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  Buccaneers of Brig O'Doon

  Tony Ford

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  On Earth there is but only one time, one place and one life, or is there...In prison an ancient, dying Priest delivers to a lifer, Danny McLachan one unbelievable truth, a truth which lies beyond the realms of human comprehension...Heaven and Hell will collide in the land of dreams unless the military can be stopped. Stopped from unleashing Armageddon...In his escape, Danny recruits his reluctant brother Michael and Michael's seventeen year old daughter, Julia to embark on an age-old quest through the Scottish glens, mountains and over the seas to the Isle of Lewis. Now with the Police in hot pursuit and two deadly MI5 assassins tracking them, they are on the run and in disguise as Pirates and Buccaneers. Hiding amongst tourists and fancy dress revellers all amidst the Isles 'Festival Of The Sea', they race to prevent the greatest collision of all...But amidst their battle with the military they unwittingly throw into array the ticking clock of humanity which pulls Heaven and Hell together. And now, in fighting the battle of their lives and the salvation of mankind they discover the answer cannot be found in the greatest illusion of all life, but what lies within each one of us and themselves...

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  Dead of Night

  W. F. Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, particularly in the mystery and horror genres."Dead of Night" is a creepy tale set during a Zeppelin raid during the first world war. Athelston Digby goes out during a raid to check on a fire at a factory of which he is a shareholder. While he is out he is involved in an accident and is take to the local infirmary. The hospital is operating under blackout conditions with a skeleton staff... and under these circumstances it is quite possible for mistakes to take place... terrible mistakes....

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  Intrusion

  Charlotte Stein

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  In this “novella of salvation through submission . . . Stein has written a radiant ode to the mind—the biggest erogenous zone of all” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). 
   
  I believed I would never be able to trust any man again. That kindness was only for fools and would lead me down that same terrible path into darkness. I thought so with every fiber of my being—and then I met Noah Gideon Grant. 
   
  Everyone says he’s dangerous. He never comes out of his house—a place that looks like it could be featured in Serial Killers Monthly. But the thing is . . . I think something happened to him too. I know the chemistry between us isn’t just in my head. I know he feels it, but he’s holding back.  
   
  The pleasure he gives me is unreal. If only I could give something in return. If only he would let me in. I think I can make him feel something good. And for the first time in forever, I want to. He’s made a labyrinth of himself. Now all I need to do is dare to find my way through.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  The decades of this century see authors of every hue and talent assemble vast realms of fabulous literature that entertain the global audience then and to revisit now.  Genres explode across the landscape.  Genius in every name. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 19th Century - The English Men - An Introduction 
  2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling 
  5 - The Magic Shop by H G Wells 
  6 - The Grave by the Handpost by Thomas Hardy 
  7 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  8 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  9 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  10 - Father Giles Of Ballymoy by Anthony Trollope 
  11 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins 
  12 - My Astral Body by Anthony Hope

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  The Four Fists

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
   
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
   
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
   
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack. 
   
  Amongst his many short story gems is ‘The Four Fists’. It follows a life, from boyhood to maturity, and how an occasional brush with physical force influences and changes that life.

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  Classic Short Stories - Volume...

  H.P. Lovecraft, Ford Maddox,...

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  Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements.  Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page. 
   
  Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft.  Many attempt, but few achieve.

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