""The Moonstone Caravan"" In this tale, a young merchant's apprentice named Zara embarks on a perilous quest across a fantastical Silk Road-inspired world. Gifted with the ability to decipher celestial maps, Zara must locate the legendary Moonstone to save her land from encroaching shadow creatures. Her journey through treacherous dunes and long-forgotten cities is filled with danger and discovery, as she unravels the mystery of her own past and its connection to the impending darkness. Accompanied by a shape-shifting desert fox and a gruff nomad warrior, each harboring their own secrets, Zara's adventure becomes a test of friendship and personal growth. The story weaves together elements of folk tales and coming-of-age narratives, exploring themes of self-discovery and the strength found in diversity. With its lyrical prose evoking the oral storytelling tradition, the novel immerses readers in a world rich with astronomical lore and cultural exchange, offering a fresh perspective on the classic quest narrative while emphasizing the importance of preserving ancient wisdom in a changing world.

The Caravan is India’s most respected and admired magazine on politics, art and culture. With a strong literary flair, the magazine presents the best of reportage and commentary on politics, policy, economy, art and culture from within South Asia. It has become an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the political and social environment of the country.

The inside story of the company that pioneered the modern touring caravan and motorhome

Sons of the Rumour is nothing short of a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius. Foster retells the tale of the legendary eighth-century King Shahrban of Persia who, furious at his wife's infidelity, has decided to marry and then behead a fresh virgin every day. But then the king meets Scheherazade, a beauty of such wiles and storytelling gifts she manages to entertain the him for 1001 nights, staving off death for both herself and her countrywomen. In the process, she also bears him three sons, wisely educates him in morality and kindness, and eventually convinces him to take her as his lawful wife. Intersecting with the historical tale is the story of Al Morrisey - a middle-aged, Anglo-Irish, former jazz-drumming everyman, on the run from a failed marriage, and cursed with Freudian daydreams of his mother and peculiar nightmares of all things Persian - as he vainly attempts to reconcile the past with the present and reclaim some of his youthful vigour. Ingeniously manipulating the frame tale of the Arabian Nights, and utilising all his narrative gifts of adventurous satire, David Foster has produced a work of fiction like no other. Sprawling, ambitious, explicit but frequently hilarious, Sons of the Rumour is a modern masterpiece, an utterly original novel by one of Australia's greatest living writers, a man who the Sydney Morning Herald critic Andrew Riemer has called Patrick White's worthy successor.

This book traces the evolution of the trailer caravan by describing and picturing milestone models and telling the stories of their manufacturers.

The changing fortunes of the largest UK producer of caravans and motorhomes

It is 1980 and Bonnie Benson, twenty-seven, is annoyed when her photojournalist, identical twin brother, Kenny Benson, disrupts her vacation plans by insisting she join him in Morocco. Upon arriving, Bonnie is shocked by Kenny's discovery-World War II photographs of their parents pinned to a wall in a small bar in Tangier. So begins their exciting and dangerous quest to learn about their dead parents' past. Because their parents died in Argentina a little over a year ago in a private plane crash. And they had mysteriously filed an amended flight plan-destination Morocco. Soon the twins' quest takes them to Marrakesh but not before Bonnie meets Roger Reveson, a handsome widower, who will join them in their quest. Soon their lives are threatened by others who want to know why they are in Morocco. Amid the danger and suspense, Bonnie and Roger fall in love. At the end of the book, the past and the present collide in a perilous fashion.

"The Book of Changes is a great Chinese box of a novel, strewn with conundrums, misleading clues, disintegrating landscapes, false starts, fake quotations, magicians, werewolves, severed hands and heads, and a sinister German dwarf who bumps from scene to scene in various disguises, sexes, and shapes", wrote the New York Times about R. H. W. Dillard's first novel in 1974. "Nothing remains intact for long: Men become women or change into screaming wolves; women appear in men's boxer shorts; suburban folk under the names of Herbert Hoover, Oscar Wilde, and the brothers Marx drift in and out of the novel; even that ingenious puppet-maker and puller of strings, Vladimir Nabokov, shows up briefly". In the midst of this bizarre world, Dillard stages an intricate detective story that will keep the reader on edge from its baffling beginning to its astonishing end. Under the shadowy lead of amateur sleuth Sir Hugh Fitz-Hyffen, evidence arises that links events stretching from the mountains of Romania to the ancient strongholds of Scotland to the tenements of Newark, New Jersey. An enormous diamond, a mask said to be that of Fu Manchu, and a series of brutal "Zodiac" killings are but three of the strands in the complex net of this thoroughly postmodern and highly entertaining mystery.

Some of the greatest detective stories every wrote are collected in this massive anthology. This book contains the stories and novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Emile Gaboriau, E. W. Hornung, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Boothby, Jacques Futrelle, Melville Davisson Post, Ethel Lina White, Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Arthur Morrison, Edgar Wallace, Algernon Blackwood, Wilkie Collins, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Gaston Leroux, Anna Katharine Green, Fergus Hume, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy L. Sayers, R. Austin Freeman. Table of Contents Wilkie Collins The Moonstone A Romance Edgar Allan Poe The Gold-Bug The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget. A Sequel to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” The Purloined Letter Charles Dickens Hunted Down Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes G. K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown Emile Gaboriau The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau Monsieur Lecoq The Mystery of Orcival E. W. Hornung The Amateur Cracksman Dead Men Tell No Tales The Crime Doctor M. McDonnell Bodkin The Capture of Paul Beck Guy Boothby The Red Rat's Daughter Jacques Futrelle The Problem of Cell 13 The Chase of the Golden Plate Melville Davisson Post Walker of the Secret Service The Sleuth of St. James's Square Ethel Lina White The Man Who Loved Lions Baroness Emma Orczy (Emmuska Orczy) The Old Man in the Corner The Scarlet Pimpernel Arthur Morrison Chronicles of Martin Hewitt Martin Hewitt, Investigator Edgar Wallace The Angel of Terror Algernon Blackwood Three More John Silence Stories Three John Silence Stories Maurice Leblanc The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Gaston Leroux The Mystery of the Yellow Room Anna Katherine Green The Leavenworth Case Fergus Hume The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Robert Louis Stevenson The Suicide Club The Rajah’s Diamond Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel R. Austin Freeman John Thorndyke's Cases The Mystery of 31 New Inn