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The Blackhouse
Carole Johnstone
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From the author of the "dark and devious...beautifully written"
(Stephen King) Mirrorland comes an "atmospheric, thrilling, and
utterly captivating" (Booklist) gothic tale set on a remote
Scottish island where the locals are hiding a deadly secret. Maggie
Mackay has been haunted her entire life. No matter what she does,
she can't shake the sense that something is wrong with her. And
maybe something is... When she was five years old, Maggie announced
that a man on the remote island of Kilmeray in Scotland's Outer
Hebrides--a place she'd never visited--was murdered. Her unfounded
claim drew media attention and turned the locals against each
other, creating rifts that never mended. Now, nearly twenty years
later, Maggie is determined to discover what really happened, and
what the villagers are hiding. But everyone has secrets, and some
are deadly. As she gets closer to the horrifying truth, the
island's legendary and violent storms begin to rage again and
Maggie's own life is in danger... Unnerving, enthralling, and
filled with gothic suspense, The Blackhouse is a spectacularly
sinister tale readers won't soon forget.
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Mirrorland (Paperback)
Carole Johnstone
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R408
R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
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A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the
truth... 'ATMOSPHERIC AND COMPELLING' Catherine Cooper, Sunday
Times bestselling author of The Chalet and The Chateau 'SPLENDIDLY
CREEPY' DAILY MAIL 'DELICIOUSLY UNSETTLING' OBSERVER Maggie Mackay
has been haunted her entire life. No matter what she does, she
can't shake the sense that something is wrong with her. And maybe
something is... When she was five years old, without proof, Maggie
announced that someone in the remote village of Blairmore in the
Outer Hebrides had murdered a local man, sparking a media storm.
Now, Maggie is determined to discover what really happened and what
the villagers are hiding. But everyone has secrets, and some are
deadly. As she gets closer to the horrifying truth, Maggie's own
life is in danger... From the critically-acclaimed author of
Mirrorland comes a darkly disturbing new thriller that will chill
you to the bone. PRAISE FOR CAROLE JOHNSTONE'S DEBUT NOVEL,
MIRRORLAND: 'DARK AND DEVIOUS' Stephen King 'UTTERLY ENGROSSING'
Daily Mail 'TWISTY AND RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC' Ruth Ware 'TIGHTLY
PLOTTED AND UTTERLY GRIPPING' Sarah Pinborough 'A HAUNTING
THRILLER' Woman's Weekly 'TOTALLY ABSORBING' T.M. Logan 'AN
UNSETTLING, LABYRINTHINE TALE' New York Times
'DARK AND DEVIOUS' Stephen King 'UTTERLY ENGROSSING' Daily Mail
'TWISTY AND RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC' Ruth Ware 'TIGHTLY PLOTTED AND
UTTERLY GRIPPING' Sarah Pinborough 'A HAUNTING THRILLER' Women's
Weekly 'TOTALLY ABSORBING' T.M. Logan 'AN UNSETTLING, LABYRINTHINE
TALE' New York Times
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One twin ran. The other vanished. Neither escaped... DON'T TRUST
ANYONE Cat's twin sister El has disappeared. But there's one thing
Cat is sure of: her sister isn't dead. She would have felt it. She
would have known. DON'T TRUST YOUR MEMORIES To find her sister, Cat
must return to their dark, crumbling childhood home and confront
the horrors that wait there. Because it's all coming back to Cat
now: all the things she has buried, all the secrets she's been
running from. DON'T TRUST THIS STORY... The closer Cat comes to the
truth, the closer to danger she is. Some things are better left in
the past...
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ADDICTIVE SLICE OF GOTHIC' i paper 'TOLD WITH THUMPING HEART AND
EXTRAORDINARY TENDERNESS' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'THE LOVE CHILD
OF GILLIAN FLYNN AND STEPHEN KING' Greer Hendricks READERS ARE
FALLING IN LOVE WITH MIRRORLAND... 'Dark, dazzling, full of
surprises and perfectly executed' Sheri K 'An adult fairy tale, a
domestic noir and a heartbreaker, all in one' Rebecca W 'Creepy as
hell and absolutely brilliant' Vikkie W 'Poignant and compelling...
What an imagination to have crafted such a story' Carol C 'A
beautifully written story that holds you enthralled from first page
to last' Sarah M 'This is a book that will keep you awake all
night' Maria P 'Hugely compelling...I found the entire book
officially unputdownable!' Alexandra G
A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the
truth... 'ATMOSPHERIC AND COMPELLING' Catherine Cooper, Sunday
Times bestselling author of The Chalet and The Chateau 'SPLENDIDLY
CREEPY' DAILY MAIL 'DELICIOUSLY UNSETTLING' OBSERVER Maggie Mackay
has been haunted her entire life. No matter what she does, she
can't shake the sense that something is wrong with her. And maybe
something is... When she was five years old, without proof, Maggie
announced that someone in the remote village of Blairmore in the
Outer Hebrides had murdered a local man, sparking a media storm.
