An anthology of 20 contemporary fairy tales which provide a subversive, sidelong glance at ourselves & the world. The authors include A.S. Byatt, Ben Okri, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Doris Lessing, John Berger, Michael Bracewell, Leonora Carrington & Tatyana Tolstaya ...

On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in Engl&, he breaks up with his wife & goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. Marian fails to show.

Searching desperately for her, he stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of the gravestones of dead Esguards. He also meets a psychotherapist, Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marion Esguard, who lived in Regency times &, it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. But if so, why is she unknown to history? & where is the woman he met in Vienna?

Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old. At the end of his search a trap awaits him. There is a twist at the end of Caught in the Light that is Robert Goddard



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On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in Engl&, he breaks up with his wife & goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. Marian fails to show.

Searching desperately for her, he stumbles on a Dorset churchyard full of the gravestones of dead Esguards. He also meets a psychotherapist, Daphne Sanger. She too is looking for someone: a former patient who has come to believe she is the reincarnation of Marion Esguard, who lived in Regency times &, it emerges, may have invented photography ten years before Fox Talbot. But if so, why is she unknown to history? & where is the woman he met in Vienna?

Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old. At the end of his search a trap awaits him. There is a twist at the end of Caught in the Light that is Robert Goddard



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These classic tales of Awful Warnings about the consequences of Bad Behaviour are among the best of comic verse ever written for children. ' Designed for the Admonition of children between the ages of eight & fourteen years', they were first published in 1907; though such eccentricity as Henry King's chewing string may no longer be a common misdemeanour, the humour is perennial & continues to entertained generations of children & their parents. This edition

Includes:: New Cautionary Tales, first published in 1930, & illustrated by Nicholas Bentley, who replaced as collaborator the poet's friend Lord Basil Blackwood (B. T. B. ) after his death in World War I.

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This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme
- all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are
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The Chief Defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of String. At last he swallowed some which tied Itself in ugly Knots inside... A much-loved classic for children & adults alike since its first publication in 1939, this collection of poems is a truly unforgettable book of moral instruction. Take heed from the lessons learnt by Matilda, Who told lies & was Burned to Death, Jim, Who ran away from his nurse wand was eaten by a Lion, & Rebecca, Who slammed doors for Fun & Perished Miserably... ...

This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme
- all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are
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It was Charles I's love for his Queen Henrietta Maria which plummeted England into the darkness of the Civil Wars, but it was the love & loyalty of another man that sustained her through days of betrayal, destitution & death.

Tall & brave, Harry Jermyn is captivated by the witty French princess, just fourteen years old when she sails with him to Dover, queen of a land she has never seen, of a people whose language she cannot speak, who despise her for her faith
- & wife of a king she has never met.

Charles grows to love her but rebellion & the threat of execution force her into exile & into the arms of Harry, who risks his life for her sake. Together they work for the royalist cause, pawning the crown jewels, securing men & arms & returning to England to lead an army south.

As England is torn apart, Henrietta's heart is torn between the two men she loves, between duty & illicit passion. The subject of dangerous gossip & public scandal, she is powerless to calm the storm which will lead to tragedy.






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