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Nick Hayes’ genius is in wringing out the universe’s secrets. It’s a talent that’s allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He’s seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia’s accident is waiting for them both in 2011. If it happens then he’s out of choices.

In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next.

Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns. The boy has lived his whole life trapped...

It’s the summer of 1986 and reluctant prodigy Nick Hayes is a student at Cambridge University, working with world-renowned mathematician Professor Halligan. He just wants to be a regular student, but regular isn’t really an option for a boy-genius cancer survivor who’s already dabbled in time travel. When he crosses paths with a mysterious yet curiously familiar girl, Nick discovers that creases have appeared in the fabric of time, and that he is at the centre of the disruption.

"The Secret" is set in the world where the Broken Empire and Red Queen's War trilogies take place. I've been writing short stories based on the various members of Jorg Ancrath's brotherhood of the road, exploring their origins. When I saw that the Blackguards anthology was seeking tales of assassins, I thought it was time to write about Brother Sim.

When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon.

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose.

The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series. Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters. The Academy of Kindness exists to create...

Beginning with that most fundamental of questions - ''Do we really want what we say we want?'' - Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so.

Two people once connected by a vast and mysterious library are now separated and must overcome time and distance to reunite and bring peace to their worlds, in the final book of the Library Trilogy. The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the...

L'Empire Brisé est agité par des affrontements sans fin. Sur le long chemin de sa quête de vengeance, l'honoré Jorg Ancrath a découvert les responsables de cette éternelle guerre, et il s'est mis en tête de les défier. Or une armée de six nations coalisées, forte de vingt mille soldats, marche sur le château de Jorg. Les bons rois savent ployer l'échine devant une défaite annoncée, ne serait-ce que pour protéger leurs sujets et leurs terres. Jorg n'est pas un bon roi.

The Sounds of Crime is an exclusive collection of five brand new short stories by some of the best crimewriters around. Using the theme of 'audio', this unique collection features brand new stories by Lawrence Block, Peter James, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham and Christopher Fowler.

Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second book in a new trilogy from the international bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn’t Burn. The Library spans worlds and times. It touches and joins distant places. It...

La suite de la nouvelle captivante série de Mark Lawrence, nommée au prix Goodreads du Meilleur roman de Fantasy ! Sur les territoires blancs d'Abeth, tout n'est plus que glace à perte de vue. À l'exception du Roc Noir. Cela fait des générations que, du haut de leur montagne, les prêtres du Dieu Caché commandent le destin des tribus par la magie et le fer. Leur autorité n'avait jamais été contestée. Jusqu'à l'arrivée de Yaz, enfant de la glace arrachée à la seule vie qu'elle connaissait pour tracer son propre chemin.

Les étoiles ne brillent jamais plus fort que dans les ténèbres. Au coeur de la glace, sur les flancs du Roc Noir, existe un puits dans lequel on précipite les enfants trop différents. On le nomme le Gouffre des Absents, une menace qui a toujours plané sur la vie de Yaz. Car, pour endurer les mois de nuit, l'air presque figé par le gel, il faut appartenir à une espèce à part. Et Yaz n'en fait pas partie.

Discussing and exploring the amazing world of macro photography. The show is primarily focused on new to intermediate macro photographers and helping you get started even if you only have entry-level equipment.

Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors.

Devenu roi de sept nations, Jorg Ancrath convoite désormais l'Empire Brisé tout entier... or, si le jeune souverain veut atteindre son but suprême, ce n'est pas par l'épée mais par le vote qu'il gagnera. Personne n'a jamais réussi cet exploit, et l'Empire reste sans dirigeant depuis des siècles. Mais Jorg a découvert les secrets du savoir oublié et compte bien s'en servir. Il n'avait pas compté avec un nouvel adversaire de taille : le Roi Mort, un nécromancien encore plus craint que Jorg lui-même.

In the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series, a young outcast will fight against staggering odds to save her world. On the planet Abeth, a narrow Corridor of green land is surrounded on all sides by ice plains where only the strong survive. Ice triber Yaz has completed a...

Nona ist kein gewöhnliches Kind: Sie hat auffällig schwarze Augen und schwarze Haare und kann sich mit übernatürlicher Geschwindigkeit bewegen. Und sie ist erst acht, als sie ihren ersten Mord begeht. Das Mädchen steht schon im Schatten des Galgens, als sie von der Äbtissin des Klosters zur barmherzigen Gnade gerettet wird, wo sie man sie zur Kriegerin ausbildet. Doch der Mann, den sie getötet hat, gehörte einer der mächtigsten Familien des Reiches an - die alles daransetzt, sich an ihr und den Schwestern des Konvents zu rächen. Allerdings ist Nona alles andere als leichte Beute.