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.
The first in a series inspired by ancient Mesopotamia, following a small band of misfits on an epic, dangerous journey to realize their dream, their establishment of Uruk, the first city.
In a rural Iranian village, Zal's demented mother, horrified by the pallor of his skin and hair, becomes convinced she has given birth to a 'White Demon'.
A desperate trek across post-apocalyptic Alaska brings a small group of survivors to a sanctuary city-only to face a new threat in this zombie horror saga.
Nicholas Fox Young, brillant programmeur informatique et ex-agent du programme Stargate, est sur le point d'atteindre son objectif d'acceder a des informations, ce qui pourrait le rapprocher de ses collegues agents de Stargate et lui permettre de faire la lumiere sur la premonition cauchemardesque recurrente qui hante ses reves.
As England basks in the golden years of Queen Victoria's reign, the Easter empire that began half a decade before with Nan Easter's newspaper walk, is growing from strength to strength.
First published in 1987, Air and Angels is about the ugly duckling Petra Appleton - it was her younger sister Caroline who flew off to London to become a swan after stunning her family with a playful appearance as a newspaper model girl when she was only 17.
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.
The heart-pounding conclusion to the zombie trilogy by "e;one of the most engaging and powerful emerging voices in apocalyptic fiction"e; (Devan Sagliani author of the Zombie Attack series).
La pesadilla comienza en un abrir y cerrar de ojos…Cuando alguien a quien amas desaparece sin dejar rastro, ¿qué serías capaz de hacer para recuperarlo?
Chris and Ruth Stainforth are living their fantasy, turning the old Sea-fort at Manshead – purchased at a steal after the previous owners abandoned building work – into a hotel, and living on the coast with their son, David.
