the shining roger luckhurst

Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as the scariest horror film of all time before its release in 1980. Though the film opened to poor reviews, it has since become one of the most admired horror films in cinema history. Exerting an enormous influence on popular culture, The Shining has spawned a vast array of interpretations and conspiracy theories.Roger Luckhurst s illuminating study explores the film s themes, tropes and resonances through a detailed analysis of sequences and performances. Situating The Shining in a series of fresh contexts, Luckhurst looks at the complex nature of horror cinema at the end of the 1970s and early 80s. Taking the maze of the haunted hotel as a key motif, he offers numerous threads with which to navigate the strange twists and turns of this enigmatic film.This limited edition features original cover artwork by Mark Swan.

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An arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do we set out to remember them? The Pyramids of Giza, the catacombs and columbaria of Rome and the cenotaphs erected to the world’s war dead are but some of the answers. In inimitable style, Roger Luckhurst probes the often moving, sometimes contested ways in which people throughout history have responded to the ‘problem’ of laying the dead to rest.Blending history, art, literature and popular culture, Graveyards explores the various different aspects of the treatment of the dead. Chapters range from early burials and the emergence of necropolises and catacombs, to grave-robbing, garden cemeteries and the perilous overcrowding of the urban dead, to monuments for deceased heroes and rulers and the development of modern memorial culture. The products of our persistent fascination with graveyards are everywhere in literature, art, film and television, and Luckhurst engages these cultural afterlives alongside grave sites’ particular social and historical contexts.Illustrations throughout offer insights into the rich and unusual visual culture of the grave: helpful guides and provisions for the afterlife, tender dedications, gravestones and effigies sit with memento mori paintings, artistic visions of the underworld and stills from classic horror. Beautifully designed and carefully researched, this book takes a lyrical, unexpected look at graveyards as both site and symbol.

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The definitive showcase of the yearâ ™s finest British short storiesâ ˜Bravo to Saltâ ™s beacon of delight and intrigue â “ its annual collection of the UKâ ™s best short stories, from established and emerging voices.â ™ â ”Duncan MinshullNow relaunched for a new era, Best British Short Stories returns with a bold new look and a renewed commitment to celebrating the art of the short story. As we enter our fifteenth volume, this much-loved annual collection continues to be the go-to anthology for readers seeking the most exciting and diverse voices in contemporary British fiction.Assembled by series editor Nicholas Royle, Best British Short Stories 2025 presents a stellar selection of stories first published in 2024, drawn from magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks, and online. Whether youâ ™re a devoted follower or discovering the series for the first time, this new edition reaffirms our mission to champion storytelling in all its forms.â ˜If the latest iteration of Saltâ ™s Best British Short Stories collection is anything to go by then the genre remains in safe hands.â ™ â ”Lawrence Foley, TLSFeaturing stories by: David Bevan, Rose Biggin, Christopher Burns, Ian Critchley, Pippa Goldschmidt, Linden Hibbert, Hannah Hoare, Catrin Kean, Roger Luckhurst, Baret Magarian, Wyl Menmuir, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, Simon Okotie, Imogen Reid, C. D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Elizabeth Stott, Mark Valentine, and Naomi Wood.

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The story of the Gothic, from early architecture and literature to the modern horror genre, illustrated by the beautiful, the macabre and the strange.

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Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime Mystery this latest title crawls with the dark fingers of terror, the chilling sensation of another presence sitting alongside you while you read the tales of horror laid out before you. Contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: E.E.W. Christman, Morgan Elektra, Damien Angelica Walters, Michael Wertenberg, Lucy A. Snyder, Stephen Kotowych, Kay Chronister, Michelle Muenzler, G.L. McDorman, Cody Schroeder, Jason L. Kawa, Daniele Bonfanti, Desmond Warzel, Carolyn Charron, Trisha J. Wooldridge, Mariah Southworth, Oliver Smith, Matthew Gorman, and Angela Sylvaine. These appear alongside classic stories by authors like E.F. Benson, F. Marion Crawford, Elizabeth Gaskell, M.R. James, Bram Stoker and more.

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The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: a serial-killer thriller unlike any other from the award-winning Lauren Beukes. ⠘GONE GIRL has not exactly gone. But THE SHINING GIRLS have arrived⠙ (The Times).THE SHINING GIRLS is now streaming on Apple TV+, starring Elisabeth Moss and Jamie Bell⠜It⠙s not my fault. It⠙s yours. You shouldn⠙t shine. You shouldn⠙t make me do this.⠝Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature ⠓ it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen shining girls through the decades ⠓ and cut the spark out of them.He⠙s the perfect killer. Unstoppable. Untraceable. He thinks⠦Chicago, 1992. They say what doesn⠙t kill you makes you stronger. Tell that to Kirby Mazrachi, whose life was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her. Still struggling to find her attacker, her only ally is Dan, an ex-homicide reporter who covered her case and now might be falling in love with her.As Kirby investigates, she finds the other girls ⠓ the ones who didn⠙t make it. The evidence is ⠦ impossible. But for a girl who should be dead, impossible doesn⠙t mean it didn⠙t happen⠦

