Resultaten voor 'natasha pulley'
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The Salt King
Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there are followed by a bizarre video showing that someone trying to leave then enclave has been turn to salt, the Vatican foreign ministry summons him.The isolated Hreodwater salt mine has its own culture, its own language, and its own faith - the worship of the Salt King, the sleeping god of the mine. Any investigation into their miracles requires someone who understands all three. Avelyn must go.Returning to Hreodwater, with its unique salt light, and ability to destroy anything electronic within minutes, is personally challenging for Avelyn, who escaped the cult - and the Salt King - as a child. But eruptions of salt are happening all over the world. People are being turned into salt statues without warning, and their frequency is increasing. If these are miracles, the church must do something. And it they are not - if the ancient, and frightening, Salt King is returning - then Avelyn may be the only one who has a chance of stopping it . . .The Salt King is a gorgeous and creepy fusion of folk horror with biblical lore from the genre-disrupting author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Mars House.
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De letter M
De ansichtkaart lag al bijna een eeuw op het postkantoor te wachten om bezorgd te worden bij Joe Tournier. Joe is Engeland nooit uit geweest, zelfs London niet. Hij is een Britse slaaf, een van de duizenden in het Franse rijk. Hij heeft werk en een gezin. Maar hij herinnert zich ook flarden van een ander leven, waarin Engels werd gesproken in Engeland, in plaats van Frans. En nu heeft hij een ansichtkaart in handen die lang geleden is geschreven door een vreemde die hem lijkt te kennen. Joe moet achter de waarheid komen en hij reist van het door de Fransen bezette Londen naar een afgelegen Schots eiland, terug in de tijd, vechtend voor zijn leven en een andere toekomst.
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The Hymn to Dionysus
The ultimate romantasy retelling of war, myth and a man who may be a god...A timely and timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra.
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De horlogemaker van Londen
De horlogemaker van Londen van Natasha Pulley, een verhaal over liefde, verlangen, erkenning en acceptatie tegen het decor van Victoriaans Londen. Wanneer Thaniel Steepleton thuiskomt van zijn werk vindt hij een gouden zakhorloge op zijn kussen. Dit horloge redt een paar maanden later op wonderlijke wijze zijn leven. Gefascineerd door het zakhorloge gaat Thaniel op zoek naar de maker ervan. Dit blijkt Keita Mori te zijn, een eigenzinnige Japanse immigrant. Hij laat Thaniel kennismaken met een fantastische wereld van uurwerken, muziek en mysterie. Het lijkt allemaal onschuldig, maar een reeks van onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen doet Thaniel vermoeden dat er meer is dan hij op het eerste oog kan bevatten. Wanneer Grace Carrow in hun leven komt, raakt alles in een stroomversnelling. Thaniel wordt heen en weer geslingerd tussen zijn liefde voor de één en zijn loyaliteit aan de ander.De horlogemaker van Londen heeft het allemaal: spanning, geschiedenis, fantastische elementen en een meeslepende stijl.
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The Salt King
Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there are followed by a bizarre video showing that someone trying to leave then enclave has been turn to salt, the Vatican foreign ministry summons him.The isolated Hreodwater salt mine has its own culture, its own language, and its own faith - the worship of the Salt King, the sleeping god of the mine. Any investigation into their miracles requires someone who understands all three. Avelyn must go.Returning to Hreodwater, with its unique salt light, and ability to destroy anything electronic within minutes, is personally challenging for Avelyn, who escaped the cult - and the Salt King - as a child. But eruptions of salt are happening all over the world. People are being turned into salt statues without warning, and their frequency is increasing. If these are miracles, the church must do something. And it they are not - if the ancient, and frightening, Salt King is returning - then Avelyn may be the only one who has a chance of stopping it . . .The Salt King is a gorgeous and creepy fusion of folk horror with biblical lore from the genre-disrupting author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Mars House.
