MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova Condition:New

MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova Condition:NewA literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven year old son Santiagos lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her

memory and desire

Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape

Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman

delicate and as exquisitely measured as one of Vermeer's paintings

and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror

Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2023

then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services – as a burglar – on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon

and animals

FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime

she was knee-deep in magical mayhem

she decides to follow the trail of clues… she just need someone to help her out

In 2014 Turkey