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In this collection of wonderful stories, which range between fantasy, humour, science fiction and a sprinkling of horror, the reader will relish the range and skill of Neil Gaiman's writing. Be prepared to laugh at the detective story about Humpty Dumpty's demise, spooked by the sinister jack-in-the-box who haunts the lives of the children who own it, and intrigued by the boy who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard in this collection of bite-sized narrative pleasures.

David Sedaris's new collection tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech therapy classes and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist to writing teacher in Chicago, his career leads him to New York and eventually, of all places, France. Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he is led ever deeper into cultural confusion. Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other -- "Original, acid, and wild". said the L.A. Times -- to every unforgettable encounter.

He's every woman's fantasy. After a string of nightmare relationships, Emily Albright has decided she's had it with modern-day men. Shed rather pour herself a glass of wine, curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were dashing, devoted and honourable, strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging to their chests...So when her best friend invites her to Mexico for a week of margaritas and men, Emily decides to book a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead. She quickly realises she wont find her dream man here. The coach tour is full of pensioners, apart from one Mr Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist sent to write a piece on why Mr Darcy's been voted the man most women would love to date Until she walks into a room and finds herself fa

Chevalier sets her sights on the poet, mystic, and engraver William Blake in London during the year 1792. Blake is an odd duck. The story is told from the viewpoints of some neighbors, in particular, two families, one recently moved from the country (the INNOCENT) and a streetwise and hardened family (the EXPERIENCED). Thus we have the metaphor for Blake's great work SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE. The French Revolution was underway and King George was terrified that his subjects would rebel against him. Mobs circulated collecting signatures on loyalty oaths. This excessive and intimidating barrage of bogus patriotism is eerily reminiscent of some of the things we saw in this country after 9/11. Do you remember all the cars with flags? It's a lovely story and she tells it well. Is i

A device of extraoedinary power, forged from alchemical gold, is hidden smoewhere in Manhattan, primed to detonate in seven days, killing millions. Only one man - journalist by the name of Reckliss-has the ability to uncover seven days keys and disarm the device. But there are others, history's hidden shadows and warriors, determined to stop him at any cost. Ancient conspiracies and an unlikely quest are only the start... Does Reckliss have the courage to face his greatest fears and halt the devastation of The Malice Box?

Harry Rawlins had been masterminding raids and robberies for almost twenty years. The hijack of a security van in the Strand Underpass would bring the gang thousands - but the job went disastrously and fatally wrong. Harry always said that if anything ever happened to him Dolly would be all right: Joe and Terry would take over, the team would look after everyone. But when Harry got blown to bits, trapped in a blazing van, Joe and Terry went with him. Dolly had three options. She could give up, and hand over Harry's ledgers to the police. She could hand them over to a bunch of thugs. Or she - and the other widows - could take the business over . . . and survive...

Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Metéora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves. Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd's search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda...

Doctor Jonathan Ransom thought he knew everything about his wife Emma until she was killed in a tragic skiing accident in the Swiss Alps. They had been married for eight years, eight blissful years in which they had travelled the world together. But the day after her death a mysterious letter addressed to her arrives at their hotel. When he opens it, his beliefs begin to unravel - fast. .

Representing people on death row is what trial lawyer Jack Tobin does best. Based in Florida, Jack is meeting with Henry Wilson, a drug-user, career criminal, and one of the biggest men he has ever come across. Henry has been on death row for seventeen years now and his execution by lethal injection is just six weeks away. Jack is convinced that Henry is innocent, but the question is whether he can find a legal basis to delay execution and get Henry a new trial. The clock is ticking, an innocent man is preparing for death, yet the one person who Jack most wants to save - his beloved wife, Pat - has the least time of all . . .

We all have the killer instinct... Dr Matt Seleckis is looking forward to a relaxing summer in Utah with his wife and young son. Until a seemingly random event catapults him back 26 years to a childhood vacation in the Rocky Mountains - and a shocking and mysterious death. As Matt's fragmented childhood memories slowly unravel, the relationships in his adult life also begin to shift. His loved and revered father, his dead mother, his adored wife... With the past intruding on the present, Matt begins to question everything. Were his father's hunting trips as innocent as his son recalls? Was Matt's mother really the woman he thought she was? What terrible secrets lay in the past? And how close to home are they buried? When Fall comes, a confused and suspicious Matt accepts his father's i