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  The Haunted and the Haunters; or...

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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  Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton was born on the 25th May 1803 the youngest of three sons. 
   
  When he was four his father died and the family moved to London. As a child he was delicate and neurotic and failed to fit in at a number of boarding schools.  However, he was academically and creatively precocious and published his first work as a teenager; ‘Ishmael with Other Poems’ in 1820. 
   
  Two years later he was at Cambridge University and won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse for Sculpture.  
   
  In 1828 his novel, ‘Pelham’, brought him an income, together with commercial and critical success.  He followed these with a string of applauded works across several genres: historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, science fiction and poetry.  
   
  In 1841, he started the semi-scientific Monthly Chronicle magazine to exploit the great Victorian fascination to chronicle and publish all that the Empire and Industrial Revolution were discovering, inventing and changing. 
   
  In 1858 he entered Lord Derby's government as Secretary of State for the Colonies and took a keen interest in the development of the Crown Colony of British Columbia.  Several years later he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lytton of Knebworth in Hertford County. 
   
  Bulwer-Lytton had long suffered with a disease of the ear and for the last years of his life he lived in Torquay nursing his health.  An operation to cure his deafness caused an abscess to form in his ear which burst causing intense pain and contributed to his death.   
   
  Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton died on the 18th January 1873, in Torquay.  He was 69.

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  The Awakening

  Amanda Stevens

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  To help a child’s ghost solve the mystery of her death, a cemetery restorer must face her own personal demons in this romantic urban fantasy. 
   
  My name is Amelia Gray, and I’m a cemetery restorer who lives with the dead. An anonymous donor has hired me to restore Woodbine Cemetery, a place where the rich and powerful bury their secrets. Forty years ago, a child disappeared without a trace and now her ghost has awakened, demanding that I uncover the truth about her death. Only I know that she was murdered. Only I can bring her killer to justice. But the clues that I follow—a haunting melody and an unnamed baby’s grave—lead me to a series of disturbing suspects. 
   
  For generations, The Devlins have been members of Charleston’s elite. John Devlin once turned his back on the expectations that came with his birthright, but now he has seemingly accepted his rightful place. His family’s secrets make him a questionable ally. When my investigation brings me to the gates of his family’s palatial home, I have to wonder if he is about to become my mortal enemy.

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  Rise of the Necromancer

  Leszek Sliwko

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  This is the story of necromancer's apprentice. Krill will have to traverse many distant lands before he finally finds his dark destiny. Will he manage to survive?

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  Wake of the Sadico - A...

  Jo Sparkes

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  On a Caribbean dive vacation, five friends discover a centuries old shipwreck – and a karmic debt past due. 
  Wall Eddington has always done the correct thing. It’s part of being British, part of family tradition. Yet somehow someone drowned. Now, half a world away, he’s diving off an old sailboat with four American friends. As a vacation it’s a bit primitive, but just what his soul craves. 
  Until they find a shipwreck. 
  Untouched and impossibly preserved, the thing bewitches with promises of gold. Their rush to claim it bogs down with odd accidents and petty arguments - and Wall is not the only one with dark dreams of pain and torture. Dreams of a captain called Sadico. 
  In fleeing his personal demon, Wall has run straight to its lair. 
  This trap was laid centuries ago, for five souls moved on to new lives and new loves. Set by the one soul they left behind.

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  The Journey to Bruges

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.'The Journey to Bruges' is a beautiful and perceptive description of a journey from Britain to Belgium by train and boat.A Red Door Consulting production.

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  The Shadow of Death

  Rachel Lawson

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  A dark, gothic, humorous farce. Blake, the King of Death deals with his son, Lance, a wanted killer grim reaper, and Magician, and a strange death as Blake, a coroner, can Lance solve the case. 
  "You look like death warmed up," teased Lance, the Necromancer seeing his dad Blake, the King of Death in human form in a scarf. 
  "Ha! Ha! Ha!" Blake said, unamused, "How are you?" 
  "Bit tired, but good," said Lance. 
  "No sleep for the wicked," said Blake. 
  Lance was wanted by the police as a serial killer, grimaced.

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