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FOREWORD BY TOM HARDYI fight not just for myself, but for the Gracies... In the heat of the moment, how do you control your emotions and master your thinking?How do you suffer through hardship and grow through failure?How do you develop quiet inner grace?Ten-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu World Champion and former MMA World Champion, Roger Gracie is a martial arts legend and widely considered to be the greatest practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu of all time. His grandfather, the great Carlos Gracie, was the architect of modern day Brazilian jiu-jitsu and for Roger, growing up in the famous Gracie family, every conversation seemed to be about fighting. Within this family of supermen, this self-contained, once chubby kid promised little; in fact, nobody expected Roger to be the warrior he #39;d later become. But once he had made up his mind as a teenager to become the greatest, Roger #39;s star was firmly aligned with his purpose. Over time, he gradually became unstoppable, both in his thirst for jiu-jitsu knowledge and in his single-mindedness to reach mastery, just as his grandfather had done before him. For the first time, in The Warrior Mindset, Gracie shares secrets and lessons from a career of fighting at the highest level. Going far beyond the mat, this hard-won wisdom is applicable to everyone from any background and in any walk of life who longs to find strength, courage, health, and peace.

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An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy, with a new Preface and updated Bibliography of Scruton s many literary works over the years.Roger Scruton was one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then was he at best ignored and at worst reviled? In this intriguing portrait Mark Dooley brilliantly illuminates Scrutonâ ™s life and offers careful analysis of his work. Considering how Scrutonâ ™s conservative instinct was sharpened during the Paris riots of 1968, Dooley explores why Scruton set himself the task of stridently opposing what he termed â ˜the culture of repudiationâ ™ and how he accomplished it.Covering Scrutonâ ™s centrals ideas, such as his view of human nature, opposition of the social contract theory and criticisms of the European Union and United Nationals, Dooley argues that he was a prophet for our times â “ the one British intellectual who courageously rowed against the tide of liberal conviction and arrived at political conclusions the truth of which are becoming more and more obvious.

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A new approach to foragingRoger Phillips is the legendary godfather of foraging. Drawing upon decades of experience, his knowledge of wild food is unrivalled and in this richly illustrated book he shares some of his most recently gathered wisdom, collected from around the world.Roger reveals the edible and therapeutic secrets of our fields, woodlands and flower beds, and suggests tips for sourcing delicious morsels growing throughout the countryside and in our gardens. He also describes the native habitat and history of many fascinating plants and fungi, both common and unusual: from the camas bulbs eaten by the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, to the Italian and Spanish favourite, Caesar’s amanita; from hostas, the familiar garden foliage consumed as a succulent vegetable in Japan, to the newly popular Australian citrus fruits.The Worldwide Forager is divided into four sections: mushrooms and fungi; flowers, leaves and herbs; fruit and nuts; and roots and tubers, and Roger uses each one to provide a wide range of ideas for making your meals more colourful, delicious and sustainable.

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Hudební CD - Zpěvák The Who Roger Daltrey se rozhodl vydat nahrávku The Who's Tommy Orchestral, na které vystupuje společně se členy zmíněné kapely The Who a orchestrálním doprovodem. Zpěvák The Who Roger Daltrey se rozhodl vydat nahrávku The Who's Tommy Orchestral, na které vystupuje společně se členy zmíněné kapely The Who (jmenovitě jde o Simona Townshenda, Franka Simese, Scotta Devourse, Jona Buttona a Lorena Golda) a orchestrálním doprovodem. Album, které obsahuje 24 skladeb, bylo nahráváno v Budapešti a v Bethelu ve státu New York, kde se před 50 lety odehrál první ročník legendárního festivalu Woodstock. Seznam stop bdquo;Overture rdquo; / bdquo;It #039;s A Boy rdquo; / bdquo;1921 rdquo; / bdquo;Amazing Journey rdquo; / bdquo;Sparks rdquo; / bdquo;Eyesight To The Blind rdquo; / bdquo;Christmas rdquo; / bdquo;Cousin Kevin rdquo; / bdquo;The Acid Queen rdquo; / bdquo;Do You Think It #039;s Alright rdquo; / bdquo;Fiddle About rdquo; /...

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One of the true classics of horror, now with a new stunning cover look. THE SHINING is regarded as one of Stephen King s masterpieces.Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a shiner , aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny s visions grow out of control.As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel - and that, too, is beginning to shine . . .

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â ˜Others may vie for the top position â ¦ but Eddings reigns supremeâ ™ Publishers WeeklyDavid Eddingâ ™s Tamuli Trilogy reissued with a brand new livery.Sparhawk and Queen Ehlana must do everything they can to educate Tamuli Emperor Sarabian in the art of leadership if they are to have any chance of standing against the evil forces that threaten their kingdoms.Sarabianâ ™s enemies are regrouping and once again plan to attempt to take the empire for themselves.But more disturbing than the political machinations of court, there have been reported sightings of Shining Ones among the hordes of monsters roaming the land. If Sparhawk and his allies are to have any hope of defeating this growing threat they must resurrect the sacred jewel of the Troll-Gods, otherwise the fate of not just their kingdoms, but the entire world, will be at stake . . .

