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.
