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
The haunting new literary fantasy from the World Fantasy Award winning author of MEMOIRS OF A MASTER FORGER, now available in mass market paperback.
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.
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.
Matt, 16, bewundert seinen großen Bruder, einen talentierten Autodieb. Nach dem tödlichen Unfall seines Bruders wird der Spaß für Matt zur Qual. Er kämpft mit Schuldgefühlen und Panik, da er ständig an seinen Bruder erinnert wird und fragt sich, ob er mit dieser Erinnerung leben kann.



