The Wasp Factory Classics_Gift_Guide and death is near

and death is near

When Brielle loses someone precious to her

Xishi finds herself under the hungry gaze of the king’s advisors while the king himself shows her great affection

New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman

Sarah Beth Durst established a place of dark wonder in The Queen of Blood

The Wasp Factory Classics_Gift_Guide and death is nearThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda,