Son of a Stranger

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Shapiro, Juliette

Mystery

Egerton House Pub

Contained between sunfall and dawn of a single night, Tanith Lee’s 'Death of the Day' sets out to investigate not only a string of bizarre deaths, but the facades behind which men and women exist.   An intriguing detective novel, darkly lit and ominously rich.  Tanith Lee’s debut crime novel, proudly reissued by Telos Publishing in a superb new edition.  ‘A complex tale of tangled relationships among a decaying landscape full of bad omens and tangible menace.’ – Guardian.

Death Of The Day

Lee/Tanith

An experiment goes insanely wrong. A man disappears. His son, Elliot, with the help of eccentric tutor, Dr Leggitt, and a small rather unpleasant smelling dog by the name of J Edgar, must set out to find him.In a world where dreams are reality and nightmares wait in the wings, Elliot Abbott becomes an adventurer. Time is running out. People and obstacles thwart the boy's progress. The nightmare has begun, but will a dream come true?

The Nightflight Dreamship

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Subject - Philosophy The mature thought of the political philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, is shot through with reflections on central human values and on humanness. But how does Berlin know they are central? And that the traits and limits of humanness are as he believes them to be? These questions are explored in this short, and accessible analysis. Considering insights of many kinds - political, metaphysical, and religious - a reading of Berlin's views is given which is surprising but shows them to be compelling, defensible, and of continuing importance. This book argues for an interpretation of Berlin's views that will interest students of politics, philosophy and religions, in particular Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, although Berlin had no religious, confessional, beliefs as such.

Human Nature And Human Values: Interpreting Isaiah Berlin

Politics & Social Sciences

COLES, Norman

Philosophy

Fatal Women

TANITH LEE WRITING AS ESTHER GARBER

London 1992.  Four ex-psychiatric patients are bequeathed a Victorian asylum by their psychoanalyst.  Jerusalem Lamb, madman, lurks in the Church of Rust, a magpie-faced God chooses his victims, the Voices cheer him on. Devastation and secrets unfurl. And the circus is coming to town...    'A dark and twisted slant on the lunatics running the asylum, including a serial killer who would have Michael Meyers running for his mother.' Neal Asher   'It's as if Monty Python decided to produce Peake's Gormenghast. Other times, it's Lewis Carroll's version of Silence of the Lambs.  ...There's nothing quite like it.' Craig Gidney   'This account of madness, violence and other wordly is expansive and self aware.   ...Ghastly, ridiculous, poignant and beautiful.' Farren Miller   Locus Magazine   'A remarkable, haunting and atmospheric novel.' Sarah Singleton

Fossil Circus

Kaiine, John

Genre Fiction

The Darcys : Scenes from Married Life

Romance

Furley, Phyllis

After her mother breaks her neck, falling down a marble staircase, Esther goes to Paris. Amoral, (perhaps justifiably) paranoid, Esther is a survivor, but on her first night in a city made of river and rain, she is seduced by the elusive and phantasmal Julie d'Ouest. Though previously often raped and manhandled, never before has the jaundiced Esther known sexual pleasure. What can she do, but set off in pursuit of this demon lover, across a landscape mazed with all the helpers and hinderers of a mythic quest. Yet, as the narrative unfolds, threading between England, France before the wars, and Egypt apparently at the turn of the century, the text seems flavoured with anachronisms, discrepancies. Is Esther, writing from a later, modern era, (under the eye of her put-upon sister, Anna) letting her memory play tricks on her? Is the world of her recollection real - or is it a game, a dream, an escape from illness and frustration; the land of What-might-have-been.

Thirtyfour

Beginning twenty-five years after Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding, their life together has been wonderful and their marriage is still thriving. Their grown children bring them great delight, along with some trepidation, Mrs. Darcy's nieces come for a visit, and a theatrical scandal threatens to embroil them all. The Victorian age is dawning, and Pemberley's new generation is coming into their own. "The very title makes you want to read it right away! Fascinating, ans such wonderful use of language." --Joan Austen-Leigh "Birchall's witty, elegant visit to the middle-aged Darcys is a delight." --Professor Janet Todd, University of Glasgow ""A refreshing and entertaining look at the Darcys some years after Pride and Prejudice from a most accomplished author. --Jenny Scott, author of After Jane

Mrs Darcy's Dilemma: A sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Birchall, Diana

In this sequel to Jane Austen's Emma Mrs. Elton goes farther! Crossing the Atlantic Ocean with her caro sposo and children, she enjoys high comedic adventures in Boston and New York society, makes a sobering visit to a Southern slave state, and sojourns among the Comanche Indians. It's no wonder her trip to America is all the talk of Highbury... Diana Birchall, who successfully took Mrs. Elton's side in her "In Defense of Mrs. Elton," here reprinted, tells more of her story: "The Courtship of Mrs. Elton" and the adventurous "Mrs. Elton in America" finish "The Compleat Mrs. Elton" trilogy.

Mrs Elton In America: The Compleat Mrs Elton

Literary

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