Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings
Sourcebooks, Inc Mountains Made of Glass
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£999.99
Book*hug The Animals
Book SynopsisIn a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving father, and cannot find the courage to admit his love to Ravenna, the ungainly schoolteacher.Life takes a strange turn when the government-sponsored "Wild Home Project" is introduced and wolves, rats, minks, otters, and bears move into villagers' homes. Soon, Dorn receives a mysterious commission, finds a body in a park, and has several run-ins with a former classmate-turned police officer. When fire breaks out, Dorn takes on the unlikely role of hero in the hope of changing the course of his life.A realist novel with the air of a fairy tale, The Animals is a surprising, funny, and thought-provoking story that explores the nature of relationships faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding one's place in society . . . and that living with a wolf is not a very good idea.Trade Review“Fagan’s novella distills enchantments from the ordinary while treating the forces that corrupt ordinary life (including religions, governments, and the bored rich) with sardonic incision. Each scene proffers a surprise, strung together to form a sometimes baffling, always delightful whole.” —Foreword Reviews“In Fagan’s short and addictive novel, all sorts of animals are being domesticated as pets through something called the Wild Home Animal Project. They represent a sanctioned yet mortal danger that a gullible citizenry is embracing because a bizarre social initiative has slid into being and become the norm. . . At its heart, the novel is a puzzling and lively parable.”—The Literary Review of Canada
£17.05
Aurora Metro Publications Sleeping Beauty
Book Synopsis• Can be performed by schools, colleges, youth theatres etc. • Challenges gender stereotypes, with role reversal. The world spins and the cycle of seasons turns as the Guardians of the Year gather to tell each other stories. As a new Winter begins it is time to tell another tale… A kingdom is in peril, its people driven to flee their homes as a dark forest covers the land. The King and Queen are missing and Prince Roland, only heir to the kingdom, lies sleeping, cursed never to awaken… All seems lost, and it falls to one young woman with a strong heart, aided by strange companions, to find her way to the castle at the heart of the enchanted forest. Once there, it will take a genuine act of love to break the curse and free the kingdom. A story about friendship, drawing on myth and folklore, Sleeping Beauty is an exciting and enchanting new adaptation of the well-loved story. • Large cast playTrade Review“A HEARTWARMING tale of friendship and the power of storytelling... Matt Beames has taken the traditional story of Sleeping Beauty and adapted it for a modern audience.” Southern Daily Echo
£10.44
Higherlife Development Service Kris: The Legend Begins
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£19.76
Astra Publishing House Blancaflor, The Hero with Secret Powers: A
Book SynopsisOne of the New York Times Best Children's Books of 2021A Children’s Book about finally being seen. Blancaflor, a superb graphic storytelling of a classic Latin American folktale, showcases the invisible labor of women and the contributions of Indigenous cultures.A damsel to the rescue! Raised by a mean ogre of a father who eats his opponents for dinner, Blancaflor is often told not to show off her own considerable powers for fear of scaring off suitors. When a prince falls from the sky and wakes up in her lap, she is spellbound and moves heaven and earth to help the endearing, yet not so clever, young man, all while trying not to let him know. With their trademark magnificent brio, Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez update a classic tale extolling the strength and resourcefulness of women.Trade ReviewOne of the New York Times Best Children's Books of 2021"[Blancaflor] is splendidly designed and impeccably colored, and it crackles along at an adventurous pace that makes it excellent treehouse reading." -- The New York Times"Witty and touching" -- The Wall Street Journal★ "Spiegelman’s retelling is a fresh take on the classic story, with contemporary and effortless language that will resonate with modern audiences. Sánchez’s energetic illustrations are a visual delight." -- The Horn Book Magazine Starred Review"It’s impossible not to be charmed by art so full of personality, and the story itself is a subversive treat—Blancaflor’s no damsel in distress, but the one who ultimately saves the day." -- Booklist"This version of the classic story is a lovely confluence of European and North American culture that celebrates the strength and wit of a young girl whose abilities have been overlooked or underestimated." -- School Library Journal"An energetic, girl-power addition to the fairy- and folktales shelf.” -- Kirkus ReviewsA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection"A female-focused lens infuses the tale with classic energy." -- Publishers Weekly"It's gorgeous and smart!" -- Author and Librarian Betsy Bird"The text and art work wonderfully together to tell an ancient tale with relatable sensibilities." --Youth Services Book Review, 5 out of 5 stars
£12.34
Astra Publishing House Blancaflor, The Hero with Secret Powers: A
Book SynopsisOne of the New York Times Best Children's Books of 2021A Children’s Book about finally being seen. Blancaflor, a superb graphic storytelling of a classic Latin American folktale, showcases the invisible labor of women and the contributions of Indigenous cultures.A damsel to the rescue! Raised by a mean ogre of a father who eats his opponents for dinner, Blancaflor is often told not to show off her own considerable powers for fear of scaring off suitors. When a prince falls from the sky and wakes up in her lap, she is spellbound and moves heaven and earth to help the endearing, yet not so clever, young man, all while trying not to let him know. With their trademark magnificent brio, Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez update a classic tale extolling the strength and resourcefulness of women.Trade ReviewOne of the New York Times Best Children's Books of 2021"[Blancaflor] is splendidly designed and impeccably colored, and it crackles along at an adventurous pace that makes it