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'Triumphs of the imagination' Stephen Fry The treasured fairy tales
of Oscar Wilde in a stunning gift edition featuring exquisite
illustrations by the celebrated artist Philippe Jullian with an
afterword by Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland. For nearly 150 years, the
classic fairy stories of Oscar Wilde have been cherished by readers
of all ages. Rediscover all nine of the stories first published in
The Happy Prince and other stories (1888) and A House of
Pomegranates (1891).
**The brand new novel from Holly Hepburn, perfect for fans of Cathy
Bramley and Katie Fforde.** Originally published in four parts this
is the full story in one package. When Hope loses her husband, she
fears her happiest days are behind her. With her only connection to
London broken, she moves home to York to be near her family and to
begin to build a new life. Taking a job at the antique shop she has
always admired, she finds herself crossing paths with two very
different men. Will, who has recently become the guardian to his
niece after the tragic death of her parents. And Ciaran, who she
enlists to help solve the mystery of an Egyptian antique. Two men
who represent two different happy endings. But can she trust
herself to choose the right man? And will that bring her everything
she really needs? The brand new novel from Holly Hepburn, author of
Coming Home to Brightwater Bay. ~*~Praise for Holly Hepburn~*~
'...treat yourself to a feel-good hit of warm fuzziness from Holly
Hepburn. This enchanting novel tells the story of a grieving widow
who finds herself ready for love again.' - S Magazine, Daily
Express 'This book has everything from a beautiful setting to
romance...and even a fascinating Egyptian mystery!' - My Weekly
'Uplifting' - Bella Magazine 'A fresh new voice, brings wit and
warmth to this charming tale of two sisters' Rowan Coleman 'Warm,
witty and laced with intriguing secrets! I want to pull up a bar
stool, order a large G&T and soak up all the gossip at the Star
and Sixpence!' Cathy Bramley 'The Star and Sixpence sparkles with
fun, romance, mystery, and a hunky blacksmith. It's a real delight'
Julie Cohen 'Like the dream pub landlady who always knows exactly
what you want, Holly Hepburn has created the most delightful
welcome to what promises to be a brilliant series, in the first
Star and Sixpence. The sisters are warm and intriguing, the
neighbours are (mostly!) friendly and the gossip is utterly
addictive. I was very sad when it was time for last orders, and am
already looking forward to the next round. Especially if a certain
blacksmith happens to be at the bar...' Kate Harrison 'Warm, witty
and utterly charming, Snowdrops at the Star and Sixpence is the
perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter's day. It left me
with the most wonderful happy glow' Cally Taylor 'A super sparkling
star of a story and I can't wait for part two' Alexandra Brown
A TIME 'New Books You Should Read' A People magazine 'Book of the
Week' A New York Times Editors' Choice With a foreword by Elizabeth
Strout 'Electric: with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of
prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier
emotions just barely visible under the bright surface. What a
wonderful collection of stories' Lauren Groff Another day! And then
another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on
forever in that exquisitely boring and beautiful way. But of course
it wouldn't; everyone knows that. In this collection, Hilma
Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss,
seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously
ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours,
ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying
about unanswered chainmail, Wolitzer captures the tensions,
contradictions and unexpected detours of daily life with wit,
candour and an acutely observant eye. Including stories first
published in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s - alongside new
writing from Wolitzer, now in her nineties - Today a Woman Went Mad
in the Supermarket reintroduces a beloved writer to be embraced by
a new generation of readers. 'A fascinating time capsule of
womanhood, marriage and motherhood over the last century ... A
fabulous book' Emma Straub 'Immensely gratifying, poignant, funny
... Breathtaking' Elizabeth Strout, from the foreword
During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by
parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... Conradin Muller was an
unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June 1943, much against
his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission in late
September that year. He failed to send a single report back to
Germany, and when the War came to an end in May 1945, he fell to
his knees and wept with relief. From a highly reluctant German spy
who is drawn to an East Anglian nunnery as his only means of
escape, to the strange tale of one of the Cambridge spy ring's
adventures with a Russian dwarf, these are Alexander McCall Smith's
intriguing and typically inventive stories from the world of
espionage.
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Reverse Engineering
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Twenty-nine international creatives raise their pens, celebrating
the power of protest. In the face of historical and current
injustice, 'Demos Rising' elevates the collective voice of the
people, striving for democracy and freedom of speech for all. 5% of
profits go to Amnesty International. Poetry, stories and artwork: a
powerful and poignant tribute to the pressing issues of our time
from people that dare to strive for a better world.
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Blackboard
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Romana Ganzoni; Translated by Hannah Felce
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Tam O'Shanter meets Manga... Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd, Or
cutty-sarks run in your mind, Think! ye may buy joys o'er dear-
Remember Tam o' Shanter's mare. This vibrant and appealing
adaptation of Tam O'Shanter brings the work of Robert Burns and the
Scots language to life for a new generation through the medium of
manga in this graphic novel for the 10-14 age range. Using the full
and unabridged original poem, Richmond Clements a writer, editor
and colourist, has adapted one of Burns' best-loved works. The
illustrater, Inko, is a UK based Japanese manga and comic artist.
Her work combines modern & traditional Eastern and Western
cultures in this exciting edition.
