A Glastonbury Romance
9 best books like A Glastonbury Romance (John Cowper Powys): The Twisted Ones, Night Boat to Tangier, A Little Hatred, The Worm Ouroboros, The Four Feathers, Mr Mumbles, The Golden Fleece, In the Valley of the Sun, Judas Goat
Author | T. Kingfisher |
ISBN | 1534429573 |
When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods.
When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?
Answer:...
Author | Kevin Barry |
ISBN | 0385540310 |
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen — Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs — sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are...
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.
On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...
Author | E.R. Eddison |
ISBN | 0486447405 |
This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this 1922 landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story...
Author | A.E.W. Mason |
ISBN | 0142180017 |
Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment. He immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one each from his three best friends and his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonor, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves...
Author | Barry Hutchison |
ISBN | 0007315155 |
Kyle’s imaginary friend from childhood is back… with a vengeance.
Kyle hasn't seen Mr Mumbles in years. And there's a good reason for that: Mr Mumbles doesn't exist.
But now Kyle's imaginary friend is back, and Kyle doesn't have time to worry about why. Only one thing matters:...
Author | Robert Graves |
ISBN | 0755106008 |
Reissued by Creative Age Press in 1945 as Hercules, My Shipmate, a novel about the voyage of the Argo. Written with ideas on The White Goddess as a cultural/anthropological backdrop to the ancient Greek tale.
What the Golden Fleece really was—a cloak tossed to earth by a drunken Zeus, a sheepskin...
For readers of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and classic Anne Rice, a chilling tale of suspense and horror set deep in the Texas desert.
Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for...
Author | Greg F. Gifune |
ISBN | 1934546801 |
Who is the Judas Goat?
It had been twenty years since Lenny Cates had seen or heard from his old college flame Sheena. Theirs had been a brief and tumultuous relationship that ended badly, so when Lenny is notified that Sheena has died in a freak accident and has left her entire estate to him, he...