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Nine-year-old Alfie Blackstack's parents have met a very unfortunate end. Now he's living in the SUPER CREEPY Switherbroom Hall with his mad-haired Aunt Gertie and warty Aunt Zita. The thing is, Alfie's aunts aren't just weird - they're WITCHES!

When the circus arrives in town Alfie makes his first ever friend, the FEARLESS Calypso Fagan. But when Calypso's little sister Nova disappears, they must face the TERRIFYING Head Witch in a race to find Nova and stop the next Witch War.

Что, если храбрость – не твой конёк? Алфи знает – ничего хорошего. Особенно, если ты сын отважного исследователя и укротительницы львов. И особенно, если однажды тебе приходится переехать жить к странным тётям в мрачный особняк, стоящий на мрачной опушке очень мрачного леса. Из трубы особняка идёт зелёный дым, у одной из тёть есть огромная летучая мышь, а в…

Bridie Devine—female detective extraordinaire—is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors trading curiosities in this age of discovery. Winding her way through the…

London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable spectacle London has ever seen.
Things in Jars is a Victorian novel unlike any other, one that explores what it is to be human in inhumane times.

Брайди Дивайн – анахронизм в Лондоне конца XIX века или его неотъемлемый атрибут? С одной стороны, добропорядочность ее вызывает сомнения у поборников викторианской морали (достопочтенная вдова, и вдруг на службе у полиции!). А с другой – кому, как не ей, ориентироваться в густом тумане этого монструозного города: она умеет обращаться с трупами и даже если увидит…

Брайди Дивайн — анахронизм в Лондоне конца XIX века или его неотъемлемый атрибут? С одной стороны, добропорядочность ее вызывает сомнения у поборников викторианской морали (достопочтенная вдова, и вдруг на службе у полиции!). А с другой – кому, как не ей, ориентироваться в густом тумане этого монструозного города: она умеет обращаться с трупами и даже если увидит…

In the dark underbelly of Victorian London, a formidable female sleuth is pulled into the macabre world of fanatical anatomists and crooked surgeons while investigating the kidnapping of an extraordinary child in this gothic mystery—perfect for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Book of Speculation.

Bridie Devine—female detective extraordinaire—is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors trading curiosities in this age of discovery.

Winding her way through the labyrinthine, sooty streets of Victorian London, Bridie won’t rest until she finds the young girl, even if it means unearthing a past that she’d rather keep buried. Luckily, her search is aided by an enchanting cast of characters, including a seven-foot tall housemaid; a melancholic, tattoo-covered ghost; and an avuncular apothecary. But secrets abound in this foggy underworld where spectacle is king and nothing is quite what it seems.

Blending darkness and light, history and folklore, Things in Jars is a spellbinding Gothic mystery that collapses the boundary between fact and fairy tale to stunning effect and explores what it means to be human in inhumane times.

A charming ne’er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this “supernaturally skilled debut” (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.

Having been abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, Mahony assumed all his life that his mother wanted nothing to do with him. That is, until one night in 1976 while drinking a pint at a Dublin pub, he receives an anonymous note implying that she may have been forced to give him up. Determined to find out what really happened, Mahony embarks on a pilgrimage back to his hometown, the rural village of Mulderrig. Neither he nor Mulderrig can possibly prepare for what’s in store…

From the moment he arrives, Mahony’s presence completely changes the village. Women fall all over themselves. The real and the fantastic are blurred. Chatty ghosts rise from their graves with secrets to tell, and local preacher Father Quinn will do anything to get rid of the slippery young man who is threatening the moral purity of his parish.

A spectacular new addition to the grand Irish storytelling tradition, Himself “is a darkly comic tale of murder, intrigue, haunting and illegitimacy…wickedly funny” (Daily Express).

Брайди Дивайн – анахронизм в Лондоне конца XIX века или его неотъемлемый атрибут? С одной стороны, добропорядочность ее вызывает сомнения у поборников викторианской морали (достопочтенная вдова, и вдруг на службе у полиции!). А с другой – кому, как не ей, ориентироваться в густом тумане этого монструозного города: она умеет обращаться с трупами и даже если увидит привидение своими глазами, решительно в него не поверит.
Эта книга – путешествие во времени и пространстве, целая вселенная, населенная земноводными людьми, цирковыми уродцами и призраками в татуировках.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD.Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a belligerent man hiding in his filthy, cat-filled home.Her job is simple: clear the rubbish, take care of the patient. But the once-grand house has more to reveal than simply its rooms. There is a secret here, and whether she likes it or not, Maud may be the one to finally uncover what has previously been kept hidden.