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? ...

The high-profile death of David Kelly is still regarded by many as suspicious & the events surrounding it as unfinished business. Norman Baker has carried out extensive research & argues that the verdict of suicide is not credible. The traditional inquest was replaced by the Hutton Report which proved unsatisfactory in so many ways. The book looks in detail at the motives for the unlawful death of Dr Kelly & the various possibilities of who could be involved
- before sensationally coming to the most likely scenario to be revealed for the first time on publication. The book also analyses & criticises the official process instigated after his death putting the entire episode into its British political context & looking at the actions of government particularly in relation to the Iraq war.
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When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling stately home; a centuries-old church; & a recently planted maze a memorial to the men of the village almost all of whom died in one heroic battle in 1916. But it soon becomes clear to Laurence that while rest of the country is alight with hope for the first time since the end of the War as the first Labour government takes power the Wiltshire village is haunted by its tragic past. In 1911 five-year-old Kitty Easton disappeared from her bed & has not been seen since: only her fragile mother believes still she is alive. When a family trip to the Empire Exhibition in London ends in disaster & things take an increasingly sinister turn Laurence struggles to find out what has happened as it seems that the fate of the house the men & of Kitty herself may be part of a much longer darker story of love betrayal
- & violence.
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Strange Meetings" provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918 written through a series of actual encounters or near-encounters from Siegfried Sassoons first blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys & bacon at Eddie Marshs breakfasts before the war through famous moments like Sassoons encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas widow & Ivor Gurney in 1932; & the last strange lunch & longish talk of Sassoon & David Jones in 1964 half a century after the great war began. Among the other poets & writers we encounter are Vera Brittain Roland Leighton Robert Graves Isaac Rosenberg Robert Nichols & Edmund Blunden. Ricketts unusual approach allows him to follow their relationships marking their responses to each others work & showing how these affected their own poetry
- one potent strand for example is the profound influence of Brooke both as a model to follow & a burden to reject. The stories become intensely personal & vivid
- we come to know each of the poets their family & intellectual backgrounds & their very different personalities. & while the accounts of individual lives achieve the imaginative vividness of a novel they also give us an entirely fresh sense of Georgian poetry conveying all the excitement & frustration of poetic creation & demonstrating how the whole notion of what poetry should be about became fractured & changed for ever by the terrible experiences of the war."

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Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918 written through a series of actual encounters or near-encounters from Siegfried Sassoons first blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys & bacon at Eddie Marshs breakfasts before the war through famous moments like Sassoons encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomass widow & Ivor Gurney in 1932; & the last strange lunch & longish talk of Sassoon & David Jones in 1964 half a century after the great war began. Among the other poets & writers we encounter are Vera Brittain Roland Leighton Robert Graves Isaac Rosenberg Robert Nichols & Edmund Blunden. Rickettss unusual approach allows him to follow their relationships marking their responses to each others work & showing how these affected their own poetry
- one potent strand for example is the profound influence of Brooke both as a model to follow & a burden to reject. The stories become intensely personal & vivid
- we come to know each of the poets their family & intellectual backgrounds & their very different personalities. & while the accounts of individual lives achieve the imaginative vividness of a novel they also give us an entirely fresh sense of Georgian poetry conveying all the excitement & frustration of poetic creation & demonstrating how the whole notion of what poetry should be about became fractured & changed for ever by the terrible experiences of the war.

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For over thirty years John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter to escaping summary execution in Beirut flying into Teheran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini & narrowly avoiding entrapment by a beautiful Czech secret agent Simpson has had an astonishingly eventful career. In 1989 he witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre the fall of the Berlin Wall & the collapse of Communism throughout Eastern Europe & only weeks later in South Africa the release of Nelson Mandela. With Simpsons uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time this autobiography is a ring-side seat at every major event in recent global history. So vivid I could feel my heart beating Jonathan Mirsky Spectator great stories sometimes harrowing sometimes hilarious.
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To avoid disappointment please note this novel was previously titled THE GALLOWS BIRD. Scandinavian crime sensation & No. 1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg's fourth psychological thriller
- for fans of Stieg Larsson & Jo Nesbo A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash. It's a strange accident
- the victim's blood contains high alcohol levels but she rarely drank a drop. The case marks the end of a quiet winter for Detective Patrik Hedstrom. Meanwhile a reality TV show begins shooting in the town & as cameras shadow the stars' every move tempers start to flare. When a drunken party ends with an unpopular contestant's murder all eyes turn to the cast & crew
- could there be a murderer among them? The ratings spike as the country tunes in to a real life murder mystery. Under the unforgiving media spotlight Patrik tackles his toughest investigation yet...


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' It's hard to admit but you're not the son I once knew...' The obliterated battlefields of Spain are a world away from the privileged life of James Montague. Only nurse Catalina Moreno eases the deafening roar of mortar fire-and in a crumbling chapel by candlelight they make their vows. But before the sheets cool from their scorching wedding night Jamie has to leave on a brutally dangerous mission... Two years later believing her husband dead Catalina is shocked to see a man who looks & sounds like her Jamie at Castonbury-but where once there was warmth & charm now unflinching torment lies in the gaze of the man she barely recognises... ...