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In 1918 Lord Leverhulme bought the island of Lewis with ambitious plans to massively expand its fishing industry and increase its population.In 1923, when his plans had failed, he offered it free of charge to the islanders in two parts. One part, which included impoverished rural areas, was economically unviable. But the other, based around the busy fishing port and administrative centre of Stornoway, was a different matter. In accepting Leverhulmeâ ™s offer, the hardheaded, churchgoing business class of Stornoway took on the responsibility of making the radical slogan â ˜Land for the Peopleâ ™ a reality. It was an unlikely coupling, but it worked to perfection.The 20th century was a tumultuous time for Lewis. Migration and depopulation were exacerbated by two world wars. Such problems could not be addressed in the lottery of private landownership, but in the stable, democratic government of the Stornoway Trust, town and country alike would weather the storms.Roger Hutchinson tells the story of those storms, and of the people who guided their pioneering estate into the relative security and prosperity of the 21st century. In doing so he paints a vivid portrait of a unique landholding experiment, of Highland land struggle and of the island of Lewis itself.

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With support from the Inland Waterways Association, Friends of the River Nene and others, and drawing on his longstanding connection with the river, Roger Green has thoroughly revised and updated this popular guide.

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An ascent of Mont Blanc with his uncle leaves young Pierre further convinced he wants to be a mountaineer. But his family have other ideas. Then tragedy strikes as a brutal storm leaves sadness and destruction in its wake. Equip yourself for an immersive experience in the high Alps in Roger Frison-Roche s acclaimed First on the Rope.

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In this second, updated, fully illustrated edition, official club historian Roger Pugh goes backto the founding fathers and traces the Hull KR story to thepresent day, culminating in their record-breakingtreble of ChallengeCup, League LeadersShield and Super League GrandFinal wins in 2025. With a forewordbyownerNeilHudgell

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The author first encountered the Lake District during a boyhood camping trip to Windermere. He was overwhelmed by the freedom of the landscape and the closeness to nature he felt. It was as if he belonged here, amongst the fells, the crags and the endless horizon. This book deals with his life and work in this landscape.

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Kniha - autor Stephen King, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Danny is only five years old but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control.As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?

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Originally published in 1918 by the Talbot Press in Dublin, two years after his execution by the British Government for his involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising, Some Poems of Roger Casement has long been a collectorâ ™s item. In life and in death, Roger Casement appears to contain many contradictions: decorated British diplomat, Irish Protestant and martyred Irish nationalist. He was a humanitarian, essayist and sometime poet, a public gentleman and a private lover. Over the years, Roger Casementâ ™s ghost has been the subject of endless controversies, co-opted into both the queer liberation movement in Ireland and the Republican movement. Predator or saviour, traitor or hero, maligned martyr or gay icon? The question depends on who you ask, and what aspects of Casementâ ™s life they choose to hold in focus, or to dismiss as a lie. â ”SEÁN HEWITTIncludes a specially commissioned introduction by Seán Hewitt as well as the original 1918 introduction, written by Casementâ ™s cousin, Gertrude Parry. Â

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Between 1940 and 1943, a small group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and until now, almost completely unknown - humanitarian operation. Under the leadership of the Polish Ambassador, Aleksander Lados, they undertook a systematic programme of forging identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. The Lados operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the entire war, and The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time.We follow the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these life-saving documents, and their painful uncertainty over whether they will be granted protection from the Nazis murderous fury. And we witness the quiet heroism of those who decided to act in an attempt to save thousands of lives.

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The story of surfing in Scotland is defined by people who dared to dream in spite of the cold, from Neva MacDonald-Haig and the coffin-lid surfers of Machrihanish, who first took to the waves off the west coast in the 1930s with a little help from a local undertaker, to Andy Bennetts and the pioneers of the 1960s, who discovered many of the nation s best breaks, to contemporary big wave surfer Ben Larg, a native of the tiny island of Tiree who now travels the world riding skyscraper-sized walls of water for a living.Scotland is also home to a rich and distinctive surfing culture, with its own surfboard shapers, surf instructors, surf filmmakers, surf photographers and surf fashion brands, not to mention surf-inspired artists and musicians. Professional contests held at some of Scotland s best waves have drawn visits from surfing world champions including Tom Curren, Sunny Garcia and John John Florence, and in recent years Scotland s own surfers have begun to make their presence felt on the competitive stage, with the Scottish surf team featuring at the World Surfing Games and at Eurosurf after finally gaining official recognition in 2014.The View From the Shoulder draws together 20 years of surf journalism from the pages of The Scotsman newspaper, together with fresh context, to create a portrait of a wave-riding community like no other.

