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Dennis Hamley
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Lyndsey Lovelock, university student, writes a long study on an eighteenth century poet, Nicholas Fowler. Rod, her scientist boyfriend, longs to know what research project is taking place in Coswold, once Fowler's home, now part of the university. In 1773, Nicholas Fowler builds a Grotto, dabbles in the new science of electricity, and believes Man is on the point of mastering Nature. What unearthly power binds them all together?
Highgate, London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict, estranged from his friends and from his neglected wife. His grip on reality is starting to slip; his past and present mingle in laudanum-induced dreams. In a Cambridge college library, Scrivener, a bullied undergraduate, finds a strange annotation in a book of Coleridge's poems. Intrigued by this mystery marginalia and captivated by Romantic poetry, he resolves to become a poet himself, with Coleridge as his guiding light. Across the sea, Samuel, a young Sicilian, discovers that his mother once had a liaison with Coleridge. He sets out for England to learn all he can about the man who may be his father. It isn't long before Samuele and Scrivener cross paths - but will their journeys take them to the real Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Highgate, London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict, estranged from his friends and from his neglected wife. His grip on reality is starting to slip; his past and present mingle in laudanum-induced dreams. In a Cambridge college library, Scrivener, a bullied undergraduate, finds a strange annotation in a book of Coleridge's poems. Intrigued by this mystery marginalia and captivated by Romantic poetry, he resolves to become a poet himself, with Coleridge as his guiding light. Across the sea, Samuel, a young Sicilian, discovers that his mother once had a liaison with Coleridge. He sets out for England to learn all he can about the man who may be his father. It isn't long before Samuele and Scrivener cross paths - but will their journeys take them to the real Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Midshipman Edward Trefusis prepares for his second campaign on board HMS Fortune. He is disturbed by the strange news he has received about Amos Tunks, who he thought was drowned, shocked by what his uncle the rear-admiral shows him about Britain's terrible dangers and angered by what he learns about his enemy and rival.When Fortune sets sail, he soon finds himself embroiled in treachery, abduction and strange and riddling danger. At its centre is an ambiguous person, at once enemy and friend, who both threatens and saves and takes many forms. Truly in this new world, nothing is as it seems.To escape from it, Edward has to get through two great trials. The first tests his ingenuity and his bravery, the second his steadfastness and mental strength. But afterwards he still does not know what to expect, who to trust and what to believe."If ever you return to your ship, tread carefully, Mr Trefusis."
Five short stories and a whole novel which, if you blink, you'll miss You'll find yourself with Alan the shepherdin a terrible battle with the evil Seth, the wicked faeries and Old Nick himself. You'll see Danny find out that there's more to life than trainspotting and Roy Breakspear discovering that you should never go back because you might find a lot more than you bargained for. While Jessica's family is on holiday, a little tragedy back home threatens a split in the family which could never be healed. Stephanie and Matthew are fascinated by Sylvie's strange Christmas guest. But he's even stranger than they could ever have imagined. And then we're back in 1804. Napoleon really is coming to conquer us. But Alfie thinks he's here already. "Dennis Hamley is a specially talented yarnspinner" TES
It is 1803. Britain is at war with France. Edward Trefusis, to his clergyman father's dismay and his Rear-Admiral uncle's delight, is now a midshipman on the frigate HMS Fortune. What does his first voyage have in store for him?It brings him a terrible task which frightens and horrifies him. It puts him in a danger which not even the oldest sailor on board should have to undergo. But it's because he's a boy that only he can do it, though with a companion for whom he has nothing but withering contempt as well as deep-seated fear.He is soon to have everything he has been brought up to believe denied before his eyes. He is sadder and wiser and tested nearly to destruction."Boys is men one day, your honour."Yes, but what sort of men can they be after this?
From creepy school computers to bungling bank robbers; from lost villages to deadly Christmas presents...Funny and serious, exciting and intriguing, here are fourteen wonderful new mystery stories to perplex and amaze you.
