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<b>One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the fantastic today.</b><br/><br/> Pinning the evolution of fantasy on three key moments - the 19th-century resurgence of interest in Arthurian legend, the rise of Christian allegory, and a post-Ossian, post-Grimm emergence of a Norse, Germanic and Old English mythic identity - Roberts explores how the logic of 'the fantastical' feeds through into the sets and trappings of modern fantasy. Tracking the creation of heroic and high fantasy subgenres through antiquarian tradition, through C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and into the post-Tolkien boom in genre fantasy writing, the book brings the manifestation of the fantastic beyond literature into art, music, film and TV, video games and other cultural productions such as fandoms. From Tennyson and Wagner, through Robert Graves, David Jones, Samuel Delany, <i>Dungeons and Dragons</i>, Terry Pratchett and Robin Hobb, to the <i>Game of Thrones</i>, <i>Skyrim</i>, <i>The Witcher</i> and <i>The Lord of the Rings </i>media franchises, the book digs into the global dissemination and diversity of 21st-century fantasy. Accessible and dynamic, wide-ranging but comprehensive, this is a crash-course in context for the most imaginative form of storytelling.

<b>'Think Bridget Jones if she were in The Bear' </b><i>SUNDAY TIMES STYLE</i><br/><br/><b>'<i>The Devil Wears Prada</i> for devoted foodies' </b>PLUM SYKES<br/><br/><b>'Slyly satirical and richly comedic' </b><i>EVENING STANDARD</i><br/><br/><b>'Sharp, witty and funny' </b><i>INDEPENDENT</i><br/><br/><b>'A delicious debut' </b><i>PEOPLE</i><br/><br/>When twenty-something Isabella Pasternack is fired from a digital food magazine, she accepts a thankless job ghostwriting a cookbook for now-infamous actress, Molly Babcock. Molly, on a reputation mission now going south, meets Isabella's earnestness with indifference and downright cruelty. But, for the first time, Isabella is determined to dig in her heels.<br/><br/>Filled with a colourful cast of characters - including Isabella's acerbic roommate, her chaotic mother, and a burgeoning chef love interest - <i>Food Person</i>'s slice of contemporary New York life is hilarious and hopeful, charting how the course of unapologetically forging your own future can lead to everyone getting their just deserts.<br/><br/><b>'A debut that's about as perfect as they come' </b>GRANT GINDER<br/><br/><b>'Hilarious, harrowing, and heartwarming' </b>J. RYAN STRADAL<br/><br/><b>'Utterly delicious and satisfying to the end' </b>MARY ROACH

<b>A delectable comedy of manners about cooking, ambition, and friendship set in the food world as a young and socially awkward writer takes a job ghostwriting the cookbook for a famous (and famously chaotic) Hollywood starlet.</b><br/><br/>Isabella Pasternack is a food person. She revels in the beauty of a perfectly cooked egg, she daydreams about her first meal at Chez Panisse, and every inch of her tiny apartment teems with cookbooks, from <i>Prune</i> to <i>Cooking by Hand</i> to <i>Roast Chicken and Other Stories</i>. What Isabella is not, unfortunately, is a gainfully employed person. In the wake of a disastrous live-streamed soufflé demonstration, Isabella is summarily fired from her job at a digital food magazine and must quickly find a way to keep herself in buckwheat and anchovy paste. When offered the opportunity to ghostwrite a cookbook for Molly Babcock, the once-beloved television actress now mired in scandal, Isabella warily accepts. Unfortunately, Molly quickly proves herself to be a nightmare collaborator: hungover, flaky, shallow, and-worst of all-indifferent to food. But between Molly's bizarre late-night texts, goofy confessions, and impromptu road trips, Isabella reluctantly begins to see Molly's charms. Can Isabella corral Molly out of the gossip rags and into the kitchen? Can she find the key to Molly's heart and stomach? Or will Isabella's devotion to her culinary idols and Molly's monstrous ego send the entire cookbook-and both of their careers-up in flames?<br/><br/>A mouthwatering, hilarious debut peppered with insider food world detail-the real writers behind celebrity chef cookbooks, the hot restaurants that run on the backs of their sous-chefs, the secret to perfect <i>blinis &agrave; la Russe</i>-Adam Roberts's <i>Food Person</i> is a literary soufflé-a deceptively light, deliciously rich, showstopping confection.

Long before humans ventured into outer space, writers spun stories of what might lie in the unknown worlds beyond our planet and speculated about the future.<br/><br/>This striking collection features retellings of seven classic sci fi stories. From tales of space exploration, to time travellers and alien invaders, this striking anthology is the perfect introduction to the world of science fiction.<br/><br/><b>Includes:</b><br/><i>The Star by H.G. Wells</i><br/><i>Micromegas by Voltaire</i><br/><i>The Last Man by Mary Shelley</i><br/><i>From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne</i><br/><i>Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman</i><br/><i>The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells</i><br/><i>Buck Rogers: Armageddon 2419 A.S. by Philip Francis Nowlan.<br/></i><br/>Written by Adam Roberts and with vivid illustrations by artist Evangeline Gallagher.

Food Person [Bok / Häftad]