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. ...

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. ...

The greater the degree of purity in a person, the darker the taint on their soul if they succumb to temptation. Not even the men & women of the holy orders are safe from corruption as Lady Stephanie Peabody & her host of greedy, voluptuous collaborators engage in the most sinister
forms of seductive manipulation. Not even the Prior, the nuns at the convent, or Stephanie
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Emily LOVES science fiction, in fact she's crazy about it. One day she finds a message tucked into TERRORS OF THE TIME WARP, signed YOUR COSMIC COUSIN. At last
- someone out there on her wavelength! Emily hasn't the faintest idea who her Cosmic Cousin could be, but even if she has to search the whole school, she's going to find out!
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The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune -- the wily old gentleman has hatched a typically freakish plan for his stepdaughter's future & his own amusement: his fortune will be Kitty's dowry. But while the beaux are scrambling for her h&, Kitty counters with her own inventive, if daring, scheme: a sham engagement should keep wedlock at bay.. . ...

The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune -- the wily old gentleman has hatched a typically freakish plan for his stepdaughter's future & his own amusement: his fortune will be Kitty's dowry. But while the beaux are scrambling for her h&, Kitty counters with her own inventive, if daring, scheme: a sham engagement should keep wedlock at bay.. . ...