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Abbreviated Epics
Third Flatiron Anthologies presents ABBREVIATED EPICS, featuring the best in new short fantasy stories and poems. Whirl through these brief epics, from medieval Japanese fairy tales to swashbucklers and Vikings, from alternate history and steampunk to myths old and new. Like a reverse Ulysses, ABBREVIATED EPICS brings you the Hero's Journey in ten pages or less. Third Flatiron Anthologies doubles up this time with 19 short fantasy stories. Join canny samurai and brave shield maidens on adventures in fantastic realms, repurposing the old myths and forging new ones. And featuring Jo Walton's epic poem, "Odin on the Tree."
Astronomical Odds
A fresh selection of short SF/Fantasy/Horror/Humor stories with a mathematical twist.
Letting Go
The twelve stories in Letting Go take us on a journey through landscape, language and turbulent times, from the mid-19th century to the present day, and into the future. Stevenson's array of characters from many walks of life and nationalities – including a traveller, a wood carver, chicken farm workers, a nurse, an architect and a magician – meet and part, some becoming reacquainted. Themes exploring identity, creativity and the environment, echo and connect throughout the different narratives, sometimes carried in snatches of song. The author leads us outward from her native Scottish Borders to Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Gàidhealtachd, south to England, across the Atlantic to Apartheid South Africa and, finally, to the melting Arctic.
Home
Built for the new age, the house stood boldly upright on the edge of the ocean withstanding the harsh blasts of a cruel century, nurturing and protecting the family within, watchful of hearts swollen or broken, dreams delivered and dashed. It had absorbed the tears and echoed the laughter. A sweeping saga of one family through a momentous century. Different people, divergent lives and distinctive stories. Bound together by the place they called home. But one of them is missing, lost to the world. An unknown grandchild, born to a son who went to war and never came back. As the years pass, through wars and emigration, social transformation and generational change, the search continues. And the questions remain the same: who is he? Where is he? Will he ever come home?
A Bonnie Fechter
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The Bookseller of Inverness
A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN. 'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMES After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life, working as a bookseller in Inverness. One day, after helping several of his regular customers, he notices a stranger lurking in the upper gallery of his shop, poring over his collection. But the man refu...
What Genius Wrote This?
A brisk and highly readable account of the author's adventures in journalism, spanning more than half a century. Richard McNeill grew up in South Africa but his career took him from Johannesburg to New York and London, where he spent 20 years on the Daily Express. “As it turned out, becoming an Editor with a capital E was the best thing that never happened to me,” he writes. Instead he enjoyed a life of “enormous satisfaction” as a reporter, foreign correspondent, sub-editor, feature writer, magazine publisher, editorial consultant and celebrity profiler, while also pursuing his passion for typographical design. Back in South Africa he spent 11 years on the Johannesburg Sunday Times, and later helped produce South Africa’s Daily Sun, the post-apartheid tabloid aimed at the emerging black market, turning it into the country’s biggest-selling daily newspaper. He lives in Lake Michelle, Western Cape.
Fleshmarket Close
« Ian Rankin : le meilleur du polar écossais. » Rolling Stone D’où viennent les faux squelettes retrouvés enfouis sous une chape de ciment dans un bar de Fleshmarket Close ? Il faudra plusieurs enquêtes croisées pour le savoir. L’inspecteur John Rebus, à la recherche du meurtrier d’un journaliste kurde immigré, met au jour un sale trafic de sans-papiers, qui débouche sur l’exploitation d’une main-d’œuvre illégale qu’en d’autres temps on aurait qualifiée d’esclavage. Quant à Siobhan Clarke, sa fidèle partenaire, elle doit élucider le meurtre d’un violeur récemment libéré de prison. Une fois de plus, au lourd passé d’Édimbourg succède un présent honteux. Traduit de l’anglais (Écosse) par Daniel Lemoine
The Curiosity Cabinet
“Moving, poetic and quietly provocative.” – The Independent. A novel sure to appeal to fans of Outlander. When Alys revisits the beautiful Scottish island of Garve after an absence of 25 years, she is captivated by the embroidered casket on display in her hotel. She discovers that it belongs to Donal, her childhood playmate, and soon they resume their old friendship. Interwoven with the story of their growing love is the darker 18th-century tale of Henrietta Dalrymple, kidnapped by the formidable Manus McNeill and held on Garve against her will. Despite the 300 years separating them, the women are strongly connected: their parallel lives are linked by the cabinet and its contents, by the tug of motherhood and by the magic of the Hebridean island itself. But Garve has its secrets, past and present. Donal must learn to trust Alys enough to confide in her and, like Henrietta before her, Alys must earn the right to belong.
