Catherine Webb Book order (chronological)

Smart, bold, and so much fun, this story is a hopeful tale of misfits, rebels, and found family, appealing to fans of Becky Chambers and Martha Wells. Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel, where guests enjoy the finest food and views as it travels through the galaxy, offering sub-orbital luxury and a wealth of intrigue. Mysteries abound: Why are there love poems in the lobby? How many Imperial spies are on board? What is the true purpose of the Problem Solver's conference? Most importantly, who is driving the ship? At the heart of these enigmas is Carl, a former stowaway and the hotel's devoted manager. The Abeona is not just his job; it’s his home and the love of his life. As external forces threaten the hotel, Carl must confront a pivotal question: when is it time to let go? Praise for the author highlights the charm and humor of the narrative, with readers describing it as beautiful, immersive, and profoundly moving. The novel has garnered five-star reviews for its unique storytelling and emotional depth, leaving readers laughing, tearing up, and feeling a renewed sense of hope in humanity.

The final installment of a trilogy reimagines the classic Greek myth of Penelope, focusing on the voices of the women of Ithaca. This retelling explores their struggles, resilience, and perspectives, offering a fresh take on a well-known story. Claire North, a multi-award-winning author, brings depth and nuance to the narrative, highlighting the often-overlooked experiences of these characters in a richly woven tapestry of myth and emotion.

From the author of the acclaimed Ithaca comes a gripping tale that revitalizes ancient myth, focusing on Penelope of Ithaca, the renowned wife of Odysseus. On Ithaca, Queen Penelope skillfully navigates a precarious balance of power in her husband's prolonged absence following the war at Troy. As she strives to maintain peace, her world is disrupted by the arrival of Orestes, the troubled king of Mycenae, whose guilt over killing his mother, Queen Clytemnestra, haunts him. Orestes's mental unraveling threatens to unleash chaos, especially with his uncle Menelaus, the aggressive king of Sparta, eyeing his throne. Faced with the looming threat of war, Penelope must protect her home and people. Her allies include Elektra and the enigmatic Helen of Troy, while the goddess Aphrodite watches over them, harboring her own intentions. Each woman carries a secret that could alter their fates and the course of history. This retelling is praised for its dark fascination, poetic richness, and its portrayal of silenced women in ancient Greece. Penelope emerges as a formidable epic hero, navigating a world where women must forge their own destinies amidst turmoil. The narrative promises suspense and depth, setting a new benchmark for retellings of Greek mythology.

Tome 1 : Le roi Ulysse est parti depuis de nombreuses années en guerre contre Troie, emmenant tous les hommes en âge de combattre de l'île d'Ithaque. Pénélope, sa femme, l'attend avec patience et dirige le royaume. Mais lorsque des rumeurs circulent sur la mort de son mari, les prétendants commencent à frapper à sa porte. Or, aucun homme n'est assez puissant pour revendiquer le trône vide d'Ulysse. Si Pénélope choisit l'un d'entre eux, Ithaque plongera dans une guerre civile sanglante. Seule la ruse et son réseau d'espionnes lui permettront de maintenir l'équilibre délicat du pouvoir nécessaire à la survie du royaume. À Ithaque, tout le monde surveille tout le monde et il n'y a pas un coin du palais où l'intrigue ne règne pas en maître.

From the multi award-winning Claire North comes the second book in a trilogy of stories retelling of the classic Greek myth of Penelope. It's time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . .

1 : Dans la Venise du XVIIe siècle, il existe un établissement mystérieux connu sous le nom de Maison des Jeux, accueillant deux ligues. Dans la ligue basse, des fortunes se font et se défont en jouant aux échecs, au backgammon ou à n'importe quel autre jeu. Ceux que favorisent la chance ou le talent sont parfois invités à concourir dans la ligue haute... Là, le jeu de cache-cache se déroule à l'échelle d'un pays, les pièces des échecs sont de véritables individus, les cartes impliquent de manipuler de véritables personnes ; c'est une ligue où les enjeux sont des souvenirs ou des années de vie... ou bien plus encore.Tout le monde n'est pas digne de concourir dans la ligue haute. C'est le cas du mari de Thene, homme aigri qui a dépensé la dot de son épouse dans l'alcool et les dettes de jeu. Thene, quant à elle, fait preuve de bien plus de présence d'esprit, raison pour laquelle on l'invite à rejoindre cette ligue haute. Mais elle doit toujours se rappeler que plus les enjeux sont élevés, plus les règles sont dangereuses...Volume inaugural de la trilogie de la « Maison des Jeux », trois récits indépendants mais subtilement liés entre eux, Le Serpent est un thriller fantastique porté par une écriture aussi somptueuse que vénéneuse, placé sous le haut-patronage de L'Échiquier du mal de Dan Simmons... (babelio.com)

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom.Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation…

Gminny Ośrodek Kultury w Ujeździe wraz z Archiwum Państwowym w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim, w ramach obchodów 100. rocznicy odzyskania niepodległości przez Polskę, zorganizowały ogólnopolską konferencję naukową, której idea nawiązywała do postaci Lucjana Malcza – bajończyka pochodzącego z okolic Ujazdu. Historia życia i walki jednego tylko oficera stała się osią, wokół której historycy, muzealnicy i archiwiści z kilku ośrodków zbudowali wspólną narrację o udziale Polaków w I wojnie światowej, walkach o niepodległość i granice oraz źródłach archiwalnych i muzealnych. Szeroko zakrojone kwerendy, obszerna baza źródłowa i wielowątkowa analiza literatury zaowocowały podjęciem wyzwania przeniesienia idei konferencji na papier, a tym samym opracowania publikacji naukowej prezentującej zarówno najnowszy stan badań, jak również mającej poważny walor źródłoznawczy. Na kartach kolejnych artykułów prześledzić można zarówno barwne opisy dokonań „bajończyków i innych”, jak również uzyskać cenne wskazówki bibliograficzne i wzmianki źródłoznawcze. Czytelnik może również intuicyjnie wyodrębnić rysujący się w strukturze publikacji podział na artykuły o charakterze narracyjnym oraz te, których głównym założeniem jest prezentacja bezcennej, choć niestety często mało znanej nawet historykom bazy źródłowej.

The award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K returns with her most powerful and imaginative novel yet. This captivating tale puts an utterly original new spin on dystopian fiction.

From the author of the word-of-mouth phenomenon The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August comes a mesmerising tale of a mystical gambling house whose deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires

'MESMERIC, TERRIFYING AND WONDERFUL' M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts 'I was cursed in Natal, in 1884. Cursed by truth and by blood. The shadow took to me, and we have been together since.' From the bestselling and award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K comes a powerful new novel about a young man haunted by a ghost from his past, and by the dark crimes committed in the name of the British empire. 'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times 'An irresistible haunting thrill' Joe Hill author of Horns and Locke and Key 'Remarkable . . . One of the most moving, horrifying and gut-wrenching novels of the year' NPR 'A suspenseful tale of the truths that lie hidden in the human heart' Kirkus 'North goes from strength to strength' Guardian 'North's most ambitious novel to date' Locus 'A master of ingenious plotting and feats of imagination' Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls Novels by Claire North: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Touch The Sudden Appearance of Hope The End of the Day 84K The Gameshouse The Pursuit of William Abbey Notes from the Burning Age Ithaca

An eerily plausible dystopian masterpiece Emily St. John Mandel, author of STATION ELEVEN

Das Haus sieht aus wie jedes andere, doch lass dich nicht täuschen! Hier kannst du mehr gewinnen als Gold oder Juwelen — im legendären Spielhaus. Und wenn du raffiniert genug bist, darfst du gegen die Besten der Besten antreten: die Spieler der Oberen Gemächer. Der Gewinn kann alles sein, was du dir je gewünscht hast: Macht über ganze Königreiche, ewige Jugend, immerwährendes Glück, Lebensjahre, um die Jahrhunderte zu überdauern. Doch je höher der Einsatz, desto tödlicher sind die Regeln ...

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD*** 'Funny, ambitious, immensely humane and full of philosophical panache' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary . . . wildly impressive" Lucy Hughes-Hallett, BBC Radio 4 'Wholly original and hauntingly beautiful' Kirkus Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie. Charlie meets everyone - but only once. Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this is going to be the most important meeting of your life. The End of the Day is the stunning new story from Claire North, the voice behind the word-of-mouth bestseller The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. 'Reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer' Locus 'Every one of the chapters is shaped with philosophical panache' Guardian 'Compelling . . . keeps the surprises coming until the very end' San Francisco Chronicle Works by Claire North: Novels: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Touch The Sudden Appearance of Hope The End of the Day 84K The Gameshouse The Pursuit of William Abbey Digital novellas: The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1 The Thief: Gameshouse Novella 2 The Master: Gameshouse Novella 3

Je m'appelle Hope Arden mais vous oublierez ce nom et jusqu'à mon existence. Nous nous sommes déjà rencontrés des milliers de fois. Je suis la fille dont personne ne se souvient. Tout a commencé quand j'avais seize ans. Un lent déclin, un isolement inéluctable. Mon père qui oublie de me conduire au lycée. Ma mère qui met la table pour trois, pas quatre. Un prof qui omet de demander un essai que je n'ai pas rendu. Un ami qui me regarde et voit une étrangère. Qu'importe ce que je fais, ce que je dis, les blessures que j'inflige, les crimes que je commets. Vous ne vous souviendrez jamais de moi. On ne peut pas dire que ça me facilite la vie, mais ça fait aussi de moi une personne dangereuse.

