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His work has been translated into 39 languages. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.ĭouglas Stuart is a Scottish - American author. And when several months later Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland with two strange men whose drunken banter belies murky pasts, he will need to summon all his inner strength and courage to try to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Yet against all odds, they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds.Īs they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, while Mungo works hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his big brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars-Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic-and they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Suspects are to be interviewed, not just beaten until they confess. Up to this point, mental-health care mainly consisted of cold baths followed by ice picks in the nose, but it’s beginning to veer toward therapy and Schedule II narcotics. The industrial revolution is in full tilt. He transports you to a world in transition, the turn of the 20 th century. The book is nonfiction, but author Douglas Starr writes it like a novel. Vacher apparently had a penchant for rabbit-fur hats. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science concerns a real-life Franco serial killer named Joseph Vacher, a rather unfriendly guy who terrorized the countryside by stalking, murdering and generally looking creepy. And yet we seem to produce the largest amount of them. It would probably make him, or her, a better murderer than some lazy American. A serial killer from their ranks would be armed with a vast foreknowledge of la grande mort. The French seem to possess a uniquely close relationship with death-probably because they eat unpasteurized cheeses. Norah Lofts' work set in East Anglia in the 1930s and 1940s shows great concern with the very poor in society and their inability to change their conditions. Her creation of this fictitious area of England is reminiscent of Thomas Hardy's creation of "Wessex" and her use of recurring characters such that the protagonist of one novel appears as a secondary character in others is even more reminiscent of William Faulkner's work set in "Yoknapatawpha County," Mississippi. Most of her historical novels fall into two general categories: biographical novels about queens, among them Anne Boleyn, Isabella I of Castile, and Catherine of Aragon and novels set in East Anglia centered around the fictitious town of Baildon (patterned largely on Bury St. However, the murders still show characteristic Norah Lofts elements. Norah Lofts chose to release her murder-mystery novels under the pen name Peter Curtis because she did not want the readers of her historic fiction to pick up a murder-mystery novel and expect classic Norah Lofts historical fiction. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. Lofts was born in Shipdham, Norfolk in England and died in 1983 in Bury St Edmunds. The short stories are, perhaps deliberately considering the intended family readership of the Strand Magazine, less sensational than the first novellas, which featured corpses in bloodied rooms and macabre deaths by exotic poisons. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes comprised the first 12 stories to be included in the Strand Magazine: “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “A Case of Identity,” “The Red-Headed League,” “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” “The Five Orange Pips,” “The Man With the Twisted Lip,” “The Blue Carbuncle,” “The Speckled Band,” “The Engineer’s Thumb,” “The Noble Bachelor,” “The Beryl Coronet,” and “The Copper Beeches.” The stories mark a departure from the embedded narration form of the longer stories and show modifications in the character of Holmes, from the decadent figure of the novellas to a more ascetic character (for example, as Ian Ousby points out, Holmes’s use of cocaine is greatly reduced). After the novellas A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of Four (1890), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle employed the shorter form for subsequent stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, not returning to the novel until The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). These 12 detective stories were first published as a series in the Strand Magazine, 1891–92, and then as a collection by George Newnes in 1892. Analysis of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Could these memories be real? If so, perhaps her mother can be found. As they explore the wonders of Japan, Erin finds herself haunted by strange "memories" that seem to belong to her mother. While struggling with the tension that now dominates their once innocent friendship and the trauma stirred up from Erin's painful past, Erin and Adam visit the places on her mother's list. Hours after they arrive in Tokyo, in a jet-lagged fog, Erin and Adam end up in bed together. Erin has decided to carry out this itinerary, believing that it might help her find her mother.īut Erin's trip won't be going according to plan. Erin's only clue to her mother's possible whereabouts is a hand-written itinerary for a dream trip to Japan, a trip that Erin doesn't know if her mother ever had the chance to take. When Erin was just four years old, her mother mysteriously vanished. Nineteen-year-old Erin is hoping that her visit to Japan with her best friend, Adam, will be life-changing. Label An assassin's guide to love & treason Title An assassin's guide to love & treason Statement of responsibility Virginia Boecker Creator And soon they learn that star-crossed love, mistaken identity, and betrayal are far more dangerous off the stage than on But the closer they grow, the more precarious their positions become. When Toby and Katharine are cast opposite each other as the play's leads, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another. The mastermind behind this ruse is Toby Ellis, a young spy for the queen with secrets of his own. It's a plot to root out Catholic insurrectionists and destroy the rebellion once and for all. But what she doesn't know is that the play is not just a play. Katherine's opportunity comes in the form of William Shakespeare's newest play, Twelfth night, which is to be specially performed in front of Her Majesty. With nothing left to lose, Katherine disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to fulfill her father's mission, and take it one step further - she'll kill the queen herself. He'd also been involved in a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth. Summary When Lady Katharine's father is killed for being a practicing Catholic, she discovers that wasn't the only secret he'd been hiding. But despite its subsequent stature and accolades, it was all originally conceived as a simple joke.Ĭan meet the demand, dealers say Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas’ will be 1942’s top-selling record,” Billboard reported in the Nov. (With 50,000,000 copies sold, the Guinness Book of World Records dubs it the best-selling single of all time.) Arguably helping launch an entire genre of Christmas music, its melancholy lyrics and memorable melody have been covered by an immense array of artists, with its sentiments soothing a grieving and terrified nation navigating its way through a bloody, far-away and all-consuming war. When Crosby’s iconic “White Christmas” came out 75 years ago this year, it was welcomed as readily as a sleigh full of gifts, becoming one of the most successful songs in the history of recorded music. Thibodeau's book is one of many new developments in the Branch Davidian story to come out in recent months. It's an intriguing book about Thibodeau's journey from underemployed drummer in Los Angeles to a world-wary survivor of the 1993 disaster that is now known simply as "Waco." Thibodeau's new book, A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story, published by Public Affairs, details the two years that he spent studying the Bible, living and working with David Koresh. Assuming he would be shot by federal agents as soon as he exited the building, Thibodeau clambered through the hole and into a different maelstrom, a maelstrom created by a massive police/military operation that has become perhaps the most controversial episode in the history of American law enforcement.ğor reasons that Thibodeau can't explain - maybe it's just dumb luck - he was one of only nine people to escape from the burning ruins of the Mt. "It was either burn to death or get a bullet in the head," Thibodeau recalls. As smoke filled the building and fire raced through the crowded chapel where he was huddled with several others, Thibodeau had a decision to make. Carmel compound in Waco after it was hit by a tank. On April 19, 1993, it came to him in the form of a small hole that suddenly appeared in the side of the Mt. “The Horror at Red Hook” and “He” reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City “Pickman's Model” uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist's work “The Rats in the Walls” is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror and “The Colour Out of Space” explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley. Early stories such as “The Outsider,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” “Herbert West–Reanimator,” and “The Lurking Fear” demonstrate Lovecraft's uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human. Lovecraft's fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of H. Lovecraft’s greatest works of horror and dread, from his early stories to his major classics like “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and At the Mountains of Madness Synopsis: An extensive collection of H.P. |