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Divine Comedy
Häftad, 2025
165 kr
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Jane Chambre inherits the family gift of second sight; she can view 'remotely'. Her nephew has eloped with Rosalba d'Avaray, who is related to Madame de Montespan. Jane's interest in the 'Affaire des poisons' leads to a modern laboratory and a bottle of graphene oxide labelled 'GRAFFIEND' by hand, …
Fishing in the Void
Häftad, 2025
165 kr
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A man inherits a metal shoe from his grandfather a fisherman - a metal stiletto to 'spin' with in his lake. When it cuts from the cheek of a local man, caught in broad daylight, he will fish only at night for the Lady of the Lake, who now writes in thin air for him to read her leather fingers like …
The Umbrella Man
Häftad, 2025
148 kr
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A man utters the safeword known only to his sexual partner and finds himself in conversation with a French woman with her name from both their pasts. The book in your hands, the information within it, owes its existence in total to the repeated utterance of this single word XXXXX. A prosaic crime …
Mosaic Cutter
Häftad, 2025
148 kr
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The philosopher Socrates was said to be a 'mosaic cutter'. This was because of the hemlock in his body; it worked its way up, feet first, until he could no longer report on the progress of its lethal effect. In our Classical past the last piece of a mosaic was inserted loose so that the mosaic …
Fairy Queen
Häftad, 2025
148 kr
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The daughter of a vicar from Ashbourne in England, Eleanor Jourdain had been walking down a grass path between trees in the park of Versailles in 1902, when she heard French voices in animated conversation behind her. She turns to see nodbody, but as the group closes on her, she feels her 'room …
Wit's End
Häftad, 2025
148 kr
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If the manuscript for 'The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies' was found in a drawer, left by the author Robert Kirk at his death then a similar doscovery made post mortem in a locked drawer is behind the publication of 'The Wit's End'. This book was very nearly never published 'due to …
Ophelia
Häftad, 2025
165 kr
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Millais, the artist who painted Ophelia, did so in two stages. He paints his model in a bath, then in a river in which Ophelia drowns outdoors on her own. He complains as does the author of this book, that he feels he was followed home by her, dead Ophelia.
Plague Doctor
Häftad, 2025
148 kr
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The Revereand Walker is known as the plague doctor; he wears red laces on his skates if someone dies of 'the plague'. He reads the future, ours, in the stratches he makes on the ice. They all point in one direction: 'it (the plague) is the Devil's work...' A devil in a medical-looking coat.
Musical Chair
Häftad, 2025
134 kr
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The only birds at Calke Abbey are of the stuffed variety. Glass filled with long-dead birds line the walls. Their beaks are wired shut. An expert in texidermy is sumoned to the abbey; he is to find an exploration for the dawn chorus heard by the first tourists.
