Brothers Jackson and Frank live on the margins of a big urban sprawl. From abandoned tower blocks to gleaming skyscrapers, their city is brutal, beautiful and divided. As anti-government protests erupt across the teeming metropolis, the brothers sail in search of the Red Citadel and its promise of a radical new way of life. A striking portrait of the precarity of modern urban living, and of the fierce bonds that grow between brothers, Patrick Langley's debut Arkady is a brilliant ...

An eerie ability is passed from grandmother to grandson—who now must reckon with a new cacophony of voices and sounds, all from the past, overlaying his life in the present—in this stirring new novel from one of the UK’s most exciting young writers.Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes’s Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries has offered its young wards a g...

In "My New Curate," Patrick Augustine Sheehan weaves a tapestry of humor and pathos through the life of a Catholic parish in 19th-century Ireland. The novel is an engaging exploration of the dynamics between the church and community, characterized by a unique blend of wit and warmth. Sheehan's keen observational prowess lends itself to a rich narrative populated by memorable characters, each symbolizing the varied shades of faith, doubt, and human connection that pervade rural parish life....

Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy universe of The Kingkiller Chronicle, in this illustrated companion novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things.“I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel MirandaDeep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the ...

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels - Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Novels and Stories - H. P. Lovecraft : The complete Collection - Edgar Allan Poe : The Complete Tales And Poems - Mary Shelley : The Complete Novels - H. G. Wells : The Classic...

The 2018 Academy Award's Best Picture of the Year and New York Times-bestselling novel, The Shape of Water.From visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus comes this haunting, heartbreaking love story."[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments a...

Friends and family delve into the secrets of a dying man's past in this literary novel by the award-winning author of The Wasp Factory."A goodbye letter to the world and all of its wonder and terror." ―Cory Doctorow, boingboing.netEighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy...

In this astonishing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet shares the seventeen near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life.The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, dail...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: An Old-fashioned Girl [Louisa May Alcott] The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius] The Norsemen in the West [Robert Michael Ballantyne] Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum[ Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers] The Pilgrim's Progress [John Bunyan] The Ghost-Extinguisher [Frank Gelett Burgess] A Lady of Quality [Frances Hodgson Burnett] The Secret Garden [...

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS C.J. DENNIS PRIZE FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDSDisarming, warm, and always accessible, Cate Kennedy’s poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can turn on a single moment. Musing on the undercurrents and ...

A dystopic look at what happens to one American town when all the fossil fuels run out... It's the near future - the very near future - and the fossil fuels are running out. No gas. No oil. Which means no driving. No heat. Supermarkets are empty. Malls have shut down. Life has just become more local than we ever knew it could be. Nobody expected the end to come this fast. And in the small town of Spring Valley decisions that once seemed easy are quickly becoming matters of life and death. ...

'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her lips are thin and her nose is a dark blade. Teeth small and yellow. The lashes of her hazel eyes have thickened and her brows are drawn together, an expression he has never seen, a look that is almost craven.'Mrs Fox is the story of a husband who is shocked out of his complacency when his wife undergoes a remarkable transformation."The poetic use of language, the dexterity an...