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'Creepy, funny, heartfelt, and full of fantastic characters I absolutely loved' Melissa Caruso on Nettle & BoneMarguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new bodyguards is a far too good-looking paladin with a martyr complex. Shane is a paladin with three problems. His god is dead, his client is much too attractive for his peace of mind, and a powerful organization is trying to have them both killed. Add in a brilliant artificer with a device that may change the world, a glittering and dangerous court, and a demon-led cult, and Shane and Marguerite will be lucky to escape with their souls intact, never mind their hearts. . . Praise for T. Kingfisher:'T. Kingfisher solidifies her place as natural and inevitable heir to the greats of her genre, while remaining clearly and unquestionably a unique voice in fantasy' Seanan McGuire"Nettle & Bone brings Kingfisher's signature honesty and authenticity to a fairy tale setting: the result is refreshing, earnest but not naive, and deeply satisfying. I devoured it. This is one that's going to stay with me for a long time' Sarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars'A delight throughout' Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches'T. Kingfisher uses the bones of fairy tale to create something entirely her own, written in gloriously clear and transparent prose' Emily Tesh, author of Some Desperate Glory'Funny, frightening, and full of heart; I loved it' Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January'Charming and macabre, often both at the same time' A. K. Larkwood, author of The Unspoken Name'Absolutely delightful and full of charm and truth' Naomi Novik, on Thornhedge

From two-time Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Paladin's Strength, the perfect blend of cosy fantasy romance and classic fantasy adventure featuring an order of secretive nuns, a swashbuckling paladin and a strange hive of rabbits. He's a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She's a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters. When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be pitched headlong into each other's quests, facing off against enemies both living and dead. But Clara has a secret that could jeopardize the growing trust between them, a secret that will lead them to the gladiatorial pits of a corrupt city, and beyond... Praise for T. Kingfisher:'T. Kingfisher solidifies her place as natural and inevitable heir to the greats of her genre, while remaining clearly and unquestionably a unique voice in fantasy' Seanan McGuire'Exciting, deeply wise, sad, brutal and compassionate all at once. And beautifully written, with a plot as cunning as fine embroidery' Catriona Ward'Creepy, funny, heartfelt, and full of fantastic characters I absolutely loved' Melissa Caruso, author of The Tethered Mage"Nettle & Bone brings Kingfisher's signature honesty and authenticity to a fairy tale setting: the result is refreshing, earnest but not naive, and deeply satisfying. I devoured it. This is one that's going to stay with me for a long time' Sarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars'A delight throughout' Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches'T. Kingfisher uses the bones of fairy tale to create something entirely her own, written in gloriously clear and transparent prose' Emily Tesh, author of Some Desperate Glory'Funny, frightening, and full of heart; I loved it' Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January'Charming and macabre, often both at the same time' A. K. Larkwood, author of The Unspoken Name'Absolutely delightful and full of charm and truth' Naomi Novik, on Thornhedge

Whilst foraging for startleflower, perfumer Grace finds herself pursued by ruffians and rescued by a handsome paladin in shining armour. Only, to outwit her hunters they must pretend to be doing something very unrespectable in an alleyway. Stephen, a broken paladin, spends his time knitting socks and working as a bodyguard, living only for the chance to be useful. But that all changes when he saves Grace and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now, Stephen and Grace must navigate a web of treachery and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind.

In the first book of this touching and darkly comic duology, a paladin, a forger, an assassin and a scholar ride out of town on an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. When forger Slate is convicted of treason, she faces a death sentence. But her unique gift for sniffing out magic (literally) earns her a reprieve—of sorts. Along with a formerly demon-possessed paladin named Caliban, her murderous ex-lover, and an irritating sexist scholar, Slate sets off on a mission to learn about the Clockwork Boys, deadly mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom who have been terrorising their lands. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but they must survive a long journey through enemy territory to reach Anuket City. And Slate has her own reasons to dread returning to her former home. Slate and her crew aren’t the first to be sent on this mission. None of their predecessors have returned, and Slate can’t help but feel they’ve exchanged one death sentence for another. Her increasing closeness to Caliban isn’t helping matters: for the first time in a long while, Slate might actually care about surviving.

The hair-raising follow-up to the award-winning What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia, only to be confronted by a strange new horror. When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, Britain's foremost mycologist Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won’t talk about what happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the grounds. Whispers of an unearthly breath-stealing creature from Gallacian folklore don’t trouble practical Easton. But as their sleep is increasingly disturbed by vivid nightmares and odd happenings perplex the household, they are forced to confront the possibility that there is more to the old folk stories than they'd like to believe. A dark shadow hangs over Easton's house. And nobody will rest until justice is done.

Ebben a tündérmesében nem él boldogan a hercegnő és a herceg.Marra, a félszeg harmadszülött lány megkönnyebbül, amiért nem házasítják ki, hogy a szülei megőrizhessék a trónjukat. A nővére nem ilyen szerencsés, mert királyi férje éppolyan goromba és erőszakos, amekkora hatalma van. Marra a zárda biztonságából várja, ki fogja megmenteni a nővérét. De miután éveken át csak nézi, ahogy a családok és a királyságok úgy tesznek, mintha minden rendben lenne, Marrának be kell látnia: ha el is jön a hős, akkor az ő maga lesz.Ha képes kiállni három lehetetlen próbát, egy boszorkány megadja neki azt, amire szüksége van. De a hercegekről és a lehetetlenről szóló történetek olyanok, hogy a próbatételek csupán a kezdetét jelentik Marra különös és varázslatos vállalkozásának, hogy megmentse a nővérét, és megbuktasson egy királyt.

