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| "The Remains of the Day" |
| "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me GoWinner of the Booker PrizeA contemporary classic The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English HouseIn the summer of 1956 Stevens the ageing butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Lord of the Flies : with an introduction by Stephen King" |
| "Since it was first published in 1954 William Golding's classic debut novel has remained a stark allegory of civilization survival and human nature As dystopian stories like Hunger Games and Battle Royale surge in popularity this haunting tale of a group of young boys stranded on a desert island still captivates schoolchildren around the world raising timeless and profound questions about how easily society can slip into chaos and savagery when rules and order have been abandoned When a plane crashes on a remote island a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy and brutish Jack each of the boys attempts to establish control as the reality- and brutal savagery-of their situation sets inA teacher himself Golding clearly understood how to interest children with a gripping story and strong sympathetic characters The novel serves as a catalyst for thought-provoking discussion and analysis of universal issues not only concerning the capabilities of humans for good and evil and the fragility of moral inhibition but beyond The boys' struggle to find a way of existing in a community with no fixed boundaries invites readers to evaluate the concepts involved in social and political constructs and moral frameworks Symbolism is strong throughout revealing both the boys' capacity for empathy and hope as well as illuminating the darkest corners of the human spirit Ideas of community leadership and the rule of law are called into question as the reader has to consider who has a right to power why and what the consequences of the acquisition of power may be Often compared to Catcher in the Rye Lord of the Flies also represents a coming-of-age story of innocence lost"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The New York Trilogy" |
| "The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America&39;s most consistently astonishing writers The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler and at the same time a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest a truly bold and arresting work of fiction with something to transfix and astound every reader&39;Marks a new departure for the American novel&39; Observer&39;A shatteringly clever piece of work Utterly gripping written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind&39; Sunday Telegraph&39;The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett&39; Guardian"
Price: 6.99 |
| Rooftoppers |
| "Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal Already being proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fiction with sophisticated lyrical prose and vivid imagery that will delight middle grade readers tweens teens and parents and teachers alike Join plucky heroine Sophie her eccentric guardian Charles and her intrepid orphan allies on the rooftops of Victorian Paris as they encounter suspense and adventure that will keep kids of all ages on the edge of their seats right to the heartwarming endMy mother is still alive and she is going to come for me one dayEveryone thinks that Sophie is an orphan Found floating in a cello case and swaddled in a Beethoven score she is the only recorded female survivor of a shipwreck on the English Channel But Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for helpCharles a fellow survivor and an eccentric scholar finds Sophie and brings her home to his London bachelor flat Raised in a quirky home filled with music words and love (though questionable diet) Sophie grows into a free-spirited tomboy with a taste for Shakespeare and the unshakeable belief that anything is possible And you should never ignore a possibleSo when the child welfare agency in its bureaucratic wisdom threatens to send Sophie to an orphanage the optimistic girl and her odd guardian flee to Paris on a quest to find her mother starting with the only clue she has - the address of the cello makerSecured in an attic to evade the French authorities Sophie escapes through the skylight and meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers - homeless urchins who tightrope walk above the busy streets below dining on pigeons and snails alongside the gargoyles and bell tower of Notre Dame Together they set out on an unimaginable adventure scouring the city for Sophie's mother before she is caught and sent back to London - and most importantly before she loses hopeReaders who enjoyed the Lemony Snicket books Ellen Potter's The Kneebone Boy Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord and Sally Gardner's I Coriander will want to put Rooftoppers on their Must Read list"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Betrayal by Harold Pinter (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "&39;Betrayal is a new departure and a bold one Pinter has found a way of making memory active and dramatic giving an audience the experience of the mind&39;s accelerating momentum as it pieces together the past with a combination of curiosity and regret He shows man betrayed not only by man but by time - a recurring theme which has found its proper scenic correlative Pinter captures the psyche&39;s sly manoeuvres for self-respect with a sardonic forgiveness a master craftsman honouring his talent by setting it new difficult tasks&39; New Society &39;There is hardly a line into which desire pain alarm sorrow rage or some kind of blend of feelings has not been compressed like volatile gas in a cylinder less stable than it looks Pinter&39;s narrative method takes "what&39;s next?" out of the spectator&39;s and replaces it with the rather deeper "how?" and "why?" Why did love pass? How did these people cope with the lies the evasions the sudden dangers panic and the contradictory feelings behind their own deftly engineered masks? The play&39;s subject is not sex not even adultery but the politics of betrayal and the damage it inflicts on all involved&39; The Times First staged at the National Theatre in 1978 Betrayal was revived at the Almeida Theatre London in 1991 Twenty years after its first showing it returned to the National in 1998"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Bell Jar Hardcover" |
