Escaping the workhouse was only the beginning of AlanShaw's adventures. For an orphan growing up on the streets of Victorian London,staying alive is a daily battle filled with choices a child should never haveto make. Then Alan is offered more money than he can imagine; enough to takehim to the new world and a new life. He only has to do one thing first -something that could bring the British Empire to a grinding halt.

In a series of adventures that take him from sea to sky,from Brighton to Bombay, Alan grows up in a steam-driven era where Automatonswalk the streets of London and dirigibles master the air. Pitted against madalchemists, tentacled submersibles, bomb-wielding saboteurs and the apocalypticcult of the Ordo Fenris, Alan has his work cut out for him.

With a past as dark as his, who knows what Alan mightgrow up to be?

The Adventures ofAlan Shaw is an epic Steampunk adventure spanning five incredible tales, fromthe author of Gothic Steampunk fable Greaveburn.