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The Salt King
An apocalyptic novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with the biting wit and epic queer romance that makes Natasha Pulley's books "delightful" (The Washington Post).Jesuit priest Avelyn Brocken was born into a mining family in Hreodwater, a small, totally isolated salt town in the Fens of England. At age 16, he fled, abandoning his faith in the god of the mine-the Salt King-and the mythology that killed his whole family.When a fellow priest is miraculously healed only to then be turned to salt after a visit to Hreodwater, Avelyn is sent by the Vatican to investigate. But in Hreodwater, the town's gentle doctor, Jericho, tells him that the priest is not the only one experiencing strange cures-and may not be the only one in danger from a substance in the mine that the locals call "salt light."Avelyn and Jericho team up to protect the world from the salt light-but they may already be too late: strange happenings are occurring at mines all around the world. At an archaeological dig on the Dead Sea, electrical devices froth salt; at another salt mine in Russia, a KGB officer finds the bodies of five tourists who seem to have turned to salt; and at the huge salt works at Wieliczska in Poland, all communication is lost, and rumors circulate of total annihilation.As salt light spreads, devastating cities around the world, Avelyn must decide what and who to believe-and whether his faith is strong enough to withstand an apocalypse.
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La memoria del samurai
Siamo nel 1888, cinque anni dopo le vicende dell'Orologiaio di Filigree Street (ammesso che in questa storia abbia un senso contare il tempo alla nostra maniera). Thaniel Steepleton, debilitato dal rigido clima londinese, è in partenza per il Giappone con una missione delicata: la sede della legazione britannica a Tokyo è infestata di fantasmi, e il suo compito è far luce su quanto sta accadendo. Con lui c'è tutta la famiglia: Keita Mori, l'orologiaio che ricorda il futuro, la loro bambina Sei e il polpo meccanico Katsu. I primi giorni in Oriente sono tutti incanti e scoperte, ma ben presto gli spettri si manifestano nella loro misteriosa potenza. Anche Mori, che pure in Giappone dovrebbe sentirsi a casa, è inquieto. E un giorno scompare. Nel frattempo in città si moltiplicano i fenomeni sovrannaturali e Takiko Pepperharrow, una vecchia conoscenza di Mori che non piace troppo a Thaniel, è chiamata a indagare sui fatti. Forse tutto è legato alla scomparsa di Mori, mai come ora a corto di tempo. Con la sua capacità unica di giocare tra i generi, Natasha Pulley dà forma ancora una volta a un mondo intero, intricato come un origami, animato da samurai chiaroveggenti, tempeste elettriche e templi di montagna che pullulano di gufi. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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L' orologiaio di Filigree Street
Londra, 1883. Thaniel Steepleton, giovane, modesto telegrafista al ministero dell'Interno, una sera trova un dono anonimo sul cuscino del suo letto: un orologio d'oro. È proprio l'orologio, strillando, a salvarlo dall'esplosione di un ordigno che devasta un pub. Thaniel si trasforma in investigatore antiterrorismo e rintraccia l'artigiano che ha creato il prodigioso manufatto: si chiama Keita Mori, viene dal Giappone e nel suo laboratorio in una stradina di vecchie case a Knightsbridge prendono vita straordinari esseri meccanici, prodigi luminosi, uccelli di bronzo, un polpo rubacalzini. L'incontro con Mori - e quello con Grace Carrow, brillante studentessa di fisica che cerca di combattere i pregiudizi per diventare scienziata e scoprire la verità sull'etere luminifero - cambierà la vita di Thaniel. Tre personaggi che non sono mai quello che sembrano, un passato - e un futuro - che uniscono in modo singolare l'Inghilterra all'estremo Oriente, una miscela specialissima di storia e magia per un romanzo d'esordio che sfugge alle etichette e chiede al lettore di stare al gioco senza riserve. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Das Lied des Dionysos
'Natasha Pulleys phantastisch wilder Dionysos wird Sie völlig in seinen Bann ziehen!' Luna McNamara Ein junger Krieger namens Phaidros rettet in Theben ein ausgesetztes Baby, von dem eine ganz eigenartige Faszination ausgeht. Was hat es mit dem Findelkind auf sich? Ist es nur ein Bastard oder vielleicht gar von Zeus gezeugt? Dramatisch, mitreißend und unbeirrbar klug - ein Buch wie nur Natasha Pulley es schreiben kann! 'Pulleys Fähigkeit, Realität, Geschichte und Fantasie zu verweben, ist unübertroffen.' Book of the Day
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Gruselige Stunden
Während in den verwinkelten Gassen des Viktorianischen Londons der erste Schnee fällt, hofft ein Waisenmädchen auf eine neue Familie. In einem gespenstischen Kloster am Gardasee wird ein junger Mann von seiner Vergangenheit heimgesucht. Ein labyrinthhaftes Herrenhaus führt einen Vater in einer eisigen Winternacht auf der Suche nach seinem Sohn durch Raum und Zeit. Und auf einer sturmumtosten Insel vor der schottischen Küste bewahrt das Meer auch die dunkelsten Geheimnisse. Hier passiert Unerklärliches, hier verschwimmt das Wirkliche mit dem Unwirklichen. In sechs meisterhaft erzählten Geschichten führen uns preisgekrönte Autorinnen und Autoren in die Welt des Schaurigen. Doch zwischen dem Duft von Clementinen, dem Geschmack von Portwein und Austernsuppe sowie dem Knistern des Kaminfeuers wird das Gruseln zu einem wohligen Erlebnis. Die perfekte Lektüre für die stillen Stunden, wenn der Tag der Nacht weicht.Schaurige Geschichten:Band 1: Schaurige NächteBand 2: WintergeisterBand 3: Gruselige StundenAlle Bände sind eigenständige Sammlungen von Erzählungen und können unabhängig voneinander gelesen werden.
