Best Selling Books by Graham Joyce

Acclaimed author Graham Joyce''s mesmerizing new novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in the heart of England. Her sudden return twenty years later, and the mind-bending tale of where she''s been, will challenge our very perception of truth. For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents'' home and there, disheveled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It''s a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara''s story just does not add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished. Award-winning author Graham Joyce is a master of exploring new realms of understanding that exist between dreams and reality, between the known and unknown. Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a unique journey every bit as magical as its title implies, and as real and unsentimental as the world around us.

Winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award Graham Joyce chronicles a haunting, war-torn terrain in this heartrending novel of one family''s quest to begin again -- without forgetting the lives they left behind. The Facts of Life Set in Coventry, England, during and immediately after World War II, The Facts of Life revolves around the early years of Frank Arthur Vine, the illegitimate son of young, free-spirited Cassie and an American GI. Because Cassie is too unreliable and unstable to act as his proper guardian -- and is prone to blue periods in which she wanders off without warning or recollection -- Frank is brought up in the care of his strong-willed, stout-drinking grandmother, Martha Vine, who has, among other homemaking talents, the untoward ability to communicate with the dead. So begins the first decade of Frank''s life, one in which ghosts have a place at the table and divine order dictates the outcome of his days. Along the way there are brief stays with each of his six eccentric aunts, visits to the local mortuary, and voices inside of his own head that suggest that he, too, has the gift of supernatural intuition. An affecting tale of family and history, war and peace, love and madness, The Facts of Life will leave readers spellbound with its resounding expression of magic realism.

Award-winning novelist and cult favorite Graham Joyce transports readers to a mysterious world of isolation and fear with a hypnotically dark story about a young couple trapped by an avalanche in the remote French Pyrenees. . . a daring and powerful novel about love, loss, and rebirth. In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way out from under the snow—only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. Their hotel is devoid of another living soul. Cell phones and land lines are cut off. An evacuation as sudden and thorough as this leaves Jake and Zoe to face a terrifying situation alone. They are trapped by the storm, completely isolated, with another catastrophic avalanche threatening to bury them alive . . . again. And as the couple begin to witness unsetu00adtling events neither one can ignore, they are forced to conu00adfront a frightening truth about the silent land they now inhabit. Award-winning author Graham Joyce has written a mysteriu00adous masterpiece, a tour de force that will thrill fans of Peter Straub and the hit television show Lost.

A tale of secrets and miracles

Called "a sharp, short, terrifying adventure" by "Kirkus Reviews, " Graham Joyce''s latest novel is a literary page turner, as a father searches for his missing daughter in the hothouse atmosphere of Thailand.

The best novel yet from a World Fantasy Award and four time British Fantasy Award winning author. This is the story of a young woman growing up in the midlands in 1966 - a woman who may be a witch. As a baby, Fern was taken in by Mammy Cullen who schooled her in the art of old hedgerow medicine, of traditional midwifery, herbs, folk songs and tales. She comes of age in the 1960s but lives on the margins of society until a group of Beatniks descends on the small village she calls home. Then a young woman dies after visiting Mammy for a brew to stop her pregnancy, setting off a landslide of events that threatens everything Fern has ever known.

In his first novel of literary suspense, award-winning author Joyce explores the far reaches of human passions and madness. Indigo is a thriller which finds believing is not always seeing.

Against the wishes of his family, David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down family resort in a dying English town. It was at this very resort that David''s biological father died fifteen years earlier. But something undeniable has called David there, a deeper otherworldliness that lies beneath the surface of what we see. And as David joins an eclectic group of staffers, strange occurrences take hold, including the vision of a lonely, blue-suited man wandering the town.

After Sam Southall looses his first tooth and places it under his pillow, he awakens to the tooth fairy sitting on his windowsill. But it is not the same tooth fairy from legend.

Incluye las novelas: Amigos nocturnos (9788490184370), Los hechos de la vida (9788490185933), El fin de mi vida (9788490185193)

Finally available in America: the debut novel from the author of The Tooth Fairy and Dark Sister It began as an experiment in college--a seemingly harmless investigation into "lucid dreaming," the ability to control one''s dreams. But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now, ten years later, the dreams have returned--returned to upend their adult lives. The dreams of youth fade, if you''re lucky. If not, they can consume you . . . and will.