Listen. All the world forgets me. First my face, then my voice, then the consequences of my deeds. So listen. Remember me. My name is Hope Ardern, and you won't know who I am. We've met before - a thousand times. But I am the girl the world forgets. It started when I was sixteen years old. A slow declining, an isolation, one piece at a time. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A teacher who forgets to chase my missing homework. A friend who looks straight through me and sees a stranger. No matter what I do, the words I say, the people I hurt, the crimes I commit - you will never remember who I am. That makes my life tricky. But it also makes me dangerous . . .Forget Me Not is the tale of the girl no one remembers. But this gripping story - of love and loss, of hope and despair, of living in the moment and dying to leave a mark - is novel that will stay with you for ever

Kepler had never meant to die this way — viciously beaten to death by a stinking vagrant in a dark back alley. But when reaching out to the murderer for salvation in those last dying moments, a sudden switch takes place. Now Kepler is looking out through the eyes of the killer himself, staring down at a broken and ruined body lying in the dirt of the alley. Instead of dying, Kepler has gained the ability to roam from one body to another, to jump into another person’s skin and see through their eyes, live their life — be it for a few minutes, a few months or a lifetime. Kepler means these host bodies no harm — and even comes to cherish them intimately like lovers. But when one host, Josephine Cebula, is brutally assassinated, Kepler embarks on a mission to seek the truth — and avenge Josephine’s death.

Harry August is on his deathbed, again. Every time he dies, he is reborn in exactly the same time and place, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, he always returns to where he began, and nothing ever changes. He only knows that there are others like him, living with but apart from the rest of us. This is the story of what he does next - what he did before - and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.

In einer epischen Schlacht zwischen Göttern, Engeln und Dämonen droht das uralte Chaos zu entkommen. Nur der verstoßene Bruder Lucifer, jetzt als Sam Linnfer in London lebend, kann den Plan der alten Götter vereiteln. Doch sein Licht ist eine mächtige Waffe, deren Einsatz ihn das Leben kosten könnte.

A thrilling tale of science and sorcery in Victorian London.

Der Konflikt zwischen Himmel, Hölle und Erde ist noch nicht vorbei. Sam, auch Satan genannt, muss sich mit Jehova, Odin und Seth zusammenschließen, um die Rückkehr von Uranos zu verhindern, die das Ende der Welt bedeuten könnte. Nur Sam, der Träger des Lichts, hat die Chance, das Unheil abzuwenden.

Sam, ein Teilzeit-Bibliothekar und Übersetzer in London, hat viele Identitäten, darunter Luc Satise in Frankreich und Sebastian Teufel in Deutschland. Als unsterblicher Sohn von Vater Zeit und einst Lucifer, Träger des Lichts, ist er der Teufel, doch er ist der Gute in einem Krieg zwischen Himmel, Hölle und Erde.

There seems to be some odd things going on in the city of London lately. Take the murders, for instance; quite peculiar. And those missing statues. What's going on there? And shouldn't St. Paul’s Church have a roof? Odd. Horatio Lyle, of course, is no stranger to . . . well, strangeness. In fact, he finds the lure of the unknown quite invigorating. But having just survived the most frightening episode in his life, the last thing he wants is that pompous Lord Lincoln sticking his nose in again and demanding that he take on another case the police are too thick to solve. Of course, His Lordship can be painfully persuasive at times, so it should come as no surprise that Lyle, along with his young protégés Tess (the thief) and Thomas (the rich kid), and his faithful hound Tate (the smart one), is soon up to his neck in events of a singularly unscientific nature.

Horatio Lyle is Sherlock Holmes crossed with Thomas Edison as written by Terry Pratchett: witty, action-packed and perfect for fans of detective stories, fantasy stories and good old-fashioned adventure.

Serein, der Herr der Albträume, will die Macht in Haven, dem Land der Träumer, übernehmen. Nur der Magier Laenan Kite kann ihn aufhalten und das Paradies der Träumer retten.

Deadly spells are igniting across Haven, and the Queen of Dreams is in mortal danger. The court is pointing accusing fingers at Lord Rylam. One thing is clear—Haven needs Laenan Kite. He's the most powerful magician in all of Dreams, the bane of Nightkeep, the protector of Earth's sleeping souls. Queen Lisana wants him on the case fast, because if Rylam isn't the enemy, then the Realm of Dreams is in deep trouble.