Download or read book The Angel of Highgate written by Vaughn Entwistle and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “NOTHING LESS THAN THE WICKEDEST MAN IN LONDON…” It is October 1859, and notorious philanderer Lord Geoffrey Thraxton cares for nothing except his own amusement. After humiliating an odious literary critic and surviving the resulting duel, he boasts of his contempt for mortality, and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will come to regret. When Thraxton becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who appears to him one fog-shrouded night in Highgate Cemetery, he unwittingly provides the doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death…
Download or read book Falling Angels written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Girl With A Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century in England, while the Queen's death reverberates through a changing nation. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives—wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger's son—Falling Angels is graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" (The New York Times Book Review).
Download or read book The Maker of Swans written by Paraic O'Donnell and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER A CrimeReads & Book and Film Globe BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Tor.com BEST BOOK OF JUNE “Truly bewitching.” —David Mitchell It is no small matter, after all, to create something—to make it so only by setting down the words. We forget the magnitude, sometimes, of that miracle. In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master’s mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts—unaccountable gifts, known only to the members of a secretive order. Protected and privileged, he was courted by countesses and great men of letters. But he has long since retreated from that glittering world, living alone but for Eustace and Clara, his mysterious young ward. He has been content to live quietly, his great library gathering dust and his once magnificent gardens growing wild. He has left the past behind. Until now. Because there are rules, even for Mr. Crowe and his kind, that cannot be broken. And this single night of passion and violence will have consequences, stirring shadows from the past and threatening those he now cares for. He and the faithful Eustace will be tested as never before. So too will Clara, whose own extraordinary gifts remain hidden, even from herself. If she is to save them all, she must learn to use them quickly and unlock the secret of who she is. It is a secret beyond imagining. A secret that will change everything.
Download or read book The Revenant of Thraxton Hall written by Vaughn Entwistle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle has just killed off Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," and he immediately becomes one of the most hated men in London. So when he is contacted by a medium "of some renown" and asked to investigate a murder, he jumps at the chance to get out of the city. The only thing is that the murder hasn't happened yet—the medium, one Hope Thraxton, has foreseen that her death will occur at the third séance of a meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at her manor house in the English countryside. Along for the ride is Conan Doyle's good friend Oscar Wilde, and together they work to narrow down the list of suspects, which includes a mysterious foreign Count, a levitating magician, and an irritable old woman with a "familiar." Meanwhile, Conan Doyle is enchanted by the plight of the capricious Hope Thraxton, who may or may not have a more complicated back-story than it first appears. As Conan Doyle and Wilde participate in séances and consider the possible motives of the assembled group, the clock ticks ever closer to Hope's murder, in The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle.
Download or read book The Sleeping Angel written by Margarita Morris and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is astir in Highgate Cemetery. The dead want justice and so do the living. January 1870: Isabelle Hart has a secret. It lies buried in Highgate Cemetery, beside the statue of the sleeping angel. March 1970: Strange happenings of a sinister nature are reported at Highgate Cemetery. Who or what is lurking amongst the gravestones? July, present day: Someone is trying to contact Lauren from beyond the grave. Tom, meanwhile, is determined to prove his father's death was murder. As Lauren uncovers Isabelle's story and Tom chases his father's killer, everything points towards the sleeping angel, a Victorian statue in Highgate Cemetery. Lauren and Tom must discover the truth before the killer strikes again. The Sleeping Angel is a gripping time-slip mystery thriller that cleverly interweaves the Victorian period and the present day.
Download or read book The Angel of Highgate written by Vaughn Entwistle and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Geoffrey Thraxton is notorious in Victorian society-a Byronesque rakehell with a reputation as the "wickedest man in London." After surviving a pistol duel, Thraxton boasts his contempt for death and insults the attending physician. It is a mistake he will regret, for Silas Garrette is a deranged sociopath and chloroform-addict whose mind was broken on the battlefields of Crimea. Oblivious to the danger, Thraxton's pursuit of idle pleasure leads him through the fog shrouded streets of London-from champagne soirees in the mummy room of the British Museum, to its high-class brothels and low-class opium dens. But when Thraxton falls in love with a mysterious woman who haunts Highgate Cemetery by night, he unwittingly provides the murderous doctor with the perfect means to punish a man with no fear of death.
Download or read book Large s way about London written by Henry Large and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The General Zapped an Angel written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV“The General Zapped an Angel was written for fun, and offers me a chance to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I have done.” —Howard Fast/div DIVNearly forty years after the publication of his first story, “The Wrath of Purple,” in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, Howard Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the next day’s Wall Street Journal, and a group of alien beings bestow a mouse with human thought and emotion. Fast, one of the bestselling authors of the twentieth century, skewers war hawks, oil speculators, and profit-at-all-costs capitalism, issues that are still relevant today./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div
Download or read book The History Topography and Antiquities of Highgate in the County of Middlesex written by John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fallen Angel Model written by Ron Morgan and published by En Route Books & Media. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth?God said: Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good. God then separated the light from the darkness." And so begins the story of our cosmic creation. When Lucifer and other angels fell, all hell broke loose! Literally. Can we correlate physical evil with the free will action of these fallen angels? The Fallen Angel Model addresses that question by speculating on whether our evolving universe, filled with ontic and moral evils, found its origin in Lucifer's rebellion.
Download or read book Hampstead Highgate Through Time written by Robert Bard and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hampstead and Highgate have changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book The Northern Heights of London Or Historical Associations of Hampstead Highgate Muswell Hill Hornsey and Islington written by Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Large s Way about London giving a direct route to roads streets courts alleys in alphabetical order from six well known starting points etc written by Henry LARGE and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hampstead Highgate in 50 Buildings written by Lucy McMurdo and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the architectural heritage, treasures and landmarks of Hampstead and Highgate from across the centuries.
Download or read book The Highgate Horror written by Mark Wright and published by Panini UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the Doctor and Clara on their amazing adventures in space and time. The Doctor and Clara are trapped in Highgate Cemetery in 1972, and become prey to a force that feeds on death itself. A strange visitor to Coal Hill School on Halloween sends Clara on a terrifying journey to the time of the witch trials. A team of mercenaries enters a lethal alien jungle, and the Doctor and Clara discover a familiar face. Also includes an in-depth commentary section where the comics creators reveal the secrets behind the stories.
Download or read book The Girls in the High Heeled Shoes written by Michael Kurland and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fine and Dandy chorine Lydia Laurent’s strangled, nude body, accompanied by two complete suits of clothing, has been found in Central Park, and now Two-Headed Mary and Billie Trask are missing too. Since the police are as helpless as they always are in 1935, it falls to New York World columnist Alexander Brass and his cheerfully wide-eyed sidekick Morgan DeWitt to dig up the truth.
Download or read book Highgate Cemetery written by Marie-Therese Mäder and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der beruhmte in viktorianischer Zeit als Park gestaltete Friedhof von Highgate in London regt seit uber 150 Jahren die Imagination der Menschen an. Der Sammelband untersucht die Performativitat vergangener und gegenwartiger Bildpraktiken in und um Highgate im Kontext von Religion und Gesellschaft.
