Television reporter Michelle Toussaint has the story that will make her career, and her old flame Anthony Hilliard is back in her arms again. But there’s one big problem. The scandal she's about to break wide open is going to involve Anthony's beloved uncle, a man who stepped in to be the father figure Anthony needed. Michelle and Anthony have to trust each other to keep their love alive.

Like the man cryogenically frozen inside its tower, Mythcorp has passed into urban legend. Its heir, however, is about to become headline news.

If Theo and Zoey are living the perfect life, why does it feel like their marriage is falling apart? The future that once glowed bright before them has lost its shine. Zoey’s left with no choice. She has to walk away. Now Theo faces a dilemma. Does he let his wife close the door on their life together, or does he go after her and remind her why they fell in love in the first place?

Peter Holman is a freelance sweeper. The year 2030 sees a new era in social media with sweepcasting, a multisensory interface that can convey every thought, touch, smell, sight, and sound, immersing the audience in another person's experience.By fate, chance, or some darker design, Peter is perfectly positioned to be the one human to document the arrival of the aliens, the S'hudonni.The S'hudonni offer advanced science in exchange for various trade goods from Earth. But nothing is as simple as it seems. Peter finds himself falling for, Heather Newsome a scientist chosen by the S'hudonni to act as their liason. Engaged to his brilliant marine biologist brother, Tom, Heather is not what she seems. But Peter has bigger problems. While he and his brother fight over long-standing family troubles, another issue looms: a secret war among the aliens, who are neither as benevolent nor as unified as they first seemed. Peter slowly learns secrets he was never meant to...

When Dr. Charles Coote—a noted folklorist and old friend of Professor Childermass—returns from a conference in New Orleans, he brings home a small, sinister drum. It's made entirely of black wood with red leather straps and small, white bones. Nobody takes Dr. Coote's worries about the drum very seriously, until Fergie taps it a few times and releases an unspeakable evil.Suddenly, Johnny and Fergie and the professor find themselves battling the imposing Madame Sinestra, a voodoo priestess who seeks the magical drum for her evil Caribbean cult. Spells, zombies, and voodoo demons beset our heroes and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Can they save Dr. Coote? Will they make it out alive?This ninth book in the Johnny Dixon series was completed by Brad Strickland after John Bellairs died and it has all the spooky thrills that make these mysteries classics.

From one of the most daring and sensuous young writers in America, Jesus Saves, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a suburban gothic that explores the sources of evil, confronts the dynamic shifts within theology, and traces the consequences of suburban alienation. Set in the modern launch pads of adolescent ritual, the strip malls and duplexes on the back side of suburbia, it’s the story of two girls: Ginger, a troubled minister’s daughter; and Sandy Patrick, who has been abducted from summer camp and now smiles from missing-child posters all over town.Layering the dreamscapes of Alice in Wonderland with the subculture of River’s Edge, Darcey Steinke’s Jesus Saves is an unforgettable passage through the depths of the literary imagination.

One of the most distinctive volumes of American weird fiction, all of which were based on nightmares of the author, a classics teacher in the Baltimore area and a longtime sufferer from migraine ("sick headaches," as he called them) who killed himself after the death of his beloved wife.   White wrote fiction in the summer to supplement his income, his most successful work being the solid but now rather dull works of historical fiction. Another motive, for the stories, was to get them out of his system. All of the stories in this collection have an unforced strangeness to them that is emblematic of their origins. The title story, anthologized twenty-three times according to Ashley and Contento, is fairly well known, but all of the others are worth reading as well. There is nothing else quite like this stuff. It is doubly unusual for its period, when American fiction underwent a divorce between the slicks and the pulps. White's nightmare stories were too grotesque for the slicks, and too "literary" for the pulps. Like the work of many another genius they turned out to be better suited for posterity than for his own time.

Watch your step...It was meant to be an easy mission, a walk in the park. But SG-1’s first trip off-world after Colonel O’Neill’s return from Edora (STARGATE SG-1: One Hundred Days) proves to be anything but easy.Tapped for a covert assignment, O’Neill must conceal the truth from his team at all costs. So when Dr Daniel Jackson is injured and the mission begins to go awry, tensions quickly reach a breaking point. Stranded on a hostile planet, and desperate to find a way home before it’s too late, O’Neill leads his fractured team on a desperate journey across a barren and forsaken world.Faced with an enemy more vicious than anything they’ve encountered before, only SG-1’s strength as a unit will keep them alive — if the secret O’Neill is hiding doesn’t tear them apart first...Hostile Ground “You know,” Sam said, “these Amam could just be the Jaffa of a new System Lord who’s come in here and wiped out whoever used to be in charge.”“That’s what I was thinking.” Daniel turned toward her, his glasses glinting in the faint light seeping around the door. “They’re probably Jaffa mythologized into ‘undead’ creatures by whatever Goa’uld first ruled this world. Perhaps they’ve even taken on the persona of Amam?”“And don’t forget the sarcophagus,” Sam added. “I mean, talk about rising from the dead...”“Yes! I think we can say we’re not dealing with real live – or is that real undead? – zombies.”“I hope you’re right,” the colonel said, “because Night of the Living Dead spooked the hell outa Teal’c.”“It did not, O’Neill.”“He’s just saying that. He was watching through his fingers.”Sam grinned, she couldn’t help herself. “At least one thing’s clear, sir. Whoever these ‘Devourers’ are, they can use the Stargate network. And that means there’s a way home.”“My thoughts exactly, Carter.” He scrubbed a hand through his hair. “I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but it looks like tracking down the flesh-eating-snakehead-zombies is actually our best chance of getting off this rock.”

