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With the fifth book, the story of Harry Potter becomes more intense and more adult. In "Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix” Joanne K. Rowling dwells upon topics of inequality, prejudice, narrow-mindedness of government and power of mass media. In the previous book of the series, we discover that Lord Voldemort, the most dangerous wizard in the world, has returned. Though Harry Potter and Albus... Read More

Epic. That’s the word that pops up in one’s mind after the first thought about famous George Martin’s series "A Song of Ice and Fire”. Fantastic in their scope novels about Westeros impress the readers with realistic descriptions of merely everything and with detailed portrayal of the characters’ development. Everything began in 1991, when American writer George Martin started a book called "A Gam... Read More

Both fans of original series of novels "A Song of Ice and Fire” and those of TV series "A Game of Thrones” anticipated the fourth book in a row with great excitement. We are now proud to offer you to listen online to "A Feast of Crows”. Right after the publishing this fantasy novel settles as New York Times Bestseller, what happens rarely in this genre. George Martine continues to describe in his... Read More

Notwithstanding the fact that the fourth book in "A Song of Ice and Fire” was a #1 bestseller in USA, critics were not very positive about it, calling its plot uninteresting and halting. On the contrast, the fifth book received great support from literature experts and bit the selling record of its predecessor. "A Dance with Dragons” has everything in it that we like in George Martin’s work. It is... Read More

Christopher Paolini is an American fantasy author, is only 34 years old, however, he is internationally renowned and included to Guinness World Records as the youngest bestseller writer. The thing that made him this famous is the series of four books about Eragon. Since childhood, Christopher Paolini was keen on literature and spent all his time in libraries. As a child, he tried to write some poe... Read More

Those who love fantasy for sure know the name of popular and successful American writer ChristopherPaolini. His first book was issued when he was only fifteen years old, and it immediately became the world bestseller. It was the first part of the series about the boy Eragon and female blue dragon Saphire. The book stayed on the list of bestsellers by 'The New York Time' for a record period of time... Read More

Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist. Grossman has written for The New York Times, Wired, Time Out New York, The Wall Street Journal, and The Village Voice. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle and as the chair of the Fiction Awards Panel. In writing for Time, he has also covered the consumer electronics industry, reporting on vi... Read More

Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, most notable as the author of The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land. Lev Grossman's first novel, Warp, was published in 1997 after he moved to New York City. The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory,... Read More

Lev Grossman's New York Times bestseller The Magicians was published in hardcover in August 2009. The book is a dark contemporary fantasy about Quentin Coldwater, an unusually gifted young man who obsesses over Fillory, the magical land of his favourite childhood books. Unexpectedly admitted to Brakebills, a secret, exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, Quentin receives an education i... Read More

Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian school teacher and author of books that examined the history of philosophy and religion for an audience of young readers. Gaarder studied the history of ideas, religion, and Nordic literature at the University of Oslo. After graduating in 1976, he worked as a secondary-school teacher of philosophy, religion, and literature in Oslo and Bergen. He began his literary... Read More

Joseph Delaney is a retired English teacher living in Lancashire. Delaney became an English teacher at the Blackpool Sixth Form College, where he helped start the Media and Film Studies Department. His first works were written under the pseudonym J. K. Haderack. Beginning with the publication of the first book of The Wardstone Chronicles in 2004, published under his real name, Delaney achieved... Read More

Joseph Henry Delaney is a British author of fantasy books and the all-time bestseller The Wardstone Chronicles. He first got the idea for the Wardstone Chronicles series when he moved to the village where he lives now and discovered there was a local boggart - ‘a man like me needs boggarts around’. He made a note in his notebook ‘a story about a man who hunts boggarts’ and years later when he h... Read More

Joanne Harris is an acclaimed contemporary English writer who writes under mixed genres, such as magic realism and gastromance. She was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire, to an English father and a French mother. Her parents were both teachers of modern languages and literature at a local grammar school. Her first language was French, which caused divisions between her English family, where nobody... Read More

Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author. Harris is the holder of honorary doctorates in literature from the University of Huddersfield and the University of Sheffield and is an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge. She is an elected member of the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. In Blackberry Wine, Jay Mackintosh is a 37-year-old has-been writer from Lon... Read More

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her first novel, The Evil Seed, was published in 1989, with only limited success. Sleep, Pale Sister is her second novel. In 1999 her third novel, Chocolat, a darkly magical modern folk-tale, thematically based on food and set in the Gers region of France, reached No. 1 in the Sun... Read More

Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author especially known for her award-winning novel Chocolat. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards.  In 2013 she was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours L... Read More

James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson’s books have sold more than 240 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Wi... Read More

Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist and one of science education's most passionate advocates, has spent his career elucidating the wonders of science for adult readers. But now, in a dramatic departure, he has teamed up with acclaimed artist Dave McKean and used his unrivalled explanatory powers to share the magic of science with readers of all ages. The Magic of Rea... Read More

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He published Phantasmagoria and Other Poems in 1869, The Hunting of the Snark in 1876 and Sylvie and Bruno in 1889. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865. With its... Read More

Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. Hamilton is generally considered one of the most influential writers in the history of paranormal fiction. Several media outlets, including USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and Time have identified her works as significant contributions to the development of the urban fantasy genre. The Merry Gentry series is a series of urban fan... Read More