Showing results for "Modern and Contemporary" in Fantasy

The only thing you cannot plan in life is when and who to fall in love with . . . Raghu likes to show that there is nothing remarkable about his life—loving, middle-class parents, an elder brother he looks up to and plans to study in an IIT. And that’s how he wants things to seem—normal...

'You're asking me to hold your hand. And now you're turning away from me. You are saying something but I can't hear you. It's too windy. You're crying now. Now you're smiling. I'm done. I love you . . .' It's been two years since Raghu left his first love, Brahmi, on the edge of the roof one...

Brought to you by Penguin. Recently deceased Delphie Bookham has just met The One in the afterlife, but is devastated when a mix-up means he is immediately sent back to Earth. Delphie is given a second chance and accepts a deal in which she can return to her previous life in London and reconnect...

Bloomsbury presents Illuminations by Alan Moore, read by Rory Kinnear, Laura Haddock, Nina Sosanya, Samuel Barnett, Toby Jones, Emilia Fox, Sian Clifford, Clarke Peters, Mark Meadows, Alan Moore and Matt Reeves. Toby Jones, Rory Kinnear, Sian Clifford, Emilia Fox, Laura Haddock and Nina Sosanya...

A fan-favorite character returns in this action-packed installment of the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series. "Cynthia Hopkins narrates this fantasy in a detached tone that fits the serious and logical perspective" —AudioFile on In An Absent Dream After Nancy was cast out of the Halls...

The incredible conclusion to the tournament that started in All of Us Villains. I should warn you: this is going to be absolutely brutal . . . For the first time in this ancient, bloodstained story, the tournament is breaking. The boundaries between the city of Ilvernath and the arena have...

Quando Nora Seed fa il suo ingresso nella Biblioteca di mezzanotte, le viene offerta l’occasione di rimediare agli errori commessi. Come sarebbe andata la sua vita se avesse preso decisioni diverse? I libri sugli scaffali della Biblioteca di mezzanotte hanno il potere di mostrarglielo, proiettando Nora in una versione alternativa della realtà. Ma le cose non vanno sempre secondo i piani e prima che scada il tempo, Nora deve trovare una risposta alla domanda di tutte le domande: come si può vivere al meglio la propria vita?

Return to the enchanting Pacific Northwest town of Friday Harbor in New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’s Crystal Cove where two people learn that fate isn’t written in stone when they’re woven together by the magic only love can bring. . . On an island off the coast of...

Unabridged, 12 hours Read by Marnye Young Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary PI. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable, in a world where magic is real, where hell is just around the corner-and where death isn't the worst thing that can happen to you...

A poignant and irresistible story about an improbable hero and the woman who saves him. Sam Holloway is a survivor, but he’s not really living. His meticulous routines and quiet lifestyle keep everything nice and safe—with just one exception… Three nights a week, Sam dons his superhero...

The fifth book in the captivating SPELLSLINGER fantasy series. Kellen and Reichis have just finished fighting a duel in the desert when Kellen inadvertently smears blood on the Daroman flag - an act of treason for which the Marshals have no choice but to arrest him. Just before he's put before...

‘Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning’ – Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first...

Brought to you by Penguin. Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story? Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty...

Guy is about to finish writing his breakthrough online article. He overheard the story by chance in a pub and it’s guaranteed to go viral - all he needs to do is persuade the World’s Unluckiest Man to talk to him. His best friend Larry’s quest for killer clickbait material has led him to a recently appeared shanty town in Glasgow, where he finds some kind of urban voodoo cult. Ex-cop Sam has already come face-to-face with the terrifying force behind both these phenomena, but he’s been trying to put it out of his mind.

Brought to you by Penguin. It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin...