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A sparkling collection of short stories by leading female authors including “Miss Brill” by Katharine Mansfield, “The Lifted Veil” by George Eliot and “A Venetian Night's Entertainment” by Edith Wharton.

For the female poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere. These lines, these gilded verses often protest otherwise. The contribution of women in these earlier centuries is immense, and in this series we bring together poets who have created some of the most beautiful and expressive verses ever written. And remember these words, these telling lines, have been written against the grain of society's male bias. With their remembered words these female poets have given us a history that we can all now share.

Suicidio. Questo sostiene la polizia. Ma la vittima, Ian Druitt, diacono dell'incantevole cittadina medioevale di Ludlow, è deceduto mentre era sotto custodia cautelare con l'accusa di un crimine vergognoso. Quando anche l'inchiesta degli Affari Interni conferma che non c'è nulla di sospetto in quanto accaduto, il caso sembra chiuso. Ma la famiglia della vittima non accetta questa versione dei fatti. E ha conoscenze tali da riuscire a far riaprire il caso.

Focusing on the sophisticated nature of the female psyche, and the desire for a multi-layered, stimulating experience, RawrWoman creates content that will entice, fascinate, and above all, provide pleasure to the woman who indulges in all we have to offer. The stories created are meant to create a fantasy escapade for the listener, you can fully immerse yourself without ever having to leave the privacy of your own home, or mind. Fifteen fabulous stories, all handpicked on our website. They just happen to be created by all female authors.

Inspector Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, feels some trepidation as he introduces his bride-to-be to his mother at the ancestral home of Howenstow in Cornwall. But Lynley's private concerns are soon forgotten as the brutal murder of a local journalist requires him to focus on the professional, rather than the personal.

Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: 'I did it. And I am not sorry,' and she refuses to say more.

The latest installment in Elizabeth George's bestselling series featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley as an investigation is launched into the death of a man in Cornwall. It's clear this is more than just a homicide; it's a puzzle that dates back decades, intricately woven into Cornwall's history and its people’s lives. As DI Lynley and DS Barbara Havers dig deeper, they uncover a tapestry of personal vendettas, long-buried family secrets, and a community teetering on the brink of collapse.

It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death - a death apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. Shortly afterwards, Lynley encounters a young woman from Bristol whose personal history is a blank before her thirteenth year.

Als Angelina Upman und die neunjährige Haddiyah plötzlich verschwinden, ist Taymullah Azhar völlig verzweifelt. In seiner Not und in Sorge aufgelöst um seine Tochter wendet er sich an seine Nachbarin und gute Freundin Barbara Havers. Diese setzt sofort alles in Bewegung, um herauszufinden, wo die beiden sind. Wie sich herausstellt, hat Angelina die kleine Haddiyah nach Italien verschleppt, wo sie mit ihrem neuen Liebhaber zusammenwohnt.

A Londra un produttore di musical si suicida inspiegabilmente dopo la trionfale prima della sua nuova opera. Tre mesi più tardi, nella brughiera del Derbyshire, vengono trovati i corpi senza vita di Nicola, figlia di un ex poliziotto, e di un giovane ucciso a coltellate. Quale può essere il legame tra i due eventi? L'ispettore Linley di Scotland Yard comincia la difficile indagine senza la sua partner abituale, Barbara Havers, degradata per insubordinazione, che condurrà invece un'indagine parallela.

Elizabeth George offers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel, sharing her wealth of experience with would-be novelists. Using her actual work to illustrate the various steps of novel writing that she explores in this audiobook, she illustrates her points about plotting, characterisation and technique with great clarity and generosity. Mastering the Process provides writers with practical, prescriptive, and achievable tools for creating a novel, editing a novel and problem-solving.

With the talents on display the most difficult task is choosing only ten. Their virtuosity, their craft and ambition scare belie the difficulties that society places upon most women. Their words cannot be denied, their literary heritage is safe forever.

From the rumblings of provincial England in Silas Marner and Cranford to a wild and dangerous journey across the Holy Lands in Ivanhoe, these classic novels of the Georgian and Victorian period are as relevant and important today as they ever have been.

On Whidbey Island, secrets never stay buried. A mysterious girl who won't speak; a coal-black seal named Nera that returns to the same place every year; a bitter feud of unknown origin - strange things are happening on Whidbey Island and Becca King is drawn into the maelstrom of events. But Becca, first met in The Edge of Nowhere, has her own secrets to hide. Still on the run from her criminal stepfather, Becca is living in a secret location.

Thomas Lynley torna a indagare affiancato dalla sua collega Barbara Havers e da Winston Nkata, da poco promosso detective, e il caso che devono affrontare richiederà tutte le loro abilità deduttive. Per le strade di Londra si muove un sinistro assassino. Sulla sua strada ha lasciato il corpo nudo e mutilato di un giovane adolescente e una serie di macabri indizi lasciano pensare all'opera di un serial killer. Lynley scopre presto che l'assassino ha già colpito altre tre volte, senza che la polizia sia arrivata a collegare i casi o a dare loro importanza.

Der 20. Fall für Inspector Thomas Lynley und Barbara Havers! Die Bürger des englischen Städtchens Ludlow sind zutiefst entsetzt, als man den örtlichen Diakon eines schweren Verbrechens beschuldigt und verhaftet. Kurz darauf wird er in Polizeigewahrsam tot aufgefunden. Im Auftrag Scotland Yards versucht Sergeant Barbara Havers Licht ins Dunkel um die geheimnisvollen Vorfälle zu bringen. Zunächst weist tatsächlich alles auf den Selbstmord eines Verzweifelten hin - doch Barbara und mit ihr DI Thomas Lynley trauen dieser Version der Ereignisse nicht.

The third novel in Elizabeth George's young-adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for crime and suspense novels with the paranormal. Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity. Becca King and her friends, Jenn and Derric, are at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals.

Pater Hart macht eine grauenvolle Entdeckung: William Teys, ein Gemeindemitglied, liegt enthauptet in seiner Scheune...

Malcolm hat seit zwei Jahren ein Verhältnis mit Betsy, der Frau seines alten Freundes Berni. Aber Berni bemerkt nichts von dieser Liaison. Betsy liebt Malcolm abgöttisch, doch dieser erträgt ihre Nähe nur, weil er sie zum Mord an ihrem Ehemann bewegen möchte, um so an dessen "Vermächtnis" zu kommen. Er möchte mit einem Buch über Richard III. berühmt werden, doch dazu fehlt nur noch ein winziger, aber sehr bedeutender Baustein - eben das "Vermächtnis".

Becca King and her mother are on the run from her stepfather who has used Becca's talent for hearing 'whispers' to make a large and illegal sum of money. Now their options for safety are running out. In the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Becca finds refuge in the home of her mother's childhood friend while her mother continues on to Canada in search of safety. But on her first day in town Becca meets 16-year-old Derric Mathieson, a Ugandan orphan who was adopted as a 10-year-old by the town's Deputy Sheriff. Derric has a secret that no one on Whidbey Island knows.