BS Moreton has a perfect life. Archivist to the Earl of Duntisbourne, he is admired by his colleagues for his intellect and steely morality, but when Sam Westbrook arrives from the British Museum to create a new exhibition from a unique hoard of erotic artefacts, he is appalled, believing the collection will corrupt the minds of the visitors to Duntisbourne Hall. Sam has other worries. is the collection real, or is it an elaborate eighteenth-century dirty joke? As the new curator digs deeper, BS Moreton's world begins to unravel, and the secret behind the Dywenydd Collection turns out to be more surprising than anyone could have guessed.

A large majority of children and adults appear to have a fascination for lighthouses around the world. Questions that are often asked are: * What are they for? * How did they get there? * Who lives in them? * How were they built? The stories and pictures in this book may help to answer and satisfy their curiosity.

All was calm at Torreston Police Station and then came the call announcing the first death - a death that no one considered sinister; that is until the post-mortem report turned up a gruesome discovery putting CID on full alert. DCI Harriet Love, head of crime and her team of detectives become embroiled in a frightening and worrying investigation which becomes even more alarming when a second body is found. Charlie Marlow, the new DI has to face his first murder case as second in command and with DCI Ed Harrington from Central the two stations work together to track down the killer.

The Scully family gain a new stepmother and stepsister. From the outset the stepsister is not accepted by the Scully children, because they can see she is nothing like them in appearance or personality. The Scullys are big, ugly and uncouth while Doreen is pretty, petite, intelligent and refined. To the Scullys, her most offensive trait, however, is her love of books, which she reads constantly, and they see it as confirmation of her snobbery. Their initial dislike of her turns into vicious hatred and they plot ways to be rid of her, which even includes murder. Her mother and stepfather realise there are problems, but not the true extent of the hatred and persecution Doreen faces and believe things will settle down and resolve themselves in time. Meanwhile Doreen endures endless bullying and suffering at the hands of the hateful Scully children, and daily the cruelty escalates, and continues even into her adult life as a very successful business woman. Eventually, when left with no other choice, the worm turns, which results in a decisive and horrific final showdown.

Sylvi's story is a true one. She was my husband's dog before I knew him and she was with us for several years after we married. There were always visitors and Sylvi is remembered and still spoken of in different parts of the country to this day.

After saving the vampire, Damien Lance, Laura discovers it was Blaine, the man she loves who tried killing him. Their blood and their lives forever intertwined, they discover a family secret that binds them together as well. Bringing Laura, Damien and Blaine into a dark sensual world where desire and bloodlust meet.

Adameen is an unusual love story, set mainly in a fictionalised south-east Ireland in the 'fifties and 'seventies. Its themes are exile and identity: exile from a lost childhood Eden, Housman's mythic land of lost content, where once we went and cannot come again. Yet on the whole we don't move on, because the past is in front of us, now, part of ourselves.

When Helen arrived in a small African country with her husband to run the bar and restaurant they had recently purchased she found herself having accustom herself to a different culture and religion if she was to survive in her new homeland. Life became increasingly difficult when her husband left her at short notice and returned to their island home. In the eight years that followed before Helen finally set foot on UK soil again she encountered the trials and tribulations of an African court, a murder enquiry and blackmail.

Kevin, a boy with a bad reputation and a troubled home life tries to make a fresh start at a new school. He soon discovers a love of cricket, and he does well for the school team. But can Kevin keep it all together when things take a turn for the worse at home, and when bad influences from his past turn up once more? Can Kevin get himself back into the school team in order to help them win the final of the cricket tournament?

Owel hears voices: as do we all. There is that voice, the pattern of our thoughts, so familiar we hardly notice it, that has been with us persistently and almost consistently since first we thought with words. Then there is another one, which most of us are aware we hear: usually it probes and reflects, acting as a questioning brake on our desires; but for a few it primarily serves to justify the isolated right and certainty of their actions. And then for a few - such as Owel - there is a further voice, apparently external in source, which calls to him. To leave his industrial homeland and flee far away. Westwards. Always westward. A voice calling him to a realm in the forest.

