Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Girl of Ink & Stars

Laura Purcell

Andrew Michael Hurley

Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Stuart Turton

Imogen Hermes Gowar

Bridget Collins

Natasha Pulley

Jess Kidd

Elizabeth Macneal

Catriona Ward

Susan Stokes-Chapman

FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES. Featuring new and original stories from: Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha Pulley Elizabeth Macneal Laura Purcell Susan Stokes Chapman Laura Shepherd-Robinson Stuart Turton Catriona Ward The tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries. These twelve stories - authored by some of today's most loved and lauded authors of historical and gothic fiction - are all centred around Christmas or Advent, boldly and playfully re-imagining a beloved tradition for a modern audience. Taking you from a haunted Tuscan villa to a remote Scottish island with a dark secret, and drawing inspiration from festive traditions from all around the globe, these vibrant haunted stories are your ultimate companion for frosty nights. So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of Christmases past . . .

Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

The Winter Spirits

"An intriguing, haunting novel pulsing with raw, beautiful emotion. Kiran Millwood-Hargrave effortlessly intertwines the stories of women tenderly and sympathetically, creating a novel in which female courage and resilience shines brightly against a brilliantly evoked backdrop of claustrophobic horror."--Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne "Some historical novels don'' just describe the past, they transport you there . . . An exceptionally beautiful portrait of women from the past, told in the most spellbinding prose."--Elodie Harper, author of the #1 London Times bestseller The Wolf Den In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in sixteenth-century France. Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees that are the family's livelihood. Though Lisbet is removed from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city's women, her own quiet life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law. Nethe has been away for seven years, serving a penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name. It is a secret Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, Lisbet becomes caught in a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion. Like the women of Strasbourg, she too, is dancing to a dangerous tune. . . . Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by true events, The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love, and women pushed to the edge.

A Novel

The Dance Tree

Le ragazze immortali

“Captivating...an entrancing read packed with the extreme highs and lows of an all-encompassing love.” —People Two young women meet in Paris one sultry summer in a decades-spanning tour de force about the enduring power of young love and the poignant heartbreak of missed chances—perfect for fans of One Day and Normal People. Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris, 1978. Erica is a student, relishing her first summer abroad before beginning university at home in England. Laure is studying for her PhD at the Sorbonne, drinking and smoking far too much, and sleeping with a married woman. The moment the two women meet, the spark is undeniable, but their encounter turns into far more than a summer of love. It is the beginning of a relationship that will define their lives and every decision they have yet to make… Erica and Laure’s love story spans decades, marriage, children, secret trysts, and the agonizing changes—both personal and political—that might mean they can be together, after all. But when life brings them within touching distance again, will they be brave enough to seize a future together? Beautifully capturing young love and all its complexities, Almost Life is a story of longing for the paths not taken, and the almost lives we live.

Almost Life

Aitana Vega Casiano

La isla de las mujeres

Vardo

Marta Mendonça

Uma tempestade mortal.
Uma povoação sem homens.
Uma implacável caça às bruxas.

Na véspera de Natal de 1617, Maren encontra-se junto à costa da remota ilha de Vardø, na Noruega, quando vê uma tempestade repentina e destruidora formar-se no mar. Quarenta pescadores, incluindo o irmão e o pai, morrem afogados. Dias mais tarde, o mar devolve os seus corpos. Com a população masculina dizimada, as mulheres de Vardø dedicam-se a trabalhar para subsistir por si próprias.

Dezoito meses depois, o escocês Absalom Cornet é convocado para assumir o controlo da ilha e livrá-la de supostas práticas de bruxaria. Esta figura sinistra traz consigo a mulher, Ursula, uma jovem norueguesa que se sente tão orgulhosa quanto aterrorizada pela autoridade do marido. Em Vardø, Ursula encontra algo que nunca havia visto antes: mulheres independentes. Absalom, porém, vê apenas um lugar enfeitiçado e intocado por Deus.

Maren e Ursula criam uma ligação que se vai estreitando cada vez mais, mas, à medida que o domínio férreo de Absalom aumenta, a ilha começa a sufocá-las. E a própria existência de Vardø é ameaçada, pois Absalom está determinado a erradicar o mal daquele lugar a qualquer custo…

Um livro com um enredo absolutamente cativante inspirado nos eventos reais da tempestade de Vardø, na Noruega, e na caça às bruxas dessa localidade e subsequentes julgamentos do ano 1621.

Depois da Tempestade

Vardø

Tom de Freston

Leila and the Blue Fox

When the Phillipine government takes over Culion, an island for people with leprosy, Ami is put in an orphanage on another island, where she finds a friend willing to help her return before her mother dies.

The island at the end of everything

From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the magic of nature, the lure of power and the strength of love.

In the lakes, the wolf queen sharpens her spear.
In the mountains, an ancient girl opens an eye.
In the forest, an orphan is summoned by the trees.
Our story has begun ...

Ysolda has lived her life in the shadow of the wolf queen's tyrannical rule but, safe in her forest haven, she has never truly felt its threat.

Until one day when a mysterious earthquake shakes the land and her older sister Hari vanishes in its wake.

Accompanied by her loyal sea hawk, Nara, Ysolda embarks on a desperate rescue mission. But when she is forced to strike a bargain with the wolf queen herself, she soon finds herself embroiled in a quest for a magic more powerful - and more dangerous - than she could ever have imagined ...

This is the first in the Geomancer trilogy, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Julia and the Shark, The Mercies and The Girl of Ink and Stars.

In The Shadow of the Wolf Queen 

Les filles qui ne mouraient pas

Nieśmiertelne

Más allá del invierno

Michelle Paver

Stacey Halls

FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON AND THE WINTER SPIRITS COMES A BRAND NEW COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALES Featuring new and original stories from: Michelle Paver Stacey Halls Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha Pulley Elizabeth Macneal Susan Stokes-Chapman Laura Shepherd-Robinson Stuart Turton Catriona Ward _________ There is something peculiar about the hour after midnight. It is the time when darkness reigns. And strange things roam the earth. In this dazzling collection of original haunted tales, thirteen bestselling and much-loved authors bring the old superstition of the witching hour to new and vivid life. Transporting you from the smog of London to the freezing mists of Svalbard, from an Irish town riddled with rumour to a sinister English boarding school, these thirteen stories will serve as your spinetingling companion to the long hours of winter. So curl up, light a candle, and wait for the clock to strike . . .

From the creators of The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits comes a spellbinding new collection of original haunted tales

The Witching Hour

Situada numa era de superstição, histeria e mudanças extraordinárias, e inspirada em factos reais ocorridos durante um verão maldito, A Árvore da Dança é uma história apaixonante sobre segredos de família, amor proibido e mulheres levadas ao limite. Estrasburgo, 1518. Sob o sol escaldante de verão, uma mulher começa a dançar na praça da cidade. Dança durante dias, sem um momento de descanso, sem pausas, e a ela se juntam outras centenas. As autoridades declaram o estado de emergência. Chamam-se músicos para que toquem e para que, pela dança, o Diabo saia do corpo dessas mulheres. Nas imediações da cidade, Lisbet, grávida, vive com o marido e a sogra, cuidando das abelhas que lhes dão sustento. No momento em que a dança ganha mais força, Nethe, a sua cunhada, regressa de uma pena de sete anos nas montanhas por um crime sobre o qual ninguém se atreve a pronunciar-se. Lisbet, porém, está determinada a saber o que se esconde nesse segredo. E enquanto a cidade treme sob a força de milhares de pés que marcam um ritmo imparável, acaba por ver-se enredada numa teia de mentiras e paixões clandestinas, a dançar ao som de uma música perigosa... Os elogios da crítica: «A Árvore da Dança é um livro incomum e maravilhosamente escrito que levanta questões importantes sobre a fé e o amor.» - The Times

A Árvore da Dança

Weeks pass, to her they are nameless, they are fading and growing light, the warming of weather. On this day, she wakes, and begins to walk. It’s a summer of firsts for twelve-year-old Leila: her first time traveling alone, first time apart from Amma and her cousin Mona, and first time seeing her mother, a climate scientist in Norway, since war forced their family from Syria six years ago. Together, Leila and her mother’s research team follow the migration of a tiny Arctic fox, Miso, across ice floes and international borders, hopeful the midnight sun will illuminate how to adapt to a constantly changing world. The Arctic Circle is nothing like Leila has ever imagined—so bright and brutal and undeniably wild. It tests her in every way: her understanding of home and what it means to belong, her determination to do what’s right, and her belief in how much is possible in even the most impossible of situations. Inspired by an Arctic fox’s real 2,000-mile trek across continents, Miso's and Leila’s entwined journeys offer hope in the face of an uncertain future and reinforce that even the smallest voices can make the biggest impact.

A captivating, powerful and luminous story from a bestselling, award-winning author about a mother, a daughter and the great Greenland shark. Wrapped up in mesmerising illustrations and presented as a deluxe hardback, this is a perfect gift for the holiday season, for 9+ fans of Philip Pullman, Sally Gardner and Frances Hardinge. The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfathomable depths until it ripped the whole island from its roots. The bed was a boat, the shark a tide, and it pulled me so far out to sea I was only a speck, a spot, a mote, a dying star in an unending sky... Julia has followed her mum and dad to live on a remote island for the summer - her dad, for work; her mother, on a determined mission to find the elusive Greenland shark. But when her mother's obsession threatens to submerge them all, Julia finds herself on an adventure with dark depths and a lighthouse full of hope... A beautiful, lyrical, uplifting story about a mother, a daughter, and love - with timely themes of the importance of science and the environment.

The Perfect Gift for Every Child This Christmas!

While on a journey across the sea to track the migration of an arctic fox, twelve-year-old Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought she had lost.

Lange, kalte Winternächte: Zeit, um den Kamin zu entzünden, Zeit für Geistergeschichten. Ob in den wilden Mooren von Yorkshire, auf dem verschneiten Gelände eines Spukhauses oder auf dem belebten Londoner Weihnachtsmarkt – diese Geschichten, die von Gespenstern vergangener Tage erzählen, jagen den Lesenden die köstlichsten Schauer über den Rücken. So herrlich britisch wie Yorkshire Pudding, so stimmungsvoll und gruselig wie ›Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte‹ von Charles Dickens und so spannend, dass man dieses Buch kaum aus den Händen legen kann. ›Schaurige Nächte‹ vereint acht Erzählungen ausgewiesener Gruselexpert*innen, die eine alte Tradition neu beleben: Als Meister*innen des Unheimlichen und Makabren bescheren sie uns einen Nervenkitzel ganz besonderer Art.

Unheimliche Geschichten für den Winter

Schaurige Nächte

Elisabeth Macneal Macneal

"Inverno: la stagione delle notti più fredde, delle tenebre che avviluppano la Terra, della luce che muore. La stagione dei fantasmi: quando i crepuscoli si tingono di nero, infatti, è bello raccontare e raccontarsi gli incubi che abitano i recessi della nostra mente, immaginarli camminare di fianco a noi. Così, prima ancora che Charles Dickens componesse il suo Canto di Natale, la letteratura – in particolare quella anglosassone – ha trovato le sue parole più belle per dare vita al lato in ombra della realtà, ed è tradizione in quei luoghi raccogliersi insieme per leggere inquietanti storie gotiche. Nei dodici racconti di questa raccolta, spiriti e fantasmi si danno appuntamento in gran parata per riempire di presenze le lunghe ore invernali. Dal fango della Londra dickensiana alle scogliere della Cornovaglia, estremo limite del mondo, dalla Edimburgo del Settecento sotto un gelido manto bianco a una enorme villa adagiata su un isolotto in mezzo a un lago italiano, gli esseri soprannaturali che incontriamo in queste storie ci accompagnano in una trasvolata che tocca le più varie epoche e Paesi e ci rivelano con eleganza che il posto piú buio di tutti, in fondo, è il cuore degli uomini. Dalle penne di maestri del gotico – fra gli altri, Stuart Turton, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Laura Shepherd-Robinson e Susan Stokes-Chapman – I fantasmi dell’inverno è una raccolta di dodici storie di ombre, possessioni demoniache e sogni ricorrenti; una incredibile collezione di fantasmi, spiriti, apparizioni e spettri da leggere con il fiato sospeso... e con la luce accesa. «L’orologio a pendolo batté la mezzanotte. I rintocchi scossero la casa uno dopo l’altro come altrettanti colpi inferti da un dio irato. Indietreggiai barcollando nel vedere le finestre che tremavano e l’intonaco che si staccava dal soffitto. Il lampadario ondeggiò pericolosamente, i soprammobili andarono in frantumi e i quadri si staccarono dalle pareti». Stuart Turton, Il Signore della Casa «Ne I fantasmi dell’inverno ogni storia è un gioiello». Laura Shepperson "

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