Tales As Deep As Legend And As New As DawnAcclaimed editor David G. Hartwell has gathered a harvest of shimmering beauty and powerful writing in this inaugural volume of the very best fantasy from the last year. Established masters rub elbows with rising
Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. rarely - their house shrouded in perpetual winter. everything she has ever known - not least the truth behind her mother's death. to see hersel
No matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys
It's the summer holidays and Amber is bored. So when she meets non-conformist Dowdie, she is bowled over. Dowdie lives in a commune known as the Community, and gradually, Amber finds herself drawn into it. She discovers that Dowdie is an Amethyst child -
Thomas has inherited a magical box from his dead grandmother. This box provides entry into a mysterious garden. When he sees a ghostly vision of his grandmother, she tells him to find the person responsible for her death, and save her garden.
Roped into a seance at the theatre, Ellie is the only one who actually sees a real ghost. Now a spirit is contacting her from beyond the grave - and as the dead boy's story unfolds, Ellie finds herself falling in love with him. But if she solves his myste
Published on the occasion of a new display at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 3 December - August 2012.Eight internationally acclaimed authors have invented imaginary biographies and character sketches based on fourteen unidentified portraits.W
