Soonchild
10 best books like Soonchild (Russell Hoban): The Psychology of Time Travel, The Abominables, Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures, The Last Wild, The Diary of Petr Ginz, The Boy in the Dress, Gobbolino The Witch's Cat, The Dark Wild, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper, Michael Rosen's Sad Book
The Psychology of Time Travel
| Author | Kate Mascarenhas |
| ISBN | 1683319443 |
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project—and future of time travel—in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from...
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 1419707892 |
Renowned literary great Eva Ibbotson delivers a final novel in her classic, much-loved style. A previously unpublished work from this favorite author, The Abominables follows a family of yetis who are forced, by tourism, to leave their home in the Himalayas and make their way across Europe...
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures
| Author | Jackson Pearce |
| ISBN | 0545709261 |
From bestselling authors Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce comes an exciting new series full of magical creatures, whimsical adventures, and quirky illustrations.
Pip is a girl who can talk to magical creatures. Her aunt is a vet for magical creatures. And her new friend Tomas is allergic...
| Author | Piers Torday |
| ISBN | 0670015547 |
In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally...
| Author | Petr Ginz |
| ISBN | 0871139669 |
Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery, an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny.
As a fourteen-year old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early...
| Author | David Walliams |
| ISBN | 0007279035 |
The sparkling debut children's novel from David Walliams, co-creator and co-star of the multi-award-winning Little Britain. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book! Charming, surprising and hilarious—The Boy in the Dress is everything...
| Author | Ursula Moray Williams |
| ISBN | 0753412098 |
Why was I ever born a witch's kitten? Why - oh, why? With his bright blue eyes and sparky magic whiskers, no one could mistake Gobbolino for a kitchen cat, but that's just what he longs to be. So, while his sister Sootica learns how to ride a broomstick and turn mice into toads, Gobbolino sets off to find a nice...
| Author | Piers Torday |
| ISBN | 1782064850 |
Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the land. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong.
Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies.
And...
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper
| Author | Maxim Jakubowski |
| ISBN | 0786706260 |
its centerpiece is a collection of essays written by prominent Ripperologists discussing their favorite candidates for the mantle of Ripper. The prize must be awarded to M.J. Trow for his deadpan satire, undetectable until the reveal, putting forward the reformer Frederick Charrington. The sad...
| Author | Michael Rosen |
| ISBN | 0763625973 |
With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all.
Sometimes I'm sad and I don’t know why.
It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up.
Sad things...
| Author | Eva Ibbotson |
| ISBN | 1407124234 |
All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. "Never!" cries his mother. "Think of the mess, the scratch-marks, the puddles on the floor." But on the morning of Hal's 10th birthday, the unbelievable happens. He's allowed to choose a puppy at Easy Pets, a rent-a-pet agency (a fact his parents keep from him). The moment...
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
| Author | Guillermo del Toro |
| ISBN | 0062414461 |
Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed movie.
Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come...
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 1878298798 |
(The Flowering of) The Strange Orchid is the first story of H. G. Wells' I have read. A great British author and someone I've grown up hearing about him most of my life. I've had a collection of his many novels for a while, but downloaded H. G. Wells; Classics Novels and Short Stories on Kindle. Noticing I'm...
The Secret Sun, A Novel of Japan
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
| Author | John Barrow |
| ISBN | 1443202436 |
Excerpt: ...the arrival of the Gorgon at Spithead the prisoners were transferred to the Hector, commanded by Captain (the late Admiral Sir George) Montague, where they were treated with the greatest humanity, and every indulgence allowed that could with propriety be extended to men in their unhappy...
Suddenly In the Depths of the Forest
In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched,...
Druhá kniha autorky románu Hruškadóttir (2008), jednoho z nejúspěšnějších prozaických debutů posledních let, oceněného Cenou Jiřího Ortena. Ani deník, ani vzpomínky, ani obrázky ze života. Drásavá elegie o ztrátě města, domu, pokoje; babičky, s níž člověk...