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Survivor
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Julie Guinand; Translated by Rosie Eyre
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Urban One is a cutting-edge anthology that captures current South
African popular culture. Seen more as moments in the lives of 15 to
30 year-old South Africans than a collection of short stories, the
works send out a message that to be young and alive in
post-apartheid South Africa is to participate in a freshly
emerging, uniquely coloured and vibrant cultural experience. The
feel is more Martin Amis than Andre Brink, Irvin Welsh than JM
Coetzee. From a cross-section of young South African writers these
stories present an immediate vision of life in urban South Africa.
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Fearsome Journeys
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How do you encompass all the worlds of the imagination? Within
fantasy's scope lies every possible impossibility, from dragons to
spirits, from magic to gods, and from the unliving to the undying.
In Fearsome Journeys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out
on a quest to find the very limits of the unlimited, collecting
twelve brand new stories by some of the most popular and exciting
names in epic fantasy from around the world. With original fiction
from Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Trudi Canavan, K J Parker, Kate
Elliott, Jeffrey Ford, Robert V S Redick, Ellen Klages, Glen Cook,
Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Kushner, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Daniel Abraham,
Fearsome Journeys explores the whole range of the fantastic.
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, nine stories of cosmic horror
from the heir apparent to Lovecraft's throne. Laird Barron has
emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark
fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by
writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti.
His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted
in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple
awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley
Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. His debut
collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural
winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He returns with his second
collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a
carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's nine tales of terror
(two published here for the first time) were nominated for just as
many Shirley Jackson awards, winning for the novella "Mysterium
Tremendum" and the collection as a whole. Featuring an introduction
by Michael Shea, Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly
sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is
proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in
science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion,
near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery,
contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and
horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and
much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York
Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula
award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a
diverse group of authors.
The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by
series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth.
This year's selection of science fiction and fantasy stories,
chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of
the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors
that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes
on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the
avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the
depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through
singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory
nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter. The Best
American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real
cataclysm of human nature, claiming its place in the series with
compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity's never-ending
pursuit of discovering the unknown.
A last swim in a condemned pool leads a troubled teenager and her
grandmother to common ground... A young woman finds it so hard to
make her way in the city that she takes a drastic decision... A
couple receive relationship counselling from a strange family
grouping... A boy meets two exiles from Rwanda - one of them a
gorilla - with remarkable results... A woman summons her father
back from the dead... The authors shortlisted for the 2014 Caine
Prize are: Diane Awerbuck (South Africa) for Phosphorescence;
Efemia Chela (Ghana/Zambia) for Chicken; Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe)
for The Intervention; Billy Kahora (Kenya) for The Gorilla's
Apprentice; Okwiri Oduor (Kenya) for My Father's Head. In addition,
12 writers took part in the Caine Prize Writers' Workshop, held
this year in Zimbabwe, where each produced a special story for this
volume. These 17 stories - insightful, arresting and entertaining -
reflect the richness and range of current writing on the African
continent.
"Hamill, a master raconteur, mines his own roots in this enchanting
new anthology." ---"New York Times"
Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York
almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a
vanished age, brimming with nostalgia---for the world after the
war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the
years of Prohibition and the Depression.
THE CHRISTMAS KID is vintage Hamill. Set in the borough where he
was born and raised, it is a must-read for his many fans, for all
who love New York, and for anyone who seeks to understand the world
today through the lens of the world that once was.
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Ma is Scared
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Anjali Kajal; Translated by Kavita Bhanot
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"Ma is Scared is the long-overdue debut of Anjali Kajal in English,
representing the best of her short fiction, written and published
over the last twenty years. From the anxious mother waiting for her
daughter to return home safely, to the young student accused of
stealing because of her caste, the stories gathered here explore
the experience of women in small towns and urban centres across
North India. Kajal writes about desire, abuse, silence, love and
oppression in nuanced ways; how they are negotiated in the world;
through relationships, family, motherhood, school, university,
jobs. Her language, imagery and concerns are thoroughly
contemporary, capturing the yearnings, restrictions and
possibilities of modern life from a feminist and anti-caste
perspective. "
With this highly praised collection of short fiction, Lorna
Goodison demonstrates why she may be one of literature's best-kept
secrets. In the Pushcart Prize-winning title story, humble Dottie
thinks her luck has turned when she meets Frenchie, the
best-looking, if not most reliable, man in the whole of Jamaica. In
"The Helpweight," an accomplished woman must bear the burden of an
old flame's renewed affections when he returns from a life abroad
with his Irish bride in tow. And in "Henry," a young boy turned out
of his house to make way for his mother's lover sells roses on the
street to survive. On a whim, he bites off a bloom, which he can
feel burning inside his mouth like a red pepper light, hoping it
will take root and beautify his own life. Poetically rendered,
these and over a dozen other evocative stories create a world in
which pride can nourish a soul or be its ruin and where people are
in turn uplifted and undone by love.
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation
on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of
storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a
sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam
War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a
novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and
theme. But while Vietnam is central to 'The Things They Carried',
it is not simply a book about war. It is also a book about the
human heart - about the terrible weight of those things we carry
through our lives.
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