"When you're tired of run-of-the-mill fiction, it's time to read [Tim Davys]." -Brad Meltzer, author of The Book of Lies "A world that's violent, tender, hilarious, and downright sickening. Really, what could be better?" -Eric Garcia, author of Anonymous Rex Tim Davys is one of the most uniquely imaginative novelists writing today-the architect of Mollisan Town, a dark urban nightmare located in an alternate world populated by stuffed animals...

On an spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her trail to Rome. There, the quest to find his love gets sidetracked when he discovers he is the heir to the Kingdom of Septimania, given by Charlemagne to the Jews of eighth-century France. In the midst of a Rome reeling from the kidnappings...

Under normal circumstances, lifting a landmass is impossible. Under normal circumstances. But a lot can change in a year as Richard Cronin discovers. While attending the Messengers of Hope Reunion, a chance to remake the world's former greatest source of inspiration, his best friend and co-founder is killed when the event is taken hostage. Rich inherits the property and decides to turn around his life and bring purpose to it by finding ways to do...

Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours? Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39. And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,and no idea that they've been...

Alastair Seiver, wielder of fire, has vanished, leaving his father and his friends Caelyn and Mydia behind. In the wake of Tenebrae's attack, the city of Lyrias is left shaken. Whispers of war are on the horizon, creeping ever closer.Caelyn is summoned home, back to the restrictive life she had been so desperate to escape. With the help of Doctor Seiver, and a little determination, she makes a startling discovery in the place she least expected.Mydia...

No one can stop the curse laid on him-and breaking it may kill me.I may not have much in this world, but I do have a life plan: work hard, save every penny, get that college degree, and build a better life for myself.Getting involved with the guests of the hotel where I work would derail me from that path. I have been specifically warned to keep away from the ones who stay in the top-floor suite, the best the hotel has to offer.That includes the mysterious...

With the right man behind the wheel, the car will always come for a fight. On the dusty highways of the near future, smuggler Mitchell Sylvia and his fiancee have their car destroyed and are brutally murdered by members of a violent road gang. Mitchell rises from the grave after making a gruesome bargain with Coyote, and his ghost returns along with his car as a supernatural avenger. Tracking down the thugs responsible and savagely murdering them,...

When a girl sets a boy a strange challenge, he must venture into some extraordinary places in pursuit of his goal.

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. 'The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.' On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these...

A young girl in Tuscany finds hope amid heartbreak. Smart, funny thirteen-year-old Luna lives in a small town on the coast of Tuscany. When her beloved brother, Luca, drowns in a surfing accident, Luna's mother retreats into herself, while Luna believes that Luca still speaks to her through a whalebone washed up on the nearby shore. At school, stricken by her loss yet determined to carry on, Luna makes a new friend and ally, the eccentric Zot, a...