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Delve into the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow School of Art-trained contemporaries who forged a unique and distinct vision in both art and architecture at the end of the Victorian era. The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work of a group of young designers and architects working in Glasgow from 1890–1914. At its centre were four young friends who had trained at Glasgow School of Art; two architects and two artists – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Margaret Macdonald and Frances Macdonald – who were simply known by their friends and contemporaries as ‘The Four’. Their work was a personal vision in the new international style of the 1890s, Art Nouveau, and is perhaps best known for Mackintosh’s architecture and furniture. But at the root of this new style was a graphic language which all four shared.Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of The Four presents the most coherent story to date of this important group, concentrating on the entirety of their artistic imagery and output, far beyond the best known work of the 1890s, and charting the constantly changing relationships between the artists and their work.

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Roger McGough #39;s witty text offers many weird and wonderful explanations ... Chris Riddell #39;s artwork makes the whole an imaginative feast - BooksellerRunner-up for the English Association 4-11 Award for the Best Children #39;s Picture Book.Nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal.From the minds of the former Children #39;s Laureate Chris Ridell, and award-winning fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Roger McGough, comes a fun-filled book of how things work. Have you ever wondered how a toaster works? Or a fridge-freezer, or a washing-up machine? In this fun-filled book of how things work, Dudley, the techno-wizard dog, provides the answers. Roger McGough #39;s delightfully ingenious text and Chris Riddell #39;s striking illustrations take children from the furthest realms of fantasy into the fascinating world of technology to discover the workings of familiar machines, making it an exciting book which will delight again and again. At first, it describes how a child thinks things work... (gnomes in the toaster) and then Dudley tells you how the various household appliances really work. Includes all the appliances a curious child would be interested in: the dishwasher, the fridge-freezer and more. A funny, imaginative #39;how things work #39; book for ages 4–7.

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On a desert planet, two boys meet, sparking a friendship that will change human society forever. On the windswept world of Bleak, a string of murders lead a writer to a story with unbelievable ramifications. One man survives the vicious attacks, but is left with a morbid fascination with death; the perfect candidate for the perilous job of working on a rig. Welcome to the System. Here the concept of a god has been abandoned, and a new faith pervades: AfterLife, a social media platform that allows subscribers a chance at resurrection, based on the votes of other users. So many Lives, forever interlinked, and one structure at the centre of it all: the rig.

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Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and calmness, a fierce competitor with a regal bearing, he is both an athlete and an ambassador, a street fighter and a statesman. But who is he really? And what are the experiences and influences that have shaped him into the world figure he is today?This acclaimed biography, first published in 2006 and now fully updated in its ninth edition, traces Federer #39;s life and career, from his first tentative swings with a racket to legendary status. The vastly experienced writer, broadcaster and tennis historian Chris Bowers talked exclusively to many of the people who helped shape the young Roger Federer, and together with his own experiences following Federer #39;s career from his junior title at Wimbledon at age sixteen to his twentieth major title nineteen years later, he presents an affectionate and analytical portrait of one of the great names of modern-day sport. His book has enough information to satisfy the most voracious Federer fan, and enough talking points to keep an argument going until the small hours. In its portrait of Roger Federer - the man, the player, the icon - this masterly biography brings the player #39;s story up to date, while also examining his place in tennis and sporting history.

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Young children will love being part of the hustle and bustle in What Can You Hear?: In the City —a fantastic new sound book series by Priddy Books.From a ringing bicycle bell and an emergency siren, to bouncing toys, and more, there are 10 busy city sounds to discover in this unique board book. Children will love pressing the diamond-shaped buttons and listening to the sounds as they spot lots of fun things in the scenes. Children can visit the shopping centre, play at the park, see the construction site, and discover many other places as they explore the city.

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Young children will love meeting the adorable animals around the farmyard in Let s Pretend Farm by Priddy Books!Toddlers can join Farmer Bob and his helpers for a busy day on the farm. There are lots of animals to feed, horses to groom, fields to plough, food to harvest for market day and much more. There are also lots of fun things to find on every page, too!This engaging set comes with 15 puzzle pieces which can be used both for independent play and to place into the die-cut pages. The sturdy board book is embedded into a play case and includes a plastic clamshell which allows the pieces to be safely stored away.

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Have fun this Easter with Easter on the Farm from Priddy Books!This lift-the-flap board book is designed to introduce toddlers to early learning in a fun and engaging way through answering questions and lifting the flaps to find different-coloured eggs in each farmyard scene.There is simple bright artwork with photographic images of cute baby farm animals, flowers, and other springtime images and rhyming text to read aloud making this a fantastic book to share with your child this Easter time.

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Olivia finds herself playing in her garden while her mummy and daddy are busy working indoors. She meets several different little creatures, including a butterfly with a very big problem. Will Olivia be able to help⠦⠦.? Olivia and the Butterfly is a beautifully illustrated, calming bedtime story in rhyme for all little people who care about all the creatures, big and small, who live around and amongst us.

