Tales from the Folly A Rivers of London Short Story Collection |
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| Author:
| Aaronovitch, Ben |
| Series title: | Rivers of London Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62567-501-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2020 |
| Publisher: | Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $7.99USD $7.99 |
Book Description:
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Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must read...
More Description Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time.
Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must read for any Rivers of London fan.
Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover what's haunting a lonely motorway service station, who still wanders the shelves of a popular London bookshop, and what exactly happened to the River Lugg...
With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris.
This collection includes:
The Home Crowd Advantage
The Domestic
The Cockpit
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny
King of The Rats
A Rare Book of Cunning Device
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Favourite Uncle
Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List
Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby
Moments One-Three
Praise for the Rivers of London series:
"Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London" -Nick Frost
"A superlative blend of whimsy and grit...Jim Butcher meets Douglas Adams" --Publishers Weekly
"...my favorite current series... delightful, compulsive and fresh--with a love of multicultural London evident on every page, wonderfully diverse characters, magic, mystery, and mayhem. Once you start, you will literally not be able to put them down." --Lavie Tidhar in Washington Post
"...recounted with deadpan British wit and irony...packed with fascinating historical detail... Lively and amusing and different." --Kirkus