Showing results for "Christopher Priest" in Genre Fiction

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magician's craft can command. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences.

A petty thief known as John Smith was arrested for fraudulent behaviour in 1877. He tricked women into thinking he was rich, then stole their belongings and vanished. His guilt was obvious. In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on an expedition to a glacier, and their lives separated. One...

Alfred Borden et Rupert Angier, deux prestidigitateurs hors du commun, s'affrontent dans un duel sans merci. Trois générations plus tard, au cours d'une enquête sur une secte, le journaliste Andrew Wesley fait la connaissance de Kate Angier. Elle lui révèle qu'il s'appelle en fait Andrew Borden et qu'une guerre oppose leurs deux familles depuis la fin du XXe siècle. Quand Andrew découvre le rôle exact joué par le scientifique Tesla dans toute cette affaire, sa vie en est bouleversée à jamais... Ce roman a reçu le World Fantasy Award, catégorie "Meilleur roman".

After being mugged by a pair of pensioners outside the Darby & Joan Club, the Reverend Timothy Carswell has had enough of his rough, tough inner-city parish. Convinced that someone so meek would be better suited somewhere quieter, the Bishop packs him off to a nice, sedate residential neighbourhood where nothing ever seems to happen. However, unbeknownst to the vicar, his apparently respectable new parish is a hotbed of passion, paranormal experimentation and geriatric prostitution.