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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

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  • Currently 5/5

Do not look. Do not ask. Do not pry.

A sumptuous, gothic story about an obsessive female friendship cursed to end in tragedy, a marriage unraveled by dark secrets, and the danger of believing in...

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

The Witch and the Tsar

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Set in sixteenth-century Russia, The Witch and the Tsar upends the stories we know of Baba Yaga as the bony-legged witch of Slavic fairy tales and the stuff of nightmares. For beyond the rumours of...

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The Ghost Woods

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  • Currently 5/5

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall.

This place is shrouded in folklore – old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child.

Now the woods are...

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The Ghost Woods

Pandora

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  • Currently 4/5

There is a fine line between coincidence and fate...

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Pandora

One Foot in the Fade

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  • Currently 5/5

In a city that lost its magic, an angel falls in a downtown street. His wings are feathered, whole - undeniably magical - the man clearly flew, for all that he plummeted to his downfall moments after.

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One Foot in the Fade

Dead Man In a Ditch

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Fetch Philips has nothing left to believe in. Which is why he's surprised when the people of Sunder City start to believe in him...

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Dead Man In a Ditch

The Last Smile In Sunder City

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  • Currently 5/5

I'm Fetch Phillips, just like it says on the window. There are three things you should know before you hire me:

1. Sobriety costs extra.

2. My services are confidential.

3. I don't work...

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The Last Smile In Sunder City

The Deathless Girls

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  • Currently 5/5

They say the thirst of blood is like a madness - they must sate it. Even with their own kin.

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The Deathless Girls

The Absolute Book

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  • Currently 4.5/5

A spellbinding mix of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, American Gods and His Dark Materials

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The Absolute Book

Spinning Silver

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  • Currently 4/5

Spinning Silver is basically a cross between Rumplestiltskin and The Bear and The Nightingale.

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Spinning Silver

City Of Brass

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  • Currently 5/5

Nahri is a con artist and a thief with some unnusual skills. She can understand any language when she first hears it and she can recognise illness in others and she uses these skills to survive on the...

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City Of Brass

The Penelopiad

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  • Currently 5/5

In 'The Odyssey' the story of Odysseus’ return home after twenty years is told. His story tells of heroic deeds and sex with goddesses. He is well known for his wit and his wily ways....

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The Penelopiad

Children of Blood and Bone

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  • Currently 5/5

Orïsha was once a land full of magic and those who wielded it, known as the Maji. A land where ‘Burners’ had the ability to call forth and control flames, where ‘Tiders’...

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Children of Blood and Bone

My Swordhand Is Singing

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  • Currently 4.5/5

Peter and his father Tomas are woodcutters living on the edge of a small forest village called Chust. They are outsiders and for the most part keep to their own company.

All that changes when a...

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My Swordhand Is Singing

Daughter Of The Pirate King

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  • Currently 4/5

Alosa is the daughter of the infamous Pirate King so she finds it very hard to let herself be deliberately captured as part of a plan to steal a treasure map for her father.

Alosa has no trouble...

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Daughter Of The Pirate King

The Girl In The Tower

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  • Currently 5/5

Vasya faces two choices: get married or go to a convent but despite not knowing herself she knows neither of these options are for her.

Who is Vasya Petrovna?Murderer? Witch? Saviour?

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The Girl In The Tower

The Last Namsara

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  • Currently 5/5

“The old heroes were called Namsara after a beloved god, he said. So she would be called Iskari, after a deadly one.”

From a young age Asha has been hated and feared by her people,...

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The Last Namsara
 
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