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Лондон, 1883 год. Молодой телеграфист Таниэль Стиплтон, вернувшись домой в свою крошечную квартиру в Пимлико, обнаруживает на подушке оставленные таинственным посетителем ручные золотые часы изысканной работы. Пока он пытается разобраться, как к нему попал неожиданный дорогой подарок, часы спасают ему жизнь — заставив молодого человека покинуть место, где через мгновение произойдет мощный взрыв, который разрушит Скотланд-Ярд и кварталы вокруг. Так Таниэль оказывается втянут в полицейское расследование.

В диких, неисследованных землях Перу находится священный городок под названием Бедлам. Он стоит у самой границы таинственного леса, в глубине которого растут хинные деревья, или цинхоны, кора которых — единственное известное лекарство от малярии. Именно туда и отправляются Меррик и Клем, чтобы найти и тайно вывезти черенки цинхон для создания плантации. Южная Америка предстает в своей загадочной красоте: взрывающиеся деревья с белоснежной древесиной, лампы из сияющей пыльцы, двигающиеся статуи и скалы из чистого стекла… Магия переплетается с реальной культурой и историей инков, погружая читателя еще глубже в невероятные приключения…

1888. Five years after they met in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton, an unassuming translator, and Keita Mori, the watchmaker who remembers the future, are traveling to Japan. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. Thaniel’s brief is odd: the legation staff have been seeing ghosts, and Thaniel's first task is to find out what’s really going on. But while staying with Mori, he starts to experience ghostly happenings himself. For reasons Mori won't--or can’t--share, he is frightened. Then he vanishes. Meanwhile, something…

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you've ever loved.

Joe Tournier has a bad case of amnesia. His first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. Written in illegal English—instead of French—the postcard is signed only with the letter “M,” but Joe is certain whoever wrote it knows him far better than he currently knows himself, and he's determined to find the writer. The search for M, though, will drive Joe from French-ruled London to rebel-owned Scotland and finally onto the battle ships of a lost empire's Royal Navy. In the process, Joe will remake history, and himself.

Фрей - наемная убийца, уставшая от торговли смертью. Она выросла на героических сагах своего народа и мечтает о лучшей жизни. Вместе с подругами Фрей планирует убийство безжалостного монстра, опустошающего соседний город. Уничтожение этого чудовища принесет девушкам славу и новое будущее. Более того, их действия могут изменить судьбу всех женщин в мире…
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Друзья Меррик и Клем отправляются в неисследованные земли Перу, чтобы тайно вывезти черенки хинного дерева для изготовления лекарства от малярии.
Героев ждет встреча с загадочным миром, где магия переплетается с реальной культурой и историей инков.
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Нью-Йорк - поистине волшебное место, где можно познакомиться с вампирами, кентаврами и ожившими небоскребами и найти скрытые порталы в другие миры и эпохи. Собранные в этой книге рассказы демонстрируют, каким невероятным, странным и иногда жутким может быть этот город.
Среди авторов - Джордж Р. Р. Мартин, Питер Страуб, Наоми Новик, Мария Дэвана Хэдли, Питер Бигл, Холли Блэк и многие другие.

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee and a Mars politician who fake marry to save their reputations—and their planet.

The truth must come out.

In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots to avoid frostbite, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life. But on one ordinary day, all that changes: Valery's university mentor steps in and sweeps Valery from the frozen prison camp to a mysterious unnamed town hidden within a forest so damaged it looks like the trees have rusted from within.
Here, Valery is Dr. Kolkhanov once more, and he's expected to serve out his prison term studying the effect of radiation on local animals. But as Valery begins his work, he is struck by the questions his research raises: what, exactly, is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town? And if he keeps looking for answers, will he live to serve out his sentence?
Based on real events in a surreal Soviet city, and told with bestselling author Natasha Pulley's inimitable style, The Half Life of Valery K is a sweeping historical adventure.

Strange things are happening in Tokyo. As war with Russia looms, the city is plagued by strange electricity storms, while the staff at the British Legation have gone on strike, claiming that the building is haunted.
Thaniel Steepleton is sent over from London to act as interpreter, bringing with him his partner, Keita Mori the watchmaker, their adopted daughter, Six, and Mori's clockwork octopus, Katsu. Thaniel is dazzled by life in Tokyo, but he feels increasingly out of his depth – especially when he meets Takiko Pepperharrow, and learns of her connection to Mori.
But then Mori disappears, and Thaniel and Takiko's paths diverge as they desperately try to find him. As their searches lead them to snow-steeped prisons and mountainside shrines, Thaniel is faced with the terrifying revelation that Mori's powers are no longer enough to save them – and that the watchmaker's time may have run out.

In uncharted Peru, the holy town of Bedlam stands at the edge of a mysterious forest. Deep within are cinchona trees, whose bark yields the only known treatment for malaria.
In 1859, across the Pacific, India is ravaged by the disease. In desperation, the India Office dispatches the injured expeditionary Merrick Tremayne to Bedlam, under orders to return with cinchona cuttings. But there he meets Raphael, an enigmatic priest who is the key to a secret which will prove more valuable than they could ever have imagined.