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novic, Alix E. Harrow and Nettle & Bone. Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms?there are no secrets in this house!?Cordelia isn't allowed to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than a few quirks set her mother apart. Other parents can’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless?obedient?for hours or days on end. Other mothers aren’t . . . sorcerers. After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia’s mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, riding away together on Falada’s back, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelia’s mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage. Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister. And indeed Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother. How the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. Hester knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.

A tizennégy éves Mona más, mint a város védelmével megbízott mágusok: nem tudja uralni a villámlást, nem tud beszélni a vízhez. Familiárisa egy kovászkeltető, mágiája pedig kizárólag kenyéren működik. Kényelmes életet él a nénikéje pékségében, ahol mézeskalács embereket bír táncra. Élete azonban fenekestül felfordul, amikor egy holttestet talál a pékségben. Egy orgyilkos járja a város utcáit, varázsnépekre vadászik, és úgy tűnik, Mona a következő célpontja. Ráadásul a hirtelen mágusok nélkül maradt, káoszba zuhant városban talán még az orgyilkos lesz Mona legkisebb problémája...

Dark and twisted family roots threaten to strangle their home's foundations in this chilling haunted house novel from the award-winning master of modern horror, T. Kingfisher. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it’s very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won’t hear a word against Sam’s long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small southern town. The longer Sam stays, the stranger things get. And every day, more vultures circle overhead…

The hair-raising follow-up to the award-winning What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia, only to be confronted by a strange new horror. When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, Britain's foremost mycologist Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won't talk about what happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the grounds. Whispers of an unearthly breath-stealing creature from Gallacian folklore don't trouble practical Easton. But as their sleep is increasingly disturbed by vivid nightmares and odd happenings perplex the household, they are forced to confront the possibility that there is more to the old folk stories than they'd like to believe. A dark shadow hangs over Easton's house. And nobody will rest until justice is done.

An instant USA Today & Indie bestseller. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2023 and finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novella 2023. From the multi-award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher.” When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

Nenechajte si ujsť knihu, ktorá učarovala porotám tých najprestížnejších ocenení vo svete fantasy a sci-fi literatúry (naj YA v rámci Lodestar Award 2021, udeľovanej spolu s cenami HUGO, cena NEBULA 2020 v kategórii naj YA a middle-grade a ďalšie)! Štrnásťročná Mona nie je ako mágovia poverení obranou mesta. Nedokáže rozkazovať bleskom ani sa zhovárať s vodou. Ona si skrotila a oživila kvások (Bob je však tak trošku agresívny, a tak ho musia držať pod závorou v pivnici) a jej mágia funguje iba na chlieb. Spokojne si žije v pekárni svojej tety, kde učí tancovať medovníčky. Monin život sa však obráti hore nohami, keď nájde v pekárni mŕtvolu. V uliciach jej mesta straší vrah, ktorý poľuje na ľudí s magickými schopnosťami, a zdá sa, že jeho ďalším cieľom je práve Mona. Ibaže v obkľúčenom meste, náhle zbavenom všetkých mágov, je vrah tou najmenšou z jej starostí...

Čtrnáctiletá Mona se ani v nejmenším nepodobá velkým kouzelníkům, kteří mají na starosti obranu města. Nedokáže ovládat hromy a blesky ani promlouvat s vodou, její kouzelný společník je chlebový kvas jménem Bob a její magie působí jen a pouze na těsto. Vede pohodlný a spořádaný život v pekárně svojí tety, kde oživuje perníkové panáčky, aby zatancovali pro pobavení zákazníků. Její poklidná existence však vezme za své, když Mona na podlaze pekárny objeví mrtvé tělo. Ulicemi města se plíží vrah. Vrah, který má spadeno na kouzelné obyvatele, a zdá se, že Mona je další na řadě. Jenomže v opevněném městě, kde náhle schází všichni velcí kouzelníci, může být tenhle vrah nakonec její nejmenší starost…

Nenechajte si ujsť knihu, ktorá učarovala porotám tých najprestížnejších ocenení vo svete fantasy a sci-fi literatúry (naj YA v rámci Lodestar Award 2021, udeľovanej spolu s cenami HUGO, cena NEBULA 2020 v kategórii naj YA a middle-grade a ďalšie)! Štrnásťročná Mona nie je ako mágovia poverení obranou mesta. Nedokáže rozkazovať bleskom ani sa zhovárať s vodou. Ona si skrotila a oživila kvások (Bob je však tak trošku agresívny, a tak ho musia držať pod závorou v pivnici) a jej mágia funguje iba na chlieb. Spokojne si žije v pekárni svojej tety, kde učí tancovať medovníčky. Monin život sa však obráti hore nohami, keď nájde v pekárni mŕtvolu. V uliciach jej mesta straší vrah, ktorý poľuje na ľudí s magickými schopnosťami, a zdá sa, že jeho ďalším cieľom je práve Mona. Ibaže v obkľúčenom meste, náhle zbavenom všetkých mágov, je vrah tou najmenšou z jej starostí...

A dark and compelling fantasy about sisterhood, impossible tasks and the price of power, from award-winning author T. Kingfisher. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince-if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning. On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.

From the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.