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  Far Above Rubies

  Netta Syrett

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  Netta Syrett was born Janet Syrett on 17th March 1865 in Ramsgate, Kent, one of 13 children. 
   
  She was initially educated at home by her mother before those responsibilities passed to a German Governess and then, aged 11, Netta went to the North London Collegiate School. From there she attended Hughes Hall, Cambridge and completed a three-year course for a full teaching certificate in only one year. 
   
  She taught for two years at a Swansea school before moving to teach at the London Polytechnic School for Girls.  
   
  Her friend and colleague, Mabel Beardsley, introduced her to her brother, Aubrey, the famed illustrator and the then art editor for the illustrated quarterly ‘The Yellow Book’, and its literary editor, the American Henry Harland, who then published 3 of her short stories. Her writing is also notable for its use of women characters who were less dependent on others and the society around them and were able to forge new independent paths. 
   
  Her debut novel, ‘Nobody's Fault’ (1896) was the beginning of a long and prolific output. For the next several years her writing and teaching careers ran alongside each other.   
   
  A highly critical review of her controversial, for those times, play ‘The Finding of Nancy’ suggesting it was an autobiography led to calls from overly moral parents for her to resign her teaching position.  Netta now concentrated solely on her writing, only retiring in 1939. 
   
  Netta Syrett died after a long illness in London on 15th December 1943.

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  Anything You Say Can and Will Be...

  Laurie Lynn Drummond

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  This riveting debut collection of short fiction about women cops comes from the author's real–life experience as a Baton Rouge police officer. In an entirely fresh and unique voice, these stories reveal the humanity, compassion, humour, tragedy and redemption hidden behind the "blue wall." Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You centres on the lives of five female police officers. Each woman's story–like each call in a police officer's day–varies in its unique drama, but all the tales illuminate the tenuous line between life and death, violence and control, despair and salvation. Because the stories come from the author's own experience, they open a curtain on the truth behind the job–how officers are trained to deal with the smell of death, how violence clings to a crime scene long after the crime is committed, how the police determine when to engage in or diffuse violence, why some people make it from the academy to the force and some don't, and all the friendships, romances, and dramas that happen along the way. It illuminates not only how officers feel while they are in uniform, holding their guns, but also what they feel after they go home and put those guns aside.

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  Ship Fever - Stories

  Andrea Barrett

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  The 1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction from "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) Andrea Barrett that introduces the characters of Barrett's vividly imagined world. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. And in "The Littoral Zone," two marine biologists wonder whether their life-altering affair finally was worth it. In the tradition of Alice Munro and William Trevor, these exquisitely rendered fictions encompass whole lives in a brief space. As they move between interior and exterior journeys, "science is transformed from hard and known fact into malleable, strange and thrilling fictional material" (Boston Globe).

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  The Shadows

  Henry S. Whitehead

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  Dr Henry St Clair Whitehead ( 1882-1932) was an American clergyman and teacher who became famous for his creepy tales of magic and voodoo published in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1920s.'The Shadows' is a tale from the West Indies about Mr. Stewart, an American who moves into an old house, locally known as Morris' House. Morris has been dead for several decades, but nobody seems keen to tell Mr. Stewart anything about the circumstances of Morris' death.But after he has been in the house for a few nights, he starts to see strange apparitions of ancient furniture in his bedroom, and he realises that he must find out what happened to Morris. As he sets out to solve the mystery, the apparitions intensify and become more and more sinister....

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  Instructions for a Funeral -...

  David Means

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  Following the publication of his widely acclaimed Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means here returns to his signature form: the short story. Thanks to his four previous story collections, Means has won himself an international reputation as one of the most innovative short fiction writers working today: an “established master of the form.” (Laura Miller, The Guardian).Instructions for a Funeral — featuring work from The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and VICE — finds Means branching out beyond the explorations of violence and trauma with which he is often identified, prominently displaying his sly humor and his inimitable way of telling tales that deliciously wind up to punch the reader in the heart. With each story Means pushes into new territory, writing with tenderness and compassion about fatherhood, marriage, a homeless brother, the nature of addiction, and the death of a friend at the hands of a serial-killer nurse. Means transmutes a fistfight in Sacramento into a tender, life-long love story; two FBI agents on a stakeout in the 1920s into a tale of predator and prey, paternal urges and loss; a man’s funeral instructions into a chronicle of organized crime, real estate ventures, and the destructive force of paranoia.Means’ work has earned him comparisons to Flannery O’Connor, Alice Munro, Sherwood Anderson, Denis Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver, but his place in the American literary landscape is fully and originally his own.

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  The Rivals of Dracula

  Nick Rennison

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  Bram Stoker's Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897. But the bloodsucking Count was not the only member of the undead to bare his fangs in the literature of the period. Late Victorian and Edwardian fiction is full of vampires and this anthology of scary stories introduces modern readers to fifteen of them. A travel writer in Sweden unleashes something awful from an ancient mausoleum. A psychic detective battles a vampire that has taken refuge in an Egyptian mummy. A nightmare becomes reality in the tower room of a gloomy country house. The Rivals of Dracula is a collection of classic tales to chill the blood and tingle the spine, including the following stories:
  Alice & Claude Askew - 'Aylmer Vance and the Vampire'
  EF Benson - 'The Room in the Tower'
  Mary Cholmondeley - 'Let Loose'
  Ulric Daubeny - 'The Sumach'
  Augustus Hare - 'The Vampire of Croglin Grange'
  Julian Hawthorne - 'Ken's Mystery'
  E and H Heron - 'The Story of Baelbrow'
  MR James - 'Count Magnus'
  Vernon Lee - 'Marsyas in Flanders'
  Richard Marsh - 'The Mask'
  Hume Nisbet - 'The Vampire Maid'
  Frank Norris - 'Grettir at Thorhall-stead'
  Phil Robinson - 'Medusa'
  HB Marriott Watson - 'The Stone Chamber'

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