A beautifully written narrative exploring a life on the brink of law, love, sobriety, and madness.
Graham Joyce Knihy
Graham Joyce byl anglický spisovatel, který mistrně proplouval mezi žánry spekulativní fikce. Jeho díla se často zabývala hlubokými lidskými emocemi, záhadami a psychologickými dramaty. Své čtenáře si získával svým osobitým stylem, který dokázal vtáhnout do příběhu a nechat je přemýšlet o hranicích reality. Joyceova schopnost vytvářet atmosférické a poutavé světy z něj učinila významnou postavu moderní literatury.






Druce's new girlfriend is hot, but what's with the weird behaviour, freaky parents and the super-human intelligence? And was that really a forked tongue he saw or did he imagine it? Then he meets someone on the internet who tells him that aliens have infiltrated the planet. Could Angela be an alien? Is she really trying to suck out his brains?
The Silent Land
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
A young couple are caught in an avalanche during a ski-ing holiday in the French Alps. They struggle back to the village and find it deserted. As the days go by they wait for rescue, then try to leave. But each time they find themselves back in the village. And, increasingly, they are plagued by visions and dreams and the realization that perhaps no-one could have survived the avalanche. THE SILENT LAND is a brooding and tender look at love and whether it can survive the greatest challenge we will ever face.
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel Twenty years ago, teenager Tara Martin disappeared in the dense English forest known as the Outwoods, leaving her parents and her brother, Peter, to fear the unthinkable. But on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings and there Tara stands—disheveled, unapologetic, and not looking a day over sixteen. It’s a miracle, but Peter is skeptical, especially when Tara claims that she was abducted by fairies. As those who loved and missed Tara attempt to understand where she’s been for two decades, they begin to ask the same question: Has Tara lost her sanity … or have they?
After Sam Southall looses his first tooth and places it under his pillow, he awakens to the tooth fairy sitting on his windowsill. But it is not the same tooth fairy from legend. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Spiderbite
- 106 stránek
- 4 hodiny čtení
A story of subversion and intrigue on the web, set in 2027.
Dreamside
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Finally available in the debut novel from the author of The Tooth Fairy and Dark SisterIt began as an experiment in college--a seemingly harmless investigation into "lucid dreaming," the ability to control one's dreams.But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now, ten years later, the dreams have returned--returned to upend their adult lives. The dreams of youth fade, if you're lucky. If not, they can consume you . . . and will.
Requiem
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to Jerusalem in search of a friend from his college days. The haunted city, divided by warring religious factions, offers him no refuge from his guilt and grief. As he is wandering through the streets and the archaeological sites, a mysterious old woman appears to Tom and delivers messages that seem beyond his comprehension. But a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls that had been kept hidden by an old Jewish innkeeper appears to offer the key to understanding the apparition. Driven to the edge of insanity, Tom believes the spirit of Mary Magdalene is trying to reveal the hidden history of the Resurrection, and he struggles to reconcile the distant past with his own future before the threads of his identity unravel.
The Facts of Life
- 298 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
THE FACTS OF LIFE tells the story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the Second World War. Presided over by an indomitable matriach, the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the Blitz, war work and on into the hopeful postwar years, and a bizarre interlude for one of them in a commune. And through it all wanders the young son of one of the sisters, passed from sister to sister, the innocent witness to a life that edges over into the magical.
Indigo
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Indigo is a color the human eye can never truly see, a slice of the spectrum imbued with the promise of invisibility. But in the dark world occupied by Jack Chambers' father, indigo will also lead to places of unknown treachery, and ultimately, to madness. As Jack tries to fulfill the terms of his father's last will and testament, he is led on a journey of the flesh and spirit, through the ancient landmarks of Rome, to a group of people who will stop at nothing in their pursuit of invisibility Among them, Jack will enter an incendiary relationship with a woman with an insatiable appetite for pleasure, dabble in a liaison forbidden by blood, and explore the exotic undersides of two cities worlds apart. Only after Jack glimpses both the intoxicating pleasures and hidden pitfalls of indigo can he perceive its horrid danger. Blending an exploration of the senses with a complex tale of relationships, Indigo is a stunningly literate thriller that signals the arrival of a powerful new voice.



