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Fractured Fables
Alix E. Harrow
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‘Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent’ - Olivie
Blake Step into Starling House – if you dare . . . Nobody in Eden
remembers when Starling House was built. But the town agrees it’s
best to let this ill-omened mansion – and its last lonely heir
– go to hell. Stories of the house’s bad luck, like good china,
have been passed down the generations. Opal knows better than to
mess with haunted houses, or brooding men. But when an opportunity
to work there arises, the money might get her brother out of Eden.
Starling House is uncanny and full of secrets – just like Arthur,
its heir. It also feels strangely, dangerously, like something
she’s never had: a home. Yet Opal isn’t the only one interested
in the horrors and the wonders that lie buried beneath it. Sinister
forces converge on Eden – and Opal realizes that if she wants a
home, she’ll have to fight for it. Even if it involves digging up
her family’s ugly past to achieve a better future. She’ll have
to go down, deep down beneath Starling House, to claw her way back
to the light . . . This is a sweeping gothic fairytale from Hugo,
Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.
‘Alix E. Harrow is an exceptional, undeniable talent’ - Olivie
Blake Step into Starling House – if you dare . . . Nobody in Eden
remembers when Starling House was built. But the town agrees it’s
best to let this ill-omened mansion – and its last lonely heir
– go to hell. Stories of the house’s bad luck, like good china,
have been passed down the generations. Opal knows better than to
mess with haunted houses, or brooding men. But when an opportunity
to work there arises, the money might get her brother out of Eden.
Starling House is uncanny and full of secrets – just like Arthur,
its heir. It also feels strangely, dangerously, like something
she’s never had: a home. Yet Opal isn’t the only one interested
in the horrors and the wonders that lie buried beneath it. Sinister
forces converge on Eden – and Opal realizes that if she wants a
home, she’ll have to fight for it. Even if it involves digging up
her family’s ugly past to achieve a better future. She’ll have
to go down, deep down beneath Starling House, to claw her way back
to the light . . . This is a sweeping gothic fairytale from Hugo,
Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Glorious . . . a tale that will
sweep you away' Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of
The Night Tiger 'A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious
power of women' Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of
Strange the Dreamer In 1893, there's no such thing as witches.
There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began,
but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If
the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at
the ballot box. But when the three Eastwood sisters join the
suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways
that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement.
Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not
suffer a witch to vote - and perhaps not even to live - the sisters
must delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the
bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as
witches. But there will be. Praise for The Once and Future Witches:
'A brilliant dazzle of a book . . . I devoured it in enormous
gulps, and utterly loved it' Kat Howard, author of The Unkindness
of Ghosts 'Compelling, exhilarating and magical - a must-read'
Booklist (starred review) 'Delightful . . . a tale of women's
battle for equality, of fairy tales twisted into wonderfully witchy
spells, of magics both large and small, and history re-imagined'
Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches 'A love letter
to folklore and the rebellious women of history' Publishers Weekly
'A breathtaking book - brilliant and raw and dark and complicated'
Sarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars
***Shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards for Best
Novel*** 'A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers
and the doors they lead us through . . . absolutely enchanting'
Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice ACCORDING TO JANUARY
SCALLER, THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO RUN AWAY FROM YOUR OWN STORY, AND
THAT'S TO SNEAK INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S . . . In a sprawling mansion
filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity
herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr Locke, she feels little
different from the artefacts that decorate the halls: carefully
maintained, largely ignored and utterly out of place. But her quiet
existence is shattered when she stumbles across a strange book. A
book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of
secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page reveals more
impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story
increasingly entwined with her own. 'One of the most unique works
of fiction I've ever read' Tamora Pierce, New York Times
bestselling author 'A gorgeously written story of love and longing,
of what it means to lose your place in the world and then have the
courage to find it again' Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of
Magicians 'Devastatingly good, a sharp, delicate nested tale of
worlds within worlds, stories within stories and the realm-cracking
power of words' Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood 'The Ten
Thousand Doors of January healed hurts I didn't even know I had. An
unbearably beautiful story about growing up, and everything we
fight to keep along the way' Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo Award-winning
author 'Beautiful, achingly gorgeous ode to storytelling, magic and
family' S. A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass
Even time travel can't unravel love Time-travel is a way for
writers to play with history and imagine different futures - for
better, or worse. When romance is thrown into the mix, time-travel
becomes a passionate tool, or heart-breaking weapon. A time agent
in the 22nd century puts their whole mission at risk when they fall
in love with the wrong person. No matter which part of history a
man visits, he cannot not escape his ex. A woman is desperately in
love with the time-space continuum, but it doesn't love her back.
As time passes and falls apart, a time-traveller must say goodbye
to their soulmate. With stories from best-selling and award-winning
authors such as Seanan McGuire, Alix E. Harrow and Nina Allan, this
anthology gives a taste for the rich treasure trove of stories we
can imagine with love, loss and reunion across time and space.
Including stories by: Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Seanan McGuire,
Sarah Gailey, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, Elizabeth Hand, Lavanya
Lakshminarayan, Catherynne M. Valente, Sam J. Miller, Rowan
Coleman, Margo Lanagan, Sameem Siddiqui, Theodora Goss, Carrie
Vaughn, Ellen Klages
USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered
brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story.
Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping
Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist
reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no
match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working
knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden It's Zinnia Gray's
twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last
birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial
accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about
her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best
friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special
with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a
spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something
strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling
through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to
escape her fate.
Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping
Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a
dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk
with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of
the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just
get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when
Zinnia's beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she
glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her:
the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because
there's more than one person trapped in a story they didn't choose.
Snow White's Evil Queen has found out how her story ends from what
might be Zinnia's own book of fairy tales and she's desperate for a
better ending. She wants Zinnia to help her and she needs to do it
before it's too late for everyone. Will Zinnia accept the Queen's
poisonous request, and save them both from the hot iron shoes that
wait for them, or will she try another path?
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