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This is a short story about Vikings who protect themselves and others from harm. In addition to fending off an attack on their fort, they save the region from pirates and other bad guys.
'A real page-turner' – Ian RankinThe Party House by Lin Anderson is a deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set in the Scottish Highlands, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.Devastated by a recent pandemic brought in by outsiders, the villagers of Blackrig in the Scottish Highlands are outraged when they find that the nearby estate plans to reopen its luxury ‘party house’ to tourists.As animosity sparks in the community, a group of locals take action. By the end of the night, the house hot tub has been smashed to pieces and, in the ensuing chaos, the body of a young woman is found in the foundations. Seventeen-year-old Ailsa Cummings went missing five years ago, never to be seen again. Until now.The excavation of Ailsa’s remains reignites old suspicions towards the men of this small community, including Greg, the estate’s gamekeeper. He is loath to discuss old wounds, but Greg's new lover, Joanne, is frightened by his reaction to the missing girl’s discovery. Joanne begins to doubt how well she knows this new man in her life. Then again, he’s not the only one with secrets in their volatile relationship . . .'Lin's first standalone sees her expertly mix psychological thrills with a perplexing mystery simmering in a small community. It has all the ingredients of a hit to stand alongside her Rhona MacLeod series' – Douglas Skelton, author of The Blood is StillVoir livre
The whimsical tale of a witch and an enchanted scarecrow come to life from the otherwise serious author Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864), whose themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity. He is best known for The House of the seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter, a story of a proud adulteress sentenced by her stern Puritan judges to wear a scarlet A on her breast, published in 1850. His published works include a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. He died in his sleep in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and four days later he was buried in Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, with Longfellow and Emerson among his mourners. Narrator Edward E. French is an Oscar nominee and multiple Emmy Award winner for Special Effects Makeup. Credits at IMDB.comVoir livre
Adeline Virginia Woolf was born on the 25th January 1882 in South Kensington in London. Although lauded as a founder of modernist writing with such classics as ‘Orlando’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’ and, of course, many classic short stories, her background is filled with elements of tragedy that she somehow overcame to become such a revered writer. Her mother died when she was 13, her half-sister Stella two years later and with it her first of several nervous breakdowns. Appallingly it was later found that three of her half-brothers had sexually abused her so darkness must have seemed ever present. She began writing professionally at age 20 but her father’s death two years later brought a complete mental collapse and she was briefly institutionalised. Somehow she found within herself a literary career and with it great innovations in writing; she was a pioneer of “stream of consciousness”. Her tight circle of friends were the founders of the Bloomsbury Group, a movement whose legacy still influences across the arts and society in many way to this day. Whilst the dark periods continued to interrupt her emotional state her rate of work never ceased. Until, on 28th March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled up its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse, in Lewes, East Sussex and drowned herself. Her body was not recovered until the 18th April. She was 59. She left behind a note which read in part “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do”.Voir livre
By the author of One Part Woman: “A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan’s family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger. Faced with venom from her mother-in-law and questions from her new neighbors, Saroja tries to adjust to a new lonely and uncomfortable life, while Kumaresan struggles to scrape together enough money for them to start over somewhere new. But in a world filled with thorns, their love may not be enough to keep them safe.Voir livre
H. P. Lovecraft’s The Transition of Juan Romero is one of his briefest and most mysterious tales, written in a single day on September 16, 1919, yet withheld from publication until 1944, seven years after his death. Set in a grim Nevada mine, it follows a narrator and his co-worker, Juan Romero, as they descend into a newly opened shaft where an unearthly sound echoes from below. What they discover—or perhaps imagine—blends dream and nightmare, fusing cosmic horror with the claustrophobic dread of the deep earth. The story’s simplicity and ambiguity reveal an early experiment in atmosphere over plot, foreshadowing Lovecraft’s later mastery of unseen terrors and unspeakable revelations. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer whose strange, atmospheric fiction reshaped modern horror and science fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he grew up steeped in myth, astronomy, and classical literature, all of which infused his later work. Lovecraft’s stories—The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, and At the Mountains of Madness among them—introduced the vast “Cthulhu Mythos,” a vision of an indifferent cosmos ruled by ancient, incomprehensible beings. His influence spread posthumously through pulp magazines, writers like August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith, and later generations of authors, filmmakers, and artists. Though he struggled with poverty and obscurity in life, Lovecraft’s unique blend of cosmic awe and existential dread has made him one of the most influential voices in speculative fiction history.Voir livre
We like to do things as a couple, but I think sex in front of my husband Clark’s understudy Anthony was maybe a step too far. I’m helping Clark paint the dining-room with Anthony, but in my short skirt perhaps I shouldn’t be going up the stepladder.Clark pulls down my panties as a joke, but the joke soon turns naughty. I’m giggling and embarrassed but the look on Anthony’s face has got me excited. Clark thinks it might be time to involve Anthony in our sinful sessions, but that means Clark has to find a whole new place on my body to call home. Listen as I put them both inside me together and try it naughty for the first time, discovering something about Anthony that not even my husband knew!Voir livre