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**WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS** What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? In this remarkable book Roger Penrose brilliantly illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. Cycles of Time contains a penetrating analysis of the second law of thermodynamics - according to which the randomness of our world is continually increasing - and a thorough examination of the light-cone geometry of space-time. It combines these two central themes to show how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the big bang of a new one. Presenting various standard and non-standard cosmological models, discussing black holes in depth as well as taking in the role of the cosmic microwave background along the way, Roger Penrose argues that the Big Bang was not actually the beginning of everything - nor will it signal the end. Science needs more people like Penrose, willing and able to point out the flaws in fashionable models from a position of authority, and to signpost alternative roads to follow Independent

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Almost 50 years after its original publication, this seminal, million-copy-selling book is published in an updated and extended edition. WIld Flowers is the perfect guide to help anyone interested in the natural world to identify and learn about the wild flowers they see all around them, whether they are walking in urban green settings or the countryside.Roger Phillips is a world-renowned, award-winning photographer, botanist, plantsman, mycologist and wild food forager. This updated edition of his ground-breaking first book will help you to identify over 1,000 photographed and illustrated wild flowers, month by month, in order of flowering.The text of Wild Flowers draws on Roger s extensive expertise, providing details of each plant, including height, habitat, rarity, distribution, flowering period, and background information both medical or historical.With English, botanical and family names for each plant, and three indexes for ease of navigation, this is a comprehensive and essential photographic guide to the wild flowers of the British Isles.

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From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as an authority ... none of his rivals can match (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeatFor more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and eventually won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower?This book looks beyond the familiar exploits (and bravery) of the army and navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It shows the degree to which, because of the magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole British population were involved: industrialists, farmers, shipbuilders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers. The intelligence war was also central; but no participants were more important, Knight argues, than the bankers and international traders of the City of London, without whom the armies of Britain s allies could not have taken the field.ROGER KNIGHT was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. In 2005 he published, with Allen Lane/Penguin, The Pursuit of Victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won the Duke of Westminster s Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research. The present book is a culmination of his life-long interest in the workings of the late eighteenth-century British state. Superb - Spectator

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A comprehensive account of the famous raid.

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The wonderful Roger McGough has drawn together a stunning collection of poems inspired by the five senses. Gems from the very best classic and contemporary poets such as Carol Ann Duffy, Ian McMillan, John Hegley, William Wordsworth, Vernon Scannell and Michael Rosen will captivate any reader. Prepare for a welcome assault on your senses!

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Two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, forced to confront a country changing beyond recognition. Cities of the Plain brings Cormac McCarthy s legendary Border Trilogy to its brutal, inevitable conclusion. The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature â “ Guardian1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole, last seen in All the Pretty Horses, works as a ranch hands alongside Billy Parnham, of The Crossing. These are the dying days of the American frontier.From the north, the military encroaches upon the ranch. To the south are the mountains of Mexico, the pull of which prove irresistible to John Grady. And so it is that, when he falls in love with a sex worker south of the border, events are set into motion that will prove as dangerous as they are unstoppable. This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s â “ Telegraph Like a slow-acting hallucinogen, the book has managed to transform a Texas boy of sixteen looking for adventure into a mysterious figure that augurs the destruction of the world â “ Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomCities of the Plain is the final novel in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded by the first two volumes: All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing.Praise for Cormac McCarthyâ ˜McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absoluteâ ™ â “ Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power â “ Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series [I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence â “ Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback MountainPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road.â ˜A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset songâ ™ â “ The Guardian1980, Mississippi. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot s flight bag, the plane s black box â “ and the tenth passenger . . .Now a collateral witness to this disappearance, Bobby is discouraged from speaking of what he has seen. He is a man haunted: by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima, and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.One of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger is book one in a duology. It is followed by Stella Maris.Praise for Cormac McCarthy:â ˜McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absoluteâ ™ â “ Anne Enright, author of The Green Road His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power â “ Stephen King, author of The Shining [I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence â “ Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

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THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution.On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the â ˜useless and dangerousâ ™ House of Lords discarded. The people, it was announced, were now the sovereign force in the land. What this meant, and where it would lead, no one knew.The Restless Republic is the story of the extraordinary decade that followed. It takes as its guides the people who lived through those years. Among them is Anna Trapnel, the daughter of a Deptford shipwright whose visions transfixed the nation. John Bradshaw, the Cheshire lawyer who found himself trying the King. Marchamont Nedham, the irrepressible newspaper man and puppet master of propaganda. Gerrard Winstanley, who strove for a Utopia of common ownership where no one went hungry. William Petty, the precocious scientist whose mapping of Ireland prefaced the dispossession of tens of thousands. And the indomitable Countess of Derby who defended to the last the final Royalist stronghold on the Isle of Man.The Restless Republic ranges from London to Leith, Cornwall to Connacht, from the corridors of power to the common fields and hillsides. Gathering her cast of trembling visionaries and banished royalists, dextrous mandarins and bewildered bystanders, Anna Keay brings to vivid life the most extraordinary and experimental decade in Britainâ ™s history. It is the story of how these tempestuous years set the British Isles on a new course, and of what happened when a conservative people tried revolution.

