It is the 1960s & the charismatic & cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru, attracting the devotion & demanding sexual favours of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body
- & the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later, one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife & his friends by writing a book about this horrible night, & it's through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every one of them throughout their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past, they find themselves face to face with the evil triggered so many years earlier...
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The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called

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A Darkling Plain is the final thrilling instalment in Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic fuure. Agents for peace are bringing an end to the devastating conflict between the roaming Traction Cities & their fanatical enemies while Wren & her father Tom travel the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed them. In the ruined wreckage of the city of London they make a discovery that willhange the world, while Hester must face an implacable foe with the means & the will to destroy the entire human race. ...

Agents for peace are bringing an end to the devastating conflict between the roaming Traction Cities & their fanatical enemies while Wren & her father Tom travel the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed them. In the ruined wreckage of the city of London they make a discovery that will change the world, while Hester must face an implacable foe with the means & the will to destroy the entire human race. The fourth, spectacular instalment of the award-winning quartet. ...

When Niccolò Rosselli, the driven, charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement, collapses at a rally, his young party immediately comes under threat.

And when it emerges that his long time partner, Flavia, has disappeared, leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son, the political becomes dangerously personal
- & Sandro Cellini is drafted in to investigate.

The trail leads to a tired sea-side town & a modest hotel, where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isnt satisfied
- why would one so young & with so much to live for, walk away from all she loves?

As he digs into Flavias secret world, however, Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions & a deadly, dark obsession.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780857893284
• Author: Christobel Kent
• Publisher: Corvus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 381
• Dimensions: 19.5 x 13 x 2.5cm















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