Strange Days

My name’s Bill Ryder. Five years ago, I helped banish magic and monsters to the shadows. I thought it was over, that I was finished with all that supernatural crap. Turns out I was dead wrong.

Christmas: a time for family and festivity. Unless you’re in Adder’s Fork, home of the Essex Witch Museum, where it’s a time for ghostly spirits and demonic visits. In these 12 short stories, menacing ghosts and supernatural terrors haunt Rosie Strange and Sam Stone, as well as characters past and present from beyond the Essex Witch Museum. Featuring stories from The Strange Casebook as well as original short stories.

‘Oh, I adored this!… Had me kicking my feet and squealing… Just so adorable… Absolute perfection… Delightful… The perfect summer read’ ★★★★★ ‘[A] sweet and sexy romance… the perfect book to bring to the beach’ Laurie Gilmore, #1 New York Times bestseller *** In the...

Outwardly paranormal experiences are happening almost every day around the globe to very sensible ordinary people in startling numbers. These constitute crucial evidence of a remarkable and unexplained world that is too often denied by the hard scientism of mainstream thinking. This book...

Ray Bradbury meets The Martian in this chilling tale of Mars' first colony, fallen to madness after all contact with Earth ceased, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer. Anabelle Crisp is fourteen when the Silence arrives, severing all communication between Earth and her new home on Mars. One...

Things like this don't happen often in a lifetime... John Hilliard, a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave back in England blind to the horrors of the trenches, finds his battalion tragically altered. His commanding officer finds escape in alcohol, there is a new adjutant and even Hilliard's batman has been killed. But there is David Barton. As yet untouched and unsullied by war, radiating charm and common sense, forever writing long letters to his family.

A lot of degenerate comedians jump on a stage looking for fame, but Davy Dew was just addicted to laughter. Fame still crept up on Davy and hogtied him in a big way, with all the craziness and scandals that goes with it.

Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton. From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the “dry” city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures...

Join Logan on his first adventure out on his family’s Scottish Farm. As his best friend Flora, the sheep dog, has gone missing, Logan searches around the Farm to ask the animals if they know where his friend might be. Their responses are not always what Logan expects. I wonder if you can guess what’s happened to her. But be prepared for a few surprises along the way.

'Moving and unexpected. It lingers in the mind' Guardian 'An extraordinary book' Daily Mail 'Brilliant and unforgettable' Karen Russell 'A tantalising and satisfying mystery' Claire Fuller 'Mind-bending and soul-altering' Jessamine Chan 'Mesmerising' Publisher's Weekly 'An exhilarating and...

Kyler Bone is your average 90s teenager. On the surface, he appears to be just another loser with a pawnshop guitar. But behind the scenes, he harbors two secret wishes to take his fumbling garage band to the big stage and to find the girl of his dreams. From the bustling halls of high school to the sketchy corners of Georgia’s sweaty dive bars, Kyler’s raw ambition clashes with tangled romantic ties that threaten to derail his dreams. This touching, and often hysterically funny tale captures the era’s grit and soul, where music fuels the heart and every chord carries a cost.

Meet Key West native Renita Daughtry - 22, wide-eyed, gorgeous, and very much in love with love. In other words, an irresistible target for professional impostor and pathological liar Richie Pestucci, who plans to charm her into utter helplessness. But there's just one problem. Renita's seeming naiveté masks a lot of savvy and a will of velvet-coated steel, and it isn't long before Richie, now smitten with his intended victim, starts to wonder just who is gaming who.

Witty, offbeat, and lavishly illustrated in black-and-red, in this irresistible and markedly singular diary, Emily the Strange grapples with a wicked case of amnesia while on a mysterious mission with her black cat posse. A collectable and gifty paper-over-board treat perfect for fans of...

Bloomsbury presents 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak, read by Alix Dunmore. Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from...

Diesem Helden kann niemand widerstehen ... Christopher Boone ist fünfzehn Jahre, drei Monate und zwei Tage alt. Er kennt alle Länder und deren Hauptstädte sowie sämtliche Primzahlen bis 7507. Er liebt die Farbe Rot, sagt immer die Wahrheit und kann nur zwei Gefühle voneinander unterscheiden: Trauer und Glück. Unordnung, Überraschungen und Unbekannte kann er absolut nicht leiden.

Uncover the secret food history of your daily routine and how clever marketing invented powerful cultural myths. Perfect for your morning commute, this eye-opening journey reveals how a humble dawn bite became a fierce battleground for religion, industry, and science. Whether you are sipping...

Twins Brian and Brenda have just moved to Salem's Hollow, so they haven't quite learned their way around town - or made any friends. But their decision to explore an abandoned old mansion suddenly changes all that when they run into CeCe, Bill, and Toby, the current members of the Strange Days Society. They explain that the mansion, called Kulp's Manor, is believed to be haunted. After photographing the house for a paranormal website, they invite Brian and Brenda to join them that evening for the first official meeting of the Strange Days Society.

Journey through the mind-bending realms of quantum physics and cosmology to shatter your everyday illusion of time. Perfect for your daily commute, this awe-inspiring exploration bridges complex theoretical science with your lived human experience. Leave behind rigid clocks and maps as you dive...

Experience how the power of the cross unleashes meaning and purpose in the midst of your daily life. This meditative and spiritual reflection by Ken Costa considers the cross and the king who died upon it. Christ’s work on the cross established a kingdom that is strange indeed, if a king died...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "Told from the point of view of two...