A set of lightly intertwined stories about people from different stages and walks of life who are looking for a new direction to take or are facing change. The characters all end up walking into the small local library, where they are led to Sayuri Komachi, a special librarian, who asks them what they are …
Continue reading What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama
Set in Victorian era London, this is the story of a mysterious and magical travelling carnivale. The Rose family made a pact with the cunning Ashe and Pretorius, owners of the carnival and magicians, that made the family rich, but it was a dark bargain and had a price. Now Odilon Rose, hearing that they …
Continue reading The Carnivale Of Curiosities by Aimee Gibbs
In NSW, Australia in 1881, young Dolly compares her downtrodden, hard working mother to the local school teacher, who is able to walk with her head high and has more independence. She feels determined to find a way out of the narrow life prescribed to women. When she is finally prevailed upon to marry, her …
Blackthorn Ashes was a housing estate near Cornwall, overlooking the sea, but due to poor planning, six weeks after they moved into their new builds, six people died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The whole estate had to be abandoned and sits empty, with people's things still inside, just the way they left them on evacuation. …
Jessie has stopped at nothing to get accepted into the prestigious Law & Lit Program at Franklin University, not because she's impressed that only 6 students are selected each semester or because of the connections she could make, but to get close to Professor Jay Crane. Crane was in a secret relationship with one of …
The body of a young woman is uncovered in a shallow grave, with a creepy twig figure placed in her mouth. At a nearby campsite, another young woman is missing and a twig figure has also been found in her camper van. While Rhona McLeod and her team are on the case, the missing woman's …
Set in the mid-90's on the stand up circuit, a trio of comedians set off on a tour of smaller comedy clubs in Canada. Dale is an old hand at the job who needs some extra cash, Rynn is an ingenue from Ireland with a big future ahead of her, and Hobie is their driver, …
English former movie star Lana invited her friends to her private Greek island each year to escape the long, dark British Winter. Elliot, our narrator and her closest friend, tells the story of the last trip to the island, where a murder takes place during a furious gale that cuts them off from civilization. He …
In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
Jem Rosco, well known local sailor and all round good guy, rolls into Greystone, Devon, but when he leaves without saying anything, no one is worried. That's just the way he operates. That is, until his body is found in a dinghy off the coast of Scully Cove, a mysterious island with its own myths …
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