The Virago Book of Ghost Stories

8 best books like The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (Richard Dalby): Moon Called, Julie of the Wolves, Wild Country, The Body Lies, Sweet Sorrow, The Improbability of Love, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World, Sezon burz

Moon Called
AuthorPatricia Briggs
ISBN0441013813
Mercedes Thompson, aka Mercy, is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a bus for...
Julie of the Wolves
AuthorJean Craighead George
ISBN0064400581
Alone and lost—on the North Slope of Alaska
Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by...
Wild Country
AuthorAnne Bishop
In this powerful and exciting fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, humans and the shape-shifting Others will see whether they can live side by side...without destroying one another.

There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated...
The Body Lies
AuthorJo Baker
A layered and thrilling suspense novel that grapples with how to live as a woman in the modern world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high.


When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it’s meant to be a fresh start, away from the big...
Sweet Sorrow
AuthorDavid Nicholls
ISBN1444715410
One life-changing summer
Charlie meets Fran...

In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all,...
The Improbability of Love
AuthorHannah Mary Rothschild
ISBN1101874147
A dazzling, witty and tenderly savage satire of London life and the art world that is also a surprising and wonderful love story.

When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered....
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
AuthorSarah Weinman
ISBN0062661957
7 Hours and 26 Minutes

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner.

Weaving together...
Sezon burz
AuthorAndrzej Sapkowski
ISBN8375780596
Oto nowy Sapkowski i nowy wiedźmin. Mistrz polskiej fantastyki znowu zaskakuje. „Sezon burz” nie opowiada bowiem o młodzieńczych latach białowłosego zabójcy potworów ani o jego losach po śmierci/nieśmierci kończącej ostatni tom sagi.
„Nigdy nie mów nigdy!” W powieści...
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