His mother and father had both died of heroine overdoses in the same month when he was eight years old. I have also been the unwitting “author guest” enough times to know that one very drunk person will hate my book between mouthfuls of cheese (what is it with the cheese?

After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. One of his early investigations was the Borley Rectory haunting, where, over a period of years, Underwood traced and personally interviewed almost every living person who had been connected with the mysterious events surrounding the place. The style of writing is journeyman and repetitive, and the last 50 pages are clearly cobbled together from recent newspaper articles and interviews and programme notes. Despite the title, and the cover looking somewhat reminiscent of some character out of a Biggles book, it's Edmund Hillary's account of his ascent of Everest.

If patrons are still dissatisfied, they can fill out an appeal form for the book and the library’s collections manager will review it. The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One Ring. This book has been unread on my shelf for four years because I thought I knew what it would be like.

The photo (plate 12) of the leader on Kern Knotts Crack is still for me, amongst the most impressive portrayals of climbing I've seen. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Well, it was only a relatively small part of his life, but the stories of his 'adventures' were legion. Around the same time, he was fascinated to learn of a ghost story associated the old house at Rosehall - where his maternal grandparents lived for a time; it contained a bedroom where guests claimed to see the figure of a headless man. An early formative experience came at the age of nine, on the day he learnt of his father’s death; that night, he awoke to see an apparition of his father at the foot of the bed.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College―Violet included.

They plan it for months and pull it off, get the dosh, but there’s a wee twist as things don’t quite turn out as they hoped.She ran Well-Storied from 2014 - 2021, sharing hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and other resources on story craft and creative living. This is his account of some of the most important issues affecting Britain today; from levelling-up and the north-south divide, to social mobility and class, and the devastating social upheaval caused by decades of deindustrialization and government neglect. Now that your protagonist actively seeks out conflict, the pace of your story will pick up, churning ever more quickly toward the final climactic sequence.