![]() ![]() Eden's regencies, I always end up wanting to re-read all the rest of her books as well. ![]() As a battle of wits escalates into a life-threatening confrontation, will it be possible for Crispin and Catherine to live happily ever after? But their hopes are dashed when forces conspire to split asunder what fate has granted. Their unfolding relationship reveals encouraging surprises for both of them, and privately each of them wonders if theirs may become a true marriage of the heart. Trapped between an unwanted marriage and a hasty annulment, which would leave his reputation tainted and Catherine's utterly ruined, Crispin begins guiding his wife's transformation from a socially petrified country girl to a lady of society. The dismayed young lord has no choice but to marry Miss Catherine Thorndale, who lacks both money and refinement and assumes all men are as vicious as her guardian uncle. ![]() But he couldn't be more mistaken-the maid is not only a lady of birth, she's the niece of a very large, exceptionally angry gentlemen, who claims Crispin has compromised his niece beyond redemption. When Crispin, Lord Cavratt, thoroughly and scandalously kisses a serving woman in the garden of a country inn, he assumes the encounter will be of no consequence. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He we have a quite thoughtfully amusing short story about the exponential growth of one US dollar, set in the cold world in the year 3221. □ My review: This short science fiction story was first published in Amazing Stories, April 1927, and subsequently in Amazing Stories April 1956. Keeler is known to have visited London at least once, but his occasional depictions of British characters are consistently implausible. ![]() In his later works, Keeler's settings are often more generic settings such as Big River, or a city in which all buildings and streets are either nameless or fictional. ![]() Other locales for Keeler novels include New Orleans and New York. here too was the confusion, the babble of tongues of many lands, the restless, shoving throng containing faces and features of a thousand racial castes, and last but not least, here on Halsted and Maxwell streets, Chicago, were the same dirt, flying bits of torn paper, and confusion that graced the junction of Middlesex and Whitechapel High streets far across the globe." In many of his novels, Keeler refers to Chicago as "the London of the west." The expression is explained in the opening of Thieves' Nights (1929): Born in Chicago in 1890, Keeler spent his childhood exclusively in this city, which was so beloved by the author that a large number of his works took place in and around it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I sewed well and quickly, and my eyes were strong. There were gussets under the arms so that he could stretch and move freely, as he had to. The linen was fine and I had measured him exactly. He didn’t like to see me sewing when we were together―I should send the work out, he said―but he would change his mind when he put on the shirt. Sarah and Philo had gone to their attic, while I sat by the fire, in a good light, with my work. It was past nine o’clock now and he was still absent. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, Birdcage Walk is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror from one of our greatest storytellers. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants―his passion for Lizzie darkening until she finds herself dangerously alone. Tormented and striving Diner believes that Lizzie’s independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the two-hundred-foot drop of the Gorge come under threat. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol’s housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Professor James Dunworthy, a veteran of several trips to the twentieth century reluctantly sees his star pupil Kivrin Engle off to the year thirteen twenty, three hundred years earlier than anyone had previously travelled to study the Middle Ages, a point in time with which she's fascinated. Being Christmas, I decided to read a Christmas themed novel, and me being the decidedly morbid person that I am, I decided to celebrate the festive season with a novel all about plague and pestilence, but (more appropriately for Christmas), a story of courage, suffering and very human frailty, one of my lady's favourites.ĭoomsday book begins in Oxford of 2054, a future in which historians do not just study the past, but use a time travelling device (rather confusingly for modern readers), known as "the net" to travel back in time to view the past directly. ![]() ![]() Doctors have written honoured literature since ancient times and the modern ranks of medically qualified story-tellers stretch from Somerset Maugham, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov all the way to Adam Kay and Jed ( Line of Duty, Bodyguard) Mercurio. Whereas her debut burrowed ferociously, but lyrically, into the aftermath of a horrific attack on its young narrator, this second novel unfolds in the professional milieu she knows, and in the driven, haunted minds of the people who sustain it. And no department of hospital medicine hosts a front-line denser in anguish, terror and last-ditch hope than the paediatric unit.Įmma Glass is a richly gifted young novelist – already the author, in 2018, of Peach – who also works as a children’s nurse in London. Even in more normal times, however, front-line treatment may throw crisis after crisis at staff forever just one tough shift away from utter exhaustion of body and spirit alike. Today’s pandemic means that the psychology of medical emergencies now gets to affect (almost) everyone. ![]() ![]() Suddenly, we have plunged into a period when hospitals become battle zones, with their personnel seen as shock troops enlisted to resist an all-pervading enemy. ![]() ![]() The main character is easy to like and dislike equally. My take on the “A Secret, Book, and Scone Society” series has sometimes been good, at other times not good. Genre/Category: Cozy – Amateur Sleuth/Bookstore Series: A Secret, Book, and Scone Society Novel – Book #4 It’s up to Nora and the Secret, Book, and Scone Society to sort out the clues before more bodies turn up and the secrets from Celeste’s past come back to haunt them all. Declared an accident, the ruling can’t explain the old book page covered with strange symbols and disturbing drawings left under Nora’s doormat. Nora and her friends in the Secret, Book, and Scone Society are doing their best to put an end to the strife-but then someone puts an end to a life. Suddenly, former friends and customers are targeting not only Nora and Miracle Books but a new shopkeeper, Celeste, who’s been selling CBD oil products. But a family-values group disapproves of the magical themes and wastes no time launching a modern-day witch hunt. ![]() Known for her window displays, Nora Pennington decides to showcase fictional heroines like Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Madeline Miller’s Circe for Halloween. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The very best of his more than sixty published short stories are gathered in Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective which features the very best stories from the ‘Revelation Space’ universe like “Galactic North”, “Great Wall of Mars”, “Weather”, “Diamond Dogs”, and “The Last Log of the Lachrimosa” alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories like Hugo Award nominee “Troika”, “Thousandth Night”, and “The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice”. His short stories have been nominated for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Locus, Italia, Seiun, and Sidewise Awards, and have won the Seiun and Sidewise Awards. With a career stretching back more than 25 years and across fourteen novels, including the classic ‘Revelation Space’ series, the bestselling ‘Poseidon’s Children’ series, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, and most recently The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter), Reynolds has established himself as one of the best and most beloved writers of hard science fiction and space opera working today.Ī brilliant novelist, he has also been recognized as one of our best writers of short fiction. The Guardian called Alastair Reynolds’ work “a turbulent, wildly entertaining ride” and The Times acclaimed him as “the mastersinger of space opera”. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Barker easily employs irony and wit to his horrors an erotic and perverse sexuality is threaded throughout the metaphysics, if you will, of his stories aren't borne out of old monster movies or tawdry thriller novels but from ancient mythology, classic European art and philosophy, and obscure religious history (bet you didn't know a cenobite was a real thing!). ![]() While Barker may, at least in these early writings, have lacked the human warmth and bestseller plotting mechanics that gave K&K their huge middle-America audience, Barker is worlds ahead of them when it comes to style and imagination he is also literary in a way those guys aren't. Readers and publishers loved to compare Barker to King and - gack! - Koontz back in the day, and that has always seemed an ill-fitting comparison to me. ![]() |