Gollancz The Garden of Empire Greathouse J. T

The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans the world over. The imagination that Sanderson brought to the series and his skill at marshalling epic storylines and dramatic action, his ability to create vivid characters made him a natural choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic wheel of time sequence. But with Mistborn, his stand-alone fantasies and his new series, The Stormlight Archive, Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own fiction. Now he returns to the series that made his name with a new story set years after the events of Hero of Ages • In a world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic bound up in common metals someone who can burn metals that no-one has burned before can tip the balance

Reinmar of Bielau, called Reynevan, flees after being caught in an affair with a knight's wife • With strange, mystical forces gathering in the shadows and pursued not only by the Stercza brothers bent on vengeance, but also by the Holy Inquisition, Reynevan finds himself in the Narrenturm, the Tower of Fools, a medieval asylum for the mad, or for those who dare to think differently and challenge the prevailing order • The "patients" of this institution form an incomparable gallery of colourful types: including, among others, the young Copernicus, proclaiming the truth of the heliocentric solar system

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a vivisectionist driven out of Britain in disgrace. And soon strange events cause Prendick to uncover the full horror of Dr Moreau's activities on the island • The Island Of Doctor Moreau mixes discussion on the divide between humans and the animal kingdom and chilling macabre horror in an unrivalled fashion. Its question on how far science should go is one that rings true today as it did when it was first published

Strange radio signals are coming from Jupiter's largest moons • A natural phenomenon, or something else? • Commander Mariucci and his hand-picked research team know they will have to muster all of their expertise, creativity and teamwork to survive the very harshest of conditions in orbit around the king of planets. But when they intercept a peculiar radio transmission, they have to investigate. Nothing should work in these impossible conditions, so what is sending the signal . . . and why? • With a degrading ship and crew at breaking point, there's every chance they will tear themselves apart before they ever find the answer to the ultimate question - are we alone in the universe? • And more importantly - what do we do if we aren't?

Michael Kingman has been an outsider for as long as he remembers. The court which executed his father also exiled him and his family. They branded him a traitor, and the nobles who had been his friends turned their backs, prepared to let the legendary Kingman family die on Hollow's city streets • Only they survived • And it should come as no surprise to Hollow Court, or the King, that they've been searching for the truth ever since • History is written by the winners, truth buried beneath lies until it's Forgotten. Justice seems impossible in a city where the price of magic is a memory. But Michael Kingman is determined to make everyone remember

Моё имя - Вен Альдер. И Глупый Щенок - тоже моё имя • Всю мою жизнь меня разрывали на части две стороны моей семейной истории: среди предков моего отца числится правая рука императора, а семья моей матери стремится поставить империю на колени • Я могу выбрать один из двух вариантов - служение и безопасность или восстание и свободу. Но есть и третий путь, полный магии и тайн, обещающий избавить меня от бремени прошлого, но грозящий потрясти весь мир до основания • Ибо моё путешествие столкнёт меня с самими богами. И они ждали этого уже очень давно. Ждали и продумывали свой ход • Книга на английском языке • My name is Wen Alder. My name is Foolish Cur • All my life, I have been torn between two legacies: my father's, whose family trace their roots back to the right hand of the Emperor

Подарочное издание романа «Цвет волшебства» Терри Пратчетта • Где-то на границе между выдумкой и реальностью находится Плоский Мир. Параллельный мир, который может звучать и пахнуть как наш, но выглядит совершенно по-другому. И существует по иным законам. В частности, этот мир ловко игнорирует маленькую и скромную идею о том, что вселенным положено функционировать согласно логике и гармонии чисел • Да, Плоский Мир отличается от нашего, но кое-какие сходства всё же остаются. Например, его существование вот-вот окажется под угрозой из-за новой напасти: появления первого туриста, от выживания которого зависит мир и процветание всех окружающих земель. И если учесть, что за его безопасность в окружении воров, наёмников и Смерти отвечает самый некомпетентный волшебник на свете, некоторые логические выводы напрашиваются сами собой

Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him. She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese. She wants to learn everything Aritomo can teach her, and do her sister proud, but to do so she must also begin a journey into her own past, a past inextricably linked with the secrets of her troubled country • A story of art, war, love and memory, The Garden of Evening Mists captures a dark moment in history with richness, power and incredible beauty

1919: Sir Edward Horner, the most celebrated artist of his day, destroys his world-famous painting, The Little Birds, shortly before his death. But why? • The new novel by Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans is the unputdownable tale of a family torn apart and the house they lived in. Harriet writes the most delicious, epic stories from the heart since Maeve Binchy and Kate Morton • Millions around the world once queued up to see the painting that captured a perfect moment: Horner's two children, John and Eliza, playing in the garden of their magical, mysterious Nightingale House, the family home he and his wife created deep in the heart of the English countryside • But such moments cannot last for ever • Almost a century later, Horner's great-granddaughter Juliet inherits Nightingale House, now weighed down with unspoken secrets

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey • Albert loves football. But he hates the Garden of Doom next door. He's always kicking his footballs into it, and he can't go and get them back - Mr Creaky lives next door, and Albert is terrified of him • But when he kicks his friend Errol's ball into the Garden of Doom, Albert knows that he has to be brave. Could there be more to Mr Creaky than meets the eye? Could he be a jewel thief? A wizard? A secret agent? • Albert doesn't know... but he's about to find out!

The perfect quirky nostalgic crime read – a tale of steam trains, giant squid, missing screenplays, missing mothers and a quest for the truth, from the inimitable Malcolm Pryce • It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock – the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives – is thrown out onto the street • Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak • But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother – long believed to be dead – may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East