Say you’ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and...
The Anibus Gate is the classic time travel novel that took the fantasy world by storm two decades ago. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have created such as...
‘What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the stone in the first place.’
Fate is a word that springs to...
All the King's Men portrays the dramatic political ascent and governorship of Willie Stark, a driven, cynical populist in the American South during the 1930s. The novel is narrated by Jack Burden, a political reporter who comes to work as...
The second in the rip-roaring adventure series of ‘Treasure Island’ prequels for fans of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
Once comrades-in-arms, now sworn enemies, Joseph Flint and Long John Silver have a score to settle.
Marooned on a...
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black...
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an
imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant
look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves… no matter where
we live.
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David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their...