The performances at The Royal Theatre are extraordinary. Youd have to see them to believe them! But thats the problem. Nobody can see them. Except Gracie that is. Gracies new to this seaside town but shes making friends quickly. Theres Mikey the Mod who wears a parka & drives a scooter Miss Melluish whose skirt is missing & Frank Stuart the builder of elephants. But the old theatre is under threat. Will Gracie & the residents be able to save their home or is the curtain set to fall on their very last performance? ...

When Alice Walker finished writing The Color violet she realised that she needed to tell the story of Tashi a minor character who had left Africa but had taken her wound with her to America". This is Tashi's story told in her words & the voices of the people who loved her. This extraordinarily courageous & compelling novel explores the tragic consequences of Tashi's decision to go through the female initiation ceremony." ...

Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least that is what a policeman is asking Alex his mother to believe. But Alex knows she saw him that morning
- at a time when he must have been dead. When the funeral is over Alex tries hard to forget her bizarre experience. But her mind seems to be playing strange tricks on her turning her grief into horror. When she turns to a medium her worst fears are realised. Fabian has unfinished business & he is determined to come back. But why? Whatever the answer something terrifies the medium so much she refuses to return. Alex longs to turn to others for support. But there is a secret about Fabian that only she knows a secret she must never share.
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Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit & romance at once a literary detective novel & a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters journals & poems they uncover a web of passion deceit & tragedy & their quest becomes a battle against time. ...

Terence Cave intellectual music-lover & owner of Cave Antiques has experienced more than his share of tragedies. His mothers suicide & his young wifes death at the hands of burglars left him to bring up his young twins alone. & now one of them has died in a grotesque accident as a result of bullying. Bryony the remaining twin has always been the familys great hope: a golden teenager in love with her cello & her pony clever sweet & eager to please. Now that she is all Terence has left he realises that his one duty in life is to keep her safe from the worlds malign forces whatever that may take. As he starts to follow his grieving daughters movements & enforces a draconian set of rules purely for her own safety the voices in his head convince him to protect her innocence at any cost. The Possession on Mr Cave" is both a nightmare of Gothic proportions & a story of distorted love with chilling resonance for anyone who has been a parent or a frustrated teenager. In this compulsive novel the characteristic black humour of " The Last Family in England" & " The Dead Fathers Club" moves even further onto the dark side. Matt Haig lays bare the process by which Terences love for Bryony becomes a possessive force that will lead to destruction & ultimately murder." ...

Terrified a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes & pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull. Soldiers & lovers parents & children scientists & musicians risk their bodies & hearts in search of connection
- some key to understanding what makes us the people we become. Provocative & profound Sebastian Faulks dazzling novel journeys across continents & time to explore the chaos created by love separation & missed opportunities. From the pain & drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone elses life.
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Terrified a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes & pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull. Soldiers & lovers parents & children scientists & musicians risk their bodies & hearts in search of connection
- some key to understanding what makes us the people we become. Provocative & profound Sebastian Faulks' dazzling novel journeys across continents & time to explore the chaos created by love separation & missed opportunities. From the pain & drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.
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Terrified a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes & pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends shivers through the skull. Soldiers & lovers parents & children scientists & musicians risk their bodies & hearts in search of connection
- some key to understanding what makes us the people we become. Provocative & profound Sebastian Faulks' dazzling novel journeys across continents & time to explore the chaos created by love separation & missed opportunities. From the pain & drama of these highly particular lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your heart beat in someone else's life.
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Patrick OBrians Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Patrick OBrian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/ Maturin series led Mary Renault to write: Master & Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them. This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He & his friend Stephen Maturin surgeon & secret agent begin to live the lives of country gentlemen hunting entertaining & enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence however is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubreys adventures in escaping from France & the debtors prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea. ...

Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a h&-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer one-night stands & racetracks. Lurid uncompromising & hilarious Post Office is a landmark in American literature & over 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction by the modern Welsh cult-literary author Niall Griffiths
- a writer who was working in a British post office when he first read Bukowskis Post Office.
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