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Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost.

Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen.

UNDOING WHAT CAN’T BE UNDONE.Sakuta had been ready to give up his life, but nothing could have prepared him to keep living like this. Now he must find a way to carry on even when it feels like tomorrow will never come. And even if it does, why should he care when the love of his life is...

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE HER WISH COME TRUE?After a draining December, Sakuta is quickly nearing the end of his second year of high school. Since Mai is a third-year student, they don’t have much time left together before graduation rolls around. Meanwhile, his sister, Kaede, is slowly but...

Brought to you by Penguin. Is love on the small screen better than the real thing? Brynn’s happy ending has gone up in flames. She’s newly divorced and living with a roommate – Josh – to afford her mortgage. At least she’s got Carson’s Cove to binge - her beloved 90s teenage soap. So...

DREAMS CAN COME TRUE. BUT SO CAN NIGHTMARES... From a spellbinding debut voice comes a gripping urban fantasy, set in the heart of a near-future Birmingham. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Ben Aaronovitch! This rich, multi-voice audiobook includes exclusive music and sound effects for a...

A brilliantly crafted modern tale from acclaimed film critic and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill—part Neil Gaiman, part Guillermo Del Toro, part William S. Burroughs—that charts the lives of two boys from their star-crossed childhood in the realm of magic and mystery to their anguished...

'A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy' - ENIGMA 'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance' - SFX Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort they'd be insane to be offering to someone...

The award-winning author of The Past once again ""crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural"" (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional. The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has...

What if you could turn the pages of your own life, like the pages of your favourite book? Step into the magical and uplifting world of THE MOON GLOW BOOKSHOP - the Korean sensation for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and DallerGut Dream Department Store Hidden down a quiet alley, glowing...

Serving as courier to Nathao, the increasingly powerful King of Dreams, means Gwen Revmore gets a close-up look at the gods that most mortals can only imagine. Right now, it's not a position to be envied. This time, Gwen has landed in the middle of a dispute between mother and daughter when Persephone gives birth to a son outside the reach of her mother Demma, the goddess of knowledge and medicine. The child is supposed to be given to Demma to compensate her for her loss of Persephone to Luke.

Der neue Fantasy-Roman der Autorin von DIVINE RIVALS. Das Reich Azenor steht seit Jahrzehnten unter einem schrecklichen Fluch. In jeder Neumondnacht werden die schlimmsten Albträume der Einwohner lebendig. Als angehende Wächterin ist es die Aufgabe von Clementine und ihrem Vater, ihr Dorf davor zu beschützen. Doch als eines Tages zwei junge Magier auftauchen und ihnen dieses Amt streitig machen, ändert sich alles. In einem Wettkampf verliert Clementine nicht nur ihren Posten, sondern auch ihr Zuhause.

Two worlds threaten to crumble in the face of a common enemy in the epic conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. 'A GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER' MARIE CLAIRE 'THRILLING' GLAMOUR Once upon a time, an angel and a devil pressed their hands to their hearts and started...

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex Award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very...

Runner has a problem. He and 499,000 men and women are trapped in a game. He also just happens to be the only person from IT who could log everyone out safely. And he doesn't remember his password. He, like everyone else in this nightmare, had his memory scrambled or lost in the process of being loaded into the game. A single garbled message is his only clue to how to save everyone. The problem is that whoever loaded them into the game loaded their minds completely.

Our favorite Fairy Godmother is on her own in an enchanted cave that has more twists and turns and most of them deadly. She has an enchanted oversized dog with her, but will that be enough? No help is coming. Alex, the police detective, is still under a sleep curse and Sir Thomas, a talking cat...

Who will claim the throne now that Lord Incarnadine, King of the Realms Perilous, is dead? Under a mysterious spell cast by a mischief-maker, all of Castle Perilous's 144,000 creatures of curiosity clamor for the crown. Outside of the castle's coveting fray, Gene flies off with a adventurous Amazon in supernatural manifestation and Lord Inky explores the dark mysteries that lurk in the realm of the dead!

I like my women like I like my whiskey: liable to kill me. The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by a self-appointed council of vampire...

Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that combines the imaginative wonders of Neil Gaiman, the...

Some days, a girl just can't catch a break...especially when the girl in question is Georgina Kincaid, a shape-shifting succubus who gets her energy from seducing men. First there's her relationship with gorgeous best-selling writer Seth Mortensen, which is unsatisfying on a number of levels.