Now, Maggie is determined to discover what really happened and what
the villagers are hiding. But everyone has secrets, and some are
deadly. As she gets closer to the horrifying truth, Maggie's own
life is in danger... From the critically-acclaimed author of
Mirrorland comes a darkly disturbing new thriller that will chill
you to the bone. PRAISE FOR CAROLE JOHNSTONE'S DEBUT NOVEL,
MIRRORLAND: 'DARK AND DEVIOUS' Stephen King 'UTTERLY ENGROSSING'
Daily Mail 'TWISTY AND RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC' Ruth Ware 'TIGHTLY
PLOTTED AND UTTERLY GRIPPING' Sarah Pinborough 'A HAUNTING
THRILLER' Woman's Weekly 'TOTALLY ABSORBING' T.M. Logan 'AN
UNSETTLING, LABYRINTHINE TALE' New York Times
The most dangerous stories are the ones we tell ourselves…
No. 36 Westeryk Road: an imposing flat-stone house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. A place of curving shadows and crumbling grandeur. But it’s what lies under the house that is extraordinary – Mirrorland. A vivid make-believe world that twin sisters Cat and El created as children. A place of escape, but from what?
Now in her thirties, Cat has turned her back on her past. But when she receives news that one sunny morning, El left harbour in her sailboat and never came back, she is forced to return to Westeryk Road; to re-enter a forgotten world of lies, betrayal and danger.
Because El had a plan. She’s left behind a treasure hunt that will unearth long-buried secrets. And to discover the truth, Cat must first confront the reality of her childhood – a childhood that wasn’t nearly as idyllic as she remembers…
Violet Crown Award, Writers League of Texas, 2007 Citation, San
Antonio Conservation Society, 2009 Scarred by the deaths of his
mother and sisters and the failure of his father's business, a
young man dreamed of making enough money to retire early and
retreat into the secure world that his childhood tragedies had torn
from him. But Harry Luby refused to be a robber baron. Turning
totally against the tide of avaricious capitalism, he determined to
make a fortune by doing good. Starting with that unlikely, even
naive, ambition in 1911, Harry Luby founded a cafeteria empire that
by the 1980s had revenues second only to McDonald's. So
successfully did Luby and his heirs satisfy the tastes of America
that Luby's became the country's largest cafeteria chain, creating
more millionaires per capita among its employees than any other
corporation of its size. Even more surprising, the company stayed
true to Harry Luby's vision for eight decades, making money by
treating its customers and employees exceptionally well. Written
with the sweep and drama of a novel, House of Plenty tells the
engrossing story of Luby's founding and phenomenal growth, its long
run as America's favorite family restaurant during the post-World
War II decades, its financial failure during the greed-driven 1990s
when non-family leadership jettisoned the company's proven business
model, and its recent struggle back to solvency. Carol Dawson and
Carol Johnston draw on insider stories and company records to
recapture the forces that propelled the company to its greatest
heights, including its unprecedented practices of allowing store
managers to keep 40 percent of net profits and issuing stock to all
employees, which allowed thousands of Luby's workers to achieve the
American dream of honestly earned prosperity. The authors also
plumb the depths of the Luby's drama, including a hushed-up theft
that split the family for decades; the 1991 mass shooting at the
Killeen Luby's, which splattered the company's good name across
headlines nationwide; and the rapacious over-expansion that more
than doubled the company's size in nine years (1987-1996), pushed
it into bankruptcy, and drove president and CEO John Edward Curtis
Jr. to violent suicide. Disproving F. Scott Fitzgerald's adage that
"there are no second acts in American lives," House of Plenty tells
the epic story of an iconic American institution that has risen,
fallen, and found redemption-with no curtain call in sight.
WINNER OF THE 2018 BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY AWARD FOR BEST
ANTHOLOGY. Includes Josh Malerman's 'House of the Head' as seen in
Creepshow. An electrifying anthology of new horror stories by
award-winning masters of the genre, including Josh Malerman, Ramsey
Campbell, Alison Littlewood and Christopher Golden. WINNER - 2018
BRITISH FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY FEAR COMES IN MANY FORMS
The horror genre's greatest living practitioners drag our darkest
fears kicking and screaming into the light in this collection of
nineteen brand-new stories. In "The Boggle Hole" by Alison
Littlewood an ancient folk tale leads to irrevocable loss. In Josh
Malerman's "The House of the Head" a dollhouse becomes the focus
for an incident both violent and inexplicable. And in "Speaking
Still" Ramsey Campbell suggests that beyond death there may be far
worse things waiting than we can ever imagine... Numinous, surreal
and gut wrenching, New Fears is a vibrant collection showcasing the
very best fiction modern horror has to offer.
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