| "I was supposed to be having the time of my lifeWhen Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts Esther&39;s life begins to slide out of control She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women&39;s aspirations seriouslyThe Bell Jar Sylvia Plath&39;s only novel was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas The novel is partially based on Plath&39;s own life and has become a modern classic The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and a razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide"
Price: 9.49 |
| Solaris |
| "When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories but its purpose in doing so remains a mystery Solaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience and literature for centuries can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Buried Giant" |
| "The extraordinary new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased The Buried Giant begins as a couple Axl and Beatrice set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another Sometimes savage often intensely moving Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories love revenge and war"
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| "Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin : An Anthology by Alan Bennett" |
| "Writers like to elude their public lead them a bit of a dance They take them down untrodden paths land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directionsIn this personal anthology Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail Ranging from hidden treasures to famous poems this is a collection for the beginner and the expert alike Speaking with candour about his own reactions to the work Alan Bennett creates profound and witty portraits of Thomas Hardy A E Housman John Betjeman W H Auden Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin all the more enjoyable for being in his own particular voiceAnybody writing poetry in the thirties had somehow to come to terms with Auden Auden you see had got a head start on the other poets He'd got into the thirties first like someone taking over the digs"
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| "Ariel : Faber Modern Classics" |
| "Ariel first published in 1965 contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963 Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus' 'Edge' 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic' it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests'Since she died my mother has been dissected analysed reinterpreted reinvented fictionalized and in some cases completely fabricated It comes down to this her own words describe her best her ever-changing moods defining the way she viewed her world and the manner in which she pinned down her subjects with a merciless eye' - from Frieda Hughes's introduction to Ariel"
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| "Dave Pigeon" |
| "If you can read this you obviously understand Pigeonese You may read my bookIf you're a cat and you've learnt Pigeonese (HA HA HA! As if a cat would be smart enough to learn Pigeonese) This must mean if you are a cat and you are able to read this you have taken a pigeon hostage so that you can trick them into translating the Pigeonese words into Meow I demand you release the hostage pigeon now My book contains TOP SECRET ideas that are NONE of a cat's businessDave Pigeon is writing a book on how he defeated Mean Cat in order to help fellow pigeons everywhere Cats beware! A hilarious debut for 6 readers with black and white illustrations by the superbly talented Sheena Dempsey"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Grief is the Thing with Feathers" |
| "In a London flat two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death Their father a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist trickster healer babysitter This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him This extraordinary debut full of unexpected humour and emotional truth marks the arrival of a thrilling and significant new talent"
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| "Letters from the Lighthouse" |
| "We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night We weren't even meant to be outside not in a blackout and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jarFebruary 1941 After months of bombing raids in London twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim the local lighthouse keeper But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees Desperate to be helpful Olive becomes his post-girl carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers But Olive has a secret of her own Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid and she's desperate to discover what happened to her And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon and to something dark and impossibly dangerous"
Price: 7.49 |
| Survivors |
| "Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017Beautifully presented in a large paperback format and fully illustrated in colour throughout this wonderful anthology is a treat for all the family Be shocked and amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival including The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark a sailor who survived for 133 days on a raft in the Atlantic when his ship was torpedoed using shark's blood in place of fresh water The Girl Who Fell From the Sky a teenager who fell 2 miles from an aeroplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety The Woman Who Froze to Death - Yet Lived a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long her heart stopped Four hours later medics managed to warm her blood enough to revive her Combining classic tales such as Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic voyage as well as more modern exploits such as the adventurer who inspired the movie 127 Hours these astonishing stories will be retold by young readers to all of their friends"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Sebastian Barry Days Without End" |
| "Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017&39;Pitch perfect the outstanding novel of the Year&39; ObserverAfter signing up for the US army in the 1850s aged barely seventeen Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms John Cole fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War Having both fled terrible hardships their days are now vivid and filled with wonder despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in Then when a young Indian girl crosses their path the possibility of lasting happiness seems within reach if only they can survive"
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| "The Blinds" |
