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Guy Gavriel Kay, bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, once again visits a world that evokes one that existed in our own past, this time the tumultuous period of Renaissance Europe - a world on the verge of war, where ordinary...
Editeur :
Hodderscape
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
Children of Earth and Sky
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The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth - with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2016-04-28
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Recommended by The Observer . . . 'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA, author of A Little LifeWhen it begins, it begins as an opera should begin: in a palace, at a ball, in an encounter with a stranger, who...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-04-21
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From Gail Z. Martin, one of the most exciting writers of fantasy adventure, comes the fourth and final novel in the epic Ascendant Kingdoms saga.Blaine McFadden and his allies have brought magic back under mortal command and begun to restore order to the beleaguered...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2016-03-22
Collection :
Ascendant Kingdoms
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A failing wall, a broken shield . . . and an enemy that will exploit every weaknessMalian and Kalan are coming home, but already it may be too late. The Wall of Night, dangerously weakened by civil war among the Derai families that garrison it, is on the verge of...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2016-01-26
Collection :
Wall of Night
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Set among the plantations in deepest Louisiana, CANE RIVER follows the lives of five generations of women from the time of slavery in the early 1800s into the early years of the 20th century. From down-trodden, philosophical Suzette, who was born and died a slave, to...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
Parution :
2015-12-17
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This is a collection of Kai Lung's entertaining tales, told professionally in the market places as he travelled about - sometimes to occupy and divert the minds of his enemies when they were intent on torturing him.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-11-26
Collection :
Yellowbacks
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News from Nowhere describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these 'Chapters from a Utopian Romance' recount his...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-11-26
ePub
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A young Viking sets off on a quest to rescue his kidnapped bride and, along the way, discovers an earthly paradise. Somehow he must turn his back on this paradise to complete his quest to find a woman he barely knows.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Flatland follows the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women - thin, straight lines - are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.Through strange...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-11-26
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The tale tells that in times long past there was a dwelling of men beside a great wood. Before it lay a plain, not very great, but which was, as it were, an isle in the sea of woodland, since even when you stood on the flat ground, you could see trees everywhere in the...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-11-26
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A nineteenth-century American travels back in time to sixth-century England in this darkly comic social satire.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Stolen as a child and raised in the wood of Evilshaw as servant to a witch, Birdalone ultimately escapes in her captor's magical boat, in which she travels to a succession of strange and wonderful islands.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-11-26
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The god Orok gave to his five children crystals to be embedded in a circle on the Rock of Being and Unbeing, whence had sprung the gods, the earth and all its peoples. This circle, known asThe Orokon, ensured the harmony of life, until the dark god Koros plucked his...
Editeur :
Jo Fletcher Books
Parution :
2015-11-19
Collection :
The Orokon
ePub
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'ANOTHER PAGE-TURNER FROM ONE OF FANTASY'S BESTSELLING AUTHORS' IndependentFollowing Thief's Magic, international No. 1 bestselling author Trudi Canavan returns with the second novel in the Millennium's Rule series - her most powerful and thrilling adventure yet.A DARK...
Editeur :
Orbit UK
Parution :
2015-11-12
Collection :
Millennium's Rule
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The Mirror of Kong Ho is a collection of slyly hilarious stories told in letters home from Kong Ho, a Chinese national who is visiting London.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-10-29
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Lieutenant Gulliver Jones, U.S.N., arrived on Mars in a most unexpected fashion and promptly found himself head-over-heels in adventure. For Mars was a planet of ruined cities, ancient peoples, copper-skinned swordsmen, and weird and awesome monsters. There was a...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-10-29
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The hero of this romance is named Golden Walter, son of Bartholomew Golden, a great merchant in the town of Langton on Holm. Tired of his mundane life, Walter sets out on a sea voyage, anxious to see and learn more of the outside world, eventually winning for himself...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-10-29
ePub
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In Kai Lung's Golden Hours Ernest Bramah develops his own unique versions of classic Chinese folktales - and creates a few entirely new ones.
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-10-29
ePub
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When Grendel is drawn up from the caves under the mere, where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother, into the fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar's meadhall and heap destruction on the humans he finds there. What else can he do? For he is not...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2015-10-15
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