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  Stories - Conversations On A...

  Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker,...

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  Conversations happen everywhere.  A few words to pass the time or a detailed examination of views.  But on trains they seem to be different.  Speaking whilst in motion gives the whole discussion a momentum that often takes us into uncharted territory.

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  The Voyageur - 'A marvellous...

  Paul Carlucci

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  'Exceptionally vivid and intense' Sunday Times
  'A marvellously dark yarn' The Spectator
  'A swaggering debut' Daily Mail
  Everyone expects at least a little bit of deception...
  Alex is a motherless stockboy in 1830s Montreal, waiting desperately for his father to return from France. Serge, a drunken fur trader, promises food and safety in return for friendship, but an expedition into the forest quickly goes awry...
  The Voyageur is a brilliantly realised novel set on the margins of British North America, where kindness is costly and the real wilderness may not be in the landscape but in the desperate hearts of men.

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  A Pretty Fortune

  Andrew Wareham

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  Captain Nicholas Turnhouse—Bloody Nick—takes his new experimental Amphion-class heavy frigate out to the Mediterranean to join the command of Old Jervie, Lord St Vincent, immediately after the Battle of the Nile. 
   
   
   
  His ship is new and powerful . . . and sails like a pig. He must make the best of it under the command of the harshest, but possibly fairest, taskmaster in the Navy. 
   
   
   
  There are still a few rich prizes left, and any number of belligerent French and Spanish ships of war, and the Barbary Rovers are enjoying their final resurgence. 
   
   
   
  For a young captain still making his name the Mediterranean has a great deal to offer, with the ever-present possibility of losing all if he takes too great a risk. 
   
   
   
  Although he has left his beloved young wife behind, Bloody Nick is off to enjoy himself again.

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  The Mortal Edge

  Alan Paisey

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  An unusual partnership was strained to the limits when the man was moved into the barren interior, with a small number of others, to a ramshackle and grossly neglected school building in an abandoned village at a great distance from the city.
  
  The woman fought the enemy, suffering physical wounding in his absence.
  
  When captured, the enemy put his skills to the opposite purposes that had been intended, compelling him to fight a long-standing ignominy in his mind, variously employing him for wildly different tasks.
  
  He encountered a series of chance liaisons with women in bizarre circumstances – including the nurse who saved him from typhoid, a woman captive later assassinated, a policewoman killed by a tripwire, a cousin he never knew he had, and the consul of a foreign country.
  
  He himself finally fled in propitious circumstances to solve his personal mental problem. After fifteen years of anguish, by a most fortuitous event, he recovered his long-lost partner.

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  3 Stories with Pregnant Main...

  Elinor Mordaunt, Emily Pauline...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
   
  01 - 3 Stories with Pregnant Main Characters 
  02 - The Landlady by Elinor Mordaunt 
  03 - The Moccasin Maker. The Derelict by Emily Pauline Johnson 
  04 - A Dreamer by Barbara Baynton

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  Ultima Thule - A supernatural...

  Stefan Grabinski

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is the very talented author of macabre, fantastic and horror fiction, the Polish writer Stefan Grabiński.

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