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Hollywood, 1929. While Conrad Cole is working late on elaborate plans for his aeroplanes and his films, a mysterious stranger appears at his door. Xas soon finds himself caught up in the glamorous and treacherous world of movie-making and entangled with both Cole and a...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-11-10
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'Crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious . . . His writing is in the same mould as that of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Jasper Fforde' - TheBookBag.co.uk'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative . . . Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance' -...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
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'Holt is, as usual, absurd, funny, and light-handed enough with the completely ridiculous bits to keep the story moving, assuring that the reader doesn't actually notice how bizarre the story has become, or how tangled the mystery is, until it's nearly done.' -...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
J.W. Wells & Co.
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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. That is, until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
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As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone - until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
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The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
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Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise - a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
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Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas and little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a Christmas miracle. Josh is sure he saw Santa take a shovel to the head and now the seven year old has only one prayer: Please Santa, come back from the dead!But...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
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Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realises the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Love Story
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In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Pine Cove
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The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally - well, to be accurate, artificially - business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Pine Cove
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Wagner got it wrong. The twilight of the gods isn't that cataclysmic. After all, there's a comfy chair, a warm fire and three meals a day at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home. Passing the time with Aphrodite, who's still quite sprighty with the aid of her Zimmer frame,...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
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'...one of the most entertaining fantasy debuts in recent years...incredibly vivid, refreshing, fun, thoughtful, absorbing' - SFX'A remarkably accomplished tale for a debut novel.' - BLACK TEARS MAGAZINEPerimadeia: the famed Triple City and the mercantile capital of the...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Fencer Trilogy
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'One of the most entertaining fantasy debuts in recent years... incredibly vivid, refreshing, fun, thoughtful, absorbing.' - SFX'Action-packed adventure ... An intriguing tale of magic, manipulation and revenge' - STARBURSTCOLOURS IN THE STEEL and THE BELLY OF THE BOW,...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Fencer Trilogy
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'One of the most entertaining fantasy debuts in recent years... incredibly vivid, refreshing, fun, thoughtful, absorbing.' - SFX'There's a mordant wit to the workings of Parker's mind' - Time OutThe city of Perimadeia has fallen. Bardas Loredan, the man who was supposed...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Fencer Trilogy
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'This is grown-up fantasy blessed with humour, intelligence and... panache. A bravura display of intricate storytelling and artfully-doled-out revelations.' - SFX'A richly textured and emotionally complex fantasy...Highly recommended.' - Library Journal (Starred...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
Collection :
Engineer Trilogy
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THE RATS ANDTHE RULING SEA begins whereTHE RED WOLF CONSPIRACY ended; Thasha's wedding is hours away. It is a wedding that will both fulfil the promise of a mad god's return and see her murdered. Pazel has thwarted the sorcerer who would bring back the god but both...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2009-11-05
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'Brilliantly funny.' - DAILY MAIL'Witty and eccentric... dazzling, neat, frivolous.' - TIME OUTThe last Norse king of Caithness, Hrolf Earthstar and his 12 champions are woken from a centuries-long sleep when an archaeologist finds their grave. He decides to carry on...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2009-11-05
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This book contains a collection of stories based on the legends of King Arthur. The stories range in time from Camelot to the present day.
Editeur :
Aspect
Parution :
2009-10-31
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He has resisted temptation for centuries - until he meets someone whose heart is as frozen as his...With a dagger in her hand and vengeance on her mind, Elise Chase prowls Boston's streets in search of retribution against the Rogue vampires who took from her everything...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2009-10-29
Collection :
Midnight Breed
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