The Ghost Road is the final instalment in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. 1918 the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care
- particularly Billy Prior who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what if anything he has done to help these injured men Prior & Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a generation... The Ghost Road is the Booker Prize-winning account of the devastating final months of the First World War. An extraordinary tour de force. I'm convinced that the trilogy will win recognition as one of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction". (Jonathan Coe). " Powerful deeply moving". (Barry Unsworth Sunday Times). " Harrowing original unforgettable". (Independent). "A triumph". (Sunday Times). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy comprising Regeneration which has been filmed The Eye in the Door which won the Guardian Fiction Prize & The Ghost Road which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured the Observer's 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class & Toby's Room. She lives in Durham."
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The mystery man threw off his disguise & started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s he'd been paid GBP17 expenses. When he wanted to run he was banned for life. His amateur status had been compromised. Forever. Now he was fighting back gatecrashing races all over Britain. No number on his shirt. No friends in high places. Soon he would be a record-breaker one of the greatest long-distance runners the world has ever seen. This is his true story: The Ghost Runner"." ...

How to become an Undercover Pirate...1) Have a pirate captain as your ancient ancestor 2) Find a message in a bottle & a magic gold doubloon 3) Get whisked back in time to join a pirate crew 4) When you get home DONT TELL ANYONE. Remember
- youre undercover! When Sam Silver & the crew of the Sea Wolf board a galleon looking for Spanish gold they find its already been stolen
- by a ghost ship! Can our pirate heroes outwit a ghostly crew or is the treasure gone for ever?

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A thrilling ghost story from the author of the popular Football Academy series. Lucas Irfan & Jack want to mark the beginning of their summer holidays in style! Tricking their parents with a camping cover story the boys sneak into the old abandoned football stadium to spend the night. Are the rumours about it being haunted true? They're about to find out
- Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers of 12+
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Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear & obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave & other supernatural phenomena. While claiming not to believe in ghosts paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational & imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a womans reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; & the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. Compelling rich & strange the ghost stories of Edith Wharton like vintage wine have matured & grown more potent with the passing years. ...

Meet Harry Dresden Chicagos first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the everyday world is full of strange & magical things
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Look.. .there by the dustbins what do you see? A shimmering & a glimmering & a figure forming in the darkness. It is the Ghost Teacher... Class 3 are the worst class ever. They do lots of crashing & bashing nose-picking & flicking fighting & fidgeting. No teacher can control Class 3. Until Miss Shade
- the Ghost Teacher
- pays them a visit...

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Includes:: a brand new & exclusive Morganville short story. When Claire is ordered to repair the

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Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-&-bust highway of the American West Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boomtowns built around oil mines railroad stops cattle ranches resorts stagecoach stops & gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than twenty-five ghost towns rich in stories & history.

Includes:: directions for when you take your trip. Complemented by Kerrick James gorgeous sepia-tone & color photography. Explore the beauty & nostalgia of these abandoned communities along Americas favorite highway!

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It was not until long after his grandmother Sophie had died that Michael Jacobs was eventually permitted to read the lengthy & passionate letters that his grandfather Bethel had written her from nine thousand miles away. In these letters Jacobs discovered a remarkable story of hardship deprivation & enduring love. His grandfathers work on the railway through the Andes was exhausting & desperately lonely. He had little in common with his fellow workers & became consumed by a mounting despondency from which only his love for Sophie could save him. But as the months & years of separation passed the world in which Sophie was blossoming appeared more & more remote from his own. Michael Jacobs journey back through time takes him from a rain-swept Hull churchyard to desolate Antofagasta in Chile & to the former silver capital of Potosi. Climbing through ghostly lunar-like scenery towards the snow-capped summits of the Andes he follows the route of his grandfathers railway
- across giant rocky plateaux through terrifyingly steep gorges & valleys of tropical lushness & past grim mining townships buffeted by winds rain & snow
- to reveal an extraordinary love story.

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