Bone Deep

Bone Deep
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Publisher : Gallery Books
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781982105075
ISBN-13 : 1982105070
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Bone Deep by : Sandra Ireland

A twisty and propulsive read, this dark psychological thriller of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal, and the dire consequences of family fallout brilliantly plays on our fears of loneliness and abandonment, harkening to the modern gothic bestsellers by Ruth Ware and Liz Nugent. Is a story ever just a story? Mac, a retired academic and writer, is working on a new collection of folktales, inspired by local legends, and at the insistence of her only child, Arthur, she hires a young assistant, Lucie, to live in a cottage on her property and help her transcribe them. What Arthur doesn’t know is that his mother is determined to keep the secrets of her past from ever being discovered. And what Mac doesn’t know is that Lucie has a few complicated secrets of her own. The creaking presence of an ancient water mill next to Mac’s property that used to grind wheat into flour serves as an eerie counterpoint for these two women as they circle warily around each other, haunted by the local legend of two long-dead sisters, ready to point accusing fingers from the pages of history. This atmospheric page turner evocatively gives voice to the question: What happens when you fall in love with the wrong person?

The Goldblum Variations

The Goldblum Variations
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : 9780525506898
ISBN-13 : 0525506896
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Goldblum Variations by : Helen McClory

“Fantastic!” —the actual Jeff Goldblum (for real) The essential companion for any fan of Jeff Goldblum, Hollywood’s most beloved and otherworldly icon. You like Jeff Goldblum. We like Jeff Goldblum. Helen McClory really likes Jeff Goldblum. So lie back, Jurassic Park-style, and prepare to enjoy The Goldblum Variations, a collection of stories, musings, puzzles, and games based on the one and only Jeff Goldblum as he (and alternate versions of himself) travels through the known (and unknown) universe in a mighty celebration of weird and wonderful Goldbluminess. Maybe he’s cresting the steep bluffs of a mysterious planet on an epic treasure hunt, maybe he’s wearing a nice sweater, maybe he’s reading from this very book. The possibilities are endless. Treat yourself . . . because all that glitters is Goldblum.

Mayhem & Death

Mayhem & Death
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 1912489023
ISBN-13 : 9781912489022
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Mayhem & Death by : Helen McClory

New Forms of Environmental Writing

New Forms of Environmental Writing
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 257
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781350271333
ISBN-13 : 1350271330
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis New Forms of Environmental Writing by : Timothy C. Baker

Surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book explores our most pressing environmental concerns and shows how these texts find innovative new ways to respond to our environmental crisis. Arguing for the centrality of individual encounter and fragmentary form in 21st-century literature, as well as themes of attention, care, and loss, Baker highlights the ways that fragmentary texts can be seen as a mode of resistance. These texts provide new ways to consider the role of individual agency and enmeshment in a more-than-human world. The author proposes a new model of 'gleaning' to encompass ideas of collection, assemblage, and relinquishment and draws on theoretical perspectives such as ecofeminism, new materialism and posthumanism. Examining works by writers including Sara Baume, Ali Smith, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Bhanu Kapil and Kathleen Jamie, Baker provides important new insights into understanding our planetary predicament.

Yes She Can

Yes She Can
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 154
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781473659247
ISBN-13 : 1473659248
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Yes She Can by : Ruth Davidson

'Modern, punchy and fresh' Sunday Times 'A positive and fascinating read' Stylist 'A collection of unexpectedly revealing interviews with "mould-breaking women"... This optimistic volume also includes an intimate memoir from Davidson herself' Guardian ****************************************************************** The woman who trains Indian special forces in armed and unarmed combat, the IMF Chair, the UK's most capped footballer, a dotcom millionaire, the BBC's first female political editor, a member of the Royal Household, an eminent forensic scientist, an Olympic gold-medallist, a prime minister... this book is for every daughter, every mother, every aunt and every niece, as eighteen of the world's mould-breaking women share the life lessons they've learned. Every single one of them has shown that yes, she can. Revealing, enthralling, informing, in Yes She Can Ruth Davidson weaves her own inspiring journey with these personal stories into a timely rallying call for generations to come.

Fifty Sounds

Fifty Sounds
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Publisher : Fitzcarraldo Editions
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1913097501
ISBN-13 : 9781913097509
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Fifty Sounds by : POLLY. BARTON

The Stone of Destiny

The Stone of Destiny
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Publisher : Four Treasures
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1911279505
ISBN-13 : 9781911279501
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Stone of Destiny by : Caroline Logan

Begin the journey; discover your destiny... Set against a backdrop of Scottish myths and legends, follow the epic quest by a changeling, a selkie and a prince to find an ancient and powerful object, and save the kingdom. Ailsa doesn't believe in faerie tales, only the monsters in them. But, with the mark on her face, most people consider her one of them - a changeling. Her secluded life shifts when she rescues two selkies from bloodthirsty raiders. Now she must act as their guard as they travel to the capital and then, with the help of the Prince of Eilanmor, journey north to find The Stone of Destiny - the only object protecting them all from the evil faerie queen. But all her life a malignant creature has stalked her through the forest.Can Ailsa find The Stone of Destiny before something wicked finds her?

On the Edges of Vision

On the Edges of Vision
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 1938466462
ISBN-13 : 9781938466465
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Edges of Vision by : Helen McClory

In On the Edges of Vision, unease sounds itself in the language of legend. Images call on memory, on the monstrous self. In Helen McClory's daring debut collection, the skin prickles against sweeps of light or darkness, the fantastic or the frightful; deep water, dark woods, or scattered flesh in desert sand. Whether telling of a boy cyclops or a pretty dead girl, drowned sailors or the devil himself, each story draws the reader towards not bleakness but a tale half-told, a truth half-true: that the monster is human, and only wants to reach out and take you by the hand.

Flesh of the Peach

Flesh of the Peach
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 1911332252
ISBN-13 : 9781911332251
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Flesh of the Peach by : Helen McClory

An intense journey into and out of rage and grief, via sex and violence, following 27 year-old artist, Sarah Browne and set mostly in the American Southwest. In New York, the ending of Sarah's recent relationship with a married woman has coincided with the death of her estranged, aristocratic mother, leaving her a substantial amount of money and an unrecognised burden of toxic grief. Rather than return home to England, she decides to travel by Greyhound to her mother's cabin in New Mexico. There she's drawn into a passionate relationship with Theo, a man whose quiet stability seems to complement her mercurial character. But as Sarah's emotional turmoil grows, there are warning signs that tragedy could ensue. In Flesh of the Peach Scottish First Book of the Year winner, Helen McClory, paints a beautiful and painful portrait of a woman's unravelling, combining exquisite, and at times experimental, prose with a powerful understanding of the effects of unresolved loss. McClory is one of the most exciting literary talents to emerge from Scotland in recent years.

Luckenbooth

Luckenbooth
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781643138886
ISBN-13 : 164313888X
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Luckenbooth by : Jenni Fagan

A bold, haunting, and startlingly unique novel about the secrets we leave behind and the places that hold them long after we are gone, a “quintessential novel of Edinburgh at its darkest.” (Irvine Welsh) There are stories tucked away on every floor of 10 Luckenbooth Close 1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancée. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents—a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors as an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard. Luckenbooth is a bold, haunting, and dazzlingly unique novel about the stories and secrets we leave behind—and the places that hold them long after we are gone.