Books with author Mark Illis

Everyone you know will die. Descending upon crow wings into tombs of regret. Ruing mislaid plans. Here, above ground we formulate elaborate strategies for escape. Misaligned vectors guided by naive hopes. Foreign to our bodies. Nobody gets out alive. Everything is plexi-glass. Scarred by shallow inscriptions of normality. #marriage / #children / #death. These are thoughts I have inside my cunt. Processes that emerge. I am not a girl who plays well with others. And yet I still play. Grasping at momentary glimpses of happiness. Basking in stroboscopic ecstasy. Soon there will be no time left. But tonight I will lose myself. Hoping I will never return.

When Hector Coleman and his mates genetically mutate overnight, their lives change in impossible ways ... A comic-book inspired adventure for fans of Stephen King and Charlie Higson.Hector Coleman. Just your average angst-ridden teenager, living a normal rubbish life in a normal rubbish town with, let's face it, a rubbish name. But then all the teens in Hector's small town develop weird mutations, and not in a superhero-type way. Someone gets transparent skin, someone else starts breathing fire ... and that doesn't end well. What the hell is going on? Hector and his friends need to find out, before it's too late.It's a bit like Stranger Things, only stranger. Everything has changed. Apart from Hector's name. And his girl trouble. And his embarrassingly low number of Twitter followers. All those things, unfortunately, stay the same. For now ...A warm, funny novel about friendship, family, and being different - oh, plus aliens, mutants and some serious scares ... 'This is one of the weirdest books I have read - I loved it! If you ever imagined that people who get special gifts always turn out to be super-heroes, think again ... a sort of cross between super-hero story, sci-fi, detective story, love story ... More like this, please.' Melvin Burgess