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The Hymn to Dionysus
'Witty, bittersweet, surprising, and compellingly readable' Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review'A completely original and bewitching adventure' A. D. Rhine, author of Daughters of Bronze and Horses of Fire'A dazzling labyrinth of a book that pulls you in with both hands' Luna McNamara, author of PSYCHE AND EROS'This is more than a story of love and escape and broken chains. This is more than an exquisitely crafted tale. This book is a candle in a dark hour' Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing'Quirky, tender, and endlessly inventive, this is a Greek myth retelling unlike any other. Pulley's big brain and huge heart are deployed to godly effect in THE HYMN TO DIONYSUS' V. V. James, Sunday Times Bestselling author of SanctuaryRaised in a Greek legion, Phaidros has been taught to follow his commander's orders at all costs. But when he rescues a baby from a fire at Thebes' palace, he defies those orders and keeps the blue-eyed boy's existence a secret.Years later, after a strange encounter that led to the death of his battalion, Phaidros has become a training master for young soldiers. He struggles with panic attacks and flashbacks, and he is not alone: all around him, his fellow veterans are losing their minds.Madness is not his only problem: Phaidros has become entangled with the search for Thebes' lost young crown prince-a search that leads him to a blue-eyed witch named Dionysus, whose guidance is as wise as the events that surround him are strange. In Dionysus's company, Phaidros witnesses sudden outbursts of riots and unrest, and everywhere Dionysus goes, rumors follow about a new god, one sired by Zeus but lost in a fire . . .In The Hymn to Dionysus, bestselling author Natasha Pulley transports us to an ancient empire on the edge of ruin to tell an utterly captivating story about a man needing a god to remind him how to be a human.Praise for The Hymn to Dionysus'[Pulley] makes the ancient world feel close-by. I was enthralled from the first page to the last'Elyse John, author of Orphia and Eurydicius'[A] fresh and stylish reimagining . . . Fans of Greek myth retellings won't want to miss this' Publishers Weekly, Starred review 'This novel twists the ideas of duty and honour, exploring the depths of humanity and the power of connection in a world consumed by chaos. An absolute must-read' Crystal King, bestselling author of In the Garden of Monsters and Feast of Sorrow
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The Witching Hour
'Now's the time to curl up with a ghostly tale - and this collection should be your go to!' Fabulous'This cracking collection of spooky tales is perfect for the season of darkling nights' Mail on SundayFROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON AND THE WINTER SPIRITS COMES A BRAND NEW COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALESFeaturing new and original stories from:Michelle PaverStacey HallsBridget CollinsImogen Hermes GowarKiran Millwood HargraveAndrew Michael HurleyJess KiddNatasha PulleyElizabeth MacnealSusan Stokes-ChapmanLaura Shepherd-RobinsonStuart TurtonCatriona Ward_________There is something peculiar about the hour after midnight.It is the time when darkness reigns.And strange things roam the earth.In this dazzling collection of original haunted tales, thirteen bestselling and much-loved authors bring the old superstition of the witching hour to new and vivid life.Transporting you from the smog of London to the freezing mists of Svalbard, from an Irish town riddled with rumour to a sinister English boarding school, these thirteen stories will serve as your spinetingling companion to the long hours of winter.So curl up, light a candle, and wait for the clock to strike . . .
€ 24,00