The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
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...
Book Reviews: Fairy Tale
Dead Man In a Ditch
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...
Tales from the Hinterland
Journey into the Hinterland, where every page tells a wondrously terrible adventure . . .
Spinning Silver
Spinning Silver is basically a cross between Rumplestiltskin and The Bear and The Nightingale.
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests.
Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she...
Good Bones
Queen Gertrude gives Hamlet a piece of her mind.
An ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves.
A reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly...
Grimm Tales for Young and Old
In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a'clear as water'...
Once Upon a River
On the night of the Winter Solstice in an ancient inn on the Thames, the locals are telling stories when the door bursts open and a badly injured man comes in with the corpse of a little girl in his...
The Beasts Heart
The Beast’s Heart is a retelling of Beauty and The Beast from the perspective of the Beast. The Beast is not fully a man or a Beast but some mixture of both since being cursed by a Fairy a long...
The Beginning Of The World In The Middle Of The Night
A collection of modern fairy tales in the form of short stories.
The Hazel Wood
Alice and her mother, Ella, have been plagued by bad luck for as long as Alice can remember. They have constantly moved about to try to outrun it but somehow it always catches up with them. That all...
Hortense and the Shadow
Hortense is a kind little girl and happy apart from one thing: she doesn’t like her shadow and she thinks her shadow doesn’t like her. She tries everything she can think of to get rid of...
The Girl In The Tower
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?
The Tales of Beedle The Bard
'The Tales of Beedle The Bard' will be familiar to anyone who has read and loved the Harry Potter books. For those who haven't 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' are a collection...
