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‟Votes for Men” by Mary Cholmondeley, a tribute to the famous suffragist play „Votes for Women”. It begins with „in two hundred years, maybe less,” which tells you everything you need to know about this suffrage era suffrage allegory.
Winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for Fiction She's isolated. Trapped. Hunted. An almost unbearably tense Australian survival thriller. Not much daylight left now. So begins the field diary of Alix Verhoeven, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter on a remote island has turned into a terrifying ordeal. Hiding in a tiny cave, she carefully rations out her meagre supplies, while desperately trying to figure out how to escape the men hunting her. She is determined not to be a victim. What do they want with her? She knows it's nothing good - she overheard enough on that first night to flee. But now she's got little food or water, no way of calling for help, and only her skills as an exploration geologist and memories of Atkinson's Bushcraft Guide to survive. By day she is disciplined and lives by strict plans, but at night she finds herself haunted by questions about her life that she has never wanted to face. And her time is running out.Ver livro
The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Priory School" tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire, whose father is the very rich and famous Duke of Holdernesse. Huxtable explains that not only the boy has disappeared, but also the German master, Heidegger, along with his bicycle.Once in the North, the Duke says to Holmes that he does not think that his estranged wife has anything to do with his son's disappearance, nor has there been a ransom demand. Holmes establishes that the boy and his kidnappers could not have used the nearby road without being seen, suggesting that they went cross-country. As if to confirm this, the police find the boy's school cap in some gypsies' possession. They swear that they simply found it on the moor, but the police lock them up...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.Ver livro
Description： When Jade finds a foul-smelling teddy bear outside her dorm, she discovers the horrifying truth: inside is the severed, decaying head of her boyfriend, Evan. The autopsy confirms he died three days ago. But Jade is certain—she was just in bed with him thirty minutes ago. As police investigate the gruesome murder, Jade is haunted by guilt over their last explosive fight about their future. Now, Evan's vengeful spirit refuses to let her go. In the dead of night, his severed head whispers from her bedsheets, promising to follow her everywhere. Trapped between a brutal reality and a ghostly obsession, Jade must uncover how a man dead for days could be her lover—and why he's back from the grave. A chilling psychological thriller that blends supernatural horror with a twisted love story, perfect for fans of eerie campus mysteries and relentless paranormal suspense.Ver livro
Sherlock Holmes is called to the London Zoo to investigate the treacherous murder of an unusual victim. While Scotland Yard ascribes little significance to the case, Holmes believes he has uncovered a politically motivated assassination.Ver livro
In this action-packed caper novel, a long-retired cop gets wrapped up with a girl on the run Long-retired cop Fitch Henry Haut is terminally ill and living out his final years alone. As he sits in his favorite diner enjoying the meatloaf special, he watches as a young girl steps in and spots two rough-looking men at the counter. When they see her, she runs off and they give chase. His cop instincts kick in and Fitch follows, catching up with them in the parking lot. As the two men try to force her into their vehicle, Fitch manages to get the upper hand, and he and the girl take off in his broken-down Winnebago. The girl is Wren Jones, a runaway from an abusive foster home. Earlier that day she overheard the two men going on about a casino robbery they just committed, and this was the second time she got away from them that day. Fitch realizes the men will come hunting for them again, and that the ailing rig he’s driving won’t be hard to spot. A bond forms as Fitch and Wren struggle to escape out of town, both aware that time is not on their side.Ver livro
John Thompson, or JT as he christened himself, is in over his head. Failed relationships, drink, drugs, devastated finances and many other bad decisions leave him with no choice other than to run away. As the pressure reaches a crescendo he does it, he runs away. In his case just by staying on a train which ends up in Cornwall, here in beautiful Kingsand Cawsand, he thinks he will able to simply start again, many miles from the chaos he caused and the people who want to find him. Unfortunately the mess he left behind is looking for him, as are the police after a case of mistaken identity leaves a colleague dead. Will he escape, will he change to become a better person, will he live happily ever after in Cornwall or be dragged back to his real world. Listen in as the author, Marcus Harris, narrates JT's journey with all its trials and tribulations.Ver livro
