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by Hannah Tinti
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by Patrick deWitt
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.
by Anna Lawrence Pietroni
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsA story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Rubys Spoon combines a gritty, hypervivid realism with the dreamlike richness of a fable.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsWhen two nineteenth-century Oxford studentsVictor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelleyform an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international phenomenon, The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angels Game, a new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.
by Meg Rosoff
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsAfter his younger brother narrowly avoids a serious fall, fifteen-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. He changes his name, assumes a new identity, new clothing and new friends, and dares to fall in love.
by Matt Haig
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsA ghost story with a twista suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story.
by Markus Zusak
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA story about, among other things: A girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Ruby Award.
by Susanna Clarke
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsSophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred pages leave readers longing for more.
by Stephen King
Published Jan 2000
Read ReviewsA fairy tale grimmer than Grimm, but aglow with a girl's indomitable spirit.
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