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A compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living. Illness forces Sylvia Calvert to live with her son Harold, a headmaster...

Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance...

'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of...

Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men. With compassion...

Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease,...

On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After 'a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards'. Angus Wilson's first...

Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson's most allegorical novel, about a doomed attempt to set up a reserve for wild animals....

Angus Wilson's first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which...

A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel. The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the...

NoelleI fled, determined to protect my younger brother from harm. Packing whatever we could fit into my old car, we hit the open road, leaving behind the troubles that haunted us.Our journey led us to...

In a world where magic intertwines with melody, and ancient rivalries can be mended by music, Golden Melodies follows Elara, a human musician whose songs have drawn the attention of both humans and Fae....

Holiday HeartsTake a trip to Junction, Georgia and fall in love. Five stories. Four seasons. "Christmas at Sunrise"Portrait artist Lauren "sees" in other their heart's desire. As a teenager, she fled...

No act is too desperate when love is on the line.LiamAfter my sister took over the family business, there wasn't much left for me to do. But with O'Doyle Industries going legit, big sis has found something.And...

'You are more than a small light in a large universe. None of us can deny you have power.'No one was more surprised than I was when I shoved Chiara down some stairs with bloody magic, but it happened,...

Seven-year-old Cora Sweeney's world is turned upside down when her family becomes the gruesome entrée for a group of hungry cannibal women. But fear not, for this is not your average extreme horror story....

Who Murdered the Nerd?Suicidal Student Snuffed on Stage Fly When a suicidal student dies backstageat a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) fundraiser exhibition dance,small town detectives uncover the...

This is a book about Tony the Duck and her menstrual venture to a Golden Pond that nobody's ever seen before but has magical powers

The Scarlet Cross is a fast-paced Urban Fantasy with slow-burn romance and plot twists. Charmed meets Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this quick-witted story of found family, fated mates...

The saga of the Kurus come to an end, but who are the victors and who the vanquished? As Suyodhana's schemes against Yudhishtira bear fruit, the Pandavas are forced into another exile, this time an ignominious...

A krsnik keeps his friends close and his nightmares closer.Licking his wounds from the earth-shattering battles in Seasons of the River—trying not to beat himself up over bringing his friends into harm's...

In the thrilling conclusion to The Genesis Trilogy, Andie must face the mysteries of her past as warring secret societies battle for control of the Enneagon.PhD student Andie Robertson is a prisoner of...

Nate and Cynthia Durant were a happy, loveable, full-figured couple. But then they both decided to live healthier, with him having weight-loss surgery and her losing the weight naturally. Now both turn...

From Ground Zero to Fortune ebook/book is a fictional business journey that focuses on the personal growth, struggles, and achievement of an individual or group of characters who start with nothing and...

Beyond the 4.5 billion Marc must save, Idyllium is his daughter's only hope.Earth is dying.His daughter is dying.Marc must make her end justify his means.A covert mission to save Earth's billions clashes...

Rhett Paulson's smile has been perfected from years of charming America. He enters their homes every night to entertain and educate. As an investigative journalist, he breaks hard hitting pieces with...

Welcome back to the Skeleton Crew. Keep your knitting needles sharp and have a strong brew in hand for their next adventure. Life for gender-fluid, autistic vampire Hyde Snodgrass has never been better....

After Adrian and his team uncovered the long-hidden portal, they now stand on the precipice of an unimaginable peril. The discovery has unleashed a force unlike anything the world has ever known—an ancient,...

In a world where the echoes of ancient magic have long since faded, "The Chronicle of the Lost Arcane" embarks on a gripping journey through a realm on the brink of rediscovering its forgotten past. The...

Enter a world of mystery, suspense, sin, and heart-wrenching emotion with Helen Hardt's new series! In their volatile world, love might be the deadliest risk of all…Vinnie Gallo lives for one purpose—to...

Nixie - I never expect to start over and rearrange my life at the age of forty-five. Not only did my marriage end, but I also lost my mother while I was in the process of moving to another state. Three...

Don't take it for granted.Twenty-year-old Léa Young is hungry… again. Weeks after returning to the Rift Zone, she finds herself back where she started: in a scramble for resources in post-apocalyptic...

Lem's world is ending.That's not just her personal world, even though she's still reeling a year after burying one of her best friends at the bottom of a desert ravine—and she's got family enslaved by...

When home is anything but a haven …Detective Inspector Palmer yearns for a caseload of ordinary crimes—no monsters, no mages, and definitely no magic. Dark sorcery has left his city in bloody chaos, and...

After two years deployed, Captain Mark Saunders rolls back into town just in time for the holidays and finds out his fling with Essence Monroe left him with more than memories—a baby boy. Mark has never...

The stunning sequel to Talonsister, full of romance and treachery, powerful magic and devastating choices. Perfect for fans of Andrea Stewart, John Gwynn and Samantha Shannon.The Othanim have conquered...

Silvey Rhoades is a living miracle, having survived being hurled a mile by a tornado. But her recovery has drawn the wrong kind of attention. She's uncovered a dangerous secret tied to forgotten technology,...

Some things are worse than death… or high school. Fourteen-year-old Xenia Findlay survived the crash that claimed her parents and her best friend Bethany. Moving to Porter Valley to live with her great-aunt...

Tracy 'TK' King just came home from a ten year bid, after shooting someone for trying to get over on him. TK a ex-King Pin wants the respect and power, he once had before being ten years removed from...

After completing the previous season of her true crime podcast, barista Joss Miller is ready to hang up her microphone for good. But when she meets Lily Hartman, the widow of a renowned choir director...