![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Harwood is enviable skilled, handling pacing, delivery and plot with assurance and sly humour ‘ The Ghost Writer‘ has powerful moments and a delicacy and tenderness that make it wonderfully readable’ ‘Times Literary Supplement’. ‘Irresistible Structured like a haunted mansion’ ‘Observer’. ‘An elegant homage to the Victorian ghost story tradition Makes your flesh creep’ ‘The Times’. ‘A compelling, atmospheric and well crafted story’ ‘Guardian’. What is the invisible, ever present threat from which his mother strives so obsessively to protect him? And why should stories written a century ago entwine themselves ever more closely around events in his own life? Gerard’s quest to unveil the mystery that shrouds his family, and his life, will lead him from Mawson to London, to a long abandoned house and the terror of a ghost story comes alive. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman’s life is irrevocably changed. Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother’s room. The ghost story comes alive in a spellbinding first novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He will stop at nothing until Jack and Ethan are shattered men, worlds apart, and struggling to get back to one another. As the mad general draws new allies together, he is single-minded in his quest to destroy the only two men who ever beat him. He strikes at Jack and Ethan from the shadowy corners of the globe, unraveling their entire world. ![]() And Ethan steps back into the action with Lieutenant Adam Cooper, taking charge of a covert kill team tasked with hunting down General Madigan once and for all.īut Madigan is elusive, and his dangerous reach is long. But President Puchkov has secrets of his own, secrets that could rip everything apart. In the chaos, Jack’s relationship with the Russian president, Sergey Puchkov, grows closer, and the two nations find themselves working almost as allies. When it seems like the world turns against them, Jack and Ethan must turn to each other, finding the strength together to press on. ![]() Jack moves Ethan into the Residence, but as Ethan settles into his new role as first gentleman of the United States, not everyone is thrilled with their choices. President Jack Spiers and former Secret Service Agent Ethan Reichenbach throw caution to the wind, committing themselves publicly as the first out male lovers and partners to occupy the White House. One general is determined to destroy them both. Filmed live in front of a live internet audience on October. Fifteen years from now, an affair rocks the world. Storytime - 'The Night of.' by Tal Bauer - YouTube John Solo reads from his recent audiobook release, 'The Night of' by Tal Bauer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. ![]() On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner has created a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs, and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results. Martin Hailed by critics as "a bravura performance" ( Locus ) and "witty, sharp-eyed, and] full of interesting people" ( Newsday ), this acclaimed novel, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy to an unprecedented level of elegant writing and scintillating wit. The cult classic fantasy of manners, now with three bonus stories " Swordspoint has an unforgettable opening and just gets better from there."-George R. ![]() |