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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this decade the equality of the sexes is now law. In real life it’s patchy. Power refuses to ebb or cede. In literary terms though women are again second to none with writing that strides confidently forward addressing the issues, the characters and the stories in unique and individual ways.

Adam Park is a devout bachelor who's been roped into best man duties for a ritzy NYC wedding. Maya Davis is a hopeless romantic and owner of It's Personal, a small business specializing in customized gifts. When Adam picks It's Personal to make champagne flutes for the engagement party, a promising online flirtation ends with a disastrous first meeting. Adam wins a second chance, but the road ahead is rough.

Bath, 1821: Rachel Crofton escapes her unhappy employment as a governess by marrying a self-made businessman. But her new life soon takes an unexpected turn. Reclusive Jonathan Alleyn is a man tormented by the disappearance of his childhood sweetheart, Alice. Starling, foundling child and now servant, is convinced that Alice, the woman she loved as a sister, was stolen from her. Did Alice run away? Or did something altogether more sinister occur? As Starling tries to expose the lies behind Bath's immaculate facades, others want only to forget, and will go to extreme lengths to do so.

A vicar with a passion for nature, the Reverend Albert Canning leads a happy existence with his naive wife, Hester, in their sleepy Berkshire village in the year 1911. But as the English summer dawns, the Cannings' lives are forever changed by two new arrivals: Cat, their new maid, a disaffected, free-spirited young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the law; and Robin Durrant, a leading expert in the occult, enticed by tales of elemental beings in the water meadows nearby.

Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled a lifelong dream to visit Arabia by travelling from England to the ancient city of Muscat with her fiancé, Rory. Desperate to escape the pain of a personal tragedy, she longs to explore the desert fort of Jabrin and unearth the treasures it is said to conceal. But Oman is a land lost in time - hard, secretive and in the midst of a violent upheaval - and gaining permission to explore Jabrin could prove impossible.

From the best-selling author of The Legacy comes an unforgettable novel exploring guilt, love and confronting the truth. April, 1942. Amid the chaos of a night of bombing in Bath, six-year-old Davy Noyle goes missing. Frances Parry, looking after him at the time, is tortured by guilt and refuses to believe that he's dead. As quiet falls and the dust begins to settle on the damaged city, a body is found. But it's the body of a little girl, Frances' best friend, Wyn, who has been missing for over 20 years.

When they were children, Erica Calcott and her sister, Beth, spent their summer holidays at Storton Manor. Now, following the death of their grandmother, they have returned to the grand, imposing house in Wiltshire, England. Unable to stem the tide of childhood memories that arise as she sorts through her grandmother's belongings, Erica thinks back to the summer her cousin Henry vanished mysteriously from the estate, an event that tore their family to pieces. It is time, she believes, to lay the past to rest.

Hollywood has thrilled—and titillated—audiences with tales of women who love monsters since King Kong and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Our love affair with the ultimate “others” continued as we made the acquaintances of Barnabas Collins, Swamp Thing, the Vampire Lestat, Hellboy, and Shrek. It should come as no surprise that when ViceTV decided to do an episode on “Monsters Fantasies”, they came to Riverdale Avenue Books to interview some of those authors in an episode that aired in March 2018.

Wiltshire, 1922. Fifteen-year old Pudding Cartwright has begun the career she always wanted, as 'girl groom' to the Hadleigh family's horses at Manor Farm. Irene Hadleigh is struggling to adjust to her new life in sleepy Slaughterford, having married Alistair to escape a scandal in London. At a loss to occupy herself, Irene sets about restyling Manor Farm, and during the work the chance finding of a strange object hidden away in the house for years will change everything.

England, 1922. Zunächst stellt die Ankunft einer Fremden die Idylle und Ordnung des kleinen Dorfes Slaughterford in Wiltshire auf eine harte Probe. Kurz darauf geschieht ein Mord. Verdächtigt wird ein Kriegsheimkehrer, doch zwei Frauen glauben an seine Unschuld. Eine Spurensuche führt das ungleiche Paar in die angrenzenden tiefen Wälder und zu einer Liebe, die unschuldig begann und mehrere Bewohner des Dorfes voller Schuld zurückließ.

In the bitter winter of 2009, following the death of their grandmother, Erica Calcott and her sister Beth return to Storton Manor, a grand and imposing Wiltshire house where they spent their summer holidays as children. When Erica begins to sort through her grandmother's belongings, she is flooded with memories of her childhood - and of her cousin, Henry, whose disappearance from the manor tore the family apart. Erica sets out to discover what happened to Henry.

