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  Short Stories Set on The Sea -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells,...

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  From placid and glimmering to foaming and raging the sea is a perfect mirror of the human condition.  Our authors often place their characters on or about this vast mass that can be either friend or foe.  This liquid character has many dimensions, many ways of speaking.   
   
  01 - Short Stories Set on the Sea - An Introduction 
  02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  03 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells 
  04 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo 
  05 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
  06 - A Saga of the Seas by Kenneth Grahame 
  07 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant 
  08 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  09 - South West and by West Three-Quarters West by Frederick Marryat  
  10 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale 
  11 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs 
  12 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester 
  13 - The Sea Voyage by Charles Lamb 
  14 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope

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  The Best Days of Our Lives - A...

  Helen Rolfe

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  The gorgeous and emotional new novel from Helen Rolfe, perfect for fans of Shari Low, Cathy Bramley and Lucy Diamond ❤️ 
  When Mallory receives life-shattering news, she decides to use this summer to make sure her family and friends are prepared for whatever might come. 
  But Mallory has a challenge when it comes to her mother, Gigi. Following the loss of her husband, Gigi is lonely. So when Mallory makes a shocking discovery that shows a new side to Gigi's relationship with her estranged sister Rose, she decides to intervene and make a last attempt to reunite them. 
  Returning to her mother’s quiet hometown, Mallory and her cousin Penny try to get to the bottom of a dispute that has lasted more than sixty years, involving a lost wedding dress and a heartbreaking secret. But with Rose and Gigi determined to ignore their daughters’ efforts, will Mallory be able to put her affairs in order before it’s too late? 
  Readers love Helen Rolfe's books! 
  'A gorgeous story of love, loss, best friends and unbreakable bonds. It truly melted my heart' Shari Low 
  ‘I really loved this book! I ended up devouring it all in just two sittings…’ Jo Bartlett 
  ‘Helen Rolfe is an absolute specialist at building cosy communities and making me want to live there. I want the characters as my friends!’ Sue Moorcroft 
  'A beautiful tale exploring the bonds of family and friendship and how strong these are when tested. Loved it' Jessica Redland 
  ‘This incredibly special book celebrates friendship. It is rich with perfectly flawed characters and relatable themes that had me visiting many emotions. Ultimately, it’s perfect and I can highly recommend it’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘ This is an excellent book, it will take your emotion on a roller coaster ride’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  'Good book throughout, couldn't put it down. Loved how it ended’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  'It's a Helen Rolfe book, so it's worthy of nothing less than five stars!’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘Barely a chapter in and I was hooked and knew I’d love it’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘I have never read anything by Helen Rolfe before but I really enjoyed this book. I was hooked from the first chapter, I loved the setting of the story’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘A must read!!’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 
  ‘Brilliant characters, a great storyline and an absolute delight to read’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review

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  The Wendigo

  Algernon Blackwood

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  A monster lurks in the Canadian forests. If the legends are to be believed, a small band of hunters is about to meet the Wendigo.  
  The legend of the Wendigo originates from folk stories from the Plains and Great Lakes Native Americans. The creature is a malevolent spirit, known to possess and even eat humans.  
  Algernon Blackwood crafts this ghostly tale masterfully, filling it with atmosphere, tension, and drama.

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  The Cats of Ulthar - From their...

  H P Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural.  
  Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of his own, peopled by creatures out of his own weird imagination.  
  As an adult he was retiring, almost a recluse. Tall, thin and pale, but with bright alert eyes, he was much given to wandering his native city in the dark hours of the night, and he became a devoted student of its antiquities.  
  Although he began to write early he had nothing published until he was in his twenties. He set many of his stories around the imaginary town of Arkham, and invented an entire mythology of his own, its core being the demoniac cult of Cthulhu, based on the lore or legend that the world was at one time inhabited by another race who, in practising black magic, lost their foothold or were expelled, yet live on outside, ever ready to take possession of this earth again. 
  Since his early death in 1937 his stories have continued to attract attention and praise from an ever-growing audience.

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  Esme - From their pens to your...

  Saki Saki

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  Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’ was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother the daughter of a Rear Admiral. 
  When he was 2 his mother died and he and his siblings were sent back to England to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts in a strict, puritanical household near Barnstaple, Devon. Educated by governesses Saki used many of these women as character models for his later writing. 
  At 17 his father retried and returned to England and then embarked on a series of European travels with Saki and his siblings. 
  After a short stint working in Burma with the Indian Imperial Police Saki decided to move to London to make a living as a writer. Initially he wrote as a journalist for a number of newspapers and magazines before attempting an historical study, ‘The Rise of the Russian Empire’, whose real value lay in directing him to writing short stories instead, the first of which, ‘Dogged’, he published in 1899. 
  From here it was a short stab of the pen to writing political satire before in 1902 he became the foreign correspondent for The Morning Post, first in the Balkans, then Russia, Paris and back to London in 1908, where 'the agreeable life of a man of letters with a brilliant reputation awaited him.'  
  Collections of his short stories full of witty, mischievous and often macabre stories that satirized Edwardian society and two novels now appeared in the years up to the Great War.  At its’ outbreak he was 43 but managed to join as an ordinary trooper. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially too sick or injured.  
  On 14th November 1916 Hector Hugh Munro was sheltering in crater during the Battle of the Ancre, when he was shot and killed by a German sniper. According to several sources, his last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!"

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  Mr Kempe

  Walter de la Mare

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a small, forgotten village where time seems to stand still, a former teacher meets the mysterious Mr. Kempe. This extraordinary man has dedicated his life to exploring the secrets of life after death. As their conversation unfolds, the atmosphere becomes increasingly unsettling, and the boundary between reality and dream begins to blur. Do you dare to immerse yourself in this tale full of ambiguity and subtle tension? "Mr. Kempe" by Walter de la Mare is a story that will captivate you from the first page and refuse to let you forget it.

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