Shanna Tan is a Singaporean translator working from Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. Her translations include Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum and Yeonnam-dong’s Smiley Laundromat by…
Born and raised in the island town of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, Ryan Love is a NCTJ-qualified journalist. He was the first Showbiz Editor at Digital Spy and has written for publications…
Kate McKinnon is an award-winning performer and writer who is celebrated globally for her work in film and television. Young readers will recognize her voice role as "Ms. Frizzle" in The Magic School…
Lilliam Rivera is a MacDowell Fellow and an award-winning author of eight previous works of fiction: four young adult novels, three middle-grade books, and a graphic novel for DC Comics. Her books…
Scott Thomas is the Stoker-nominated author of Kill Creek, which was selected by the American Library Association's reader committee as the top horror book of 2017, and of Violet, which was praised by…
Dan Kois is a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate, where his work has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and two Writers Guild Awards. He’s the author of the novel Vintage…
Peng Shepherd was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, New York, and Mexico City. Her second novel, The Cartographers, became a national bestseller, was…
Hildur Knútsdóttir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1984. She has lived in Spain, Germany, and Taiwan and studied literature and creative writing at The University of Iceland. She writes fiction…
Jonathan Strahan is an award-winning editor, podcaster, critic, and publisher from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has edited or co-edited more than seventy anthologies and twenty short story…
Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark (he/him) spent the formative years of his life in his parents' homeland, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of the novel A Master of…
پانزده سال پیش، جرمی و رالف در پایان سال تحصیلی در اردوی تفریحی به جنگل ایالتی رد کرو در ویرجینیای غربی ناپدید شدند. یک لحظه، آنها آنجا بودند و سپس ناپدید شدند. جنگل بارها و بارها جستجو شد، اما هیچ نشانه‌ای از پسرها پیدا نشد. و...
آرتور ادواردز تمام عمرش را در شهر کوچک نورث‌بریج در شمال انگلستان گذرانده است. او در آنجا بزرگ شد. و با همسرش، مادلین، در نورث‌بریج آشنا شد و ازدواج کرد. نورث‌بریج جایی است که مادلین و او دو فرزندشان، الیزابت و پاتریک، را بزرگ کردند. مانند اکثر شهرهای کوچک، صرف نظر از...
وحشت. بعضی‌ها عاشقش هستند! بعضی‌ها نه! و به طور کلی، مردم تمایل دارند احساسات قوی نسبت به این ژانر داشته باشند و در یکی از این دو دسته قرار بگیرند. از قضا، افرادی هستند که از ژانر وحشت به عنوان یک ژانر «می‌ترسند». بله، آنها از خود ژانر می‌ترسند...
وقتی خوانندگان در پایان نسخه نهایی مارجوری مک‌کاون، جوی جساپ را ترک کردند، او هویت قاتلی را که دستیار کارگردان کورتنی لیسل را سر صحنه یک فیلم ابرقهرمانی پرهزینه کشته بود، کشف کرده بود. او از سوءقصدی به جان خودش جان سالم به در برده بود، زمانی که قاتل...
ایوِن یک قاتل حرفه‌ای است. تأکید روی این جمله باید روی کلمه «حرفه‌ای» باشد. او یک قاتل احیا شده است که خاطراتش پاک شده و در خدمت سرپرست آدمکش‌ها است که شانس دوباره‌ای برای «زندگی» به او داده است. او کارآمد، محتاط و آماده برای کشتن است (اصطلاح...)
Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
