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Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke, A world where bodies speak to one another and infect each other with desire, anger, greed, It is 1909 and this world stands on a precipice - some celebrate this constant whisper of skin to skin, and some seek to silence it forever, Enter Eleanor, a young woman with a strange power over Smoke and niece of the Lord Protector of England, Running from her u...

The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke - bringing back readers to a world that Entertainment Weekly called "Part Dickens, part dystopia, and totally immersive."The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. They were raised to think Smoke was a sign of sin manifested, but learned its suppression was really a means of controll...

The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke - bringing back readers to a world that Entertainment Weekly called "Part Dickens, part dystopia, and totally immersive."The year is 1909. It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. They were raised to think Smoke was a sign of sin manifested, but learned its suppression was really a means of controll...

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In un'Inghilterra dickensiana, cupa e corrotta, le persone che compiono atti o hanno pensieri malvagi sono marcate da un segno: il Fumo ne ricopre i corpi rendendo visibile a tutti il loro peccato. L'aristocrazia sembra non produrre Fumo, a riprova della propria virtù, mentre le classi più povere sono avvolte dalla nebbia e dalla cenere. In un collegio illustre gli studenti vengono educati da insegnanti crudeli che abusano del potere del Fumo ...

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Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble.Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after discovering her husband's infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Traveling on the same train from Switzerland is 18-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather's sick...

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Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, PAVEL & I mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two characters: Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pavel home with thoughts of stealing from him, but ultimately stays on to help nurse him back to health...

The laws of Smoke are complex. Not every lie will trigger it. A fleeting thought of evil may pass unseen, a fib, an excuse, a piece of flattery. Next thing you know its smell is in your nose. There is no more hateful smell in the world than the smell of Smoke." England. A century ago, give or take a few years. An England where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours forth from their bodies, a sign of their f...

The laws of Smoke are complex. Not every lie will trigger it. A fleeting thought of evil may pass unseen. Next thing you know its smell is in your nose. There is no more hateful smell in the world than the smell of Smoke . . .'If sin were visible and you could see people's anger, their lust and cravings, what would the world be like?Smoke opens in a private boarding school near Oxford, but history has not followed the path known to us. In this...

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Mesmerising, electrifying, Dickensian, dystopian - SOOT welcomes us into a world in which your sin is visible.

From the author of Pavel & I comes a tale of political paranoia, dangerous liaisons and defiant compassion, The QUIET TWIN is an unforgettable journey into a cityscape of totalitarian dread and deception in late 1930s Vienna. Crime and Punishment meets The Lives of Others via Rear Window on the eve of World War Two. For fans of Embers and The Reader.

Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed, the latest victim in a string of unsolved murders. Speckstein wants answers-but these are uncharitable times, and one must be careful where one probes ...When an unexpected house call leads Dr. Beer to Speckstein's apartment, he finds himself in the bedroom of Zuzka, the professor's niece. Wide-eyed, flirtatious, and not detectably ill, Zuzka leads the young doctor to her windo...

Readers of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Arcadia by Iain Pears are sure to be mesmerized by Dan Vyleta's thrilling blend of Dickensian historical fiction and fantasy, as three young friends scratch the surface of the grown-up world to discover startling wonders-and dangerous secrets. In an alternate Victorian England those who are wicked are marked by the smoke that pours out of their bodies. The aristocracy are clean, proof of thei...