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  Imperial March - A Cultivation...

  Tao Wong

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  The march to the throne is littered with the bodies of the great and small in equal measure  
  Born an Imperial Prince, Qu Yuan always knew his options were to strive for the throne or escape. When he’s forced to put his escape plan into action too early, he’s forced out of the imperial palace into the countryside where the war for the throne rages.  
  Walking blood-soaked fields and burnt out villages, Qu Yuan will be forced to ask a simple question.  
  Is his search for immortality more important than the lives of his kingdom?

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  Night Tales With Cornelius...

  Stefan Shaw

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  Want to scare yourself to sleep?  
  Meet Night Tales With Cornelius Darkly.  
  Feel the wash of ambient music, listen to the tone of his voice as it slowly pulls you into the darkness… 
  Night Tales With Cornelius Darkly is both a love letter to traditional horror and a brand-new audio experience featuring original storytelling and a chilling, dreamy, electronic soundtrack created by artist James Kumo. This short story is broken down into bedtime chapters timed to drift off to. 
  Volume 1. An evil clown, a sea siren, a demon, a cult and…a child. How are they connected? 
  Dive in if you dare. 
  And remember to pull the covers tight. 
  Sweet dreams my friends…

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  The Con - A short story

  Vineet Verma

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  Love. Lies. Money. 
  Elsa Gardner's career as a con artist has seen better days. After a string of failures, she's broke and racked with self-doubt when another con man, Eddie, enters her life, providing a ray of hope. He offers her an opportunity that could resolve her financial issues forever. But her heart has other plans, and soon she must make a difficult decision - risk following her heart or take the safe path, no matter what the cost. 
  A delightfully tangled web of deceit and trickery!

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  The Vendetta - From their pens...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France.  
  Maupassant’s early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother Hervé was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong and independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace in order to obtain a legal separation from her husband. 
  After the separation, Laure kept custody of her two boys. With the father now forcibly absent, Laure became the most influential and important figure in the young boy's life.   
  Maupassant’s education was such that he rebelled against religion and other societal norms but a developing friendship with Gustave Flaubert began to turn his mind towards creativity and writing. 
  After graduation he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian war. With its end he moved to Paris to work as a clerk in the Navy Department.  Gustave Flaubert now took him under his wing.  Acting as a literary guardian to him, he guided the eager Maupassant to debuts in journalism and literature.  For Maupassant these were exciting times and the awakening of his creative talents and ambitions. 
  In 1880 he published what is considered his first great work, ‘Boule de Suif’, (translated as ‘Dumpling’, ‘Butterball’, ‘Ball of Fat’, or ‘Ball of Lard’) which met with a success that was both instant and overwhelming.  Flaubert at once acknowledged that it was ‘a masterpiece that will endure.’ Maupassant had used his talents and experiences in the war to create something unique.  
  This decade from 1880 to 1891 was to be the most pivotal of his career.  With an audience now made available by the success of ‘Boule de Suif’ Maupassant organised himself to work methodically and relentlessly to produce between two and four volumes of work a year.  The melding of his talents and business sense and the continual hunger of sources for his works made him wealthy. 
  In his later years he developed a desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death as well as a paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth.  
  On January 2nd, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat.  Unsuccessful he was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris.  It was here on July 6th, 1893 that Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant died at the age of only 42.

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  Mr Sprouts His Opinions A Night...

  Richard Whiteing

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Richard Whiteing.

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  Forward Slash

  Mark Edwards, Louise Voss

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  He's posted on your wall. 
  He's following you on Twitter. 
  He knows where you are right now… 
  When Amy receives an email from her older sister, Becky, announcing that she's off travelling and "don't try to find me", she is worried. Becky would never do such a thing on a whim. 
  Amy – who is recovering from an abusive relationship that has left her terrified of love – soon finds that Becky had started using online dating sites. Aided by Becky's neighbour, Gary, Amy sets about tracking down the men her sister had dated, following a trail that leads her into the darkly seductive world of internet hook-ups. 
  But Amy is unaware that a sadistic killer is watching – a killer who’s been using the internet to stalk, torture and kill. Now he’s got something very special planned for Amy and she is about to find out that romance really is dead. 
  The psychological suspense that Mark Edwards weaves in FORWARD SLASH is top-notch, plunging readers into the darkly seductive world of internet hook-ups. The action-packed adventure keeps you on the edge, making it one of the best thrillers of the year. 
  For fans of Tm Logan (The Daughter), Mark Edwards (The Wasp Trap), Claire Mcgowan (The First Girl), Freida Mcfadden (The Boyfriend), and Lisa Jewell (Don’t Let Him In).

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