It's 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time.
Anansi Boys is Gaiman's own blend of mythologically charged thriller, along the lines of his earlier novel American Gods. This time the story is set in the UK and the Caribbean and it's about gods, the magic of stories and the power of song. And in audio at least, it's even better. The audio book is comparatively easy listening and the narrator, Lenny Henry, is an uncannily successful match for the story. Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Henry straddles the two cultures comfortably and brings the songs, strories and characters in the novel to glorious life. An absolute delight to those of us who enjoy accents and good story-telling.
The stunning saga debut from a star of the genre – ELLIE PRIDE is an engrossing, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in the North-west in the early part of the twentieth century.A stirring, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in the early years of the 1900s as the First World War looms.
The world ends, and the only ones left to rule are the sysadmins who were safe from the attacks in their server rooms. “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth,” - a new story about an apocalypse that arrives on the heels of a catastrophic Internet worm. When the trump sounds, the world’s systems administrators are all in their sealed data-centers, and so they survive the carnage.
The masterpiece of William Henry Davenport Adams, born in London on 5 May 1828, who was an English writer and journalist of the 19th century, notable for a number of his publications. This story is about magic, alchimy and John Dee - a great scientist and well-educated person.
