The Pale Death Moon is the eagerly awaited second instalment in the Terry the Torus & the Tumblestones series. In Book One The Seven Stones young readers were caught in the exciting adventures of Terry Gwen Meeska & Polka as they set out on their quest. Remarkably many parents have been entranced too & the adult fan base is equally large enthusiastic & impatient for Book Two. Now in The Pale Death Moon the adventure continues. The Torus has saved Terry Gwen Meeska & Polka from the Barons secret police but abandoned them in a completely new world. Three more riddles must be solved
- three more stones must be found. But its not going to be straightforward. The evil Ackru has already stolen one of the stones & now he is making sacrifices each full moon to appease the black spirits who have started to appear on the isl&. Polka is going to need his best plan ever because Ackru has a hostage & the next full moon is only three nights away... Expected to sell out at all book signings & author events & with an exciting interactive competition running in tandem with the launch of The Pale Death Moon on www.terry-torus-tumblestones.co.uk make sure you are part of the adventure!
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The latest stirring instalment of the urban fantasy-thriller series starring Rachel Morgan. A pacey & addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches cunning demons & vicious vampires. Condemned & shunned for black magic Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches conference & clear her name or be trapped in the demonic ever-after.. .forever after. But a witch an elf a living vampire & a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about a recipe for certain disaster even without being the targets for assassination. For after centuries of torment a fearsome demon walks in the sunlight
- freed at last to slay the innocent & devour their souls. But his ultimate goal is Rachel Morgan & in the fight for survival that follows even embracing her own demonic nature may not be enough to save her.
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The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem Pale Fire is put into a book together with a preface a lengthy commentary & notes by Shade's editor Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the ' Great Beaver' Kinbote is haughty inquisitive intolerant but is he also mad bad
- & even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal & the fantastical Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit a story of one-upmanship & dubious penmanship & a glorious literary conundrum.
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A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub... To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit just minutes before to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Wherever the beginning lies Mark & his sidekick Ginger Corrigan may soon have cause to wish they'd never found it... ...

A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub... To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit just minutes before to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Wherever the beginning lies Mark & his sidekick Ginger Corrigan may soon have cause to wish they'd never found it... ...

Continuing the outstanding success of The Last Kingdom this is the second installment of Bernard Cornwell s fantastic series following the fate of Alfred the Great & the forging of Britain. Uhtred Northumbrian born raised a Viking & now married to a Saxon is already a formidable figure & warrior. But at twenty he is still arrogant pagan & headstrong so not a comfortable ally for the thoughtful pious Alfred. But these two with Alfred s family & a few of Uhtred s companions are apparently all that remains of the Wessex leadership after a disastrous truce. It is the lowest time for the Saxons. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England Alfred & his surviving followers retreat to the trackless marshlands of Somerset. There forced to move restlessly to escape betrayal or detection using the marsh mists for cover they travel by small boats from one island to another hoping that they can regroup & find some more strength & support. They seek refuge in Athelney a tidal swamp to which Alfred s kingdom has shrunk. Uhtred finds himself torn between his Danish foster brother & the winning Vikings & his growing respect for the stubborn leadership of Alfred. He must decide whether to rebuild the Saxons strength from his watery base & help them to take on the Vikings once more. THE PALE HORSEMAN is a splendid story of divided loyalties & desperate heroism with a wonderful range of characters from Vikings to British kings in their Cornish fortresses from political but passionate priests to enduring fishermen & farmers desperately striving to survive as the battle sweeps over them. Uhtred & Alfred Vikings & Saxons are a winning combination for Bernard Cornwell. ...

Its the Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria Illinois 1985. Here the minutiae of a million daily lives are totted up audited & accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then squeezed between the trivial & the"idian lies all human life. & this is David Foster Wallaces towering brilliant hilarious & deeply moving final novel. Light-years beyond Infinite Jest. Wallaces reputation will only grow & like one of the broken columns beloved of Romantic painters " The Pale King" will stand complete in its incompleteness as his most substantial fictional achievement". (Hari Kunzru " Financial Times"). " Archly brilliant". (" Metro")." ...

FROM THE BACK COVER: Emaneska is crying out for a saviour. The only question is: Can they kill a child to save a world? Emaneskas Long Winter remains as bitter as a blade between the ribs. War is fast approaching. Gods & daemons are hovering on the horizon. Long-lost revelations arrive to haunt the lives of three men. The Pale Kings are rising. While Farden busies himself digging up his past in the strange deserts of Paraia the storm-clouds begin to gather for Durnus Elessi Cheska & Modren. Together with Farfallen & his Sirens they must fight to survive against the Long Winter the vicious machinations of the new Arkmage & the arrival of something much deadlier than both combined. War deception & murder are quickly becoming the only paths to salvation...PALE KINGS is the explosive sequel to the critically-acclaimed debut THE WRITTEN & the second instalment in the epic EMANESKA SERIES. Harder darker & faster PALE KINGS aims to leave THE WRITTEN quivering & whimpering in the shadows. ABOUT THE BOOK: Picking up the turbulent tale of Farden the mage once more PALE KINGS follows him deeper into the darkness as he hunts for his past in the deserts of strange Paraia. There he will uncover more than he bargained for including a revelation that will see his life & those of Durnus Elessi Farfallen & yet more spiral out of control. As an ancient plot is discovered they are forced to choose between themselves & the fate of the world. Love will battle betrayal. Fear will fight responsibility. Greed will clash with bravery. Can anyone step up the mark? The stakes have been raised even higher this time. Consequences hover like a guillotines blade. Bursting with even more magick lore action & emotion than its predecessor PALE KINGS is every bit the sequel that THE WRITTEN deserved. It is the second book by young UK author Ben Galley. If you would like to know more about his EMANESKA SERIES or more about Ben as an author then you can find it all at www.bengalley.com ...

In his highly acclaimed debut A Pale View of Hills" Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko a Japanese woman now living alone in England dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki when she & her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko
- a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy
- the memories take on a disturbing cast."

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