Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life And Soul

Biographies & Memoirs

Reynolds, Barbara

Arts & Literature

Spectre

It's 1984. Alice Forrester is a twenty-three-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is taken to the emergency room of Seaview hospital - renowned for its eating disorders clinic. There, family and friends, in league with staff and doctors, intently try to steer her toward recovery. But it's not that simple. She passes time at the clinic waiting to find out the thing that is wrong with her. What happened. When and how the damage was done. Along the way, Alice encounters a fascinating array of oddballs and misfits - Dr. Paul, the physician who monitors this disparate group of afflicted young women; the psychiatric support staff whose treatment for anorexia revolves around a chillingly familiar Twelve Step program; wraithlike, flaxen-haired Gwen, whose anorexia ultimately turns into tragedy; and finally Maeve, raucous, vulgar, tender, and kind, who shakes up Alice's life and opens up her eyes. Shot through with wry wit and poignancy, The Passion of Alice is a re

The Passion of Alice

Literature & Fiction

Grant, Stephanie

Contemporary

Owen's family moves from the city to the countryside, and the adolescent Owen quickly develops friendships and rivalries. When he discovers a corpse in the river, it proves the catalyst for a spiralling descent into the darker reaches of the community, and a stark rites of passage for Owen.

This River Awakens

steve-lundin

Literary

<p>Hugh Thurne is a diplomat in love with a young Venetian woman when his best friend's widow, Violet Mancroft, arrives in Venice from England. Violet is still absorbed by grief but she is also troubled by the direction her relationship with Hugh might now take. Violet is also preoccupied by anxiety for her son, Robert, who has fallen in love with Gloria Venier, a young Grand Canal girl. Unlike Violet, Giacomo Venier is amused by his daughter's fledgling relationship - but he is dying, leaving his wife Valentina to maintain their dilapidated palace and face financial ruin, and to bring up their teenage children alone. From the English coast to Venice and Britain's dominions in the East, this is a novel about empires and their crises, about the desolation and the hope after the Great War, about death, time and memory, and innocent - and less innocent - love. And it is a passionate study of the crisis of societies in peace and in war, and of the bewildering perversities of continually reawakening love.</p>

By The GRAND CANAL.

RIVIERE, WILLIAM

<p>"Rousseau was a writer with a considerable imagination, a passionate personal philosophy, and a keen understanding of scientific progress...there is sufficient evidence to treat him as one amongst equals with such other pioneer pulpsters as Ray Cummings, Charles B. Stilson, and Homer Eon Flint."-Michael Ashley, author of Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography</p>

His Second Self: The Bio-Bibliography of Victor Rousseau Emanuel

Wallace, Morgan A.

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