*2025 NYC Big Book Award WINNER in the category of Historical Fiction*At the peak of Rome's might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages.
'A treasure house of story' Stephen King'A very fine and imaginative writer' Sunday Times'Fiction to showcase his mastery of pastiche, his eclecticism and his knack for the juxtaposition of incongruous notions' Independent---An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat.
AN ACCLAIMED, EMMY-NOMINATED TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEOWINNER OF THE HUGO, LOCUS AND BRAM STOKER AWARDS'To give him his full title: Neil Gaiman, Architect of Worlds, Svengali of Plot, Shaman of Character, Exploder of Clich , Master Craftsman of Style, Dreamer Laureate of the Republic of Letters' DAVID MITCHELL'Original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive' GEORGE R.
Fully illustrated collection of rare and previously unpublished tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, retold for a new generation by leading Arthurian expert, John Matthews, introduced by Sir John Boorman, director of the classic film, Excalibur, and illustrated with paintings and drawings by Tolkien artist, John Howe.
Taking us from a sweltering Indian rooftop at night to the marble halls of an ageing Bollywood star's palace, this is a new collection of short stories from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Part allegory, part fable, The House In The Dark was written in secret during the German occupation of Norway, and gives a stirring picture of how a society struggled to stay united under the strain of being watched by their invaders.
In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Renowned storyteller Docia Williams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books-Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas, Phantoms of the Plains, Ghosts Along the Texas Coast, and When Darkness Falls-then she adds a hundred pages of new ghostly tales from the Piney Woods of East Texas and from North Central Texas, including the Dallas area.
The stunning conclusion to the duology that began with the internationally bestselling Sun of Blood and Ruin, this gender-flipped Zorro reimagining weaves Mesoamerican mythology and sixteenth-century Mexican history into a swashbuckling historical fantasy filled with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance.
Wry political fairy tales from a nineteenth-century politician that speak to our current timesEdouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), one of nineteenth-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales.
"Heilkräuter & Märchen – Band 1: Von Aloe Vera bis Lungenkraut"Stell dir vor, jede Pflanze hätte eine Stimme…Tritt ein in eine Welt voller Zauber und Heilung – wo uralte Heilkräuter ihre Geschichten erzählen und Märchen voller Weisheit und Magie die Seele berühren.
If you enjoyed reading Lord of the Rings, Alice In Wonderland or even Watership Downs, you will love this book about a tribe of unicorns stranded a universe away from the home world of Unimaise.
