' It doesn't matter I have books new books & I can bear anything as long as there are books' Fifteen-year-old Morwenna lives in Wales with her twin sister & a mother who spins dark magic for ill One day Mori & her mother fight a powerful magical battle that kills her sister & leaves Mori crippled Devastated Mori flees to her long-lost father in England Adrift outcast at boarding school Mori retreats into the worlds she knows best her magic & her books She works a spell to meet kindred souls & continues to devour every fantasy & science fiction novel she can lay her hands on But danger lurks She knows her mother is looking for her & that when she finds her there will be no escape ...

Virginia Nicholson&s Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England&s artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century engaged in a grand experiment Subversive eccentric & flamboyant
- the Bohemians ate garlic & didn&t always wash; they painted & danced & didn&t care what people thought They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality & Free Love They were often drunk broke & hungry but they were rebels In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives& Interesting gorgeous wonderful this book displays the best of bohemia itself
- playful dazzling original& Julie Burchill Spectator& Racy vivacious warm-hearted Offers an illuminating & well-researched portrait of life among the artists a century ago& TLSVirginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne She has worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television & her first book Charleston
- A Bloomsbury House & Garden (written in collaboration with her father Quentin Bell) was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother the painter Vanessa Bell Her second book Among the Bohemians Experiments in Living 1900-1939 was published by Penguin in 2002 She lives in Sussex


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The Gods are Drawing Battle Lines In the wake of the battle of Silent Hall the city of Ardis is reeling its leaders frightened & disorganized The remaining oracle of the god Ravennis has resurfaced there & is spreading a new gospel
- one in which Ravennis is the new Lord of the Underworld Narky is swept up in the promotion of his religion even while the prevailing church of Magor tries to put down its upstart rivals In the meantime Criton & Bandu discover a community of Dragon Touched that has survived in hiding & with Criton's leadership they begin a campaign to retake their former territories with the power of God Most High at their backs Left to their own devices Phaedra & Hunter go on a quest to rediscover the secrets of academic wizardry But they soon discover that all five islanders are needed to prevent a true worldwide catastrophe If only Criton & Narky weren't already on opposing sides of a regional war File Under Fantasy Old Gods New Faiths Reunions An Angel's Touch Both Sides Now
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For fans of Victoria Hislop's Cartes Postales from Greece comes Among the Lemon Trees the debut novel from Nadia Marks Anna thought her marriage to Max would last forever Having raised two happy children together she looked forward to growing old with the man she loved But when a revelation from her husband just before their wedding anniversary shakes her entire world she's left uncertain of what the future holds Needing time to herself Anna takes up an offer from her widowed father to spend the summer on the small Aegean island of his birth unaware that a chance discovery of letters in her aunt's house will unleash a host of family secrets Kept hidden for sixty years they reveal a tumultuous family history beginning in Greece at the beginning of the twentieth century & ending in Naples at the close of the Second World War Confronted by their family's long-buried truths both father & daughter are shaken by the discovery & Anna begins to realize that if she is to ever heal the present she must first understand the past ...

Three kids skip their last day of school in order to have a little fun They wind up exploring an abandoned film studio lot on the edge of town where they are horrified to catch sight of a chained woman being dragged across the lot by man in a mask They manage to flee & try to get the police involved but the police dismiss their warnings as teenagers playing a prank & causing trouble The three friends end up going back to their respective homes unaware that the masked man is planning on taking his revenge on each of them ...

Among the Sleep
- Enhanced Edition In the enhanced edition of this award-winning first-person horror adventure players step into
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Among the Sleep
- Enhanced Edition In the enhanced edition of this award-winning first-person horror adventure players step into
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Among the Sleep is a first person horror adventure in which you play a two year old child After waking up in the middle of the night to mysterious sounds you start exploring the dark looking for comfort The game explores horror through atmosphere & exploration not with scores & combat systems In Among the Sleep you&re vulnerable scared & trying to make sense of the world FEATURES Atmospheric horror game with an eerie feeling of helplessness Experience the world through the eyes of a toddler with a vivid imagination ...

Christopher Nicholson's first book of nature writing is a beautiful account of an unusual obsession In 2016 he spent August searching for the remaining snows of the Scottish Highlands His account of his solitary walk is by turns funny fascinating & inspiring A meditation on walking mountains snow & our changing climate Nicholson also turns his curious eye on nature-lovers themselves What are we looking for when we walk & what is it we want from nature? What is it we see & what is it we miss? What remains when we are gone & what have we lost from the landscape forever? ...

Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016 An anonymous package arrives in the post a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling New York-artist Jack's secret life The package is addressed to his wife Deb but it's delivered into the wrong hands her children's With this vertiginous opening begins a heart-stopping debut about a family blown apart by an affair yet still painfully tethered together ...