EDITORIAL REVIEW: *'I* would rather be an angel than God!' The voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone lo...

From Publishers WeeklyThe authenticity of background detail, the lilting prose rhythms and the appealing conceptual audacity that won many fans for The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley...

The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF

Since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's death, other mystery writers have produced innumerable new stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Veteran editor Mike Ashley has compiled the biggest collection of Holmes...

The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrori...

The Maltese Falcon

The Magnificent Ambersons

PerfectBound e-book exclusive extras: Diana Wynne Jones's The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Nine Notes; Author Interview.Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born w...

Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best of the Month, August 2009: Mixing the magic of beloved children's fantasy classics (from Magicians reimagines modern-day fantasy for ...

Set hundreds of years before the events of The Magicians' Guild, THE MAGICIAN'S APPRENTICE is the new novel set in the world of Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy. In the remote village of Mandryn...