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Wolf, a low-rent private detective, roams London's gloomy, grimy streets, haunted by dark visions of a future that could have been--and a dangerous present populated by British Fascists and Nazis escaping Germany. Shomer, a pulp fiction writer, lies in a concentration camp, imagining another world. ... More

In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from ... More

CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to ... More

When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a str... More

1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt's office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future...The future: welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people... More

A legend tells of the Mirror of Falang-Et: a magical object in the city of the frog tribes, which can tell all manner of truths. . .There is only one truth Gorel of Goliris - gunslinger, addict, touched by the Black Kiss - is interested in: finding a way back home, to the great empire from which he ... More

The world of Heven was populated, centuries ago, by Melanesian settlers from distant Earth. It is a peaceful, quiet world - yet it harbours ancient secrets.Kal just wants to fly. But flying is the one thing forbidden on Heven - a world dominated by the mysterious, ever present clouds in the skies. W... More

Three wise men came from the East for the infant Jesus in The New Testament. Three brave companions accompany the Buddha in the Chinese classic A Journey to the West.Could they have been the same three?Guided by a star, three strange companions arrive in the barbarous land of Judea to seek a newborn... More

The Man in the High Castle for the 21st century, A MAN LIES DREAMING is the award-winning novel by Lavie Tidhar, the next Philip K. Dick.Deep in the heart of history's most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to ... More

His name was Gorel of Goliris and he was a gunslinger and an addict, touched by the Black Kiss. Gorel wanted nothing more than to return to his home, the greatest empire the World had ever known, from which he was banished by sorcery as a child. But wherever he went, trouble doggedly followed, and d... More

CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to ... More

THE CULT NOVEL RETURNS!“The best book I read last year is A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar... It is so cleverly constructed and such a spectacular conclusion unfolds that you are going to take it all very seriously.” – Sting“Ambitious as hell” –Ian Rankin“An excellent novel” –Philip KerrSince its... More

“A complex, layered and hugely enjoyable story” –Bestsf“Lovely work” –LocusWhen a mysterious message arrives from vanished New Atlantis, a restless Mai undertakes the perilous journey to its drowned isles. But the journey is long and hard: through the Blasted Plains and the ancient cities of Tyr and... More

Lavie Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, and stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi. <P><P>Since then he and his now-wife have narrowly avoided both the 2005 King's Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks--experiences that led first to his memora... More

LONGLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELLA“Perhaps the best novella of the year” –Locus“Pretty close to perfect –SFcrowsnestYEAR’S BEST SF SELECTION (GARDNER DOZOIS)YEAR’S BEST SF&F SELECTION (RICH HORTON)YEAR’S TOP SHORT SF NOVELS SELECTION (ALLEN KASTER)“London after the war wasn’t a place you... More

“Tidhar is a genius at conjuring realities that are just two steps to the left of our own.” –NPR“A warped genius... There is no one like him.” – Ian McDonaldWith an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of New York Times Bestseller Mexican GothicLavie Tidhar’s ground-breaking, award winning n... More

Twelve-year-old private detective Nelle is swept up in a world of candy smuggling in this illustrated, middle grade mystery-comedy from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar.In a city where candy is outlawed, Nelle Faulkner is a preteen private detective working from her mother's garden shed. When... More

A British secret agent is caught in a plot to assassinate archangels who settled Earth after WWII in this classic thriller from the World Fantasy Award winning author!“Sharp, brutal, cool--yet also stunningly imaginative and perfectly realised." —Michael Marshall, bestselling author of The Straw Men... More

“Tidhar changes genres with every outing, but his astounding talents guarantee something new and compelling no matter the story he tells.” –Library JournalThe daughter of a legendary card player with skills of her own, Claire doesn’t want to go into the family business. She’s heard the call, and she... More

A retelling of Arthurian myth from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone.Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.The fact is they don't know sh*t.Arthur? An over-promoted gangster.Merlin? An eldritch parasite. Excalibur? A shady deal wi... More

An omnibus edition of the most exciting steampunk series of recent years.Lizard Kings and swashbuckling pirates, secret government agencies and scuttling automata, tripods and airships.There's never been a series with quite so much adventure crammed between two covers!File Under: Steampunk [ Alterna... More

LATE EXTRA! BOMB OUTRAGE IN LONDON! A masked terrorist has brought London to its knees -- there are bombs inside books, and nobody knows which ones. On the day of the launch of the first expedition to Mars, by giant cannon, he outdoes himself with an audacious attack.For young poet Orphan, trapped i... More

Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel's most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum - Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot - the two never... More

Into the city of Tel Aviv the whirlwinds come, and nothing will ever be the same.Through a city torn apart by a violence they cannot comprehend, three disparate people -- a documentary film-maker, a yeshiva student, and a psychotic fireman -- must try to survive, and try to find meaning: even if it ... More

«Una novela sobre el Holocausto como ninguna otra», The Guardian «Increíblemente conmovedora», The Washington Post «Atrevida e inquietante», NPR «Una novela excelente», Philip Kerr En el campo de concentración más infame de la historia, un hombre sueña despierto. Se llama Shomer, y antes... More