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Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

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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 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
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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
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