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  Diplomacy - From their pens to...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  The Abandoned Property

  Vincent Proteau

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  Step into the extraordinary world of Still Waters, where the boundaries of reality blur, and alternate timelines converge. Embark on a mind-bending journey with Still Waters in The Abandoned Property, the latest installment in The Chronicles of Still Waters series. Still Waters, an Experiencer of The Phenomenon, takes you through the intricate layers of his consciousness as he unveils a mesmerizing tale of alternate timelines, dream states, and a mysterious abandoned property. 
  In this immersive narrative, follow Still Waters as he discovers a seemingly desolate land purchased by an enigmatic organization. As the story unfolds, what initially appears to be a misguided acquisition becomes a captivating odyssey into the construction of a Galactic Star Ship. Dive deep into the complexities of this spacefaring endeavor, where the boundaries between dreams and reality blur, revealing a world beyond imagination. 
  The Abandoned Property is a thought-provoking exploration of human ingenuity and the boundless possibilities that lie within the recesses of the mind. Brace yourself for a gripping adventure that challenges perceptions and leaves you questioning the nature of reality.

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  Tales From Edgar Allan Poe -...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here is a fifth collection of some of his best stories: The Pit and The Pendulum, A Descent Into The Maelstrom, and Mesmeric Revelation.

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  A Week of Shadows and Light - A...

  Luigi Pascal Rondanini

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  In A Week of Shadows and Light, the author presents a touching account of grieving, resilience and the human ability to recover. 
    
  David is adrift. Grieving the sudden death of his wife, Sarah, he now wallows in his own despair, his life teetering on the edge of vainness. Does he have the resolve to find purpose again in the week that will decide his fate? Feeling lost in the grip of depression, David encounters unexpected allies to help him rediscover his strengths. 
    
  Concentrating on the period that signals the height of his depression, this short story is a poignant tale of journeying from despair to the first bright rays of hope. Its disarming honesty and empathy vividly capture both the tragic complexity of mental health struggles and the simple beauty of human connection. 
    
  A Week of Shadows and Light reminds us to keep climbing that dark stair, even when we feel like we might fall. It extends its comforting, dancing darkness – its light-suffused shadow – to anyone who has loved and lost and gives inspiration to anyone confronting shadows. 
    
  This book focuses on the invisible battles fought daily by many and helps foster understanding and compassion. 
    
  If you are struggling and cannot afford this book, contact the author 
    
  Remember, You are not alone.

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  Dead Man's Race The: A Christmas...

  William Jerden

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  The host of a Christmas party recounts a spooky story involving a dead man and a race for survival. Written by William Jerden and first published in 1839. 
  Narrated by Robin Reads.

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  Amy Levy - Six of the Best -...

  Amy Levy

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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