I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel.
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With a color frontispiece plus 11 other color illustrations by Rackham (all with tissue guards with illustration titles), 17 other full page pen&ink drawings by Rackham, and many other head piece, tail piece, title page and other illustrations by Rackham. Grey-black woven cloth with gilt stamped Rackham skeleton design and lettering on front cover, gilt stamped Rackham design and lettering on spine, TE tinted black, Rackham endpapers in B&W. First Rackham trade edition, first printing. The front side edge of DJ has a small nick. It is not price-clipped (shows 21/- in bottom front corner), has some tanning at bottom of spine, and some wear at top of spine and at upper corners. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover and is fully intact. The tissue guards for the color illustrations are intact. Endpapers are black and white with skeletal designs. Bottom edge of pages has some soiling by corner. Bottom corners of covers and ends of spine have some wear, and upper corners of covers have some rubbing. Black covers with gilt lettering and design of a skeleton with a knife on front and gilt lettering and designs on spine. Waiting - with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one bony hand."-JacketĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:41:32 Boxid IA40011112 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang. It's the real thing." "And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door. What's one more?" "But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts - of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the band-mates he betrayed. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet." "I will "sell" my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. "Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals. Nanny stories of the old-fashioned kind, set in large houses, are probably from an earlier era such as the Edwardian. The children are at least upper middle class.The nanny sees right through the children and although she may have a harsh exterior, has a heart of gold.The children are highly spirited tricksters.The nanny might be actually magic, or seems to work magic due to being a ‘child whisperer’.
After the war she worked to put the lessons of the tragedy to good use to reduce the very high mortality from epidemic disease in the civilian population at home. A Brief History of Florence Nightingale tells the story of the sanitary disaster in her wartime hospital and why the government covered it up against her wishes. James Le Fanu, Daily Telegraph Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is best known as a reformer of hospital nursing during and after the Crimean War, but many feel that her nursing reputation has been overstated. This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very eminent (and complex) Victorian.' Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed. The voices quieted down, and I could hear the film.Īs a young sea demon matures, the narrator said, changes happen in the monster’s body. There will be time for questions afterward.” “Now, younglings, please attend to the film. “Just set it in the back,” a new voice ordered from across the room. There were other sounds too-like an old-fashioned film projector and a tinny voice narrating. I heard lots of talking, chattering voices that didn’t sound human-somewhere between a seal’s bark and a dog’s growl. If they started to tip me over, I’d have to fight my way out quick. Hopefully I was not about to be dumped into a smelting pot. We turned a corner, and from the sound of the wheels echoing against the walls I guessed we had passed down a tunnel and into a smaller room. With her vivid intellectual curiosity and natural wit, Chollet interweaves an eclectic variety of sources-personal reflections, memoirs, American TV series, statistics, international news briefs-to pull us into an invigorating and multifaceted exploration of what being “at home” means today. At Home is her spirited response, at once a defense of the homebodies of the world and a sprawling investigation of home as a concept whose significance extends far beyond the private realm. Mona Chollet describes herself as a “stay-at-home journalist,” an embarrassing oxymoron that she often has to explain. At home: a domestic space odyssey Mona Chollet (La Découverte, 330 pages, 2015) The author recommended reading the “Black Dagger Brotherhood” (BDB) series in order because each book builds on the previous one and contains spoilers for the earlier one. Black Dagger Brotherhood Reading Order (BDB Reading Guide) If you are waiting to read, follow my reading guide for the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, so you don’t miss anything. Each book in the series is filled with action, adventure, and suspense, which keeps readers engaged from start to finish. Overall, the Black Dagger Brotherhood series is an entertaining and engaging paranormal romance series that will delight fans. 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With the help of personal writings and interviews with family and friends, Swift unveils a woman who was warm and vivacious, yet much shrewder and more accomplished than she has been given credit for. Nixon the man was enormously complicated: brilliant, insecure, sometimes coldly calculating, and capable of surprising affection with his wife. In Pat and Dick, biographer Will Swift brings his years of experience as a historian and marital therapist to this unique examination of a long-misunderstood marriage. Now, the couple’s recently released love letters and other private documents reveal that as surely as unremitting adversity can fray the fabric of a marriage, devotion can propel it to surmount disgrace and defeat. But a very different image of the polarizing president emerges in this fascinating portrait of the relationship between Richard and Pat Nixon. When Americans remember the controversial Nixons, they usually focus on the political triumphs, the turbulent White House years, and the humiliating public downfall. Shortlisted for the 2015 Plutarch Award for Best Biography, “the most humanizing portrait of the Nixons we’re likely to have” (Douglas Brinkley) is a sweeping depiction of the turbulent fifty-three-year marriage of Richard and Pat Nixon. The pieces range in genre from psychological horror through science fiction and ghost stories, but they all share fundamental qualities: feminist themes, an emphasis on voice, a focus on characters’ psychologies and a sense of the gothic in contemporary life. Their rural and small-town characters confront difficult pasts and look toward promising but often terrifying futures. The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future collects Christi Nogle’s finest psychological and supernatural horror stories. Don't miss this book it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023."- Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit and heart. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful. "Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror. Readers of “quiet horror” or “slow-burn horror” will enjoy this collection. The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is whimsical and dreadful, verdant and sinister. |