A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color violet. This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences. ...

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets & the parallel relationship of their two biographers &

Includes:: passages of " Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary & biographical treasure hunt.

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A novel that tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals & poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit & tragedy, & their quest becomes a battle against time. ...

Marc (Sam Neill) returns to his wife Anna (Isabelle Adjani) in Berlin after a long absence, only for her to inform him that she has taken a lover, Heinrick (Heinz Bennent). Anna has also allowed their home to fall into complete disarray, & Marc eventually makes a terrible discovery: his wife is in fact under the influence of a non-human creature which revels in chaos. ...

In this supernatural thriller, Norah Benson (Shirley Mac Laine) is a wealthy woman living in Manhattan who keeps a watchful eye on her brother Joel (Perry King), who lives in a rough section of the East Village. When Joel begins acting strangely & playing too rough with the children, Norah begins to suspect that all is not right. After Joel is arrested for assaulting the custodian of his building, his girlfriend Carrie (Lisa Kohane) is found decapitated. Norah soon discovers that her brother has become involved with Santeria, a religion that combines voodoo with elements of Catholicism. This film predates ' The Exorcist' (1973) but deals with similar themes of possession & family trauma. ...

Meet Gurgazon the Unclean, the cuddliest little pit demon ever trapped in the Llewellyn-Vane House for Captured Spirits & Ghostly Curiosities. Ms Llewellyn-Vane is having a dinner party & with no table manners to speak of you can be sure Gurgazon will be on her worst behavior! ...