Patrick Marcel Books

Neverwhere is the stunningly original first novel from Neil Gaiman, the bestselling and prizewinning author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods. Wired called it 'the sort of book Terry Pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with Frank Kafka'. This is a must-read for all those who loved Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell or the magical world of J.K. Rowling. Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. There's a girl named Door, an Angel called Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, a Beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining ...And Richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. Includes extra material exclusive to this Headline Review edition.

“Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.” According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – the world’s only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded – the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea… People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons – well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel – would quite like the Rapture not to happen. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…

Discover a hidden world of tiny, brave nomes living beneath a Department Store, unaware of the Outside. When new nomes arrive with alarming news about the Store's closing, their lives are turned upside down. This is the hilarious first book in the nomes series by the author of Discworld.

Guy de Maupassant, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Jean Ray, Jorge Luis Borges, Edgar Poe, Peter Straub, Bram Stoker et son Dracula... Autant de signatures majeures d'un genre littéraire, le fantastique, marqué par l'exploration du surnaturel, de l'horreur et de l'irrationnel. Reflet des peurs les plus intimes, le fantastique accueille depuis l'aube de la littérature des figures imaginaires immortelles : vampires sanguinaires ou romantiques, loups-garous pathétiques, démons impitoyables, maisons hantées ou momies vengeresses. Indispensable outil pour les enseignants, fidèle compa­gnon de voyages du lecteur néophyte ou confirmé, ce guide de lecture propose un parcours souvent terrifiant au sein d'une littérature qui cherche à appréhender les facettes les plus sombres de l'inconscient humain. • historique de la littérature fantastique • 100 propositions de lecture Né en 1956, Patrick Marcel, quand il ne travaille pas pour l'aviation civile, traduit des romans de littérature fantastique et de science-fiction (Hughart, Gaiman, Holdstock, Pratchett...). Il a longtemps dirigé Manticora, une revue consacrée à l'exploration, la présentation et la promo­tion de toutes les formes du fantastique.