| "Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives with their memories altered who've been granted new identities and a second chance Welcome to The Blinds a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don't know if they've perpetrated a crime or just witnessed one All they do know is that they opted into the programme and that if they try to leave they will end up deadFor eight years Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an uneasy peace - but after a suicide and a murder in quick succession the town's residents revolt Cooper has his own secrets to protect so when his new deputy starts digging he needs to keep one step ahead of her - and the mysterious outsiders who threaten to tear the whole place down The more he learns the more the hard truth is revealed The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway it's simmering with violence and deception heartbreak and betrayal and it's fit to burst"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The American Indian Secrets of Crystal Healing" |
| "The Native Americans are particularly concerned with the misuse of crystals and the potential harm that can do In this fascinating book they reveal the age-old secrets - many handed down by word of mouth through generations - of the Native American tribes The book includes purification are care of crystals; stones and their properties; working practices; practical exercises; the laws of healing; colours and their properties; how to prepare the essences; and the therapeutic touch and exercises"
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| "The Lies of Locke Lamora : The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One" |
| "They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight They say he steals from the rich and gives to the poor They say he's part man part myth and mostly street-corner rumor And they are wrong on every count Only averagely tall slender and god-awful with a sword Locke Lamora is the fabled Thorn and the greatest weapons at his disposal are his wit and cunning He steals from the rich - they're the only ones worth stealing from - but the poor can go steal for themselves What Locke cons wheedles and tricks into his possession is strictly for him and his band of fellow con-artists and thieves the Gentleman Bastards Together their domain is the city of Camorr Built of Elderglass by a race no-one remembers it's a city of shifting revels filthy canals baroque palaces and crowded cemeteries Home to Dons merchants soldiers beggars cripples and feral children And to Capa Barsavi the criminal mastermind who runs the cityBut there are whispers of a challenge to the Capa's power A challenge from a man no one has ever seen a man no blade can touch The Grey King is comingA man would be well advised not to be caught between Capa Barsavi and The Grey King Even such a master of the sword as the Thorn of Camorr As for Locke Lamora"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Altered Carbon : Netflix Altered Carbon book 1" |
| "MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES FEB 2018 This must-read story is a confident action-and-violence packed thriller and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course But some things never change So when ex-envoy now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he really shouldn¿t be surprised Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology so brilliant at world-building so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure is simply extraordinary"
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| "The Name of the Wind : The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 1" |
| "&39;I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings I burned down the town of Trebon I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day I have talked to Gods loved women and written songs that make the minstrels weep My name is Kvothe You may have heard of me&39;So begins the tale of Kvothe - currently known as Kote the unassuming innkeepter - from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician the accomplished thief the masterful musician the dragon-slayer the legend-hunter the lover the thief and the infamous assassin The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its very best and an astounding must-read title "
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| "The Wise Man's Fear : The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 2" |
| "Sequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R R Martin's A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE and a must-read for all fans of HBO's GAME OF THRONESPicking up the tale of Kvothe Kingkiller once again we follow him into exile into political intrigue courtship adventure love and magic and further along the path that has turned Kvothe the mightiest magician of his age a legend in his own time into Kote the unassuming pub landlordPacked with as much magic adventure and home-grown drama as THE NAME OF THE WIND this is a sequel in every way the equal to its predecessor and a must-read for all fantasy fans Readable engaging and gripping THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is the biggest and the best new fantasy novel out there"
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| "Necronomicon : The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft" |
| "WIKIPEDIA says 'HP Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century exerting an influence that is widespread though often indirect'HP Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s These astonishing tales blend elements of horror science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first publishedThis handsome leatherbound tome collects together the very best of Lovecraft's tales of terror including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle just the way they were originally published It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction as well as being a must-buy for those fans who want all his work in a single definitive highly attractive volume"
Price: 17.49 |
| "The Republic of Thieves : The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book Three" |
| "After their adventures on the high seas Locke and Jean are brought back to earth with a thump Jean is mourning the loss of his lover and Locke must live with the fallout of crossing the all-powerful magical assassins the Bonds MagiIt is a fallout that will pit both men against Locke's own long-lost love Sabetha is Locke's childhood sweetheart the love of Locke's life and now it is time for them to meet again Employed on different sides of a vicious dispute between factions of the Bonds Sabetha has just one goal - to destroy Locke for everThe Gentleman Bastard sequence has become a literary sensation in fantasy circles and now with the third book Scott Lynch is set to seal that success"
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| "Metro 2033 Paperback" |