Maggie and Alex have their problems. their old, drafty house, for one thing. Their stressed-out marriage, for another. Then one day, uncovering and cleaning the house''s original fireplace, they discover a dead blackbird...and an old handwritten diary full of herbal lore. Maggie takes an interest in the diary. Soon, with the help of her friends Ash, and herbalist,and Old Liz, and old woman with a deep knowledge of ancient ways, Maggie tried to find her way in a world of power and magic. But Maggie''s searching has awakened her Dark Sister, a malevolent force that threatens her hold on her family and her sanity.

LENINGRAD NIGHTS by the World Fantasy Award nominated author of THE TOOTH FAIRY. A story of human dignity , the hunger for survival and a possibly angelic intervention set during the 900 day siege of Leningrad in WWII. HOW THE OTHER HALV LIVES by the Arthur C. Clarke Aawrd nominated author of DAYS. A modern Faustian tale. A business ensures his glittering success by the brutal abuse of his doppleganger, little suspecting that he is laying the foundations for his own destruction.

A fast-paced, sassy, supernatural thriller from the critically acclaimed author, Graham Joyce

"Of those writers who stoically refuse to trudge along horror fiction''s well-worn path, Joyce, with British Fantasy Awards to his credit for Requiem and The Tooth Fairy, has perhaps had the most success. And now we can add to that list The Stormwatcher... For this remarkable, fine and almost unclassifiable book is a complete breath of fresh air, even considering his past achievements. The story is simply (!) the interaction of a group of somewhat dysfunctional friends during a two-week holiday in a lonely cottage in the Dordogne region of France. The group comprises James and his French wife, Sabine, and their two young daughters - Beth and the confused Jessie -plus James''s one-time colleague Matt and his wife, Chrissie ... and, just to make things interesting, the sultry Rachel, another work-chum of James and one with whom he has shared considerably more than the occasional business meeting. As the story progresses we discover that one of the party - an unnamed instructor whose identity is kept hidden until the end of the book - is engaged in secret lessons with the impressionable Jessie, for reasons not immediately clear. Meanwhile, courtesy of a nicely-realized series of tense-changed flashbacks, we learn more of the instructor''s background and an almost symbiotic relationship in which both she and her lover speak only lies to each other. All the time, Jessie grows more intense and confused while, around her, other members of the party grow, by turn, increasingly belligerent or subservient, manipulative or malleable, paranoid or confident. And underpinning the sequence of events is an intense feeling of primal sensuality evoked both by the environment and an approaching storm (its progress cleverly interjected into the proceedings by a series of half-page chapters explaining meteorological behaviour) and by the behaviour of the adults as their feelings for each other - and their protectiveness and confusion at the antics of and comments from young Jessie - swirl and eddy." Signed by the author. This is the only US edition. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

A ghost story with a difference from the WORLD FANTASY and multiple BRITISH FANTASY AWARD-winning author of SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE It is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had. And soon there is a terrible price to be paid for his new found freedom and independence. A price that will come back to haunt him, even in the bright sunlight of summer. As with SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE, Graham Joyce has crafted a deceptively simple tale of great power. With beautiful prose, wonderful characters and a perfect evocation of time and place this is a novel that transcends the boundaries between the everyday and the supernatural while celebrating the power of both.

Doogie''s new girlfriend is hot, but what''s with the weird behaviour, freaky parents and the super-human intelligence? And was that really a forked tongue he saw or did he imagine it?

