A wondeful collection of fantasy short stories from the renowned author of the Thomas Covenant series. Stephen Donaldson has been one of the worlds most popular fantasy writers ever since his first million-selling Thomas Covenant trilogy in 1977. In 1990 he took a new direction with the Gap series the bestselling sf epic acclaimed as his best work ever. Now in his first collection since 1984 he returns to mainstream fantasy with eight stunning stories that reveal an astonishing mastery of the shorter form. Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere mysticism & menace including The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; The Killing Stroke in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; & Penance a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield searching for the dying. Spellbinding unpredictable & always entertaining this new collection displays the remarkable imagination & extraordinary range of a writer at the height of his powers & confirms Stephen Donaldsons position as a master of modern fantasy. ...

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.. . Working as a lady's companion the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until on a trip to the South of France she meets Maxim de Winter a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous & brooding Manderley the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. & the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers.. . Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love & the struggle to find her identity. ...

Daphne du Mauriers haunting classic read by Emilia Fox Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Mauriers finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley
- an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea its owner Max de Winter & his new young wife...and of course Rebecca.
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Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children but is full of fun & strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm & goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro. There she goes to school for the first time embarks on a madcap scheme to sell soap nearly runs away befriends the kindly stagecoach driver Jeremiah Cobb & with ' Mr Aladdin' helps repair her family's fortunes. ...

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- & two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child & a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt she warned she'd come back to haunt him. Now it seems she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story the 'truth' has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change.. . ...

A.D. 1305. An hour before dawn. Londons Smithfield prison. In a dank cell the outlaw William Wallace waits to be executed at first light. He is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last confession
- the confession of a life even more exciting violent & astonishing than the legend that survived. From internationally bestselling author Jack Whyte comes a story of brutal battles & high adventure of heroism & redemption
- the story of William Wallace as the world has never heard it before.

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No ordinary fairy tale... Linden is a feisty faery with a lot on her mind. She her fellow faeries are under threat: their magic is fading & if they do not act fast they will die... When Linden meets Timothy a human staying in the house opposite her Oak she knows he can help. Together they embark on a dangerous journey to seek more magic
- & discover that there is more to fear from other faeries than they could ever have imagined.
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The Rebel" is Camuss attempt to understand the time I live in & a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951 it makes a daring critique of communism how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain & the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing the French Revolution of 1789 & the Russian Revolution of 1917 that had resulted he believed in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice & a chance to achieve change without giving up collective & intellectual freedom." ...

In this thrilling sequel Gemma continues to pursue her destiny to bind the magic of the Realms & restore it to the Order. Gemma & her friends from Spence use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted world of Victorian London (at the height of the Christmas season) to the visionary country of the Realms with its strange beauty & menace. There they search for the lost Temple the key to Gemmas mission & comfort Pippa their friend who has been left behind in the Realms. After these visits they bring back magical power for a short time to use in their own world. Meanwhile Gemma is torn between her attraction to the exotic Kartik the messenger from the opposing forces of the Rakshana & the handsome but clueless Simon a young man of good family who is courting her. This is the second book in Libba Brays engrossing trilogy set in a time of strict morality & barely repressed sensuality about a girl who saw another way. ...

Ricky Rocket loves flying through the Canyons & Spin Tubes in the park. But whos that zooming past in the Rebel 250 Flyer with the Evil Lord Vorg badge? & will Rickys little sister just keep quiet? Join Ricky on his exciting space adventures! ...