Fiction: special features

There's a first time for everything.

In the Pruitt Igoe slums of St.

In diesem Geschenkbuch für die schönste und besinnlichste Zeit des Jahres hat die beliebte Theologin und Bestsellerautorin Margot Käßmann wunderbare Weihnachtsgeschichten und -Gedichte zusammengestellt, die ihr persönlich lieb und wichtig sind.

An emotional friends to lovers romance full of risky secrets and late-night lessons in seduction.

In 1948 eight-year-old Kay is at Oakdale, the Lapeer State Home in Michigan where people of all ages with physical and mental aberrations come to live.

The exacting Miranda's search for a suitable companion brings her family into contact with a very different kind of household, raising a plenitude of questions about the ability to manage alone, the difficulties of living with strangers and some strange discoveries about intimates.

Enjoy seven never-before-collected stories from the master of myth and story himselfBefore he was the engaging professor who brought mythology into people s living rooms through his conversations with Bill Moyers, before he became known as the thinker whose ideas influenced Star Wars, and before his now-beloved phrase follow your bliss entered the popular lexicon, Joseph Campbell was a young man who tried his hand at writing fiction.

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** 'SO VIVID AND REAL, IT BROUGHT A THOUSAND MEMORIES RUSHING BACK' - Russell T Davies **** 'AN INSTANT QUEER CLASSIC' - Jon Ransom, author of The Gallopers **Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac explores masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love.

SHORTLISTED FOR 2007 PREMIER'S QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS: AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONIn these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail.

It is a wonderfully wide and multifarious pageant of West Riding life that Phyllis Bentley has spread before us down the years: and now, in Tales of the West Riding (six stories, one of them almost a novel in itself), she enriches it with a number of episodes as vivid as any that have come from her pen.

Los relatos de El mar de noche se mueven en una zona fronteriza de la realidad donde lo cotidiano da paso a lo excepcional.

La autora conoce los secretos del cuento breve del Río de la Plata, en ese collar de perlas que enseguida enumera a Liliana Heker, a Inés Garland, a Norberto Soares, a Martini Real.

from No. 1 bestseller Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

'Under any name King mesmerizes the reader' Chicago Sun-Times

It's all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city's Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart's existence - whether it's about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life.

As a result, something's been happening inside Bart's head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn't prepared for . . .

As the wheels of progress and a demolition crew continue unabated throughout Bart's neighbourhood, he's not about to give everything up without a fight. As a matter of fact, he's ready and waiting to ignite an explosive confrontation with the legislative forces gathered against him.