Phantom museum

PHANTOM MUSEUM
by Hildi Hawkins and Danielle Olsen
Henry well come collected thousands of strange objects for his medical museum, and today they are stored in the vaults of a a west London store room. This extra ordinary and exciting anthology of short stories is inspired by objects from the collection. A stunning story: Body art: by A.S. Byatt, tells of Daisy Whimple, a cynical hippy type girl whose bungled abortion later leads her to attempt to bring brightness into the ward by decorating it. There she meets Dr. Beckett and becomes pregnant again by him. Will she have the baby and if she does, what will happen?
Five other stories are included as well as photos of a selection of those strange objects.

Sylvia and Ted

SYLVIA AND TED
by Emma Tennant
Through imaginative fiction Emma Tennant vividly evokes the social and literary circles in which Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes traveled. From the scarlet lipstick and head band Sylvia wore the night they first met, to the yards of red corduroy curtains left unfinished at her death, Emma Tennant constructs a ballad from unforgettable images that tap into our very nerve endings.
As Sylvia and Ted struggles to create both life and art, their duet becomes a duel, creating a powerful vortex of sensation and passion that draws every one into its path including Sylvia's darkly beautiful rival, Assia Wevil. These three talented yet tortured people deserve their place in the 20th century's most famous literary love affairs. This intensely poetic book breathe life into their characters

Orphan lamb

ORPHAN LAMB
by Ann Purser
Peggy Palmer at the post office stores watched as young Mandy and Robert Bates, newly married, run into tragedy and struggle. She sees the impact on the village when Nancy Bridget, blonde and leggy, arrives at the hall to take charge in the latest in the long line of Standings, and listens with amusement as Ivy, Ellen and Doris nick named 'the three witches of Ring ford', make their crabby comments on the village goings on. There is comedy, tragedy, joy and sorrow in this intimate community of a small English village.

Spinster of this parish

Spinster of this parish
by Ann Purser
Round Ring ford, a small and idyllic village, is Ivy's territory and none of its inhabitants escape her vigil at the window of Victoria Villa.
Robert Bates and his girl friend from the town , Mandy Butler, Choir master, Gabriella Jones and her way ward daughter Octavia , the standings at the hall and the Jerk ins's in the council houses all come under her watchful eyes.
As the farming year progresses, the harvest supper and Christmas concert are followed by a funeral and a village wedding.
Ivy weaves her web of cunning, not realizing that she too is caught in its sticky threads.

Fifteen streets

FIFTEEN STREETS
by Catherine Cook son
When, John O'Brien fell in love with Mary Llewellyn, he knew there was a gulf between them that nothing could bridge. The gulf of the fifteen streets. Life in the fifteen streets was tough and it is a continual struggle for survival. Some families gave up and descended into a dismal state of constant poverty. Others like the O'Brien's fought grimly for a world they were only rarely allowed to glimpse.

As meat loves salt

AS MEAT LOVES SALT
by Maria McCann
An Economist: 'Book of the year'.
This remarkable first novel recreates Cromwellian England in a way that few readers will forget.
Torn in two by the vicious civil war , this is an England of extra ordinary, never before seen bloody violence.
Among the soldiers traveling across the ravaged country from one battle to the next is Jacob Cullen, a former servant who dreams of a new life after the war.
However living as the new model army was living did unexpected things to many men, and he finds him self drawn into an obsession with Ferris, a fellow fighter. At a time this type of thing is a hanging offense, the men dessert from Cromwell's army, even that too a similarly punishable act.
McCann's depiction of an England beset by war , the gore, terror, and horrors of the battle field and the harrowing tale of the men on the edge of madness are by turns compelling and shocking. We feel the blood, sweat and tears of the protagonists and the disturbing images she unveils will linger in the memory.
A wrenching thriller, which describes individuals' madness in a nation gone mad.

Bleak mid winter

BLEAK MIDWINTER, by Peter Millar, A Crackling thriller, Set in the Oxford back ground.
Rajiv Mahendra , trainee doctor at John Radcliffe hospital encounters a patient with symptoms which are horrifyingly familiar in India this disease known as the bubonic plague and the last time it occurred in a large scale in Europe, it wiped out one third of the entire population.Rajiv's friend , an American history student , Daniel Warren finds out about the patient and driven by morbid curiosity sneaks into the hospital so as to have look at the patient concerned. This had been discovered by a local news paper reporter from the local news paper. the reporter got wind of the story. Daniel wants her to be kept quiet, so Daniel reveals about the patient , that he had been working on a building site at a certain village which has been once called as Nether Ditch ford , where the entire population died of the same plague during the year 1349. could it be possible that there are plague bacterial spores which may have been roused from their dormant state?