Young Rissa
10 best books like Young Rissa (F.M. Busby): The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Stalking Darkness, Seven Surrenders, Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters, The Liar, Supreme Power, Volume 2: Powers and Principalities, The State of the Art, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, Best Destiny, XPD
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 0316213101 |
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party,...
| Author | Lynn Flewelling |
| ISBN | 0553575430 |
With the Leran threat laid to rest, Alec and Seregil are now able to turn their attention to the ancient evil which threatens their land. The Plenimarans, at war with Skalans, have decided to defeat their ancient enemy by raising up the Dead God, Seriamaius. The early attempts at this reincarnation—masterminded...
| Author | Ada Palmer |
| ISBN | 0765378027 |
The second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all.
In which automation now provides for everybody’s basic needs.
In which nobody living can remember an actual war.
In...
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
| Author | Laura Thompson |
| ISBN | 1784970875 |
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party;...
| Author | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen |
| ISBN | 0316445398 |
From the award-winning author of Waking Lions, a provocative novel about how one mistake can have a thousand consequences
Nofar is an average teenage girl---so average, in fact, that she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape.
But...
| Author | J. Michael Straczynski |
| ISBN | 0785114564 |
The heroes have arrived. You've watched them grow. You've learned their secrets. And now, you're about to see them change the world... for better or for worse! When a god-like Hyperion discovers that his whole life has actually been an elaborate government-made lie, his reaction could mean the end...
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
| ISBN | 1597800740 |
The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the...
Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
| Author | William J. Mann |
| ISBN | 0805076255 |
The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image
Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine...
| Author | Diane Carey |
| ISBN | 0671795880 |
As James T. Kirk prepares to retire from a long and illustrious Starfleet career, events in a distant part of the Federation draw him back to a part of the galaxy he had last visited as a young man, a mysterious world called Faramond whose name takes Kirk on a journey back to his youth. At sixteen, Kirk is troubled,...
| Author | Len Deighton |
| ISBN | 0586054472 |
June 11, 1940 – where is Winston Churchill?
A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border.
For more than forty years the events of this day have been...
To Dream in the City of Sorrows
| Author | Kathryn M. Drennan |
| ISBN | 0345452194 |
Ambassador to the alien world of Minbar, former Babylon 5 commander Jeffrey Sinclair is one of the first to learn the truth about the Shadows, the ancient race pursuing the destruction of the galaxy. Sinclair also discovers a startling secret: he is the linchpin in the plan to stop them. Now, Sinclair...
| Author | Christopher Hilton |
| ISBN | 0552139661 |
Alain Prost is the most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, with a record-breaking 44 race wins and three World Championship titles to his name. This biography builds up a detailed picture of the man by speaking to a wide range of people who have been close to him, those who knew him in childhood and...
Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek
| Author | Marcus Berkmann |
| ISBN | 1408706830 |
Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, Star Trek celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health. Boldly going where several other people have been before, Marcus Berkmann tells the story of this sturdy science fiction vehicle from its first five-year mission (rudely curtailed to three),...
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism
Stunning collection from one of Britain's great journalists, sadly no longer with us.
I first came to A A Gill in the 1990's, absorbing his acerbic and laugh-out-loud restaurant reviews for The Times, leavened with regular weightier fare. Once discovered, he was a must-read correspondent.
The...
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
| Author | The Secret Barrister |
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year
Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year
'Eye-opening, damning and hilarious' Tim Shipman, author of All Out War and Fall Out
...
The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
| Author | Mary S. Lovell |
| ISBN | 1681775158 |
The Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan...
| Author | Jonathan Guinness |
| ISBN | 0753818035 |
The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.
Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, friend of Hitler;...
Supreme Power, Volume 1: Contact
| Author | J. Michael Straczynski |
| ISBN | 0785112243 |
Babylon 5 creator and Amazing Spider-Man writer J. Michael Stracyznski presents a hard-edged, mature and deeply personal saga of a world about to give birth to its first generation of super heroes! This Mature Readers story follows the origins of these new heroes and anti-heroes including Dr. Spectrum,...
