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From the renowned, award-winning author Zen Cho comes a delightfully funny romance about family, class, and love in modern London.From the outside, Renee Goh's life looks perfect. She's thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous-and profitable-women's clothing company in London, and is dating a hot Taiwanese pop star. But Renee is lonely. Estranged from her family in Singapore, she practically lives at the office, and now she's just been dumped by...

Nineteen sparkling stories in an award-winning collection from acclaimed fantasy author Zen Cho.

Nineteen sparkling stories in an award-winning collection from acclaimed fantasy author Zen Cho.

?A sharp and bittersweet story of past and future, ghosts and gods and family, that kept me turning pages into the dark hours of the night' - Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted This mischievous Malaysian-set novel is an adventure featuring family, ghosts and local gods - from Hugo Award-winning novelist Zen Cho. Her grandmother may be dead, but she's not done with life . . . yet. As Jessamyn packs for Malaysia, it's not a good time to start heari...

A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary fantasy. Jessamyn Teoh is closeted, broke and moving back to Malaysia, a country she left when she was a toddler. So when Jess starts hearing voices, she chalks it up to stress. But there's only one voice in her head, and it claims to be the ghost of her estranged grandmother, Ah Ma. In life Ah Ma was a spirit medium, the...

Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho's Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again." A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people. An earth sp...

Broke and newly homesick in Malaysia, Jess Teoh is roped into helping her dead grandmother on a supernatural quest for justice - whether she wants to or not. Family, ghosts and gods collide in this delightful novel by acclaimed author Zen Cho.

Spotlight on BAME science fictionGuest Editors: Tendai Huchu and Raman MundairNew stories from: Feng Gooi, Tobi Ogundiran, Prashanth Srivatsa, K.M. McKenzie, Asith Pallemulla, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Zen ChoSF poetry from: Jeda Pearl, Mandisi Nkomo, Robert René Galván The History of Japanese Science Fiction: from the 1930s to 2010sThe Dangers of Expectation in African Speculative FictionPlus: The Chrysalis by Laura Scotland - the winner of Cymera...

Fantastic, defiant, utterly brilliant." -Ken LiuZen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history.A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like i...

Praise for Zen Cho‘An enchanting cross between Georgette Heyer and Susanna Clarke, full of delights and surprises’Naomi Novik‘Inventive, dangerous, brilliant, unsettling and adorable . . . Historical Britain will never be the same again’Courtney Milan‘Compulsively readable and wickedly funny’Lavie Tidhar‘A thumping good read’Independent‘Sorcerer to the Crown is a captivating debut . . . an entertaining story with wit and consummate skill’Guard...

FAIRYLAND’S FUTURE LIES IN DOUBTMuna and her sister Sakti wake on the shores of an enchanted island, under a curse. And this has quite stolen away their memories. They plan to petition Britain’s Sorceress Royal for aid. However, to reach Regency London they must pass through the realm of the formidable Fairy Queen. Here Sakti disappears.To save her sister, Muna must learn to navigate London’s high society. But when the Sorceress Royal’s friend...

THE FATE OF ENGLISH MAGIC LIES IN THEIR HANDS In Regency London, Zacharias Wythe is England's first African Sorcerer Royal. But how can he enjoy his position, while a faction schemes to remove him? He's also haunted by his dead mentor's ghost and the Fairy Court is refusing to supply England with magic . . . just when the government demands it for their blasted French war. Ambitious orphan Prunella is determined to escape a life of drudgery. S...

Ein romantischer und humorvoller Fantasy-Roman der gefeierten Debüt-Autorin Zen Cho, der in einem alternativen England des 19. Jahrhunderts spielt, in dem Magie zum Alltag gehört. Zacharias Wythe hat mehr als ein Problem. Nicht genug damit, dass er sich als frisch ernannter »Königlicher Magier« mit mordlustigen Neidern auseinandersetzen muss - auch die Quelle seiner Macht, die Magie Englands, droht zu versiegen, und niemand weiß, warum das so...

In the follow-up to the "delightful" Regency fantasy novel (NPR.org) Sorcerer to the Crown, a young woman with no memories of her past finds herself embroiled in dangerous politics in England and the land of the fae.When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda Baik, they can't remember anything, except that they are bound as only sisters can be. They have been cursed by an unknown enchanter, and slowly Sakti...

Magic and mayhem clash with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut. The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers maintains the magic within His Majesty's lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman as their Sorcerer Royal and allowing England's stores of magic to bleed dry. At least they haven't stooped so low as to allow women to practice what is obviously a ...