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A Daily Mirror best fiction pick of 2019
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'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON

They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and not fade away.
But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down.

There was Daisy, rock and roll force of nature, brilliant songwriter and unapologetic drug addict, the half-feral child who rose to superstardom.

There was Camila, the frontman’s wife, too strong-willed to let the band implode – and all too aware of the electric connection between her husband and Daisy.

There was Karen, ice-cool keyboardist, a ferociously independent woman in a world that wasn’t ready for her.

And there were the men surrounding them: the feuding, egotistical Dunne brothers, the angry guitarist chafing on the sidelines, the drummer binge-drinking on his boat, the bassist trying to start a family amid a hedonistic world tour. They were creative minds striking sparks from each other, ready to go up in flames.

It’s never just about the music…

Brendan squared up to the deputy head and for a totally unbelievable second I thought, oh my god, he's going to headbutt her. I could have scarpered. If I had, he'd never have become my boyfriend. And when the school caught fire and a policewoman was stabbed at a football match and the police came after Brendan I'd never have legged-it from school, nicked the knife, turned detective...All in the hope of proving he was innocent.

The Adventure is a highly comical account of a quest to seek and locate ancient lost treasure. The mastermind and mentor behind this odyssey is a rather eccentric, unorthodox wizard, who is always comically human, even slipshod, but nonetheless very omniscient too. The central characters, who are very bizarre to say the least, encounter the wizard immediately after he has dynamically slain a dragon. They then deign to form an allegiance with him and to journey with him through a multi-dimensional fantasy world, which is just as monstrous as it is enchanting. They encounter many wild and wonderful things on their way, but ultimately find themselves hopelessly and, even hysterically lost the vast majority of the time. Of course, the wizard is never responsible.

"God moves in mysterious ways, and so do I!" A dark tale of ancient evil and the bloodline of the seed of perdition, the son of the devil incarnate; Dracula. Beware him, and beware the night, for it is his domain, a realm of menacing shades and threatening spirits. And now he has bourne a son, a boy who must face his legacy, one of blood, death and the keys to ultimate darkness.

A washed-up Fleet Street journalist visits a remote coastal village in north-west England as a struggling freelance. It's a mundane assignment to Ben Miller - until the words on a hidden stone near Hadrian's Wall reveal one of ancient Rome's greatest secrets. But Miller's promising change of fortune turns to disaster when a tidal wave brings death and destruction to the Solway Coast. More than 2000 years earlier a Greek slave is caught up in the vicious rivalry between a young, inexperienced Octavian and the powerful Marc Antony to replace Caesar as leader of the Roman Empire. The slave Damon becomes Octavian's personal guard, and through the savagery of civil wars and political treachery they form a unique friendship. But although Roman historians glorify Octavian's rise to emperor, the heroic deeds of his slave are forgotten. From '80s Britain to ancient Rome this novel follows the life and fate of two men. Although centuries apart, their paths are destined to meet as Miller strives to redeem himself and restore a Greek hero's rightful place in Roman history.

This is series 3 of Green Lane Estate stories. 1 - The Grandparents' Visit 2 - Return to School 3 - Marie O'Mouse 4 - The Annex Suitable for age seven onwards Ideas and criticism from the author's disabled daughter, Elizabeth. Artwork by talented Peterborough artist Joanna Husbands.

Christopher Hobhouse (1910-1940) was a barrister and writer who was killed in action in WWII. This illustrated guide to Oxford University was published in 1939.

Burns Mantle (1873-1948) was a drama critic and annalist, best know for the Best Plays series, which he edited from 1920 until 1947. In addition to declaring the past year's best plays, these volumes forecast the next season's likely best plays around the U.S., gives biographical data on prominent theater figures, and reviews the London and Paris seasons.

Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French writer and a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse. The two volumes of Paris are part of Zola's The Three Cities: Lourdes, Rome, Paris.