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5 Star Reader Reviews - ✩✩✩✩✩ Captivating, necessary and enlightening. ✩✩✩✩✩ Essential. Wonderfully researched. ✩✩✩✩✩ This book is as good, if not better, than Fingerprints of the Gods. ✩✩✩✩✩ Read this book. Change your perspective. Graham Hancock - star of Netflix s ANCIENT APOCOLYPSE - is author of the global bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods. A book which remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth s lost civilization.Magicians of the Gods, the sequel to his seminal work, explores how, at the end of the last ice age, fragments from a giant comet caused a global cataclysm, on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs, wiping out an advanced civilization from the earth. Making us a species with amnesia, forced to begin again like children with no memory of what went before. This book is filled with completely new evidence, new travels to the world s most mysterious archaeological sites, new insights based on the latest scientific evidence.The impacts, from the comet fragments (a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour) generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth s crust and causing the global deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as the Sages , the Magicians , the Shining Ones , and the Mystery Teachers of Heaven . They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning, settling at key locations: Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific. Everywhere they went these Magicians of the Gods brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price.A memory and a warning to the future... For the comet that wrought such destruction may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide dark fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt, warns that the Great Return will occur in our time...

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Set along the US-Mexcio border of the 1940s, Cormac McCarthy s legendary Border Trilogy continues with The Crossing, a coming-of-age western set parallel to the events of All the Pretty Horses. McCarthy speaks to us in the thrilling, apocalyptic tones of an Old Testament prophet â “ Sunday TelegraphSixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd are fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family s property. Billy captures the animal but, rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to from where it came.On his return, he will find himself â “ and his world â “ irrevocably changed. His innocence lost at a cruel price, the desolate beauty of the border will beckon once again . . . The Crossing is like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous â “ The Timesâ ˜Nominally Westerns, these books are too entropic and philosophical to fit within the limits of the genre. They summon the ghosts of history, and haunt the gaps between justice and reality â “ Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomThe Crossing is the second volume in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded by All the Pretty Horses and followed by Cities of the Plain.Praise for Cormac McCarthyâ ˜McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absoluteâ ™ â “ Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power â “ Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series [I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence â “ Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback MountainPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution.On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the â ˜useless and dangerousâ ™ House of Lords discarded. The people, it was announced, were now the sovereign force in the land. What this meant, and where it would lead, no one knew.The Restless Republic is the story of the extraordinary decade that followed. It takes as its guides the people who lived through those years. Among them is Anna Trapnel, the daughter of a Deptford shipwright whose visions transfixed the nation. John Bradshaw, the Cheshire lawyer who found himself trying the King. Marchamont Nedham, the irrepressible newspaper man and puppet master of propaganda. Gerrard Winstanley, who strove for a Utopia of common ownership where no one went hungry. William Petty, the precocious scientist whose mapping of Ireland prefaced the dispossession of tens of thousands. And the indomitable Countess of Derby who defended to the last the final Royalist stronghold on the Isle of Man.The Restless Republic ranges from London to Leith, Cornwall to Connacht, from the corridors of power to the common fields and hillsides. Gathering her cast of trembling visionaries and banished royalists, dextrous mandarins and bewildered bystanders, Anna Keay brings to vivid life the most extraordinary and experimental decade in Britainâ ™s history. It is the story of how these tempestuous years set the British Isles on a new course, and of what happened when a conservative people tried revolution.

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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS FROMS THIS NEW MESMERISING HORROR NOVEL Unputdownable, with imagery that cuts like a knife - this is Chuck Wendig at the top of his game. THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT, AUTHOR OF HEX AND DARKER DAYS A searing, propulsive, dread-filled exploration of the horrors of knowing and being known. KIERSTEN WHITE, NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIDE Deliciously disorienting and deeply captivating ALAINA URQUHART, NO. 1 NEW TORK TIMES BETSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BUTCHER GAME__________Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhereOne friend walks up â “ but never comes back down.Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy â “ and what lies beyond the staircase in the woodsâ ¦FROM THE MODERN HORROR SENSATION COMES A NEW BONE-CHILLING MASTERPIECE.__________ The Staircase in the Woods is a true blueprint for terror that stands alongside the likes of such classic habitats as Charlotte Perkins Gilman s The Yellow Wallpaper, Michael McDowell s The Elementals, and Stephen King s The Shining. CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN The Staircase in the Woods is as mysterious, alluring, heartbreaking, ever-shifting, and unnervingly powerful as the nature of friendship itself. NAT CASSIDY The Staircase in the Woods will become lodged in your mind, if you let it in. JENNY KIEFER Highly original and deeply disturbing, this one will stick with you. GWENDOLYN KISTE Chuck Wendig is one of my very favorite storytellers. ERIN MORGENSTERN Wendig s wheelhouse is knowing exactly how to pluck heartstrings and prey on fears at the same time SADIE HARTMAN Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror ADAM CHRISTOPHER

