A Pack of Lies
10 best books like A Pack of Lies (Geraldine McCaughrean): Haroun and the Sea of Stories, We the Living, The Story of an Hour, The Princess and the Page, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, The Great Good Thing, La Mécanique du cœur, An Area of Darkness, Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed, Knife Edge
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| ISBN | 0670886580 |
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Discover Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie’s classic fantasy novel
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea...
| Author | Ayn Rand |
| ISBN | 0451187849 |
Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.
First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue...
In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of women. From the famous proto-feminist tale "The Story of an Hour" to the subtly sexy "A Respectable Woman," Chopin sheds light on the frustrations, desires, and dreams of her own era and their reverberations...
The Princess and the Page
A dark secret lurks in Keira's family. She comes from a long line of Word Weavers who bring their stories to life when they use a magical pen. But Keira's mom is unable to face the truth of the family's history because the Word Weavers have been hunted for generations for their power. And so, she forbids Keira...
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN | 0060751584 |
"The stories are rich and startling in their matter and confident in their manner....They are--the word cannot be avoided--magical."--John Updike, The New Yorker
This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez's earlier work, includes eleven short stories and a novella,...
| Author | Roderick Townley |
| ISBN | 0689837143 |
Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.
Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in...
| Author | Mathias Malzieu |
| ISBN | 2081208164 |
Le jour de la naissance de Jack, en 1874 à Edimbourg, est si froid que son coeur en reste gelé. La sage-femme qui l'a mis au monde, mi-sorcière mi-chaman, remplace l'organe défectueux par une horloge qu'il ne faut pas oublier de remonter tous les matins. Le garçon doit aussi éviter toute émotion...
| Author | V.S. Naipaul |
| ISBN | 0375708359 |
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty...
| Author | Mary Klages |
| ISBN | 0826490735 |
This Guide for the Perplexed provides an advanced introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to more sophisticated readings. It engages directly with the difficulty many students find intimidating, asking 'What is ''Literary Theory''?'...
| Author | Malorie Blackman |
| ISBN | 0552548928 |
WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .
Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1442359889 |
Mile 81 meets N. in this e-book collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill.
In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems...
So touching, my 2nd favourite Malorie book of the month. Review to follow in the next few days.
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You know how I had trouble reviewing ‘Double Cross’ well I’m having...
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
| Author | Michael Morpurgo |
| ISBN | 1405209305 |
Michael’s Great-aunt Laura has just passed away and the family are on their way home to the Isles of Scilly for her funeral. In her will, Great-aunt Laura has left him her precious diary and he later finds out why it was so dear to her. The diary dates back to when Laura was a young girl and of her troubled...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0140085068 |
What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible...
| Author | Raghuram G. Rajan |
| ISBN | 9352770145 |
When Raghuram G. Rajan took charge as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2013, the rupee was in free fall, inflation was high, India had a large current account deficit and India’s exchange reserves were falling. As measure after measure failed to stabilize markets, speculators sensed...
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| ISBN | 0812992784 |
On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses,...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 1400079616 |
Another wonderful collection of stories from The Angler’s Rest. Here, for your enjoyment, are quotes from each tale:
The Smile That Wins
“There was enough of the financier to make two financiers. It was as if Nature, planning a financier, had said to itself: ‘We will do this thing...
Cuando los Gigantes Aman y Otros Cuentos
| Author | Folke Tegetthoff |
| ISBN | 9681647556 |
Un libro infantil muy bonito que llegó a mis manos gracias a 2 pequeñas seguidoras en la FENAL hace un año, ellas amaron este libro en su momento y quisieron que por eso mismo, yo lo leyera. Así que muchas gracias :)
Este libro contiene 3 cuentos cortos, divertidos y llenos de imaginación....
