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No one chills the blood like Susan Hill' Daily Telegraph From the horrifying secret of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black to the supernatural terror unleashed by spiteful Leonora van Vorst in Dolly and the deadly danger posed by Professor Parmitter's painting of Venice in The Man in the Picture, Susan Hill's ghost stories never fail to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and keep you turning the pages long past midnight. Here, collecte...

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When DC Simon Serrailler is asked to take the lead role in an undercover operation, he is forced to inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal. As the op unfolds, the idyllic cathedral town of Lafferton is dragged into the sort of case every town dreads and Simon faces the fight of his life in the eighth brilliant Serrailler novel.

A standalone coming-of-age novel from the popular author of "The Woman In Black" and the Simon Serialler series of crime novels. Explores issues of sexual orientation and women's rights and freedoms. '...one of our finest novelists' "Sunday Times

This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today.

When I was young, I knew God loved me. I followed Him. Being His child was natural and easy. Then I hit puberty, and my world changed. There were things I saw that I wanted, things that I thought He might not want me to have. I started to wander. Still, I was not stupid. I knew I still needed Him as Savior, it was His Lordship that gave me pause. Eventually I stripped Him of His Lordship and went to live in the "fallen world." I kept Him as my...

When I was young, I knew God loved me. I followed Him. Being His child was natural and easy. Then I hit puberty, and my world changed. There were things I saw that I wanted, things that I thought He might not want me to have. I started to wander. Still, I was not stupid. I knew I still needed Him as Savior, it was His Lordship that gave me pause. Eventually I stripped Him of His Lordship and went to live in the "fallen world." I kept Him as my...

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I¿m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collectio...

Paperback edition of Hill's memoir charting her year of reading from home. One afternoon, she realized that she had dozens of books she'd never read, forgotten she owned or wanted to read for a second time. She revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed her lifetime of reading and writing. 'Evoked with precision and grace...' "Spectator

Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor, has come to settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmaremost dreadfully the Woman in Black.

Susan Hill was born in Scarborough in 1942, and educated at grammar schools there and in Coventry. She read English at King's College, London, of which she is now a Fellow. As well as I'm the King of the Castle, her novels include Strange Meeting, The Bird of Night, In the Springtime of the Year, Air and Angels, The Service of Clouds, The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart, The Rise of Darkness, The Beacon, The Vows of Silence and The Sm...

Black Beauty has just been bought by a new owner, Jerry. During a terrible storm, Jerry's daughter is lost outside. Will Black Beauty save her or escape to freedom? Full color.

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The fifth in the series of bestsellers featuring Simon Serrailler. Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island, recovering from an exhausting murder investigation, when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailer has reached the town, ...

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Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor, has come to settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmaremost dreadfully the Woman in Black.

Adapted for both the stage and television, "The Woman in Black" is a delicious, spine-tingling ghost story set on an English moor, and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe (the Harry Potter films), scheduled for release in 2011.

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Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Lafferton is underwater and a landship on the Moor has closed the roads. As the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave--and a skeleton--are exposed, 20 years on, the remains of a missing teenager have finally been uncovered. 368 pp. 30, 000 print.