COPPER KINGDOM is set at the turn of the century in the South Wales town of Sweyn's Eye
- the old name for Swansea, where Iris
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' Pinkie! Kittens! Run!' Sammy was the first ot hear the heavy thud of footsteps. He recognised the threat at once & called a warning. For a long time, life in the London park has been easy & peaceful for Sammy, Pinkie & their three kittens. But all that is about to change
- there is a purge on the growing number of stray cats & dogs in the city. Sammy & Pinkie now face the urgent question of survival...
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Cal has struggled to cope with his mother's drinking & her psychotic episodes since he was six; cooped up in their dirty council flat he dreams of a new life. So when he leaves to live with his uncle Trevor in Chepstow he is ruthless about breaking with the past, despite his mother's despair. But getting off the train at the wrong station he finds himself at the castle of the Fisher King, & from then on moves in a nightmare spiral of predetermined descent into a wasteland of desolation & adventure, always seeking the way back to the Grail he has betrayed. Catherine Fisher has created a gripping & highly moving novel that moves between myth & a contemporary journey of self-knowledge until one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Drawing in Arthurian themes, historical re-enactments & the Four Hallows, Cal's quest for a return to peace of mind is an elaborate & ambitious Grail novel for our time. An important new work from the author of the Book of the Crow ...

Corby Flood & her family are about to set sail on the rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Her boisterous brothers might not have noticed that anything is wrong, but Corby is highly observant & has a lot of time for note-taking & eavesdropping. Onboard, amongst all the odd passengers & eccentric crew, there is a strange group of men in bowler-hats who call themselves The Brotherhood of Clowns. There's also a melancholy wailing sound coming from the hold. It's strictly out of bounds but Corby can't help investigating. What could be inside the crate she discovers down in the hold? As the ship arrives at its destination, Corby must enlist the help of some very well moustachioed locals to uncover the contents of the crate & the dark secrets of the menacing Clowns... ...

Campion returns from three years work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his manservant, has brought him an unusual gift: the black silk nightdress-clad body of a dead woman, an apparent suicide. Wanting only to get away to a well-deserved rest, Campion must instead assist Detective Chief Inspector Oates & Superintendent Yeo in unravelling a tangled plot of deception & murder as the war draws to its conclusion. ...

Corpus
- Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection
- centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical

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Corpus
- Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection
- centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical

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Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct & refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion is the negation of his own soul. ...

It's the 1890s, & Professor Otto Ulrich runs a bizarre, exclusive clinic that caters to the faddish & perverted arstocrats of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ulrich promises to cure young men & women of nymphomania, hysteria & unsuitable infatuations. However, his wealthy clients find that although his treatments are of questionable use in repressing their lusts, for those with depressed libidos, they can work wonders. ...