A dark psychological thriller cum Gothic mystery, as a young man with mental health issues inherits an isolated mansion, where all is not as it seems ...
'Easily the best debut I've read this year, Tshuma's novel is both hilarious and horrifying, filled with compassion, anger and despair. [Her] unreliable narrator [is] of the kind that deserves to be remembered up there with Humbert Humbert' Kim Evans, Culturefly
Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love.
THE CHILLING SECOND DCI BILLY McCARTNEY THRILLERDCI Billy McCartney has had enough of the police force. This is McCartney's chance for redemption...Praise for the DCI Billy McCartney series:`Pace and tension in spades...'Irish Times`Ferociously compelling'Reader's Digest`Violent and earthy, reflecting its inner-city locale.
And all featuring a rip across the stomach, smeared in blood. As the investigation continues and the body count rises, Hobbes must also deal with the disappearance of his son, the break-up of his family and a growing sense that something horrific happened in the Graves' household.
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'Housekeeping' is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother.
Yongju is a student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of Korean descent whose parents left China when he was nine. These three disparate lives converge when each of them travel to the region where China borders North Korea.
Between North Korea and China, three young lives converge in the hope of a better future. Yongju is an accomplished student from a prominent but disgraced family; Jangmi has had to fend for herself since childhood, and now has her unborn child to protect; Danny is a Chinese-American teenager who yearns for the China of his childhood.
Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood - until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE `A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'Guardian Sammy's had a bad week. and he might have been trying to fix a bit of business up with an old mate, he's not too sure.