On Smuttynose Isl&, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime. Taking her extended family with her, Jean stays in a sailboat anchored off the coast, & finds herself gradually becoming more & more engrossed in the bays mysterious & gruesome past. Wandering into a library one day, she unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Jeans fear of losing all that she cares about is reflected in Marens poignant tale of love & loss, & her obsession with the ancient story drives her to wild impulsive action -- with unrecoverable consequences. ...

Rosalind. Bianca. Cordelia. The Weird Sisters. Rose always first, Bean never first, Cordy always last. The history of our trinity is fractious ? a constantly shifting dividing line, never equal, never equitable. Two against one, or three opposed, but never all together. Our estrangement is not drama-laden ? we have not betrayed one anothers trust, we have not stolen lovers or fought over money or property or any of the things that irreparably break families apart. The answer, for us, is much simpler. See, we love each other. We just don?t happen to like each other very much. ...

On a trip to Dublin, Benedicta OKeeffe runs into the man who killed her sister
- fresh out of prison.

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eaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective & soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled ' Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husb&, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, & Miss Havisham
- when not sewing up plot-holes in ' Mill on the Floss'
- is trying to break the l&-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, & Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her & discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it.. . With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos & an adopted home scheduled for demolition, ' The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure & an insight into how books are made, who makes them
- & why there is no singular for 'scampi'.


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Dr Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) is attacked on a dark night by a strange animal while abroad on a botanical expedition. On his return to London, he realises that he himself has become a werewolf, turning into a crazed beast at every full moon. His only ho ...

Events Manager & Londoner Chrissie loves her life with her trusty lodger Melina & daughters Scarlet & Ruby.

Even her absent

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Goaded by the pulse of Elvis, Little Richard & the kwela kwela rhythms of the black ghettos, best friends Tommy & Chris, twelve-year-olds growing up on the mines of Johannesburg, look to prove their grit on the slumyard dance floors of the West Rand Cons Mine & in the sweat-soaked ring of the boxing club. But Tommy has a little sister Cecilia, sweet, whimsical & vulnerable. Unwittingly, she will make the friends face a choice between courage & cowardice, between loyalty & betrayal. ...

At almost sixty, boson Harold Snow is nearing the end of life's voyage. Aboard a creaking tanker loaded with volatile petrochemicals, Snow & explosive first mate Bracelin embark on a dangerous & illegal scheme that sends their disintegrating hulk on a scattershot voyage from North to South america & on to the wilder shores of Africa. Hurricanes, crooked customs officials, tropical ports seething with vice & revolution, & even doomed love threaten Snow & his shady venture. But nothing trouble shim more than the thoughts swirling through his head
- of a black existence littered with bodies. Yet Snow clings to the possibility that even on the darkest of voyages, there is still a chance of redemption.
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Humans responses to the whale have always been as dramatic as the magnificent mammal itself. This companion is a fascinating anthology which explores the idea of the whale as represented in legend, art & literature with evocative text & images illustrations. ...