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When half your galaxy is unexpectedly sucked into a black hole - when a hitherto-unknown species of space aliens lays waste to your home planet - when disaster rears its ugly head (or heads) - who can you call for faster-than-light appraisals and best-in-the-multiverse customer service? Just one man - Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent. In this latest chapter of his interstellar exploits, Tom is about to deliver a crushing performance evaluation to Jimmy the Intern when the unimaginable happens: The beloved Wendell the Manatee has been kidnapped!

A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), The Stranger Times is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor...well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own.

Brought to you by Penguin. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . For most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of The Stranger Times. While a book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn’t unprecedented, it is at least...

Lukas Aguilar does not believe in gods. Despite—or perhaps because of—his deep knowledge of mythology and lore, Lukas has always valued what is practical, factual, and verifiable, eschewing faith for what he can see right in front of him. That is, until an earthquake destroys his home, and he wakes up in a dark cavern infested with bloodthirsty and unearthly creatures, wielding strange powers and hearing an even stranger voice in his head claiming to be a goddess.

Da will man in seinem Buchclub ein wenig Spiritualität ausprobieren und schon hat man aus Versehen den alten Gott Zalas heraufbeschworen. Und Zalas hat natürlich nur eins im Sinn: möglichst viele Gläubige um sich scharen. Mithilfe des unglückseligen Neil Aikens erschafft Zalas ein Winterwunderland, in dem alle Wünsche wahr werden – vom echten Einhorn bis zum Besuch des Opas, der letztes Jahr doch eigentlich das Zeitliche gesegnet hat. Das Team der Stranger Times muss einen Weg finden, um nicht nur Weihnachten, sondern womöglich die ganze Welt zu retten.

Da will man in seinem Buchclub ein wenig Spiritualität ausprobieren und schon hat man aus Versehen den alten Gott Zalas heraufbeschworen. Und Zalas hat natürlich nur eins im Sinn: möglichst viele Gläubige um sich scharen. Mithilfe des unglückseligen Neil Aikens erschafft Zalas ein Winterwunderland, in dem alle Wünsche wahr werden – vom echten Einhorn bis zum Besuch des Opas, der letztes Jahr doch eigentlich das Zeitliche gesegnet hat. Das Team der Stranger Times muss einen Weg finden, um nicht nur Weihnachten, sondern womöglich die ganze Welt zu retten.

Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester. Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life. And definitely not the people of Manchester, because there is nothing more irksome than being murdered by an allegory run amok. Somebody needs to sort this out fast before all hell really breaks loose - step forward the staff of The Stranger Times.

Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her?

Not too long ago, Lukas Aguilar believed only what he could see and feel for himself. Then an earthquake destroyed his home and cast him into a dangerous dungeon world. He fought to survive, gaining experience and levels but losing the goddess Inanna who inhabited his mind. And he wants her back.

When reading and writing are the most important things in the world. Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home - but which his mother calls the Ghost Country. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. Just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl.

Brought to you by Penguin. STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in...

Nick strebt nach Anerkennung in der Clique. Doch all seine Versuche werden vom Cliquenboss Sandro im Keim erstickt. Im Internet stößt er auf ein Ritual, mit dem er sich seines Rivalen entledigen könnte. Doch schon, als er das Wort wie verlangt auf die Tür schreibt, kommen ihm Zweifel. Was, wenn es nicht funktioniert. Oder noch schlimmer. Was, WENN es funktioniert? Sein Gewissen schreit immer lauter, aber Nicks Sehnsucht nach Beachtung ist so groß, dass er die warnende Stimme ignoriert.

Whether he’s underwriting for an overlord, or wearing a pocket protector in a pocket universe, Tom Stranger has just one policy: providing Quality Customer Service. No alien menace is too menacing, no galactic rift too rifty for the multiverse’s most-trusted Interdimensional Insurance Agent in these three brand-new adventures and two classic escapades.

A literary suspense novel in which an eerie social game goes viral and spins perilously—and criminally—out of control. Rebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the...

The curse of the lost goddess Inanna would not allow Lukas Aguilar to hide out in obscurity for long. To become the conquering invader, the protective monster, and the selfish Outsider who would risk the end of the world itself, he must instead embrace audacity.

Die drei Königreiche befinden sich in einem tödlichen Krieg. Für Meilin die Chance, einer Zwangsehe zu entgehen. Als Junge verkleidet, kämpft sie fortan in der Armee. Ihr Ehrgeiz auf dem Schlachtfeld wird bald von Liu entdeckt, dem Prinzen der Armee, der sie persönlich trainiert.

Lukas Aguilar used to think he knew everything. Mainly because he believed only what he could prove for himself. No gods, fate, or any such nonsense for him. But that seems like a lifetime ago. Because when an earthquake destroyed his earthly home, he suddenly found himself in a dark dungeon world where gods and monsters are all too real—and supreme goddess Inanna had taken up residence in his mind. Upon learning the rules of his new existence—levels, skills, abilities—Lukas fought his way from victory to victory. That is, until he came up against an anomaly that got him killed.

The hit hopepunk sci-fi thriller starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo 'Pulse-pounding, breathtaking... like an HBO mini-series for the ear' LA Weekly When the cryptic Parallax puzzle appears online, it quickly becomes the world's most talked-about conundrum. A complex, multi-level cipher...

Lynx is a mercenary with a sense of honour - a dying breed in the Riven Kingdom. Failed by the nation he served and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent's principalities, he walks the land in search of purpose. He wants for little, so bodyguard work keeps his belly full and his mage-gun loaded. It might never bring a man fame or wealth, but he's not forced to rely on others or kill without cause. Little could compel Lynx to join a mercenary company, but he won't turn his back on a kidnapped girl.