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  The Early History of the Airplane

  Orville Wright

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  The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot to steer the aircraft, which made fixed wing powered flight possible. The Early History of the Airplane consists of three short essays about the beginnings of human flight. The second essay retells the first flight: This flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started. (Introduction by Availle)

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  Welcome to Gothic

  Christina Dodd

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  New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd welcomes you to Gothic, California—the mysterious village with a foggy history… WELCOME TO THE PASTAt the glittering heart of Hollywood’s golden era stands the regal Gothic Palace Theater—the pinnacle of thrilling shows, opulent décor, and the biggest stars of stage and screen. Here, drama unfolds on and off the stage. WELCOME TO THE PRESENTToday, in the abandoned backstage, fitness guru Wendy Giordano is knocked unconscious and wakes to find herself performing a daredevil stunt in the Gothic Palace Theater…in glamorous 1940. WELCOME TO GOTHICWendy is swept into the hypnotic bygone world of desperate gamblers, powerful divas and one tormented actor who might be her ideal man. Can she save a child and stop a murder before time once more sweeps her away from all she has come to love?

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  Mutiny - A Novel of the Bounty

  John Boyne

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  “Enthralling . . . Boyne’s novel can stand comparison with William Golding’s Rites of Passage . . . Mutiny is storytelling at its most accomplished.” —The Independent (UK) 
   
  Internationally bestselling author John Boyne has been praised as “one of the best and original of the new generation of Irish writers” by the Irish Examiner. With Mutiny, he’s created an eye-opening story of life—and death—at sea. 
   
  Fourteen-year-old pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile has just been caught red-handed and is on his way to prison when an offer is put to him—a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail with an important mission. The boy who was expected to serve as the captain’s personal valet has been injured and a replacement must be found immediately. 
   
  Given the choice of prison or a life at sea, John soon finds himself on board, meeting the captain, just as the ship sets sail. The ship is the Bounty, the captain is William Bligh, and their destination is Tahiti. Their journey, however, will become one of the most infamous in naval history. 
   
  Mutiny is the first novel to explore all the events relating to the Bounty’s voyage, from the long passage across the ocean to their adventures on the island of Tahiti and the subsequent forty-eight-day expedition toward Timor. This vivid retelling of the notorious mutiny is packed with humor, violence, and historical detail, while presenting an intriguingly different portrait of Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian than has ever been presented before. 
   
  “The writing grows into a mesmerizing tour-de-force . . . this is a remarkable and compelling piece of storytelling.” —The Irish Times

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  Sherlock Holmes and A Portrait...

  Paisley MacDonald

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  What if the dead could sit for their portrait? 
  London, 1889. When Mrs. Viola Marston brings three seemingly ordinary photographs to 221B Baker Street, she presents Sherlock Holmes with a case like no other. In each portrait—taken weeks apart, in different rooms, by a reputable studio—a veiled woman in mourning dress stands at the edge of the frame. No one present recalls seeing her. No one can explain how she appeared on the glass plates. And when Mrs. Marston’s brother, Felix Dane, recognises the spectral figure and whispers a name he has not spoken in years, he vanishes into the London fog. 
  Holmes and Watson are drawn into a web of deception that stretches from the elegant portrait studios of Regent Street to the fog-shrouded warehouses of Limehouse—and into the buried history of a woman destroyed by the very family now haunted by her image. What they uncover is not a ghost, but something far more unsettling: a grieving man of extraordinary skill who has turned the camera’s claim to truth into a weapon of conscience. 
  At stake is more than one man’s freedom. It is the question Holmes finds most difficult to resolve: what does justice look like when the law has no answer, and the guilty walk free? 
  A richly atmospheric mystery of photographic illusion, Victorian social injustice, and the riddle that only the great detective can solve—not with logic alone, but with something rarer still: moral reckoning.

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  Charlotte Temple

  Susanna Rowson

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  Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dashing soldier, Montraville. Influenced by both her lover and an unruly teacher at her boarding school, she is persuaded to run away to America, where she is eventually abandoned by Montraville after he becomes bored, leaving her alone and pregnant. First published in England in 1791, it went on to become America's bestselling novel, only being ousted by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Summary by BumbleVee)

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  Sacrificial Man The: Don’t miss...

  Ruth Dugdall

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  ‘Reading this book was like a drug. I could not put it down’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Chilling, gripping and stomach-lurchingly twisted’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A deadly choice in the name of love. 
  Probation officer Cate Austin faces the highest‑profile case of her career: Alice Mariani, a celebrated university lecturer, has been charged with assisting in the death of her lover. But at what point does a private pact become a public crime? 
  Every interview with Alice peels back another layer of secrecy. As media and campaigners swarm the courtroom, Cate is forced into a legal blind spot — and a brutal dilemma. 
  Will a lover's last request become a deadly price to pay? 
  Don't miss this gripping thriller, perfect for fans of Joy Ellis from award-winning, Kindle #1 bestselling author Ruth Dugdall, as discussed on Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’.Readers love The Sacrificial Man: 
  'Gripping, original, authentic' Erin Kelly 
  ‘Ruth Dugdall has the ability to get under a character’s skin so thoroughly that they seem real, making them all the more scary’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'Another dark and disturbing read in a brilliant series'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'I would strongly recommend this to anyone who likes thrillers with bizarre and unsuspecting twists'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'There has always been something exceptional about the words written by Ruth Dugdall'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  This latest fiction story is a top novel of obsession, ethics, and the dangerous space between mercy and murder. Pre-order the up-coming sequel for a final twist that makes these stories impossible to forget. 
  For fans of Mark Edwards (The Wasp Trap), Kate Morton (The Lake House), Freida Mcfadden (The Boyfriend), and Gayle Curtis (Memory Scents). 
  HarperCollins 2026

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