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The honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an American writer. Such tales as The Purloined Letter and The Murders in the Rue Morgue still stand unrivalled.

A distinguished American writer of fiction said to me lately: Did you ever think of the vital American way we live? We are always going after mental gymnastics. Now the mystery story is mental gymnastics. By the time the reader has followed a chain of facts through he has exercised his mind, – given...

Het tweede deel met psychoanalytica Frieda Klein die tegen wil en dank wordt meegesleurd in de afschuwelijke wereld van misdaad en moord. In een vervallen huis in het oosten van Londen wordt het opgezwollen, door vliegen bedekte lijk van een man aangetroffen, rechtop in een leunstoel. Het huis is...

Kidnapped, gagged, and held in an airless shed by some unknown assailant, Abbie Devereaux has somehow managed to survive her ordeal and escape.

The Convergence Project is a covert military/governmental science project that uses prisoners on death row to explore what happens to people as they die.   The experience of life flashing before your eyes just before death is a process called active retrieval where memories are being recalled and...

The Luton Writers’ Group was born out of a question: Are there still writers out there or has Luton become a literary desert? Before the group started, a workshop was run last year at Luton library about getting published. One person turned up...A year on and we have a collection called Underground...

Literary surrealism at its most profound, The Ascent of Isaac Steward follows one man's journey into his own mind as he struggles to come to terms with the trauma that has reshaped his life.  A year on from the car crash in which his wife Rebekah and son Esau were killed and his other son Jacob left...

'THIS STORY IS EQUAL PARTS DOWNTON ABBEY AND WARTIME ACTION, WITH ENOUGH ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE TO MAKE IT 100% NOT-PUT-DOWN-ABLE.' - Australian Women's Weekly on Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies Paris,Christmas 1914 Despite her love for Huw, Elspeth will not give up her espionage work while...

Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear—and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented...

Jack's best friend Lia has asked him a favor—help her get over her fear of dating. Whatever could go wrong? Lia Sawyer’s ready to start dating again and is about to ask out one of Meadowview’s hottest firefighters. But when when she overhears his friend say he thinks she’s frigid and...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. When naughty Wizz Bee and Buzz Bee come home without any honey, Queen Bee is very cross. Can they cheer her up with a story?

First there was Bridget Jones. Then came the Nannies. Now meet Claire McLeod, a twenty-something American girl living in Portland, Oregon. Claire's got big problems: her mother's a tyrant, her sister's a lesbian, her father's in Omaha. Claire's peaceful, if dull, existence is shattered when...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. It's all quiet at the pet shop at the end of the day, but the animals want to have some fun - who wants a story?

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Poor lost Kitten. He doesn't have a name or a home to call his own. All he wants is to find a warm and cosy place where someone will love him. Will anyone help this little kitten?