Fiction: pastiche
Titan Books Ltd Sherlock Holmes - Masters of Lies
Book SynopsisA brand-new, brilliantly twisty Sherlock Holmes mystery from 'best kept secret of British genre writing' - British Fantasy Society When investigating what seems to be a suicide, Holmes and Watson uncover a murderous forgery ring with ties to the British government. As the web of blackmail, threats and violence draws around them, they are forced to consider who they can really trust...Trade Review"Displays the author's remarkable facility at conjuring the spirit of Conan Doyle's originals. Sherlockians and Wildeans alike will embrace Purser-Hallard." Publishers Weekly starred review Praise for the author: "A very good locked-room puzzle" Morning Star "One of the cleverest locked room mysteries ever tackled by Sherlock Holmes... John Dickson Carr and Anthony Boucher fans will be gratified at the logical explanation the master rationalist devises. This ranks among the top novel-length Sherlock Holmes pastiches." Publishers Weekly "The best kept secret in British genre writing" the British Fantasy Society "[Purser-Hallard's] writing is crisp and clever... the cast of characters appealing, interesting and consistent" the British Fantasy Society on The Pendragon Protocol
£8.54
Unbound Shine on Me
Book SynopsisJoe Bovshover had chosen the park. He knew that this full moon he’d become wolf. He knew the deer in the park would make easy prey. The deer lived simply and were soft, there was no wildness to these city animals, but there was in Joe. . .It’s now 1980, and Joe, the skinhead werewolf, once again stalks London. Lights in the night, burning red and white; amidst aggro, proper shmatta, and mod witches.Tim Wells brings us another short, sharp instalment of his pulp skinhead-punk-horror series.
£10.78
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World
Book SynopsisDiscover Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson through the eyes of those who knew them best. From familiar faces like Mrs Hudson to minor characters like Lomax the sub-librarian, Observations by Gaslight – told through diaries, telegrams, and even grocery lists – paints a masterful portrait of Holmes and Watson as you have never seen them before. See Irene Adler team up with her former adversary in an eerie and near-deadly enquiry. Learn of the case that cemented the friendship between Holmes and Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. And witness Stanley Hopkins' first meeting with the remote logician he idolizes. Lyndsay Faye, two-time Edgar Award nominee, debuted with Dust and Shadow, her much-admired novel pitting Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper. Now Faye is back with a thrilling volume of new and previously published short stories and novellas narrated by those who knew the Great Detective best. Reviewers on Observations by Gaslight: 'Faye is an expert on all things Sherlockian, she has unparalleled flair.' CrimeReads 'Meat and drink for fans of the Canon of the Sacred Writings.' KirkusTrade ReviewLyndsay Faye, one of the most exhilarating voices in fiction today, has come home to Baker Street in this essential new collection. Read at once if convenient – if inconvenient read all the same -- Daniel StashowerUnlike any Holmes collection I have ever read [...] Observations by Gaslight is so authentic and real that readers will practically be able to see the dark smoke billowing from the chimney tops and smell the lamplighter's oil as he lights each gaslight in London. Faye is brilliant and makes me wish I had thought of this idea first! * Bookreporter *Faye is an expert on all things Sherlockian, she has unparalleled flair. You think you know Lomax the sub-librarian? Well, THINK AGAIN * CrimeReads *Nuance, wit, and clever plotting make this a superior version of George Mann's Associates of Sherlock Holmes anthologies. Sherlockians will clamor for a sequel * Publishers Weekly, starred review *Meat and drink for fans of the Canon of the Sacred Writings * Kirkus Reviews *An enjoyable read... Fun to dip in-and-out when there isn't time to settle down with a full-scale novel * The Sherlock Holmes Society *
£9.49
Eyewear Publishing Furnace Creek
Book SynopsisTaking its inspiration from Great Expectations, this novel teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issuesracial injustice, a war abroad, women's and gay rights, class strugglethat galvanized the world in those decades.A guilty encounter with an escaped felon, a summer spent working for an eccentric man with a mysterious past, conflicted erotic feelings for his employer's niece and nephewthese events set the stage for a journey of sexual and moral discovery that takes Newt Seward to New England, Rome, and Parisall before returning home to confront his life's many expectations and disappointments.Deftly combining elements of coming-of-age story, novel of erotic discovery, Southern Gothic fiction, and detection-mystery thriller, Furnace Creek leaps the frame of Dickens' masterpiece to provide a contemporary meditation on the perils of desire, ambition, love, loss, and family.
£13.04
Sternberg Press Kafka for Kids
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£23.40
Thorndike Press Large Print After the Forest
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£32.29
