General & literary fiction Books

Recovering from a serious psychological meltdown local journalist Jack Compton gets his big break. In July 1994 an 'unusual incident' occurs at Brookwood railway station in leafy Surrey and he's sent to investigate.What happens next is a 'Pandora's Box'...

Questa collana raccoglie una serie di nove brevi racconti che narrano dei rapporti umani, siano essi di amicizia, d'amore, familiari, ma che hanno in comune la semplice quotidianità della vita, come se un occhio indiscreto si soffermasse per un momento...

Lowestoft Library Writers' Group presents their third anthology. Using the prompt Seasons as a springboard for their creativity, the group has produced a refreshingly original body of work.

I saw an immense room like a big ball room with very large dining tables all dressed with white cloth and fine linen. Golden plates and cups were about to be set on the tables and Angles were rushing up and down to prepare for this great feast!We are...

The Hopes are a typical English family living in 1989's Britain. It's a time when the country is going through immense change, and that's even before the brand new state-of-the-art Singlemart superstore opens up in their little midlands town, generating...

Mrs. Mabel Van Moo is an insane, overweight, middle-aged character that belongs to the theater of the grotesque, where only caricatures are admissible. The scenes of the situational comedy Spiffies and Loonies. in which she intervenes have been...

Un legato, vale a dire un lascito testamentario.Questo ? il materiale raccolto dal curatore, che lo trasmette ad un esperto per una valutazione.Ma cosa contiene esattamente?Un insieme di scritti, dai racconti agli aforismi, dai dialoghi agli editoriali,...

From the past to the present, we all share the same fears.The same insecurities and anxieties.These create obsessions that changes us as the years pass.They alter us, until we become something different.Something beautifully damaged and unique.And turn...

This is a collection of the scenes from the situational comedy Spiffies and Loonies in which intervenes Mrs. Hazel Twittle, a fiftyish prude and a dimwit that belongs to the theatre of the grotesque. At the beginning, she is a chambermaid. After she has...

David Erdos is an actor, writer, director, teacher, illustrator and composer with over 300 professional credits. He works for The International Times and consults for numerous arts organisations, record labels, theatre and production companies across the...

Birds and feathers are symbolic in most cultures of the world. The dove has symbolised peace, the phoenix is associated with regeneration or rebirth. Birds are often seen as messengers, indeed, pigeons have been used for this very purpose. Feathers...

[17] Metaparole (2009) interpreta l'intento comunicativo del Volume V in modo del tutto peculiare, modulante la forma tradizionale del 'glossario' con una tecnica organizzativa trasferita dall'informatica all'editoria cartacea. Le voci sono disposte in...

Life was going great for Alice Remmington, successful in business and happy in love. In fact things couldn't have been any better until one night when a seemingly stray bullet changed everything.Twenty years later Alice and her grown up son Alex take an...

Chris Mason is a reluctantly retired adman. He decides to head for the safety on the shores of a superannuated adfolks retreat, managing a successful beaching, without mishap, to become the bad influence everyone has been waiting for.Chris however hadn't...

Esta novela prehistórica ilustrada traslada a los lectores a una época lejana: 15.000 a. C., en plena Edad del Hielo. Lugar de acción: la región Franco-Cantábrica en el Suroeste de Europa. Nuestros antepasados nómadas sufren el clima adverso en el que...

100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians,...

Seven women and three men leave the city to avoid a pandemic. They isolate together in a local farm, where they pass the time working, flirting, eating, drinking, making music and above all telling stories. It happened in Florence in 1351, during the...

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband...

A strong debut... the highlight is Eva, a complex and thoughtful woman who finds herself in the midst of a significant moment in history. --Publishers Weekly

"'See Naples and die.' To Heddi those words ring true. There is nothing more heartbreakingly beautiful than this city built on Roman ruins and set against a sleeping volcano. Despite years of navigating the narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish...

Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village.

And even if a thousand times not; only parochialism can see in the trembling adherence of a rotting nobility the salvation of the state. He, Gus, knows and intuits, feels that the modern age is held in the conspirator Catiline, that his abettors are...

Drawn into fighting the environmental battle over African oil, Michael must decide who the real villains are and what he is prepared to fight for... At the end of his gap year helping children in a Nigerian school, Michael is swept up in the...

On a hot humid day, Tristan Blake is trying to hitch a ride past Kerikeri. It is summer in New Zealand, 2030: the temperature is rising, and Tristan is looking to get away from it all, after retiring from Peace-making army duty in the Middle East.An old...

Eighty-year-old George Castor promised he would never let his best friend Ralph die alone at the Silver Gardens Nursing Home--but Ralph passed on while George was away fishing. Distraught, guilt-stricken and seeking redemption, George buys a broken-down...

Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport...

Inspecting Psychology takes a sleuth's magnifying glass to the interplay between psychology, psychiatry and detective fiction to provide a unique examination of the history of psychology. As psychology evolved over the centuries, so did crime writing...

El Descendiente de la Piedra, más que un libro mágico acerca de la historia de tres ángeles que cayeron por enamorarse de tres prostitutas y su anhelo impaciente por un largo siglo por restablecerse a través del simple toque de un chico increíble que, a...

This book spans over half a century in the lives of two women, one dead and one in the midst of a mid-life rebirth. Although Tabby and Sarah have never met, they have both been drawn to the same location, a remote property in the wilds of West Virginia...

Morny is a little girl with a lively imagination. She wants her brother and sister to play with her, but it doesn't always work out as she thought it would.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...