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by Marc-Uwe Kling
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsWhat if the perfect world wasn't built for you?
by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Published Sep 2019
Read ReviewsThe definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel - a brilliant dark fantasy with "the potential to be a modern classic" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way.
by Nick Harkaway
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsA blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
by Mat Johnson
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsA comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers
by Michael Chabon
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsFor sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to ...
by Terry Pratchett
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsSet in Pratchett's wonderfully crazed city of Ankh-Morpork, Going Postal hilariously reflects the plight of post offices the world over as they struggle to compete in an era when e-mail has stolen much of the glamour from the postal trade.
by Christopher Moore
Published Feb 2003
Read ReviewsThe early life of the Son of God, including the missing years as told by his childhood friend Biff. "An instant classic...terrific, funny and poignant".
by Neil Gaiman
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsAs unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien.
by Terry Pratchett
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsA superb send-up of science and philosophy, religion and death and a host of other timely topics, Thief of Time provides the perfect opportunity to kick back and unwind.
by Terry Pratchett
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsEveryone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? What happened to the fifth elephant is only one of the many perplexing mysteries solved in this new novel by today's most celebrated fantasy humorist.
by Kurt Vonnegut
Published Aug 2000
Read ReviewsTwenty-four of Vonnegut's favorite stories - never published before in book form with a new preface for the occasion.
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