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My father, the Reverend Humphrey John Paine, made a collection of Books of Common Prayer while a vicar in the Norwich diocese. Although he lectured on its history to the diocesan clergy, he never wrote up that story. The present volume seeks to address that omission. It includes many illustrations from the collection, focusing on some of those volumes of particular interest and inspiration to my father. Starting with the situation of lay spiri...

Styrsö was such a beautiful and usually very peaceful place. Whoever set foot on the island would quickly fall in love, some would stay forever. That peace had been brutally disturbed by the police presence. Would people ever forget? Forgive? A successful PR executive living in Stockholm, Anna is in the middle of a major campaign when she receives the news that her father, seventy-two-year-old Lennart, has disappeared. She returns to her nat...

Things aren't going well in Arlo's life, but they get a whole lot worse when a strange, heavily tattooed girl keeps appearing everywhere he goes. Is he prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to save his friends and family?

Everybody has a wish. Everybody has a dream. Sometimes those dreams and wishes can come true, but there is always a price to pay. The stories of people who have paid this price are recorded in The Book of Reasons. This new collection from the author of the Missing Beat trilogy contains some of those stories. Read about an author's toxic relationship with his own creation, a gardener who wages war on snails, a policeman who is haunted by his ...

From the author of NEPHYTHYS and COMEDENTI DOLORUM comes a new volume of macabre short stories and novellas. A young woman, recently released from her abusive marriage, finds herself in a way she never thought possible. A werewolf in a tryst with a human woman is at the center of a bizarre string of murders. A man recounts the year his older sister took them on a horrifying adventure. A small boy, whose parents have recently died, finds himsel...

Goose News TodayDon't miss this delightful tale of Graham the Gosling, who tries to persuade his family to move to Canada.He is a Canada Goose after all!Devised by family members Julie Pryke and Finnja Pryke.

What do witches and wizards do when they retire? Well, there's plenty of mischief at Nana's Retirement Home, with young witch Lizzie and Jack the gnome always around to help. Take a peep inside and see the fun they have! A treat for all ages and a choice of rhymes to follow and enjoy.

Luke works a job he hates and shares a dirty, small apartment with his roommate, barely making ends meet and envying the successes of his friends. When they all return for a wedding, Luke comes face to face with one of the people he left behind when he took off. Instead of the bitterness Luke expects, Connor invites him on a forty-day, cross-country trip. They travel the length of route I-90, following the last journey Connor's father made f...

Preparing to evacuate from an approaching hurricane, Haakon Chitragar stumbles upon the diary of his first love, Michel, who died from AIDS in his arms in November of 1986. Diary in hands, Haakon embarks on a journey back in time, to learn about Michel's life, his difficult and painful path to accepting his true self, despite pressure from family, church, and society. Michel - Fallen Angel of Paris is the story of one young man, one of count...

From the award-winning author of Caught Inside comes a compulsive novel of family, forgiveness and forbidden love. Desire draws them together, their family threatens to tear them apart... The past months have been rough on Taylor. His parents' marriage imploded, his boyfriend dumped him, and he feels like an interloper in his stepdad's home. He's counting down the days until he leaves for university. If not for his sister, he'd put all thi...

Peter Pattison is a very ordinary boy... ...or so he thinks until he makes contact with the people of Perulius, a distant planet almost identical to Earth. Why are they here? What do they want? Join Peter and his friends, Hatty and Candice, as they begin an incredible adventure that is quite literally... OUT OF THIS WORLD!

Being single, ordained and in sole charge of a parish can often be lonely, as Revd. Wendy Morris knows all too well. It's a situation not helped by having an egotistical and ambitious archdeacon, whose interference fuels rather than quells the criticism and conflict Wendy deals with as rector of St. Olaf's.Following the resignation of her crabby, disgruntled organist, Wendy appoints a former RUC officer to succeed him. Things further look up w...

Are witches real?Can cats talk?Find out when you visit Witchworld and meet dizzy Dottie Doolittle.Dottie's all a dither after a storm accidentally delivers an invitation to attend the prestigious final of the witches' national game Witchball in the presence of scary witch queen, Her Royal Witchiness Queen Skirty Ma'am!If you enjoyed The Witches by Roald Dahl, you will love this hilarious book.

Someone is missing!Where can he be?Come and look in the book with me!Under My Bed is a delightful story for young children as they search for all the treasures on the pages for that special bedtime friend!

The Literary Lancashire Award is proud to present its 2021 anthology of shortlisted entries. Packed with magnificent and unique short fiction and poetry, this volume celebrates the work of some of the most promising young authors in the county.Sit back and enjoy the wonderful work of Katie Kingsman, Kayla Jenkins, Ditte Jensen, Charlotte Lloyd, Courtenay S. Gray, Cait Cook and many, many more!

Still teenagers, we had started to build the foundation of an eternal love, one kiss, one smile, one caress at a time. And in my youthful arrogance, I'd been sure the house of love we were building would be impervious to the world's disapprobation, no matter how mightily it huffed and puffed and blew."Tristan and Max are a pair of Asian-American high school students who find themselves unexpectedly in love in post-Columbine America. Tristan wo...

The Colour in WomanFlora's young adulthood is spent alone in her inherited labyrinthine house. Dream characters inhabit secret rooms, memories pulsate around the house and garden, and she is haunted by the elusive presence of a nameless childhood book.Invisible threads of a long-forgotten bond bind Flora to Brigit, the local loner in town. Brigit-the 'Red Woman'-finally has the freedom to drink herself into a creative fervour and only becomes ...

Magic is a marriage of hope and rebellion. It's everywhere in the world. Always has been. But in most of the world, it's unknown. People stopped using it, believing in it even, thousands of years ago, and hundreds of years ago, and tens of years ago. It seems that each culture and each generation rejects magic a bit more than the one before. Some cultures more or less than others, but the general trend is to ignore magic and eventually to forg...

WHEN HE'S GOODRent boy Danny wants everything-new cars, exotic holidays, designer clothes-and he wants it now. He'll stop at nothing. Isabella needs an heir. Neil needs a fling. Hugo needs a change.HE'S VERY GOODDanny's sexy, charismatic and shameless. He gives everything to each client, exactly how they need it. But can he handle what he receives in return or will it destroy him and everyone else in Danny's world?BUT WHEN HE'S BAD HE'S BETTER...