Three top authors writing three erotic fairytales: Bear Skin: Hazel is whisked away from her tedious job & humdrum life by the mysterious Arailt, to be his lover 'for a year & a day, without reason & without question.' The only problem is there is more to Arailt than meets the eye
- much more! The Three Riddles: The elves, they say, know the secrets of events
- but the queen has no time for superstitions. Ignoring the warnings, she deserts her childhood love, Sir Thomas, for a darkly charismatic foreign duke. As her kingdom crumbles, she longs for her lost love, but can she risk her country on a whim? The People in the Garden: The beguiling Katia seems to be everything the Count & Countess Malinovsky could ever hope for in a maid & the decadent couple soon embroil the young women in their erotic games. But then strange things begin happening in the grounds of their Gothic manor house. Local people tell of fairies, goblins & unnameable creatures, & there are stories about a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Katia, who disappeared almost a hundred years before. The size of this book is 19.4cm in height & 12.9cm wide with 274 pages

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Plunging into the enchanted & luminous worlds of Speak, Memory, Ada, or Ardor; & the infamous Lolita, this title seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, language in all its allusions. It explores his Russian childhood, his European sojourns, & more. ...

From the author of The Kiss, a magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's last Tsar. New Years Day, St Petersburg, 1917. Divers pull the body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River. Within hours, his daughters are taken to the Royal Palace, where the Tsarina makes a shocking request: would Masha, eighteen, take on her fathers role as healer to the Tsarevitch Alyosha? Two months later, revolution has toppled the Tsar, & the entire family is placed under house arrest. Trapped together in harsh conditions, Masha & Alyosha find solace in one anothers company. Two teenagers, with radically different experiences of the Romanovs ill-fated reign, create a private realm of magic & love, as Masha introduces Alyosha to the wild & beautiful land he will never rule. ?A stupendous work of historical imagination? Peter Carey ...

San Francisco: Nicholas & Perenelle Flamel have one day left to live, & one job left to do. They must defend San Francisco. The monsters gathered on Alcatraz Island have been released & are heading toward the city. If they are not stopped, they will ...

Offers an account of an Englishman's life abroad. This book describes among other curiosities, a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed butcher, the quest for the finest bouillabaisse & an assortment of the characters who lie in wait in bars & on boules courts. ...

' Encounter Ireland' is a combined course & workbook for post-intermediate students of English, based on Irish themes & materials. It is suitable for short-stay, non-examination students & also provides thought provoking supplementary material for those preparing for such examinations as Cambridge Advanced Certificate & even proficiency. ...

Offering a comprehensive introduction to physical geography, which explores our world's most dramatic features, this title features photographs & graphic illustrations that help children to explore the structure of the earth. It is internet-linked to help readers build on their knowledge by accessing relevant websites. ...

The Encyclopaedia of Scottish Football is a comprehensive reference work packed with in-depth information on the history of football in Scotl&. This concise edition contains all the key topics for followers of the Scottish game, which they will want to refer to again & again. Immensely flickable, with hundreds of amazing historical nuggets. ...

An encyclopedia describing the history of Ancient Egypt. It helps you discover remarkable facts of one of the world's oldest civilisations from its origins as a group of settlements along the banks of the Nile, its rise to one of the world's greatest civi ...

A fascinating & detailed guide to Ancient Greek civilisation from the Minoans to Alexander's empire.

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