Books like A Journey Round a Darker Sun by Simon Lowrie

Science fiction.

On the distant world of Erna, a priest, an adept, a sorcerer, and an apprentice unite to confront a soul‑destroying demonic fae that preys on the human mind.

In "Dark Sun And Other Stories," a covert agent infiltrates an activist’s family, while a school adventure unfolds with training, hacking, and a daring showdown that leads to justice and a new campus library.

An enslaved duchess and a fallen sea captain navigate love, treasure, and peril in the West Indies, only to confront scandal and danger back in England.

"Pico Iyer - one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers - invites us to accompany him on an array of exotic explorations, from L.A. and Yemen to Haiti and Ethiopia, from a Bolivian prison to a hidden monastery in Tibet. He goes to Cambodia, where the main tourist attraction is a collection of skulls from the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and travels through southern Arabia in the weeks before September 11, 2001. He practices meditation with Leonard Cohen and discusses geopolitics with the Dalai Lama, travels to Easter Island and through the imaginative terrains of W.G. Sebald and Kazuo Ishiguro, weaving physical and psychological challenges together into a seamless narrative. Throughout his travels, the familiar thrill of adventure is haunted by the unsettling questions that arise for Iyer everywhere he goes: How do we reconcile suffering with the sunlight often found around it? How does the foreign instruct the traveler, precisely by discomfiting him? And how does travel take us more deeply into reality, both within us and without?"--Publisher's description.

In a Montana town, a veteran coping with PTSD and a newly-divorced woman named Jillian form an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives, exploring friendship, family, self‑confidence, and the complexities of ranch life.

Dark Sun turns the post‑apocalyptic Dungeons & Dragons world of Athas into a graphic novel adventure. A gladiator‑turned‑escapee, Grudvik, is pursued across red‑sunlit wastelands by a dune trader who must ally with him to survive.

It is the last day of term and three boys are clearing our their lockers, organising a sleepover and planning to splatter a girl with rancid coleslaw. However, things are not what they seem, One boy's father is a member of a criminal organisation dealing in nuclear weapons, Dark Sun, while another is a CHERUB agent sent to stop him.