Discover myths. folklore, fables and legends.Traditional tales often thought to have basis in historical fact.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A River Enchanted
Book Synopsis“Exquisitely written with compelling characters and romance . . . I was swept away by the enchanting and magical world Rebecca Ross crafted, and loved every moment of it.” — Sue Lynn Tan, bestselling author of Daughter of the Moon GoddessEnter the isle of Cadence in this novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals—a Scottish-inspired fantasy brimming with enemies-to-lovers romance, magic and spirits, and a captivating mysteryIt starts with a letter and an ominous journey across dark waters. Ten years after being sent away to the mainland to become a bard, Jack Tamerlaine is summoned home to Cadence. Girls are going missing from the island, and Adaira, his childhood nemesis and the future leader of the clan, believes Jack is the only one who can find them.The elemental spirits that dwell in every breath of air, splash of water, blade of grass, and flicker of fire find mirth in the lives of the humans, and a bard’s music is the only way to summon them and ask that the girls be returned. Yet as Jack and Adaira get closer to solving the mystery, it becomes apparent that an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, and no harp song may be strong enough to stop it.With unforgettable characters, a thrilling plot, and a lush folklore-infused world, A River Enchanted is a stirring story of duty, love, and creating harmony between opposing forces. This first book in the Elements of Cadence duology marks Rebecca Ross’s brilliant entry on the adult fantasy stage.
£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Fire Endless
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Stardust
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller“A twisting, wondrous tale full of magic that only Neil Gaiman could have written.” — Chicago TribuneFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a beautiful and enchanting tale of love, adventure, and magic―one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene YeeOne of Neil Gaiman’s most beautiful and enchanting tales, Stardust is the story of Tristran Thorn, a young man who promises the woman he loves that he will bring her back a fallen star. But there are others who seek the star, for their own reasons. And then there''s the star herself . . .A beloved fairy tale infused with humor, magic, adventure, and romance, Stardust is a timeless work that demonstrates the writer’s bold, elegant and infinitely wondrous imagination.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Silmarillion Deluxe Illustrated by the Author
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£146.25
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Hobbit Illustrated by the Author
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£56.25
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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£28.12
Lulu.com Beast and the illfated Prince Dashingsp
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Lulu.com Beast and the illfated Prince Dashingsp Large print
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Orbit The Stardust Thief 1 The Sandsea Trilogy
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Back Bay Books How to Be Eaten A Novel
Book SynopsisOne of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Dark, edgy, and
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William Morrow & Company The Fall of Gondolin
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William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Part One
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£999.99
William Morrow & Company The History of MiddleEarth Boxed Set
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£187.50
William Morrow & Company Unfinished Tales Illustrated Edition
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£32.30
William Morrow & Company The Nature of MiddleEarth
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£25.60
William Morrow & Company Tales from the Perilous Realm
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£17.09
William Morrow & Company The Lord of the Rings Illustrated by the Author
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£999.99
MCD X Fsg Originals Beowulf A New Translation
Book SynopsisNamed one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books' Holiday List. A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere WifeBrash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand. Ruth Franklin, The New YorkerThe author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale. Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulfand fifty years after the tran
£14.45
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Three Little Guinea Pigs
Book SynopsisA laugh-out-loud retelling of The Three Little Pigs, The Three Little Guinea Pigs is perfect for fans of fairytales and guinea pigs alike. This clever story by prolific children''s book author Erica S. Perl and dynamic illustrator Amy Young makes a perfect read-aloud and includes nonfiction backmatter with additional fun facts about guinea pigs.Once upon a time there were three little pigs... three little guinea pigs!Their names were Rosie, Minty, and Pumpkin. They lived with their mama in a cozy little house.Then they bid her a fond farewell and set off on their own. So far, so good....But what will they do if a hungry fox comes along?Will they go wheek, wheek, wheek all the way home?Or can they find a way to save their fluffy behinds?
£15.19
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Miss Subways
Book SynopsisA supernatural New York love story.
£19.29
Random House Worlds Spinning Silver
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to co
£23.80
Random House USA Inc Spinning Silver
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library With the Nebula Award–winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into this glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty—until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold. When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk—grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh—Miryem’s fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. She will face an impossible challenge and, along with two unlikely allies, uncover a secret that threatens to consume the lands of humans and Staryk alike.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Tordotcom, Popsugar, Vox, Vulture, Paste, Bustle, Library Journal“A perfect tale . . . A big and meaty novel, rich in both ideas and people, with the vastness of Tolkien and the empathy and joy in daily life of Le Guin.”—The New York Times Book Review“Gorgeous, complex, and magical . . . This is the kind of book that one might wish to inhabit forever.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Cool and clever and . . . dire and wonderful.”—Laini Taylor, author of Strange the Dreamer“The Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale has never been as captivating. . . . Spinning Silver further cements [Novik’s] place as one of the genre greats.”—Paste
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Wych Elm Books The Otherworld
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Random House USA Inc Perestroika in Paris
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris in this feel-good escape” (The New York Times).Paras, short for Perestroika, is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and—she''s a curious filly—wanders all the way to the City of Light. She''s dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn''t afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city''s lush green spaces, nourished by Frida''s strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepres
£14.40
Random House USA Inc The Silence of the Girls
Book SynopsisA Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women’s Prize for FictionHere is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Gods of Jade and Shadow
Book SynopsisThe Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.“A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before.”—BustleNEBULA AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Tordotcom • The New York Public Library • BookRiot The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her gran
£14.40
Puffin Carcass Norse Mythology for Bostonians A Transcription of the Impudent Edda
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Jackanapes Press Past the Glad and Sunlit Season Poems for Halloween 1
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iUniverse On Hard Times and Other Stories
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iUniverse Celtic Tales 2 The Sea
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iUniverse ORIONS ORACLE
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iUniverse THE LOST CHILD
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iUniverse THE ADVENTURES OF FREDDIE THE KOALA BEAR A Novel
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iUniverse The Crystal Skull A Novel
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iUniverse The Lioness Tale
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iUniverse DEMON HUNTER FORE
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iUniverse The Omak Lake Monster A Modern Tale of a Lake Monster Encounter
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iUniverse THE MALEDICTION
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iUniverse THE UNFORTUNATES
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iUniverse Coriander
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iUniverse Demon Hunter A Handful
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iUniverse Demon Hunter Vee Eye
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iUniverse MEGIS
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iUniverse To Wake The Dead
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iUniverse VAGABOND KNIGHTS LAST ARMAGEDDON
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