Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses lugworms sea potatoes messages in bottles buried cars beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool Strands is about what is lost & buried then discovered about all the things you find on a beach dead or alive about flotsam & jetsam about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change.
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When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victim's pocket scribbled on a slip of paper police discover Banks' name & address. Living in Roy's empty South Kensington house Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew nor even liked. & as he begins to uncover a few troubling surprises the two cases become sinisterly entwined. ' The Banks novels are simply put the best series now on the market'
- Stephen King.
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Carla Craig is passionately in love with Richard Mere
- he has a hold over her she cant resist. Even when her world is blown apart
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Dru Anderson: Night Hunter. Knife Wielder. Heart Breaker. Dru can sense evil which helps when she & her Dad are tracking down ghosts suckers wulfen & the occasional reanimated corpse. Its a dangerous life but its the only one she knows. Then Drus dad turns up dead & she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a deadly game where every move she makes could be her last. Dru is more special than she realizes
- & whatever killed her dad could be coming for her next. Can Dru stay alive long enough to fall for one
- or both
- of the guys hungry for her affections? Find out in the heart-stopping first book in a thrilling series.


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Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price. ...

Utterson the lawyer is becoming increasingly anxious about the strange behavior of his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll & in particular by Jekyll's association with an ugly violent creature by the name of Edward Hyde. Utterson resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery & along the way uncovers a horrific story of murder & suffering which leads inevitably to the terrible revelation of Mr. Hyde's true identity. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" is a masterpiece of Victorian literature & one of the most potent & enduring of modern myths. The adventures of Prince Florizel of Bohemia & his running battle with the sinister machinations of " The Suicide Club" are also included in this volume as well as " The Body Snatchers " " Markheim " & " Olalla"-three of Stevenson's memorable & well-observed short stories which deal with similarly gothic themes." ...

This title is suitable for children aged 10 years old & up. The respected Dr. Jekyll appears to have fallen under the spell of a disreputable character named Edward Hyde. Hyde has access to Jekylls bank account & Jekyll has named Hyde as his sole heir in a recently drafted will. & there is something even more disturbing about the close relationship between Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde... This handsome unabridged edition with striking illustrations by Scott Mc Kowen joins Sterlings beloved classics line & will be treasured in any familys library. ...

His innovative thriller as shocking now as when it was first published the Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde & Other Tales of Terror" is edited with an introduction by Robert Mighall. Published as a 'shilling shocker' Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; & the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: " Olalla" a tale of vampirism & tainted family blood & " The Body Snatcher" a gruesome fictionalisation of the exploits of the notorious Burke & Hare. This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall which discusses class criminality & the significance of the story's London setting. It also

Includes:: an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel & the development of the idea of the Jekyll-&-Hyde personality. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist & travel writer the success of " Treasure Island" (1883) & " Kidnapped" (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action & adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination & a fascination with the presence of evil themes he explored in " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" (1886) & " The Master of Ballantrae" (1893). If you enjoyed " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" you might like " The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Every bit as claustrophobic creepy & chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago". (Ian Rankin)."

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Tommy & his classmates narrate this middle grade mystery each recounting an episode in which they received wise advice from a finger puppet of Yoda perpetually worn on the finger of their classmate Dwight a loser who cant get anything right. Is this puppet really Yoda? Or is Dwight a bit more together than he seems? ...

Tommy & his classmates narrate this middle grade mystery each recounting an episode in which they received wise advice from a finger puppet of Yoda perpetually worn on the finger of their classmate Dwight a loser who can't get anything right. Is this puppet really Yoda? Or is Dwight a bit more together than he seems? ...