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Lynnwood (Paperback)
Thomas Brown
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FINALIST in the PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE The unthinkable is happening in
Lynnwood a village with centuries of guilt on its conscience. Who
wouldn't want to live in an idyllic village in the English
countryside like Lynnwood? With its charming pub, old dairy,
friendly vicar, gurgling brooks, and its old paths with memories of
simpler times. But behind the conventional appearance of Lynnwood's
villagers, only two sorts of people crawl out of the woodwork:
those who hunt and those who are prey. Reviews: 'A dark horror
story set in a picturesque village. I would recommend this to fans
of classic English horror as well as fans of Stephen King.' Lucy
O'Connor, Waterstones "A quintessentially British folk horror
chiller, with an escalating power of dread that is rendered deftly.
A new voice in British horror, that you'll want to read, has
entered the field." Adam Nevill > 'The plot line is new and
exciting ... I was surprised more than once at what was happening.
If you are looking for a good book, definitely pick up this one.'
Alison Mudge, Librarian, USA " A dark journey not only of the mind,
but of the soul. Mr. Brown's extraordinary talent is evident as he
paints a virtual feast for the reader with eloquently chosen prose
in this powerfully engaging novel." Nina D'Arcangela 'An exciting,
on the edge of your seat gothic that will have readers begging for
more.' Rosemary Smith, Librarian 'An exciting d but from a new
young writer with a dark imagination. Thomas Brown's beautifully
written novel proposes a modern gothic forest far from the tourist
trail, a place filled with strange events and eerie consequences.'
Philip Hoare. 'This book was great! I loved the author's writing
style - the words flowed perfectly. Reading this was less like
reading a book and more like watching the movie in my mind's eye.
Fantastic!' Laura Smith, Goodreads Reviewer
"Featherbones is an ethereal love song to a city by the sea. Thomas
Brown's beautiful novel depicts a liminal world of statues,
drownings and winged creatures. It's also a real page turner. I
love this book." Rebecca Smith, author of The Bluebird Caf "I loved
the use of language, I loved the story and above all I loved the
constant sensation that I was walking on the top of the dividing
wall between reality and dream and imagination and past and present
and future. I want to live on that wall for the rest of my life."
Bookrazy blog "What to call this experience? Magical realism
doesn't quite fit right.
Magical-psychological-philosophical-realism. Maybe. This is a book
that will be unlike any other that you have read. "If you enjoy
reading books that make you think, and make you wonder at the
author's ability to turn every day ordinary into something else,
something a bit more extraordinary, then I recommend this book to
you." Ionia Martin, Readful things blog The book Felix walks the
same way to work through Southampton every morning, and the same
way home again in the evenings. His life up to this point feels
like one day repeated over and over; a speck of silt caught in the
city's muddied waters. Sometimes it is all he can do to sit and
watch while the urban sprawl races indifferently around him. But
when the city stares back at him, one evening after work,
everything changes. He doesn't see the statue's head move, but he
feels its eyes on him, studying him from its lofty perch in East
Park. From then on he continues to glimpse it, or something like
it, encroaching with every visitation. With it come memories,
spilling through the streets, crawling through the dark, haunting
his night-time flat, until he isn't quite sure what is real anymore
and what is imagined, in this hard, grey place where the gulls
watch him sleep...
WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2018 - Management
Futures Category Building Digital Culture aims to answer a simple
question: How can organizations succeed when the environment they
operate in is changing so quickly? The last thing businesses need
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culture you'll most likely fail, or at least fall short of what you
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than 200 hours of research, candid interviews and contributions
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"The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when
wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish
for is to be forgotten. These are the circles Browne's thought's
describe." -W.G. Sebald, author of The Rings of Saturn Sir Thomas
Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a
coiner of words and spinner of phrases of a near Shakespearean
fecundity; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an
inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an
inspiration to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincy, as
well as to W.G. Sebald, and his unique voice is both quirky and
sonorous, an echo chamber that is full of enchantment. This new
edition of Browne's two most enduring and beloved works, Religio
Medici, in which he weighs and ponders the relation between his
medical profession and his profession of the Christian faith, and
Urne-Buriall, an exquisite meditation on mortality, has been put
together by the distinguished Renaissance Scholar and bestselling
author of Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt, and Ramie Targoff.
It includes an extensive introduction and annotations that will
help readers find their way into the extraordinary world of Sir
Thomas Browne.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) was a writer of breathtaking range and
learning, whose works demonstrate a warm and humorous view of human
nature. Religio Medici is a fascinating, witty and intimate
exploration of his views on faith and tolerance, while substantial
selections from Pseudodoxia Epidemica display Browne's breadth of
knowledge and omnivorous curiosity in his account of common errors
in a startling array of subjects including sciences, history,
literature and philosophy. Hydriotaphia or 'Urn Buriall' is an
intriguing meditation on death and the desire for immortality, The
Garden of Cyrus considers the mysterious order to be found in
nature, and A Letter to a Friend and the aphoristic Christian
Morals provide profound spiritual guidance to readers.
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