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... the definitive guide to what properly messes us up. â • SFX Magazine Glasby anatomises horror s scare tactics with keen, lucid clarity across 34 carefully selected main films – classic and pleasingly obscure. 4 Stars. â • Total Filmâ ‹The Book of Horror introduces the scariest movies ever made and examines what makes them so frightening.Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there’s only one metric that matters: are they scary? Back in the silent era, viewers thrilled at Frankenstein and Dracula. Today, the monsters may have changed, but the instinct remains the same: to seek out the unspeakable, ride the adrenaline rush and play out our fears in the safety of the cinema.The Book of Horror focuses on the most frightening films of the post-war era – from Psycho (1960) to Longlegs (2024) – examining exactly how they scare us across a series of key categories. Each chapter explores a seminal horror film in depth, charting its scariest moments with infographics and identifying the related works you need to see. Including references to more than 100 classic and contemporary horror films from around the globe, and striking illustrations from Barney Bodoano, this is a rich and compelling guide to the scariest films ever made. The films:Psycho (1960), The Innocents (1961), The Haunting (1963), Don’t Look Now (1973), The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Suspiria (1977), Halloween (1978), The Shining (1980), The Entity (1982), Angst (1983), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), Ring (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Others (2001), The Eye (2002), Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Shutter (2004), The Descent (2005), Wolf Creek (2005), The Orphanage (2007), [Rec] (2007), The Strangers (2008), Lake Mungo (2008), Martyrs (2008), The Innkeepers (2011), Banshee Chapter (2013), Oculus (2013), The Babadook (2014), It Follows (2015), Terrified (2017), Hereditary (2018), It Chapter Two (2019), Host (2020),Talk to Me (2022), Longlegs (2024)

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An attractive student. An older professor. Think you know the story? Think again.-------- Riveting Shari Lapena So twisty, so timely, so terrific Nicci French My new favourite crime series Louise Candlish She has everything at stake; he has everything to lose. But one of them is lying, all the same. When an Oxford student accuses one of the university s professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley s team think they ve heard it all before. But they couldn t be more wrong. Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player. Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock to figure out the truth. What they don t realise is that someone is watching. And they have a plan to put Fawley out of action for good...The fifth twisty, up-all-night thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling Cara Hunter. For fans of Shari Lapena, Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell. --------Authors can t get enough of The Whole Truth A masterclass in twists, deception and modern crime writing Jo Spain, The Last to Disappear This book is nail-biting, gasp-out-loud, brilliant John Marrs, The Vacation [Gives the] police procedural format a fresh coat of paint Financial Times A master of the genre Jane Casey, The Reckoning The Fawley books are the best crime series being written at the moment Araminta Hall, Hidden Depths Prepare to be engrossed by a master storyteller JP Delaney, The Perfect Wife Made me race to the end Fiona Barton, Local Gone Missing An absolute masterclass in crime writing Simon Lelic, The Hiding Place And readers are loving this series, too All hail the new queen of all things crime Penny, Netgalley Mind-bending brilliance Kath, Netgalley Packed full of twists Gary, Netgalley Definitely for fans of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter and the like Fiona, Netgalley Captivating: full of mystery, tension, moral dilemma . . . outstanding Peter, Netgalley This series just gets better and better Tina, Netgalley

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THE MARTAIN meets THE EXPANSE in this page turning debut science-fiction mysteryMARS, 2034A place of hope, freedom, and the dream of a better future on their new home. The year of the first human born on the red planet.MARS, 2103A place of division, suspicion and fear.The year when the truth will come about. ****This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass. And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it. It s a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew.It s a story about what makes us human - and how we might live once we leave our home.The story of the first murder on Mars. ****PRAISE FOR THE FIRST MURDER ON MARS: A fiercely intelligent, wholly engaging thrill-ride of a novel that sucks you in like a black hole SARAH LOTZ, author of THE THREE Fast and sharp and very of-our-time LAUREN BEUKES, author of THE SHINING GIRLS A wild rover ride across the red planet which is somehow both exhilarating and deeply thoughtful about how societies are built, captured and liberated. It s meticulously researched, vividly imagined and moves faster than a spaceship. I bloody adored this book SAM BECKBESSINGER, co-author of GIRLS OF LITTLE HOPE Fuses inventive sci-fi, Martian secrets and the whodunnit into an ingenious, thought-provoking and heart-pounding page-turner DALE HALVORSEN, coo-author of GIRLS OF LITTLE HOPE A generation-spanning epic, this is science fiction at its best. Wilson knows that human nature will follow us anywhere - even Mars ALEX CONVERY, screenwriter of AIR 2023 ****PRAISE FOR SAM WILSON S ZODIAC: A bold storyteller with an amazing mind LAUREN BEUKES, author of The Shining Girls A brilliant, original and gripping thriller. I m struggling to think of a reader who won t love this SARAH LOTZ, author of THE THREE Impeccable storytelling. Undoubtedly a book which works both on the level of its intriguing high concept and sheer narrative nous. BARRY FORSHAW, author of NORDIC NOIR

