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  Where Their Fire is Not Quenched...

  May Sinclair

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  Mary Amelia St. Clair was born on the 24th August 1863 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire.  
   
  Her father was a Liverpool shipowner who, after being made bankrupt, became an alcoholic and died whilst May was still a child.  The family then moved to Ilford, just outside London and, after a solitary year of education, May was required to stay home and help look after her older brothers, four of whom were suffering from fatal congenital heart disease. 
   
  Despite this difficult start May was determined to pursue a literary career. From 1896 May wrote professionally to support herself and her mother.  By the turn of the century she was producing not only poetry volumes but short stories, novels and some non-fiction.  She was an active feminist and supporter of the Suffrage Movement, her literary talents help to shred ideas that the suffragists were driven by sexual frustration because of the shortage of men.  
   
  Her 1913 novel ‘The Combined Maze’, the story of a London clerk and the two women he loves, was highly praised by many, including George Orwell, while Agatha Christie considered it one of the greatest English novels of its time. 
   
  In 1914, she volunteered to join the Munro Ambulance Corps on the Western Front in Flanders.  Although her time there was short-lived the experience was later reflected in both prose and poetry. 
   
  She published several poetry volumes as well as writing early criticism on Imagism and several poets of the movement.  Her novels were now also influenced by modernist techniques and her supernatural short stories are increasingly seen as valuable additions to the genre.  
   
  From the late 1920s, she suffered from the onset of Parkinson's disease, and her writing career was effectively over. 
   
  May Sinclair died on the 14th November 1946.  She was 83 and buried at St John-at-Hampstead's churchyard, London.

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  Thinner: Book summary & analysis

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  Experience the chilling power of vengeance in this gripping psychological thriller. When a single moment of reckless distraction brings a Romani curse upon him, a respected lawyer finds himself wasting away by the hour—his body betraying him in horrifying detail. Trapped between modern medicine’s helpless tests and ancient superstition’s merciless decree, he must confront the price of hubris and the true cost of empathy. Thrilling, haunting, and relentlessly paced, this audiobook will keep you on the edge of your seat—and remind you that every action carries a weight you cannot outrun.

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  The Prediction

  Mary Diana Dods

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  The Prediction by Mary Diana Dods, written under the psuedonym "David Lyndsay", is a captivating tale that delves into the intricate dance between fate and free will. Set against a backdrop of eerie foreboding, the story follows a protagonist who receives a chilling prophecy foretelling a catastrophic event that will alter the course of their life.

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  Mr Pigsny (Unabridged)

  Reggie Oliver

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  Reggie Oliver is a stage actor and playwright. His biography of Stella Gibbons was praised as "a triumph" by Hilary Spurling in the Daily Telegraph, his play Winner Takes All, was described as "the funniest evening in London", by Michael Billington in The Guardian, and his adaptation of Hennequin and Delacour's Once Bitten opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in December 2010.
  MR. PIGSNY: It was, I suppose, a typical gangster's funeral. There were the extravagantly insincere floral tributes: TO REG, A DIAMOND GEEZER in white carnations; there was 'My Way' played by the reluctant organist; there was the coffin borne by six burly, blackcoated
  thugs into a church which Reg would never have entered in his lifetime except to marry or to bury.

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  Frankenstein

  Mary Shelley

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  Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature’s hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein.
  Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with Nature? In our age, filled with news of organ donation genetic engineering, and bio-terrorism, these questions are more relevant than ever.
  
  ©2020 Pandora's Box (P)2020 Pandora's Box

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  The Vampires Of Greenwich...

  Arjay Lewis

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  He could use a break. With his wife expecting and the undead rising, he’s not going to get one… 
  Newly minted wizard and NYPD Detective Eddie Berman is burning the staff at both ends. Between his crime-fighting duties and the fast-approaching birth of his third child, he knows he’s staring down more sleepless nights. And when a drug bust exposes vampires attempting to fulfill a sinister prophecy, he’s in a race against time to stop them from raising the dead. 
  With an army of bloodsuckers and their king headed to a giant graveyard ceremony in Lower Manhattan, Eddie fears his fledgling sorcery won’t measure up. Because if he can’t disrupt the ritual, then The City That Never Sleeps will be doomed to a waking nightmare. 
  Can Eddie conjure up a greater power before his enemy hammers the last nail in his coffin? 
  The Vampires of Greenwich Village is the action-packed second book in the NYPD Wizard Detective series. If you like wicked humor, dark demons, and heroes stretched to the limit, then you’ll love Arjay Lewis’s pulse-pounding tale.

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