William Heaney is a man well acquainted with demons. Not his broken family — his wife has left him for a celebrity chef, his snobbish teenaged son despises him, and his daughter''s new boyfriend resembles Nosferatu — nor his drinking problem, nor his unfulfilling government job, but real demons. For demons are real, and William has identified one thousand five hundred and sixty-seven smoky figures, dwelling on the shadowy fringes of human life, influencing our decisions with their sweet and poisoned voices. After a series of seemingly unconnected personal encounters — with a beautiful and captivating woman met in the company of an infuriating poet, a troubled and damaged veteran of Desert Storm with demons of his own, and an old school acquaintance with whom he shared a mystical occult ritual — William Heaney''s life is thrown into a direction he does not fully comprehend. Past and present collide. Long-dormant choices and forgotten deceptions surface. Secrets threaten to become exposed. To weather the changes, William Heaney must learn one thing: how to make friends with demons. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Ever since the joyriding accident, Matt''s life has been hell. His brother Jake is dead, and Jake''s girlfriend Jools has been hideously scarred. Only Matt escaped the crash unharmed--or so it seems. Because now Jake is back, haunting Matt''s every step, appearing out of thin air. Of course no one else can see him. Jake is an hallucination. But every time Matt tries to remember exactly what happened that night, his brain shuts off. This is a problem when you''re in school, with your family, or behind the wheel of a "twocced" car--and it''s why Matt gets sent to a counsellor. Finally, desperate to return to a normal life, Matt decides to reconstruct the events of the accident. But can he survive a second time?

In this fascinating guide, authors Gerald Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione explain how to apply the 12 principles of ''attitudinal healing'' to everyday life, with a view to improving physical health, eliminating fears, and increasing the effectiveness of relationships.The book includes a simple, easy-to-follow 18-week programme to help you completely eliminate the hurt, stress, fear and conflict in every aspect of your life. "Most of us want to change the world, but only a few of us are willing to change our own minds!" Yet there is a shift taking place in the world, where more and more people are recognizing that it is our own thoughts and attitudes that determine how we look at the world and, ultimately, what we see. This book is for people of all ages, religions, and cultures who have a desire and a willingness to change the thoughts in their minds.

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year At the age of 52, a British writer gets the sudden call-up to play for the England soccer team in the World Cup competition. The team can’t find a goalkeeper and he’s going to have to come out of retirement. No it’s not a nightmare. The team is the England Writers XI, a chronically-unskilled collection of scribblers who can’t let go of their fantasies about being real footballers. Simple Goalkeeping Made Spectacular is a riotous footballing memoir about the loneliest position on the field, looking back on schoolboy triumphs and adult ignominy. From the chaos of coats-down park soccer mobs to the casual violence of pub teams, from the excitement of schoolboy shield winners to knackered old World Cup squads, it’s the goalie who always gets it in the neck. Every goalkeeper--and every goalkeeper’s wife or girlfriend--should read this book.

This collection can help you discover more happiness and JOY. It''s a guide to finding the JOY you are seeking and to achieving small steps each day! This is a must-have book for everyone seeking more happiness and sharing it with those they love. Each author invites you to experience their JOY-Filled journey as they share their story with you.

Fifteen brilliant writers tackle regret and obsession, from the waxwork maker in Victorian Whitechapel who receives help from a terrifying source, through to the schoolboys met on a beach, who are still there, disturbingly altered, twenty five years later. Here are stories of lost loves, wrong decisions, secrets, madness.. and of course ghosts.

Me llamo Fern. Si pudiera contar esta historia de un tirón, quizá creeríais todo lo que os digo, incluso la parte más extraña... Pero Mammy decía que hemos olvidado el arte de escuchar; que no son buenos tiempos para vivir. Ella me adoptó cuando era un bebé y me enseñó todo lo que sé; de ella he aprendido que los secretos son oro, las pasiones, peligrosas, y que cada uno debe preocuparse de solucionar sus propios problemas. Hace poco, una joven del pueblo murió a causa de un aborto que, al parecer, alguien le había provocado. Todos acusaron a Mammy. Desde entonces, nada ha vuelto a ser igual...

La quarantaine bien avancée, une femme dont il est séparé, des enfants partis vivre leur vie : Danny se sent amer et solitaire. Et lorsqu''il apprend que sa fille Charlotte a été arrêtée en Thaïlande pour trafic de drogue, il décide de partir sur place pour la ramener à la maison. Mais quand il arrive à la prison de Chang Mai, un nouveau mystère l''attend : la jeune femme incarcérée n''est pas sa fille, juste quelqu''un qui lui a " emprunté " son passeport dans un village à la frontière de la Birmanie. Accompagné de son fils, devenu pour lui un étranger, et d''un ami de pub, Danny s''enfonce alors dans la jungle du Triangle d''Or, infestée de gangs, de trafiquants. Mais lorsqu''il finit par retrouver sa fille dans un village reculé, il découvre que celle-ci est sous l''emprise des esprits de la montagne...

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