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The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist, colonialist, sexist, etc. Jacobinism, Marxism-Leninism, National Socialism, Progressive Democracy, the New Left, and now the new woke dispensation have all iterated upon this central conceit. Their adherents were all frenziedly preoccupied with being on ⠜the right side of history⠝⠔the side of ⠜progress.⠝In The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel Mahoney chronicles each manifestation of the Ideological Lie, up to and including contemporary wokeism. He explains how each is marked by the same errors: impatience with piecemeal reform, contempt for self-limiting constitutional order, and the belief that people are guilty for their immutable characteristics⠔belonging to the wrong class or race⠔rather than for their actions. He shows how the woke, moved by self-loathing and a disdain for our civic inheritance, are transmuting our so-called democracy into a new form of despotism. Mahoney ultimately argues that our failure to learn from the totalitarian tragedy of the twentieth century allowed the ideological virus to metastasize in new and alarming ways. Above all, he takes aim at the omnipresent ⠜culture of repudiation,⠝ as the late Roger Scruton called it, and elucidates multiple paths for overcoming the ideological clichés that continue to deform intellectual and political life today.

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Two men marked by boyhood adventures now stand together, forced to confront a country changing beyond recognition. Cities of the Plain brings Cormac McCarthy s legendary Border Trilogy to its brutal, inevitable conclusion. The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature â “ Guardian1952, New Mexico. John Grady Cole, last seen in All the Pretty Horses, works as a ranch hands alongside Billy Parnham, of The Crossing. These are the dying days of the American frontier.From the north, the military encroaches upon the ranch. To the south are the mountains of Mexico, the pull of which prove irresistible to John Grady. And so it is that, when he falls in love with a sex worker south of the border, events are set into motion that will prove as dangerous as they are unstoppable. This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s â “ Telegraph Like a slow-acting hallucinogen, the book has managed to transform a Texas boy of sixteen looking for adventure into a mysterious figure that augurs the destruction of the world â “ Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomCities of the Plain is the final novel in the Border Trilogy. It is preceded by the first two volumes: All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing.Praise for Cormac McCarthyâ ˜McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absoluteâ ™ â “ Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power â “ Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series [I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence â “ Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback MountainPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Her best friend disappeared. A stranger came back.SEX AND THE CITY MEETS STEPHEN KING S THE SHINING IN THIS CHILLING DEBUT Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return-except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone. She feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back.She s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she s been or what happened to her.Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong-she s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who-or what-is she?An eerie storm of a debut that fuses thriller and horror into a brilliant depiction of women s friendships - the rivalries, jealousies, anxieties and love.Praise for THE RETURN The Return expertly treads the fine line between thriller and horror. It s as deliciously creepy as opening up a box of candy-coated spiders-and eating them all in one sitting Christina Dalcher, bestselling author of Vox Combining suspense and horror with razor-sharp insights into the nature of female friendships, Rachel Harrison s The Return is a creepy, nerve-wracking, page-turning addition to the emerging field of horror thrillers Alma Katsu, award-winning author of The Hunger The Return is moving and terrifying in equal measure. A brilliant rumination on friendship, pain, and the myriad of unsuccessful ways we all try to run from our past and fill the holes in our hearts. Harrison s keen prose won t let you go. Be warned, you ll double check the locks on your doors before you try to sleep Mallory O Meara, author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon By turns scary and funny, horrifying and real, The Return is impossible to put down. It takes an honest, scathing look at female friendship while at the same time pulling the reader into a perfect nightmare of a story Simone St. James, bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel The Return is supernatural horror at its very best! Sharp dialogue, complex relationships and mind-bending action will have readers locking their doors and checking under their beds. Rachel Harrison has reinvented this genre and will surely be hailed as a pioneer among her peers Wendy Walker, bestselling author of The Night Before Hair-raising horror and pure entertainment in Harrison s compulsively readable debut . . . The tension and nuance of Harrison s complicated female friendships add depth to an already delicious, chilling debut Publishers Weekly Fusing horror and thriller together, it s an unsettling tale of rivalry, envy, fear, friendship and love Culturefly s Books of 2020

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‘His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series All the Pretty Horses is indisputably a masterpiece – Financial Times1949. At sixteen years-old, John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.A grand love story, Cormac McCarthy s novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age.‘One of the greatest American novels of this or any time’ – GuardianAdapted into a film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz.All the Pretty Horses is followed in the Border Trilogy by The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page - Financial TimesA startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as Black and White , begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history.White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith - while White is desperate to deny it.Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series [I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence - Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

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SPECTACULAR! No. 1 bestselling author Martina Cole UNPUTDOWNABLE Irish TimesDiscover the thrilling stand-alone novel set in the same world as the million-copy bestseller THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS - now also a major film on Netflix.Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world.To where the monsters lived. I loved it just as much as The Girl With All the Gifts, if not more Martina Cole A tense story with superbly rendered characters SciFiNow A terrifying, emotional page-turner that explores what it means to be human Kirkus Carey writes with compassion and fire - strange and surprising and humane Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

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