The Red King
10 best books like The Red King (Victor Kelleher): Dragonlance Chronicles, The Earthsea Trilogy, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, The Chronicles of Prydain Boxed Set, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Speaking from Among the Bones, Death Comes to Pemberley, Magician, A Red Herring Without Mustard, Death in Holy Orders
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0880386525 |
CONCEPT: A group of adventurers are chosen to help drive back the Evil from another world led by the Dark Queen.
MARKETING APPEAL: The DRAGONLANCE chronicles had the whole AD&D industry behind them; TSR used this tale as a marketing ploy, using their fans and game designers (to set up the...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0140050930 |
As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode...
| Author | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0006473296 |
Since its publication in 1977, Stephen Donaldson's award-winning trilogy has become an indisputable fantasy class, hailed by the critics and loved by millions of readers around the world. Now all three books are available in one paperback volume for the first time.
Thomas Covenant, an embittered...
| Author | Lloyd Alexander |
| ISBN | 0805082743 |
Millions of young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his lively companions as they journey through the magical land of Prydain. First published more than thirty years ago and translated into twenty different languages, Lloyd Alexander's beloved...
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0385342314 |
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate...
Speaking from Among the Bones
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0385344031 |
Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary...
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0307959856 |
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life...
| Author | Raymond E. Feist |
| ISBN | 0586217835 |
Raymond E. Feist's classic fantasy epic, Magician, has enchanted readers for over twenty years. The revised edition was prepared to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its publication, and incorporates over 15,000 words of text omitted from previous editions.
At Crydee, a frontier outpost...
A Red Herring Without Mustard
| Author | Alan Bradley |
| ISBN | 0385342322 |
Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey--mysteries involving...
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0345446666 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
A number of traditions come seamlessly together in P. D. James's Death in Holy Orders, another of her acclaimed mysteries featuring Scotland Yard's Commander Adam Dalgliesh. Included among those traditions are the Golden Age detective story, the police procedural,...
| Author | Stuart Neville |
| ISBN | 1569476004 |
Sooner or later, everybody pays.
Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night, on the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths.
From...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140363254 |
If I could use one word to describe this novel... it would be - odd. Which makes it genuinely discordant and spooky for a psychological drama, dotted with very beautiful chilling descriptions... but the strange choice to make the novel carry itself entirely on dialogue means it runs out of steam very...
| Author | Gillian Rubinstein |
| ISBN | 0140321993 |
Space Demons (Space Demons Trilogy, #1), Gillian Rubinstein
Space Demons is a book by Australian author Gillian Rubinstein. First released in 1985, the young adult science fiction novel is the first of the 'Space Demons' trilogy. The book was awarded the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers...
Came Back To Show You I Could Fly
| Author | Robin Klein |
| ISBN | 0140342540 |
Seymour's life is anything but perfect. Bullied, neglected and caught up in family dysfunction, he's drowning in all the issues life keeps throwing at him. Angie, an older girl with charisma, charm and beauty, provides hi a new friend and a voice of understanding. When I was younger I wasn't entirely...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1566563313 |
The ‘Watertower’ is essentially a graphic novel or visual text, making use of both words and art to impart the story. The books itself centres around two boys who decide to explore an old water tower, which towers over the small mid American town of Preston. The Water tower dominates the town, standing...
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces'...
