Author: Barbara VinePublisher:
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King Solomon's Carpet. Large Print
Author: Barbara VineKing Solomon's Carpet
Author: Barbara VinePublisher:
ISBN: 9780745133539
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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King Solomon's Carpet
Author: Ruth RendellPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453214925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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From an Edgar Award–winning author: Murder intrudes on a student’s secret history of the London Underground in this “brilliantly unexpected” mystery (The Times, London). Jarvis Stringer is a young man of many peculiarities, but no obsession has taken hold quite like that of writing the strange and twisting history of the London Underground. To finance his project, he rents out cheap rooms in the long-disused West Hampstead schoolhouse he inherited—a crumbling monument to morbid local lore. The boarders, each eking out their invisible lives above—and beneath—the city’s surface, are a collection of strays, waifs, subway buskers, and loners, who are raising the concern of Jarvis’s relatives and more proper neighbors. But even Jarvis has become suspicious. One of his outcasts may be a killer who’s plotting something unforgettable and catastrophic—and Jarvis himself has unwittingly become a conspirator. “A jolting novel of psychological suspense,” King Solomon’s Carpet was the recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award (The New York Times Book Review).
King Solomon's Carpet
Author: Barbara VinePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141932457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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King Solomon's Carpet - a prize-winning crime classic from bestselling author Barbara Vine Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award 'The tension grows ... an overwhelming sense of foreboding ... when the unravelling takes place, it is brilliantly unexpected and original' The Times Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London's Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives. Dispossessed and outcast, those who come to inhabit Jarvis's schoolhouse are gradually brought closer together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's forbidding and dangerous Undergound . . . 'I longed to know what would happen next. Towards the end the tension fairly gets you by the throat' Sunday Express 'Vine arouses a genuine fear that all that is normal is in danger of being lost' Sunday Times King Solomon's Carpet is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2564
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Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1802
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The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander
Author: Frank R. StocktonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387338430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Using Textile Arts and Handcrafts in Therapy with Women
Author: Ann Futterman CollierPublisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1849058385
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Original research and examples from artists illustrate how different textile-based art approaches can provide therapeutic outlets for women with a complete variety of life experiences. The psychology of this therapeutic approach is explained as well as explanations of specific techniques and suggestions for practise with a wide range of clients.
Solomon's Carpet
Author: Henry Bedford-JonesThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Author: Richard F. BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387027451
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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