excellent treehouse reading." -- The New York Times"Witty and touching" -- The Wall Street Journal★ "Spiegelman’s retelling is a fresh take on the classic story, with contemporary and effortless language that will resonate with modern audiences. Sánchez’s energetic illustrations are a visual delight." -- The Horn Book Magazine Starred Review"It’s impossible not to be charmed by art so full of personality, and the story itself is a subversive treat—Blancaflor’s no damsel in distress, but the one who ultimately saves the day." -- Booklist"This version of the classic story is a lovely confluence of European and North American culture that celebrates the strength and wit of a young girl whose abilities have been overlooked or underestimated." -- School Library Journal"An energetic, girl-power addition to the fairy- and folktales shelf.” -- Kirkus Reviews"A female-focused lens infuses the tale with classic energy." -- Publishers WeeklyA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection"It's gorgeous and smart!" -- Author and Librarian Betsy Bird"The text and art work wonderfully together to tell an ancient tale with relatable sensibilities." --Youth Services Book Review, 5 out of 5 stars
£10.44
Amberjack Publishing Company The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War
Book SynopsisA great war, a great love, and the mythology that unites them; The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War is a lyrical adaptation of a beloved classic.Set against the shattering events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the tale's heart are an American schoolteacher—dynamic and imaginative—and an Irish musician, homeless and hated—who have survived bloodshed, poverty, and sickness to be thrown together in an English village. Together they quietly hide from the world in a small cottage. Too soon, reality shatters their serenity, and they must face the parochial community. Unbeknownst to all, a legend is in the making—one that will speak of courage and resilience amidst the forces that brought the couple together even as outside forces threaten to tear them apart. Trade ReviewNominated for the Montaigne Medal from the Eric Hoffer Award http://www.hofferaward.com/Montaigne-Medal-finalists.html
£13.25
Catapult Northwood: A Novella
Book SynopsisArtfully explores themes of pain, desire, and the meeting place of the two, for a surreal, fairytale-esque accounting of what happens when we go to the darkest places within ourselves, and within others.” —NYLONPart fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so. As she struggles to free herself, she questions the difference between desire and obsession—and the brutal nature of intimacy. Packaged with a cover and end papers by famed English artist Rufus Newell and inventive, white-on-black text treatments by award-winning designer Jonathan Yamakami, Northwood is a work of art as well as a literary marvel.
£13.29
Wooden Books Mythological Animals: From Basilisks to Unicorns
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£8.50
Simon & Schuster Shallow Waters: A Novel
Book SynopsisIn this “captivating” (Harper’s Bazaar) and lyrical debut novel—perfect for fans of The Water Dancer and the Legacy of Orïsha series—the Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemaya, is brought to vivid life as she discovers the power of Black resilience, love, and feminine strength in antebellum America. Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya, an Orïsha—a deity in the religion of Africa’s Yoruba people—cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds dear. The journey laid out in Shallow Waters sees Yemaya confront the greatest evils of this era; transcend time and place in search of Obatala, a man who sacrifices his own freedom for the chance at hers; and grow into the powerful woman she was destined to become. We travel alongside Yemaya from her native Africa and on to the “New World,” with vivid pictures of life for those left on the outskirts of power in the nascent Americas. Yemaya realizes the fighter within, travels the Underground Railroad in search of the mysterious stranger Obatala, and crosses paths with icons of our history on the road to freedom. Shallow Waters is a “riveting and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) work of ritual storytelling from promising debut author Anita Kopacz.Trade Review"A riveting and heartbreaking story strengthened by Kopacz’s superb ability to create a sense of place. Fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer will want to take a look" — Publishers Weekly"A fairy tale for American adults, Anita Kopacz’s spellbinding first novel imagines the Yoruban mermaid deity Yemaya as she follows a fleet of slave ships across the ocean in the mid-1800s... A captivating debut." — Harper's Bazaar"We transcend time and space as Yemaya herself grows from a tentative young woman into the powerful deity she's destined to become... this novel crosses genre as easily as it does time." — Buzzfeed"Kopacz's commitment to a vision of healing even while detailing tragedies shapes this tale's themes of redemption and the universal soul. Most remarkable is Kopacz's abilty to maintain a brisk narrative pace as she delves into the weighty issues and complex experiences that shaped Yemaya's quest." — Booklist"Fascinating and lyrical... a story of true love, resilience, strength, and love." — Women's World
£13.60
Penguin Putnam Inc Looking Glass
Book SynopsisIn four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood.Lovely CreatureIn the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. But someone knows her secret--someone who has a secret of his own. That secret is a butterfly that lives in a jar, a butterfly that was supposed to be gone forever, a butterfly that used to be called the Jabberwock...Girl in Amber Alice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers, but while walking blind in a snowstorm she stumbles into a house that only seems empty and abandoned...When I First Came to TownHatcher wasn't always Hatcher. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. No matter who fought him he always won. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive...The Mercy SeatThere is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and fear magic and Magicians. It is the Village of the Pure, and though Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in their path...