England, 1937. In the village of Blacknowle on the Dorset coast, 14-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely upbringing. Shunned by her neighbours, the arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey - along with his exotic mistress and their daughters - is like a breath of fresh air. As Charles's muse, Mitzy develops a deep and abiding bond with the Aubrey household over the course of the following three summers. Gradually, Mitzy begins to perceive a future she had never thought possible....

England, 1911. Reverend Albert Canning, a vicar with a passion for spiritualism - and his naive wife, Hester - led a happy existence in the sleepy parish of Cold Ash Holt, Berkshire. As summer dawns, their quiet lives are changed forever by two new arrivals. First comes Cat, the new maid; a free-spirited and disaffected young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the suffragette movement and with the law.

Bath, 1821. Die prächtigen Häuser von Landsdown Crescent thronen über der englischen Stadt - hier stellt sich Rachel als Gesellschafterin vor und begegnet dem zurückgezogenen Jonathan zum ersten Mal. Obwohl ihn dunkle Erinnerungen zu quälen scheinen, zieht er sie in seinen Bann. Einst verlor er seine große Liebe Alice unter mysteriösen Umständen. Welches Geheimnis verbindet Rachel mit jener jungen Frau, die so plötzlich verschwand und der sie aufs Haar gleicht?

Vierzehn Jahre ist es her, dass auf einem herrschaftlichen Anwesen in der pittoresken Grafschaft Wiltshire ein Mann im Schlaf erstochen wurde. Zwar sorgte Inspector Matthew Lockyer damals für die Verurteilung der Haushälterin Hedy Lambert, doch diese beteuerte stets ihre Unschuld. Als Hedy nun eindringlich um seinen Besuch im Gefängnis bittet, wird Lockyer gemeinsam mit seiner Kollegin Constable Gemma Broad in den alten Fall zurückgeworfen.

Von den verwinkelten Gassen Bristols im Jahre 1831 in die Gegenwart der englischen Hafenstadt. Bristol, Gegenwart: Liv zieht in das Haus ihres verschwundenen Vaters. An der Selbstmordtheorie der Polizei zweifelt sie und hofft, im Haus und in der Werkstatt Hinweise zu finden. Nachts halten Liv seltsame Geräusche und das Weinen eines Babys wach. Ist das Einbildung, oder steckt mehr dahinter? Bristol 1831: Bethia möchte, dass die verwahrloste Louisa im Waisenhaus aufgenommen wird, nicht ahnend, dass das Kind die Geheimnisse ihrer Vergangenheit ans Licht bringen könnte.

Liv Molyneaux ist gerade in das alte Haus ihres Vaters in Bristol gezogen. Er ist verschwunden und Liv glaubt nicht an die Theorie der Polizei, dass er Selbstmord begangen hat. Sie hofft, zwischen Martins Sachen in der Wohnung und der Buchbinderwerkstatt einen Hinweis zu finden. Neben der Trauer um ihr totgeborenes Kind wird Liv nachts immer wieder von seltsamen Geräuschen und dem Weinen eines Babys geweckt. Ist das alles Einbildung, oder steckt mehr dahinter?

England 1922. Da en grusom forbrydelse finder sted i den idylliske landsby Slaughterford, sender det rystelser gennem det lille samfund, som forandrer byen og menneskene i den for altid. Hos den velhavende Hadleigh-familie på Manor Farm arbejder den 15-årige landsbypige Pudding Cartwright i hestestalden.

Clare folgt ihrem Mann, als sie 1921 von England in die Hitze Apuliens reist. Boyd arbeitet dort als Architekt für den reichen Grundbesitzer Leandro Cardetta, und möchte, dass Clare den Sommer bei ihm verbringt. Doch Boyd empfängt sie abweisend und scheint etwas zu verbergen. Auf sich allein gestellt erkundet Clare die fremde Umgebung und lernt dabei Ettore kennen, den Neffen des Grundbesitzers. Clare fühlt sich unbändig zu ihm hingezogen - zu einer Welt, in die sie nicht gehört und die droht, für beide zum Verhängnis zu werden.

In einem einsamen Cottage auf den Klippen von Dorset lebt die betagte Dimity Hatcher. Ihre Vergangenheit und ihr Gewissen belastet eine Tat aus Liebe und Eifersucht, deren tragische Konsequenzen eine ganze Familie zerstörten. Über siebzig Jahre bleibt ihre Schuld unentdeckt, bis eines Tages ein junger Mann vor ihrer Tür steht, der nach und nach der verheerenden Wahrheit auf die Spur kommt.