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Stories of rural England tell of a widow moving back to London to live with her elderly father, a young man who returns from India to his country house, and a spinster who sees a dragon in the rain
An alien invasion which begins with the landing on Jerry Conklin's car of what looks like a huge black box changes life in Lone Pine, Minnesota, and threatens to destroy Earth's civilization
"When a group of kids explore a deserted, haunted plantation they befriend a young ghost and together uncover the dark secret of his past that led to his mysterious death"--
The island has always seemed such a safe place, such a friendly community.
' Historical Novel Society ‘Wonderful and evocative’ Suzanne Goldring ‘Based on true events, this is a powerful story’ Bella ‘Immersive, poignant, intricately woven’ Judith Kinghorn ‘An evocative read’ heat ‘The story left ...
—What other way do you think there is, man? —Well, there must be more than one of them. —Get them others for you some other time. —So what's the story about that other job? —What about it? —I talked to my foreman. That's your what about ...
The Visitors is a book that asks: What should humans do if a face-to-face encounter with aliens were to actually take place?
In 1952, George Adamski revealed to the world that he had seen alien spaceships and had met beings from Venus while driving with four friends from California to Arizona. Adamski, who wrote a book claiming to have met a visitor from a ...
Emily was nine years old when the Visitors came to Earth.
Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother, John in a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still...
... revised title : The Ruffian on the Stair Orton writes Entertaining Mr Sloane August : BBC Third Programme accepts The Boy Hairdresser ( Ruffian on the Stair ) 1964 John Kingsley Orton becomes Joe Orton 6 May : Entertaining Mr Sloane ...
An urgent decree by the World Federation of Nations to track down fugitive cyborg Houston Ye and clone Leanna Deberry leads to revelations about the secret operations within the Topas Corporation.
With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending ...
From the author of The Exhibition of Persephone Q, a chilling fable about the necessity--and impossibility--of productivity, art, and love in an age governed by capitalist logic.
A haunting tale of love and loss, The Visitors retells the legendary story of Carter and Carnarvon’s hunt and their historical discovery, witnessed through the eyes of a vulnerable child whose fate becomes entangled in their dramatic ...
The only thing missing is a project of her own. So she has poured heart and soul into converting their stone barn into a beautiful holiday rental. Things take a dark turn when visitors Mike and Nadia come to stay.
An alien invasion which begins with the landing on Jerry Conklin's car of what looks like a huge black box changes life in Lone Pine, Minnesota, and threatens to destroy Earth's civilization
An account of some of the remarkable foreigners who came to 19th-century Britain bringing with them new ideas, values and skills. These people succeeded in cracking open the country's insularity,...