From Guardian writer Paula Cocozza, a debut novel of the breakdown of a marriage, suburbian claustrophobia, and a woman's unseemly passion for a foxOne summer's night, Mary comes home from a midnight ramble to find a baby lying on her back door step. Has Mary stolen the baby from next door? Has the baby's mother, Mary's neighbor, left her there in her acute state of post-natal depression? Or was the baby brought to Mary as a gift by the fox who is increasingly coming to dominate her life?So opens How to Be Human, a novel set in a London suburb beset by urban foxes. On leave from work, unsettled by the proximity of her ex, and struggling with her hostile neighbors, Mary has become increasingly captivated by a magnificent fox who is always in her garden. First she sees him wink at her, then he brings her presents, and finally she invites him into her house. As the boundaries between the domestic and the wild blur, and the neighbors set out to...

Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685--1759) had received little attention from biographers before Jonathan Keates's masterful Handel: The Man and His Music appeared in 1985. This fully updated and expanded edition -- published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composer's death -- charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London. For over two decades Handel was absorbed in London's heady but precarious operatic world. But even his phenomenal energy and determination could not overcome the public's growing indifference to Italian opera in the 1730s, and he turned finally to oratorio, a genre which he made peculiarly his own and in which he created some of his finest works, such as Saul, Messiah, and Jeptha. Jonathan Keates writes with sympathy and penetration about this...

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‘There are already far too many books about the pilgrimage to Santiago, but Jack Hitt’s is different, and indispensable. It is funny, shrewd, honest and wise. Whether you have walked the Camino, or are thinking of doing so, or are just curious about why other people do it, this is the book.’ - David Lodge   ‘The story of Hitt’s pilgrimage as it evolves from a solitary meditative adventure into the sack of Santiago de Compostela by a wine-sodden army of shaggy blistered tourists is quite brilliantly told. Hitt plots the downward curve of his book’s narrative arc with the control and precision of a good novelist, and he has a remarkable gift for being deadly serious and very funny all in the same breath. His point of view in this book is unusually complex and self-aware; it has many shades and tones, ranging from earnest inquiry to waspish mockery (much of the satire in Off the Road is directed, refreshingly, at the narrator himself), but one never loses the sense that this is one voice. Travelling with him as a reader, I found him a fascinating companion — always intelligent, disconcertingly observant, satisfyingly hard to second-guess.... ‘I do hope the book enjoys the success it deserves. It came to me out of the blue. I don’t know the author. But it strikes me as a glistening original in the shopworn and cliche-infected world of the modern travel book.’ - Jonathan Raban ISBN 1-85410-306-7    this irreverent and ruminative adventure, Jack Hitt sets out to walk the 500 miles along the pilgrim’s route from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He had just reached the Dantean age of thirty-five. What better way to serve out his coming mid-life crisis than on a pilgrimage? After all, in its simplest form, a pilgrimage was nothing more than a long walk; ‘stripped down, a pilgrim was a guy out for some cosmically serious fresh air’. Little did he know. Off the Road charts the serendipitous encounters of an innocent abroad, as Jack Hitt undergoes the rigorous traditions of Europe’s oldest form of packaged tour. The result is a comic yet sympathetic attempt to understand the vanishing role of religion in modern life. Following in the footsteps of millions of medieval pilgrims, this is an unforgettable tour of the sites that people believe God once touched: the strange fortress said to hold the Holy Grail; the miraculous chickens whose descendants still dance in the church of Santo Domingo; the places associated with the murderous monks known as the Knights Templar; and the churches filled with relics such as chunks of bread left over from the Last Supper. Along the way, in small-town shelters or lost among Spanish mountains, our hero finds himself bunking down with countless pilgrims — a Flemish film crew, a drunken gypsy, a draconian Dutch air force officer, a one-legged walker, and a Welsh family with a mule. Pilgrims don’t constitute a school of thought but a condition.   Allegiances and acquaintances come and go; friendships are made and broken, all in the course of a day or a casual remark. Exhausted travellers meet for a lively talk about what they know best — basic human suffering generally, blisters specifically. Off the Road rediscovers the warm hilarity that underlies the solemn rituals of the past. In the day-to-day grind of walking under the hot Spanish sun, Jack Hitt and his smelly companions not only find occasional good meals or dry shelter, but also stumble upon some fresh ideas about old-time zealotry and modern belief. Anyone disturbed by the sense of a disposable past will relish the way this offbeat journey through history turns into a provocative rethinking of the present. Jack Hitt is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and Lingua Franca. He writes regularly for The New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is from Charleston, South Carolina. Jacket design and illustration by Mary Lynn Blasutta     Aurum Press Ltd 25 Bedford Avenue London WC1B 3 AT   ISBN 1 85410 306 7 £14.95