In Winter's Shadow
10 best books like In Winter's Shadow (Gillian Bradshaw): Revenant Gun, The Crystal Cave, The House of Shattered Wings, Summers at Castle Auburn, Raven Stratagem, A Memory Called Empire, Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo, Hexarchate Stories, The Seeing Stone, Real Tigers
| Author | Yoon Ha Lee |
| ISBN | 1781086079 |
Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonishing conclusion!
When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet--but his body belongs to a man decades...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548258 |
Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses...
The House of Shattered Wings
| Author | Aliette de Bodard |
| ISBN | 1473212553 |
A superb murder mystery, on an epic scale, set against the fall out – literally – of a war in Heaven.
Paris has survived the Great Houses War – just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues...
Review posted on Fantasy Literature:
Summers at Castle Auburn was my first exposure to Sharon Shinn's fantasies, and it was pretty much insta-love for me (I like to think that Shinn returns my affections in a distant and anonymous fan-appreciation kind of way). It instantly set me off on a search...
| Author | Yoon Ha Lee |
| ISBN | 1781085374 |
From New York Times best-selling author Yoon Ha Lee. The stunning second act in the Hugo Award nominated Machineries of Empire series!
Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating...
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might...
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
| Author | Stephanie Storey |
| ISBN | 1628726393 |
From 1501—1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself.
Michelangelo...
| Author | Yoon Ha Lee |
| ISBN | 1781085641 |
The essential short story collection set in the universe of Ninefox Gambit.
An ex-Kel art thief has to save the world from a galaxy-shattering prototype weapon...
A general outnumbered eight-to-one must outsmart his opponent...
A renegade returns from seclusion to bury...
| Author | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| ISBN | 0752844296 |
The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives him a shining black stone. When Arthur starts to see stories...
| Author | Mick Herron |
| ISBN | 1616956127 |
London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these “slow horses” is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents must breach the defenses of Regent’s Park to steal valuable intel in exchange...
Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
| Author | Barbara Oakley |
| ISBN | 1101982853 |
Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for us to learn and become—regardless of age.
In an age when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves, to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, this book...
| Author | Mick Herron |
| ISBN | 1569475040 |
“Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way, which is why his new novel, Reconstruction, reads as much like a puzzle mystery as it does a thriller . . . unpleasant things are bound to happen, and they do—but not until Herron has finished surprising us . . . there is no hiding under the...
| Author | Edith Pargeter |
| ISBN | 0751504750 |
This is the last book of the Heaven's Tree Trilogy and it finishes the story of Harry Talvace, father and son. This is a historical fiction set in the early 13th century England and revolves around the border conflicts that took place at that time between the English and the Welch. The story meets my criteria...
