Y Gododdin
10 best books like Y Gododdin (Aneirin): The Fountains of Silence, Poor Things, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The Lais of Marie de France, Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints, Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told, The Dream of the Rood, Harrow County, Vol. 8: Done Come Back, Harrow County, Vol. 3: Snake Doctor, Harrow County, Vol. 4: Family Tree
| Author | Ruta Sepetys |
| ISBN | 0399160310 |
A portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.
Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine....
| Author | Alasdair Gray |
| ISBN | 0747562288 |
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter - a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect...
One night a group of monks from Durham cathedral seized Bede's remains and took them back to Durham for reburial there, making Bede one of those people who have ended up travelling further in death than they ever did while alive.
The give away fact about this book is it's title. What Bede wants...
| Author | Marie de France |
| ISBN | 0140447598 |
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...
Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures--and to the land itself--in a way she never imagined.
A southern gothic fairy tale from the creator of smash hit The...
Harrow County, Vol. 2: Twice Told
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1616559004 |
Evil twin!
Yeah, it's been done to death, but it's still a fun trope.
Ok, so this was one of the many times when irony kicked me in my tits. Just as soon as I gave up on the library ever finding their missing copy of this volume (it had been in book limbo for 3 or 4 months), and decided to go...
| Author | Cynewulf |
| ISBN | 0859895033 |
The Dream of the Rood is a poem that has entranced generations of scholars. It is one of the greatest religious poems in English literature, the work of a nameless poet of superb genius.
This edition presents a conservative text with variant reading described in the notes. In his introduction...
Harrow County, Vol. 8: Done Come Back
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1506706630 |
The dramatic conclusion to the series about Emmy--the Good Witch of much haunted and harrowing Harrow County, her friend Berenice, the Skin Boy, and a bunch of scary, sometimes bloody creatures. The last volume focuses, not surprisingly, on the mortal combat between Emmy and the original hanged witch,...
Harrow County, Vol. 3: Snake Doctor
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1506700713 |
I think the first thing I should mention is that I haven't been able to read volume 2 of Harrow county yet. Apparently, something happened to my library's copy, so after a few months of waiting...? Yeah, I just decided to go ahead and read this anyway.
But even without having read the previous...
Harrow County, Vol. 4: Family Tree
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1506701418 |
A little of the spooky stuff near Halloween never hurt anyone, right?
Family Tree is exactly what it sounds like, and we all get to find out a bit more of Emmy's past and where her bloodline comes from.
And it turns out, she has a family that's just as fucked up as everyone else's.
There's...
Harrow County, Vol. 7: Dark Times A'Coming
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1506703976 |
Things are heating up in this supernatural fantasy as young heroine Emmy Crawford prepares to face off against old foes in the horror-plagued town of Harrow County
Something evil has returned from the grave and joins forces with Emmy's wicked family for a brewing monster war! Will she be able...
Harrow County, Vol. 6: Hedge Magic
| Author | Cullen Bunn |
| ISBN | 1506702082 |
Well, well, well: The sixth volume of the harrowing Harrow County comes into my hands, just in time for Halloween, heh heh heh. Emmy is a good witch in this creepy but also somehow tender southern gothic tale, protecting her town, trying to keep her haints in control. Until now, when friend Bernice loses...
