Fiction Genres

تعيدنا هذه الرواية إلى «زمن سعاد»، الفراشة التي ظلَّت تحلِّق بأجنحة الجمال والحب فوق أحلامنا المُجهَضة بالخوف والاستبداد والهزيمة، ولأنها لم تكف عن الطيران يومًا حتى وهي تختار طيرتها الأخيرة في تلك العاصمة الباردة، كان عليها الانسحاب مبكرًا لتنزوي في ركن من الذكريات. وبينما هي كذلك، تأتي هذه الرواية لتكون شاهدة على زمن صعود المسوخ البشرية، وأفول «زمن سعاد» الذي غابت شمسه وانطفأ بريقه بعد أن داهمه ليلٌ حالكٌ أفرخ فيه الظلام خفافيش الفتوى وسدنة التديُّن الشكلي وبيزنس توظيف الأموال، فكان لا بد…

قبل عدّة أعوام، تلقّت تشيماماندا رسالة من إحدى صديقات طفولتها، تطلب منها النُّصح في أمر تربيّة طفلتها كي تقودها إلى النّجاح وتنميّة شخصيّتها القياديّة. هذا الكتيّب هو جوابها. خمسة عشر مقترحًا ظريفًا، مباشرًا وعصريًّا، غايتها الوصول إلى تمكين تلك الابنة كي تنمو قويّة وتغدو امرأة مستقلّة. إنها نقاشات مفتوحة عن الملابس، والماكياج، والنسويّة؛ تفضح خرافة أن المرأة خُلقَت بجسدٍ لا يتموضع سوى في المطبخ، وأن الرّجال هم من بيدهم الأمر كي “يسمحوا” للمرأة بالعمل وتولّي مناصب قياديّة. “عزيزتي هاجَر”…

Rev works hard to keep the demons of the time before his adoption at bay ... until a letter from his father after his 18th birthday brings the trauma of his childhood hurtling back.Emma escapes real life by perfecting the online game she built from scratch. But when an online troll's harassment starts to escalate, she fears for her safety.When Rev and Emma meet, they're buckling under the weight of their secrets. Though both of them find it hard to put their problems into words, they connect…

Time flies when you’re having fun. But what does it do when you’re not? Sunil’s next door neighbour Alex is trying to cheer him up after a tricky maths test sends his day pear-shaped. Originally searching for an American corn dog, Sunil and Alex are soon journeying through time to meet child versions of future leaders. From getting in a scrap defending a young Rosa Parks to fetching water with baby Genghis Khan and a close encounter with the Tudors, will Sunil and Alex want to come back home…

Time flies when you’re having fun. But what does it do when you’re not? Sunil and his not-very-normal next door neighbour Alex are back for another hilarious adventure as they whizz through time. This time Sunil and Alex find themselves tangled up in British civil wars, from the Roman invasion to the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and their very own witch trial in the 1640s. As if that wasn’t enough to deal with, there’s double the trouble with Alex-from-the-future and her shiny boots running…

But New York is a powder keg of soldiers and spies, and soon Aiden will be drawn into the fight for freedom in a way he could never have predicted...

The boys at school are excited. The Olympic games are coming to the city. They may be too young to compete, but their teacher suggests the school should have its own games. Of course, girls have no part at all in these festivities but Elena discovers her twin brother, Cypselis, has made a bet with Big Bacchiad (the school bully). If Cypselis wins he will get a new goat. If he loses then Elena will become Bacchiad''s slave. Elena''s freedom is at stake - she needs all her cunning to make sure…

This is a tale of Neria, who works in the House of Death helping her father to make mummies. Neria enjoys her work, but when the pharaoh dies, everyone is so busy that Neria is given the responsibility of mummifying the pharaoh''s cat, to accompany him to the afterlife. The trouble is, Neria doesn''t want to kill and gut the cat! Can she find a way to save it - without being caught and punished?

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through…

An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since first publication, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable guide to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Muggles who have seen the eponymous film or read the Harry Potter novels will be familiar with some of these beasts – the Niffler, the Thunderbird, the Hippogriff ... This new paperback edition features the recently revised 2017 text, which includes six curious new creatures that inhabit the…