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Five years have passed since Michael Pilgrim defeated ruthless Pharaoh Jacko. All goes well in Baytown. Even the Five Cities seem to have lost interest in driving 'primitives' to extinction.But storms gather . . .Michael Pilgrim is lost, hundreds of miles from home. His one ally: a dangerous enemy. Can they survive with half Scotland baying at their heels?Seth Pilgrim is lost, a slave and an outcast. His sole reason to live is revenge. Then chance encounters challenge him to live better in a world of grotesque change.Averil Pilgrim and Helen Devereux are lost, drawn into the deranged politics of the Five Cities.Can they find their way home?PILGRIM LOST is the poetic second book in the epic Pilgrim Trilogy set in a frightening and plausible future. A world of bizarre characters blighted by humanity's folly, where hope never dies.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017In Jerusalem's Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon's windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young protege watches his master's corpse burn, with bitter thoughts blazing in his mind.Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions collects thirteen eclectic works of dark fiction, taking the reader from Los Angeles to the eastern townships of Quebec, and from Tokyo to Jerusalem.Ortega-Medina's characters are flawed, broken individuals, trying their best to make sense of their lives as they struggle with sexuality, death, obsession, and religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, and often possessed of a dark humour, this major debut explores the imperfections of life and the unpredictability of death.