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Nicholas Foster
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Ghost Story Books for Adults
'Collected Ghost Stories' now contains in one ebook all the 23 linked ghost stories I have published previously on Smashwords and Draft2Digital. You can download the ebook for free from Smashwords, Apple, Fable, Barnes & Noble and others.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
There's also a paperback version of the first 16 ghost stories - 'The Consul from Tunis and other ghost stories', availab Read more of this blog post »
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
There's also a paperback version of the first 16 ghost stories - 'The Consul from Tunis and other ghost stories', availab Read more of this blog post »
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| 'The Nebuly Coat' is Falkner's penultimate novel and probably his best. I say 'probably' because he did write one more novel but, sadly for us, he lost the manuscript on a train and couldn't face rewriting it from scratch. Until that lost novel turns ...more | |
"Last night I dreamt I went to East Berlin again.
One of the oddest memories of the Cold war was my reading, at some point in the mid-80s during its Reagan/Gorbachev-instigated catharsis, a remark to the effect that Western capitalism was bound to triu" Read more of this review » |
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Ministries Of The Interior: Rory Stewart & The Crisis Of Cumbrian Masculinity
"Cumbria’s suicide rate is 50% higher than the national average. Among the county’s farming community, it’s higher still. Hang on to these facts, because they’re important later in this piece. All celebrities are psychologically damaged; celebrit..."
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| "Years ago my centaur’s random course through lifecrossed the path of a great poet. I was invited by friends from Cambridge days– the poet’s daughter & son-in-law – to a reading in London, and wentalong, vaguely imagining a brief, small event in a ..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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| One of the best books by a member of the International Brigades. | |
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| Indridason delivers another ghost story wrapped in the cloak of a crime thriller. This one, involving a journey back across the decades to a world of lost politics and lost hopes, is one of his very best. And all the characters are haunted. | |
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| Along with the well-known masterpieces such as 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad', there are the superbly atmospheric and haunting gems like 'The Uncommon Prayer-Book' where a centuries-old pure hatred lays the scene for a more modern-day she ...more | |
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| This may not be as strong as the rest of 'Through the Looking Glass' but then, as the editor of this "suppressed" episode explains, Lewis Carroll often reworked his writing at the galley proof stage. With the Wasp in a Wig episode, he gave up before ...more | |
