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  Gismondi's Wage

  Raphael Sabatini

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  Gismondi sits on his horse, breathing heavily and grinning, looking down at Messer Crespi, who is lying prostrate in the snow, and isn’t breathing at all. Gismondi’s next target – Duke Cesare Borgia. But what happens when the duke discovers Gismondi’s plans?  
  Raphael Sabatini was a legendary writer of adventure, penning such classic novels as Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, and Scaramouche. He also wrote several non-fiction titles and eight collections of short stories. 

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  The Cold Embrace - A Victorian...

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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  In a warning against the fickleness of youth and love, a young artist makes a promise he has no real desire to keep and from which he discovers there is no escape...The Cold Embrace is taken from the second volume of the Victorian Anthologies “Horror” series, featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known. With music by Benedict Edwards.

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  Summer Lies

  Bernhard Schlink

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  The truth is, as a character in this provocative new collection puts it, 'passionate, beautiful, and hideous, it can make you happy and it can torture you, and it's always liberating.' In 'After the Season,' a man of humble means falls quickly in love with a woman belonging to a much elevated financial status and wrestles with his feelings and his beliefs about the rich. A son takes his distant father to a Bach festival in 'Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen' only to learn that perhaps he was the one who was never really present in their relationship. And in 'The Night in Baden-Baden' a man who's caught in a lie changes his ways - by sleeping with another woman only after being accused.

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  G K Chesterton - Chapter & Verse...

  GK Chesterton

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse. 
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - G K Chesterton - An Introduction 
  2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  3 - The Song Against Songs by G K Chesterton 
  4 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 
  5 - The Song of Right and Wrong by G K Chesterton 
  6 - Americanisation by G K Chesterton 
  7 - The Englishman by G K Chesterton 
  8 - The Mystery by G K Chesterton 
  9 - Le Panto by G K Chesterton 
  10 - The Convert by G K Chesterton 
  11 - The Human Tree by G K Chesterton 
  12 - The Secret People by G K Chesterton 
  13 - The Last Hero by G K Chesterton 
  14 - A Prayer in Darkness by G K Chesterton 
  15 - A Ballad of Suicide by G K Chesterton 
  16 - The Rolling English Road by G K Chesterton 
  17 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton

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  The Story of a Disappearance and...

  M. R. James

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  Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), who wrote as M. R. James, was an English author, medieval scholar, and provost of King's College, Cambridge, and of Eton College. He is best known for his outstanding ghost stories. James reinvented the ghost story for the modern audience by moving away from Gothic elements and using realistic contemporary settings. His protagonists and plots often reflected his own antiquarian interests. "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance" is a strange tale told in the form of four mysterious letters. The writer's uncle, the rector in a small market town, has mysteriously disappeared in the days before Christmas. The writer of the letters has been summoned to help the search for the missing man. He writes every day to his brother to update him on events... and describes a series of most bizarre and inexplicable happenings.

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  Sea Trials

  Lilly Maytree

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  As the economy gets tighter and tighter, Stella Madison and her friends decide to pool their resources and move to Alaska. They set out in a monstrosity of a sailboat, called the Dreadnaught (that has obviously seen better days), with an old captain-turned-inventor at the helm, and each one of them signed on as a member of the crew. But Stella has never set foot on a boat in her life, and Alaska is over a thousand miles away--through wilderness places--before they even get there.  
  Here is the story of a rag-tag group of misfits trying to run away from life even as they drag it along behind them in flying colors. It isn't long before the question of whether they can make a success of the venture turns into whether they can depend on each other enough even to survive. The only sure thing is... they can't do it alone.

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