£16.15
W by Wattpad Books Spellbound
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£15.29
Les Belles Lettres Swim-Two-Birds
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£28.00
Logos Verlag Berlin Vom Marchen Zur Mar Oder 'drei Mal Drei Ist Neune
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£999.99
V&R unipress GmbH Formen der Erinnerung.: Mediengeschichte des
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£109.89
Dr Ludwig Reichert Im Land Der Musikerlchen: Spielerisches
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Im Land Der Musikerlchen: Eine Geschichte Zum
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£23.00
Kalamos Literary Services LLP Dharmayoddha Kalki: Avatar of Vishnu
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£12.34
Rocabolsillo American Gods (Spanish Edition)
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£13.25
Editorial Alma Cuentos de Hadas
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£13.62
Editorial Alma Cuentos de Los Hermanos Grimm
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£19.69
Ma Non Troppo Criaturas Fantásticas: Criaturas Surgidas de la
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£23.44
HarperCollins India Dwapar Katha: The Stories of the Mahabharata
£16.99
Blackwater Press A People Without Shame
Book SynopsisSomota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic anthropologist, he is tasked with documenting the benefits of the new order and reporting them to the Reverend G. But what are these benefits? In his travels throughout the region, A. finds only the physical and emotional scars of conquest, and of routine colonial administration. Yet, even as the indigenous culture is being reduced to mere fragments, he also learns of a sublime literature responding to those historical traumas. One storyteller in particular, Kehinta, begins to reveal to A. just how much has been lost. A profoundly beautiful novel commenting on the horrors of colonial oppression, trauma, love, and the power of story.Trade ReviewAdvanced Praise for A People Without Shame: "Imaginative and gripping." --Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; "A People Without Shame is an artistic triumph composed by a master craftsman whose courageous eye makes all too vivid the abundant horrors suffered by beautiful people and their culture at the hands of soul-dead colonizers eager to extinguish them. Patrick Hogan is - as Kurosawa says an artist must be - one who does not look away. Inside this grand and ambitious novel beats an urgent and epic dirge written with magic enough to awaken our collective humanity to the poetry preserved in the raging hearts of people whose stories refuse to die." --Matt Cashion, author of Last Words of the Holy Ghost; "Hogan's absorbing and stylistically inventive novel offers a stirring meditation on the cost of colonial appropriation. Told with visceral prose and cinematic sweep, it's also a unique tale of unrequited love. Kehinta, the guardian of her people's epic poem, is Hogan's great achievement, magnetic yet always just beyond our grasp, and A's quest to understand her - to wrest the meaning of a poem from her - brings all the twisted moralities of the colonial enterprise into razor-sharp relief." Ken Kwapis, director of The Office and He's Just Not That Into You; Praise for other books by Patrick Colm Hogan: "Formidably armed with statistics, intelligence, a relentless philosophical method... Hogan makes an excellent case [in The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology and Professionalism in the Study of Literature] that the world is a very real place which we can touch and shape with both our hands and our pens." --Times Higher Education Supplement; "From start to finish, [Joyce, Milton, and the Theory of Influence] delivers what it promises: clear, even-handed discussions of theoretical matrices; social, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts for influence; three text-based chapters showing Joyce at play in Miltonic fields... this is a first-class example of how to do a study of significant literary influence." --James Joyce Literary Supplement; "What is not in doubt [in On Interpretation: Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature]... is Hogan's achievement in writing a book that lives up to the high ideals of the Enlightenment." --The British Journal of Aesthetics; "This marvelous book [The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion] reconnects the study of literature to the themes that have made it eternally fascinating, and connects it for the first time to the sciences of mind and brain. It is a landmark in modern intellectual life, heralding an exciting new integration of the sciences and humanities." Steven Pinker, Harvard University; "Patrick Hogan analyzes literary works to tell the story of the annihilation of selves and the death of cultures that accompanied colonialism. But it is also a story of the emancipatory visions that have emerged from the crucibles of self-disavowal and massive cultural dislocations. [Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean] is a homage to human creativity under oppressive and humiliating conditions and to the indomitable resilience of the defeated and the forgotten." --Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi; "This sober, readable book [Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature] organizes and describes the connections between philosophy and literary theory with rare lucidity. --Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries; "The philosophy of ethics has been central to understanding human interaction since ancient times. Now Patrick Colm Hogan, the most important researcher in the twenty-first century on the relationships between psychology and worldwide literature, has written a fascinating update [Literature and Moral Feeling: A Cognitive Poetics of Ethics, Narrative, and Empathy]." --Keith Oatley, University of Toronto
£13.99
