The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks
9 best books like The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (Robertson Davies): The Hours Before Dawn, Rosewater, Strong Poison, Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven, Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories, Grandville, Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860, Alone: A Story of Friendship in the Darkness of Space (A Children's Picture Book), Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
| Author | Celia Fremlin |
| ISBN | 1860492231 |
I read this brilliant and vintage novel in one big gulp of a sitting this afternoon - positively beautiful writing, immensely creepy yet wittily hilarious in places, Celia Fremlin gives a masterclass in the genre of Domestic Noir years before Domestic Noir was a thing.
Winner of the 1960 Edgar...
| Author | Tade Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316449059 |
Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0060809086 |
I'm sorry, Hercule Poirot. There's a new literary detective in my life, and while I will always cherish your silly Belgian antics, Lord Peter Wimsey just understands my needs better - he makes me laugh so much more than you do, and he has that sincerity that you lack.
Now don't cry, Hercule. It's...
Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven
When a rogue 19-year-old witch is recruited to help guard an ancient magical Bestiary, a breath-stealing journey begins...
Being an empath has its advantages.
Harley Merlin can sense people’s emotions, among other things. It’s how she snagged her first job pinpointing cheaters...
| Author | Richard Scarry |
| ISBN | 0394882695 |
The illustrations in this book were very well done and helped tell the story as it progressed. In this book there were actually multiple stories that were being told. I found most of them just okay stories, but the last story I really enjoyed. It added humor to an unfortunate day. It takes the reader through...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 1595823972 |
Two hundred years ago, Britain lost the Napoleonic War and fell under the thumb of French domination. Gaining independence after decades of civil disobedience and anarchist bombings, the Socialist Republic of Britain is now a small, unimportant backwater connected by a railway bridge, steampowered...
| Author | Richard Slotkin |
| ISBN | 0806132299 |
In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim...
Alone: A Story of Friendship in the Darkness of Space (A Children's Picture Book)
#1 Bestselling Children's Book!
We all feel different sometimes, and Earth, slowly spinning in the darkness of space, feels so very different from all the other planets.
Can Earth find friendship in the loneliest of places?
This lovingly illustrated children's book by Scott Stuart reminds us...
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
| Author | Aaron Bastani |
| ISBN | 1786632624 |
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury...
