The Gollanczfest 2019 Ebook Sampler

Author : Various
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 1473230101
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The GollanczFest 2019 eBook sampler written by Various and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of this year's GollanczFest, we are thrilled to offer a bumper eBook featuring samples of books from authors we have published in 2019, or who are appearing at the festival. Filled to the brim with fantasy, science fiction and horror content, get your copy now and take a dip. You'll find extracts from genre heavyweights, award-winning novels, and exciting debuts; encounter dragons, spaceships, aliens and wizards; and, with the turn of every page, you'll discover brave new worlds. Contains extracts from: Revenger - Alastair Reynolds The Girl King - Mimi Yu Dragon Heart - Peter Higgins Master of Sorrows - Justin Travers Call One Way - SJ Morden Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear The Belles - Dhonielle Clayton From Darkest Skies - Sam Peters Luna - Ian McDonald Seventh Decimate - Stephen Donaldson Planetfall - Emma Newman Seven Blades in Black - Sam Sykes Smoke in the Glass - Chris Humphreys Slave to Sensation - Nalini Singh Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch Blackwing - Ed McDonald Stranger of Tempest - Tom Lloyd Twelve Kings - Bradley Beaulieu Episodes - Christopher Priest Empire of Silence - Christopher Ruocchio Shadows of the Short Days - Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson The House of Shattered Wings - Aliette de Bodard Sanctuary - V V James We are the Dead - Mike Shackle Angel Mage - Garth Nix Cold Iron - Miles Cameron The Song of the Sycamore - Edward Cox The Blade itself - Joe Abercrombie World Engines - Stephen Baxter A Quick Bite - Lynsay Sands Steel Crow Saga - Paul Krueger Full Throttle - Joe Hill The Last Namsara - Kristen Ciccarelli The Gospel of Loki - Joanne M Harris The Switch - Justina Robson By the Pricking of Her Thumb - Adam Roberts The Promise of the Child - Tom Toner Swet Dreams - Tricia Sullivan Little Eve - Catriona Ward The Quanderhorn Xperimentations -Rob Grant & Andrew Marshall Fools - Pat Cadigan Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner The Ember Blade - Chris Wooding Seven Devils - Laura Lam & Elizabeth May

Author : Joanna Nadin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509853138
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Bloody Everything written by Joanna Nadin and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanna Nadin's first novel for adults, The Queen of Bloody Everything, is about mothers, daughters and how we can make many choices in life but can't choose where we come from. As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the fourteenth floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter Dido tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything. That was the day Dido – aged exactly six years and twenty-seven days old – met the next door neighbours and fell in love. Because the Trevelyans were exactly the kind of family Dido dreamed of. Normal.

Author : Mark Stay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471197980
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crow Folk written by Mark Stay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***THE HOLLY KING is on his way . . . Get ready for the next thrilling wartime fantasy adventure in the Witches of Woodville series – available to pre-order now!*** 'Beautiful and engaging and clever and what more could you ask for in a book?' Manda Scott, bestselling author of A Treachery of Spies 'A story that is full of magic and delight that will thrill readers of any age' Rowan Coleman, author of The Girl at the Window 'Extremely funny, full of imagination, verve and typical English "home counties" wit' Irish Independent As Spitfires roar overhead and a dark figure stalks the village of Woodville, a young woman will discover her destiny . . . Faye Bright always felt a little bit different. And today she’s found out why. She’s just stumbled across her late mother’s diary which includes not only a spiffing recipe for jam roly-poly, but spells, incantations, runes and recitations . . . a witch's notebook. And Faye has inherited her mother’s abilities. Just in time, too. The Crow Folk are coming. Led by the charismatic Pumpkinhead, their strange magic threatens Faye and the villagers. Armed with little more than her mum's words, her trusty bicycle, the grudging help of two bickering old ladies, and some aggressive church bellringing, Faye will find herself on the front lines of a war nobody expected. *** For fans of Lev Grossman and Terry Pratchett comes this delightful novel of war, mystery and a little bit of magic . . . Don't miss the other magical books in the WITCHES OF WOODVILLE series! #1 The Crow Folk #2 Babes in the Wood #3 The Ghost of Ivy Barn #4 The Holly King Praise for THE CROW FOLK 'Stay has brewed a cracking blend of charm and creepiness in The Crow Folk. A rip-roaring tale of bravery and witchcraft on the wartime home front, expertly told with lashings of wit and warmth' Pernille Hughes, author of Probably the Best Kiss in the World 'A delightful mash-up of Dad’s Army and Charmed. An absolute treat' CK McDonnell, author of Stranger Times 'Warm, witty, witchy wartime fun. With Mark Stay as writer you're always guaranteed a magical read' Julie Wassmer, author of the Whitstable Pearl Mysteries 'You'll love it: Doctor Who meets Worzel Gummidge' Lorna Cook, author of The Forgotten Village 'A jolly romp with witches, demons, and bellringing. Pratchett fans will enjoy this, and Faye is a feisty and fun hero. Dad's Army meets Witches of Eastwick' Ian W Sainsbury

Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983943044
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infinity Blade written by Brandon Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long months have passed since Siris and the God King, enemies betrayed together, were left to rot in the prison at the Vault of Tears. Their true enemy -- the Worker of Secrets, creator of the Infinity Blade itself -- now reigns.Upon finally obtaining freedom, Siris must unravel plots that seem to make no sense, lead a rebellion with no direction, and fight against the division within his very heart. The secrets unraveled will dig backward in time toward the origins of the Deathless and the true nature of the world itself...From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and ChAIR Entertainment, creators of the blockbuster Infinity Blade video game series, comes the second novel in the epic Infinity Blade saga. This latest tale delves deeper into the fantastical world of Infinity Blade, a world of mystery and intrigue where magic and technology are indistinguishable and even life and death are not as they seem.

Author : Den Patrick
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 057513416X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy with the Porcelain Blade written by Den Patrick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ornate yet dark fantasy, with echoes of Scott Lynch, Robin Hobb and Jon Courtenay Grimwood. An original and beautifully imagined world, populated by unforgettable characters. A debut novel which garnered rave reviews on publication from fellow authors, bloggers and the likes of SFX magazine. Lucien de Fontein has grown up different. One of the mysterious and misshapen Orfano who appear around the Kingdom of Landfall, he is a talented fighter yet constantly lonely, tormented by his deformity, and well aware that he is a mere pawn in a political game. Ruled by an insane King and the venomous Majordomo, it is a world where corruption and decay are deeply rooted - but to a degree Lucien never dreams possible when he first discovers the plight of the 'insane' women kept in the haunting Sanatoria. Told in a continuous narrative interspersed with flashbacks we see Lucien grow up under the care of his tutors. We watch him forced through rigorous Testings, and fall in love, set against his yearning to discover where he comes from, and how his fate is tied to that of every one of the deformed Orfano in the Kingdom, and of the eerie Sanatoria itself.

Author : Mark Stay
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789650054
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Magic written by Mark Stay and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two powerful mages. One steeped in privilege, the other bound by a moral code. Their world is thrown into chaos by the end of magic. Rosheen Katell is a wandering mage and, with Anzu her griffin, she’s worked hard to build a reputation as a trustworthy truth seer. She never lies, never kills. Sander Bree is a royal mage. He lives an easy life advising the king on matters of court and politics, but dreams of an apocalypse are giving him massive anxiety attacks. Very soon, their magic will be gone. A cataclysmic event will change their lives and world forever. Sander must keep a promise to save the life of a young girl that would have been difficult enough with magic, but is a suicide mission without it. Rosheen is forced to side with a murderous warlord, and her once-solid principles are tested and found wanting. Both will be set against one another in a war unlike anything the world has seen before, in this sweeping fantasy of magic’s ending. A stand alone fantasy novel for readers of Joe Abercrombie and Scott Lynch ** "The sort of book you give to people who say “prove to me why I should read fantasy”... A simply terrific read." – James Barclay, author of the Legends of the Raven series "Mark Stay paints his world and characters with deft, confident and dark strokes." – RJ Barker, author of the Wounded Kingdom Trilogy "The sort of book you give to people who say “prove to me why I should read fantasy”... A simply terrific read." – James Barclay, author of the Legends of the Raven series "Takes the tropes of high fantasy and uses them to wield an original, compelling and intricately plotted story... exactly the kind of fantasy that we need more of." – Gavin G. Smith, author of the Veteran series "Stay does for George RR Martin what Pratchett did for Tolkien." - Julian Barr, author of The Way Home "The End of Magic has one of the most compelling narratives as well as a strong authorial voice." ★★★★★ Amazon UK Reviewer "Like Game of Thrones without the boobs!" ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "This was a blast, hints of Joe Abercrombie’s books and his dark humour, but presented in a world in chaos." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "The most fun I've had reading a fantasy novel since Red Country by Joe Abercrombie." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "This book grabbed me in the first couple of pages... Couldn’t stop. Really want more!" ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "I may never forgive the author for that (spoiler) death scene... *When you read it you’ll understand* Rarely have I shed tears so early on in a book." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "A fun and intense read." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "A fresh take on the perennial story of the golden catastrophe/age. The author has created a completely authentic fantasy world." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "Normal fantasy conventions are distorted, magic is not dependable and there are evil, bloodthirsty villains at work." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "The humour in the writing offset the blood and gore that featured throughout." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "The author effortlessly creates a world that is both wonderfully fantastical and at the same time strangely real." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer "Gripping and entertaining." ★★★★★ - Amazon UK Reviewer

Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765376679
Total Pages : 1013 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of Kings written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery, and a woman who is desperate to save her impoverished house.

Author : Nicole Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800240155
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything's Perfect written by Nicole Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Funny, timely and absolutely pitch perfect. I loved this unfiltered look at the world of influencers.' Clare Mackintosh Get ready for an Insta-Perfect Christmas! Cassie Holliday is at the top of her game. A glamorous wife and mother with 1.3 million Instagram followers, she posts images of her gorgeous husband and cute twins online every day. But it's not easy living the perfect life, and never more so than at Christmas. There aren't enough hand-stitched stocking advent calendars in the world that can gloss over the reality: Cassie's marriage is at breaking point, her finances are precarious and, for the first time in years, no brands want to sponsor her insta-perfect Christmas decor. When she befriends Beth, a quiet new mum who doesn't follow social media, Cassie can finally be herself. Beth only knows the real her: the tired mum who wants to snuggle in her pyjamas and drink wine by the fire. But then Cassie discovers Beth has a secret social media account, and offline friendship tips into online rivalry... Join Cassie, Beth and the rest of the flawed but lovable gang of Insta-Parents as they navigate the festive season... come December, who will be top of the (Christmas) tree? Praise for Everything's Perfect: 'Thought provoking, fluid, vivid... and a reminder to us all that our inside lives rarely reflect what we show on the outside. I loved it.' Lia Louis, author of Eight Perfect Hours 'I couldn't put it down... Nicole Kennedy writes so brilliantly about the weird world we live in.' Lucy Vine, author of Bad Choices 'A witty, no-filter glance at the reality of becoming – and remaining – a social media influencer.' Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City 'A fresh, eye-opening look into the fascinating world of "insta mums".' Katy Colins, author of The Best is Yet to Come 'A smart and thought-provoking read about friendship, parenting and the pressure to appear perfect... Witty and relatable.' Holly Miller 'If you have any interest at all in the strange world of "influencers", this book is The One... I felt like I'd been spied on. Thought provoking and laugh out loud funny. A perfect summer read.' Sarah Turner

Author : Katie Khan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501175203
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold Back the Stars written by Katie Khan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and evocative novel, harkening to both One Day and Gravity, a man and a woman revisit memories of their love affair on a utopian Earth while they are trapped in the vast void of space with only ninety minutes of oxygen left. After the catastrophic destruction of the Middle East and the United States, Europe has become a utopia and, every three years, the European population must rotate into different multicultural communities, living as individuals responsible for their own actions. While living in this paradise, Max meets Carys and immediately feels a spark of attraction. He quickly realizes, however, that Carys is someone he might want to stay with long-term, which is impossible in this new world. As their relationship plays out, the connections between their time on Earth and their present dilemma in space become clear. When their air ticks dangerously low, one is offered the chance of salvation—but who will take it? An original and daring exploration of the impact of first love and how the choices we make can change the fate of everyone around us, this is an unforgettable read.

Author : Warren Adler
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402201950
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War of the Roses written by Warren Adler and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver and Barbara Rose thought they had a perfect marriage, only to discovertheir marriage was skin deep. This story was made into a major motion picturewith Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.