Anna Tambour

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
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Temptation, indulgence, exploration and shortcuts. Love and compulsion. An ocean in Kansas, the Magic Lino, the real story behind the one told by Robert Louis Stevenson, a chef dying of ennui, gathering bluebirds, paying with candywrap. And the great...

• Mar-2005
• / Fantasy
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Angela Pendergast, escapee from the Australian bush, grew up with the smell of hot mutton fat in her hair, the thought of her teeth crunching a cold Tim Tam chocolate biscuit-the height of decadent frivolity. Now, though her tastes have grown and she...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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A powerfully evocative portrait of an alternative community in the early 1970s, told with a child's-eye simplicity by a young resident. Short fiction from an author whose work has been described by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer as & qu...

• Dec-2011
• / Fantasy
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Tim Thornbourne, successful in business but not in marriage, retreats to the country to grow gourmet and largely forgotten fruit. In time his orchard would become a Mecca for foodies and he, Tim Thornbourne, would be The Man Who Rediscovered the Medl...

• Nov-2012
• / Fantasy
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In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library, near-future London, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippax finds an alluring stain next to a recipe for the mythical crandolin. He tastes it, ravishing the page. Then he disappears... So be...

• Jun-2014
• / Fantasy
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The Walking-Stick Forest, by Anna Tambour, is a dark fantasy about a recluse who creates collectible walking sticks in post WWI Scotland by manipulating the woods somewhat like bonsais. He refuses a commission from a very rich, powerful man, never co...

• Aug-2015
• / Science Fiction
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Elation, compulsion, exploration, love and exquisitely timed bullying, a lascivious oyster, a man called Eggplant, the dangers of smelling like honey pudding, the enticement of innocent toadlets, the unending day of deadness. The daughter of a part-t...

• Mar-2017
• / Fantasy
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From the totally not bestselling author of Crandolin (shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award), an extraordinary and moving novel that confronts and defies boundaries.

“Thank you,” said Arthur. “There’s always hope.” He’d always ...

• Jun-2018
• / Science Fiction
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To those who lack caution, proceed. To those who conjure. To those who wander. To those with a hopeful eye for things unseen: 11 distinctly Tambourian (7 special to this collection), typically slippery tales to celebrate life's wondrous unease, and i...

• Apr-2021
• / Science Fiction
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This stirring canine Robinsonade-cum-utopia with a trace of Animal Farm will evoke tears, laughter, horror -- and a sense that turnabout is fair play when dogs rebel against the cruelties of humans.The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern...

• Mar-2023
• / Fantasy
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When Death Takes A Holiday, You're Coming Along (like it or not).What's it really like in Dog Heaven? Why do angels cheat at golf? If charity begins at home, where does it end? And what-and why-are barnacle geese? The unbelievable answers to these an...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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An unnamed gun finds its strange life recounted through a series of unsavory owners. Born into uncertain origins, the gun bounces between small-time crooks, violent criminals, regular Joes down on their luck, and the occasional psychopath. As the gun...

• Nov-2023
• / Science Fiction
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We successfully completed Thanksgiving, but now we’re trapped in the dead zone between roast turkey and roasting chestnuts. When our first December issue arrives, we’ll kick off holiday celebrations anew, though, with more great novels an...

• Dec-2023
• / Dark Fantasy
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During a family reunion of gods, some experience ecstasy, some experience frustration, some experience annoyance, and some experience dread of the one who made them....