The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [SPOTS]

Format: Paperback

Condition: New but spots

Genre: Fantasy

Literary Awards: Locus Award for Best First Novel (2012), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2012), Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2011), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2012), ALA Alex Award (2012) ...more

A novel of magic and love that is enchanting readers far and wide with the spectacular power of its imagination.

In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire.

Although there are acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists, the Circus of Dreams is no conventional spectacle. Some tents contain clouds, some ice. The circus seems almost to cast a spell over its aficionados, who call themselves the rêveurs - the dreamers. At the heart of the story is the tangled relationship between two young magicians, Celia, the enchanter's daughter, and Marco, the sorcerer's apprentice. At the behest of their shadowy masters, they find themselves locked in a deadly contest, forced to test the very limits of the imagination, and of their love...