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Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish killed himself. Reverend...
St Christopher's College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros a group therapist struggling through her private grief it's where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it's the tragic scene of her best friend's murder....
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part, she finds a...
A novel attacking totalitarianism. It is a vision of a world worse than Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia, and a world that was perhaps not so incredible to readers in 1949 at the onset of the Cold War. It is a drama depicting the grim existence of...
"The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we're entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru cements that fame."-- The Washington Post Book World 21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light...