Instead, they cross paths with My Last Hope — a Russian super-yacht at the centre of a state-sponsored art heist, smuggling looted treasures from the war in Ukraine and from sealed museum vaults,…

The mansion in Miramar was illuminated like it once might have been before the revolution, every window aglow. Wedged between two unlit and decaying tenements it was like a healthy tooth in a rotten mouth. A line of 1950’s auto memorabilia stretched down the street, some gleaming with an owner’s…

The billboard on Avenida 26 that had celebrated 50 years of the triumph of the revolution for as many years as Northwick could remember, now displayed a brightly coloured picture of a coral reef with the words: ‘Cuba Libre: restoring Cuba’s coral reefs.’ The Harley sang with two voices, an…

‘People think tomorrow they can get rich. Those people are the procrastinators and the losers. NOW is the time to get rich.’        Dolores was transfixed. A religious fervour crackled in the air of the mouldy hall. She leaned forward in her seat, hands poised to clap. Elegant hands with…