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Once upon a world where time is place a journey beyond imagination is about to unfold.... It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. Candy Quackenbush lives in Chickentown, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live... (more)

Another World: A Novel

by Pat Barker

Plagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother die, Nick's grandfather Gordie lays dying as Nick struggles to keep the peace in his increasingly fractious home. As Nick's suburban family loses control over their world, Nick begins to learn his grandfather's buried secrets and comes to understand the power of old wounds to leak into the present. As a study of the power of memory and loss,... (more)

Mister B. Gone

by Clive Barker

Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader--his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next--is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book... (more)

And It's Goodnight from Him...: The Autobiography of the 'Two Ronnies'

And It's Goodnight from Him...: The Autobiography of the 'Two Ronnies'

by Ronnie Corbett

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Mister B. Gone

by Clive Barker

Imajica

by Clive Barker

Bestselling author of The Great and Secret Show Clive Barker once again enters the realm of pure imagination. The Imajica: five Dominions of which four are bound together and one, the Earth, is cut off from her sisters. Only a few know of the Imajica, and of those few many are frightened. A time of great risk and promise is coming when three memorable charactersJohn Furie Zacharias, known as Gentle, a master... (more)

The Damnation Game

by Clive Barker

A reclusive millionaire makes a deal with the devil. Just another horror tale? Don't bet on it. It's from Clive Barker.

Sacrament

by Clive Barker

Living and dying, we feed the fire. Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident, Will is left in a coma. And in its depths, he revisits the wildernesses of his youth and relives his life with a mysterious couple who have influenced his life as an artist and a man. When Will... (more)

Wordsworth: A Life

by Juliet Barker

The figure of William Wordsworth looms over the nineteenth century like a presiding genius. Sage, seer, and Poet Laureate, Wordsworth was revered by his Victorian contemporaries as a writer of tender, lyrical poetry, a controversial challenger of social and artistic convention, a devoted champion of country life, and the spiritual founder of the conservation movement. In this masterful work, the first... (more)

Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages

Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages

by Richard Barber, Juliet Barker

This book draws on recent research into the tournament, the first sport for which detailed rules and regulations survive, and gives insight into the medieval mind. There are parallels with modern sport and a series of illustrations which include some of the finest surviving medieval manuscripts.

Hens Dancing

by Raffaella Barker

Hilarity and tenderness abound in this novel narrated in pages torn from the diary of one Venetia Summers, a thirty-something divorced mother of three who resides in rural England and is owner of, among other things, controlling shares in her ex-husband’s pet mortuary and numerous pairs of oddly colored Wellingtons. While Venetia’s life may not be as glamorous as the one she left behind in the city ten years... (more)

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers?

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers?

by Graeme Barker

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive array of information from archaeology and many other disciplines, including anthropology, botany, climatology, genetics, linguistics, and zoology. Against current... (more)

Life Class: A Novel

by Pat Barker

From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy, an acknowledged masterpiece of modern fiction, Life Class is an exceptional new novel of artists and lovers caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. It is the spring of 1914 and a group of young students have gathered in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two parts of an intriguing love triangle and, in... (more)

Book of the Art: Book 1

The Great and Secret Show

by Clive Barker

Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, California. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war. The Great and Secret Show has begun on the stage of the world. And soon, the curtain must fall. In this masterpiece of the imagination that explores the uncharted territory within our secret... (more)

Coldheart Canyon

by Clive Barker

Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after surgery that has gone terribly wrong. His fiercely loyal agent finds him just such a place in a luxurious, forgotten mansion high in the Hollywood Hills. But the original owner of the mansion was a beautiful woman devoted to pleasure at any cost, and the terrible legacy of her deed has not yet died. There are ghosts and monsters haunting Coldheart Canyon,... (more)

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Cabal

by Clive Barker

A fabulous journey through the mind of the master of dark imaginative fiction, Clive Barker. The nightmare had begun!. Boone knew that there was no place on this earth for him now; no happiness here, not even with Lori. He would let Hell claim him, let Death take him there. But Death itself seemed to shrink from Boone. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had shattered, violated and shredded so many... (more)

Book of the Art: Book 2

Everville

by Clive Barker

On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville.For years it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. But its ignorance is not bliss. Opening the door between worlds, Clive Barker delivers his characters into the heart of the human mystery; into a place of revelation, where the forces which have shaped our past--and are ready to destroy... (more)

Regeneration

by Pat Barker

In a World War I British military hospital, a pacifist soldier and his doctor grapple with the outrage of war. By the author of Union Street. Reprint. NYT. K.

The Thief of Always: A Fable

by Clive Barker

Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful rounds of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied... There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr. Hood's wonders, does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the House shows... (more)

Weaveworld

by Clive Barker

Reissue of the highly acclaimed thriller by the world's most outstanding dark fantasist. WEAVEWORLD is an epic adventure of the imagination. It begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting the dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to. WEAVEWORLD is a book of visions... (more)

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