| "The year is 2033 The world has been reduced to rubble Humanity is nearly extinct The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation Beyond their boundaries they say lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory the stuff of myth and legend More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth Rusted railways lead into emptiness The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo New York Buenos Aires Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms Mutated by radiation they are better adapted to the new world Man&39;s time is over A few score thousand survivors live on not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built It is humanity&39;s last refuge Stations have become mini-statelets their people uniting around ideas religions water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion It is a world without a tomorrow with no room for dreams plans hopes Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival Survival at any price VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line It was one of the Metro&39;s best stations and still remains secure But now a new and terrible threat has appeared Artyom a young man living in VDNKh is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro to the legendary Polis to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help He holds the future of his native station in his hands the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Final Empire : Mistborn Book One" |
| "For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear while the Lord Ruler reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror a divinely invincible leader Hope is long lost until a terribly scarred heart-broken half-Skaa in the depths of the most hellish prison and discovered he has the powers of a Mistborn A brilliant thief and natural leader Kelsier will turn his talents to the ultimate caper one with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark Only he's not just planning the greatest heist in history he's plotting the overthrow of a divine despotKelsier recruited the underworld's elite the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers each of whom shares one of his many powers and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled Kel's plan looks like a long shot until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life Like him she's a half-Skaa orphan but she's lived a much harsher life Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets and gotten it She will have to learn to trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Well of Ascension : Mistborn Book Two" |
| "The impossible has happened The Lord Ruler is dead has been vanquished But so too is Kelsier the man who masterminded the triumph The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his protege Vin; a one-time street urchin now the most powerful Mistborn in the landWorryingly for her Vin has become the focus of a new religion a development that leaves her intensely uneasy More worryingly still the mists have become unpredictable since the Lord Ruler died and a strage vaprous entity is stalking VinAs the siege of Luthadel intensifies the ancient legend of the Well of Ascension offers the only glimmer of hope But no-one knows where it is or what it can do"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Hero of Ages : Mistborn Book Three" |
| "Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension new emperor Elend Venture and his wife the assassin Vin are now hard-pressed to save the worldThis adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy to a dramatic and surprising climax as Sanderson's saga offers complex characters and a compelling plot asking hard questions about loyalty faith and responsibility"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Way of Kings Part One : The Stormlight Archive Book One" |
| "The brand new epic fantasy series from international bestseller Brandon SandersonAccording to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls Heaven But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven casting out God and men Men took root on Roshar the world of storms And the Voidbringers followed They came against man ten thousand times To help them cope the Almighty gave men powerful suits of armor and mystical weapons known as Shardblades Led by ten angelic Heralds and ten orders of knights known as Radiants mankind finally wonOr so the legends say Today the only remnants of those supposed battles are the Shardblades the possession of which makes a man nearly invincible on the battlefield The entire world is at war with itself - and has been for centuries since the Radiants turned against mankind Kings strive to win more Shardblades each secretly wishing to be the one who will finally unite all of mankind under a single throneOn a world scoured down to the rock by terrifying hurricanes that blow through every few days is a young spearman forced into the army of a Shardbearer led to war against an enemy he doesn't understand and doesn't really want to fight What happened deep in mankind's past? Why did the Radiants turn against mankind and what happened to the magic they used to wield?"
Price: 8.99 |
| Warbreaker |
| "WARBREAKER is the story of two sisters - who happen to be princesses the God King one of them has to marry a lesser god and an immortal trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years agoTheirs is a world in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city A world transformed by BioChromatic magic a power based on an essence known as breath Using magic is arduous breath can only be collected one unit at a time from individual peopleBut the rewards are great by using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects all manner of miracles and mischief can be performedBrandon Sanderson proves again that he is a master of what Tolkien called 'secondary creation' the invention of whole worlds complete with magics and myths all their own"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else) My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don&39;t have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May Then one night in pursuance of a murder inquiry I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale the last wizard in England Now I&39;m a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard the first apprentice in fifty years and my world has become somewhat more complicated nests of vampires in Purley negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames and digging up graves in Covent Garden and there&39;s something festering at the heart of the city I love a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despairThe spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city and it&39;s falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying"
Price: 6.99 |
