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A woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel, perfect for fans of The Last House on Needless Street and Tell Me Im Worthless.On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house. An abandoned house where, once upon a time, terrible things happened. The children who live on this block are told by their parents to stay away from that house. But of course, children dont listen. Children think its fun to be scared, to dare each other to go inside.Jessie Campanelli did what many older sisters do and dared her little brother Paul. But unlike all the other kids who went inside that abandoned house, Paul didnt return. His two friends, Jake and Richie, said that the house ate Paul. Of course adults didnt believe that. Adults never believe what kids say. They thought someone kidnapped Paul, or otherwise hurt him. They thought Paul had disappeared in a way that was ordinary, explainable.The disappearance of her little brother broke Jessies family apart in ways that would never be repaired. Jessie grew up, had a child of her own, kept living on the same street where the house that ate her brother sat, crouched and waiting. And darkness seemed to spread out from that house, a darkness that was alivealive and hungry.

Praise for The Path of Peace:A formidable achievement Rory StewartThoughtful [and] heartfeltObserverProfound [and] compellingSpectatorA noble endeavourNew StatesmanIn 2020, Anthony Seldon, inspired by a fallen World War I soldier who dreamed of a Via Sacra to commemorate the war dead and stand as a marker for the triumph of peace, set out on a 1,000km walk tracing the historic route of the Western Front. But there wasnt to be lasting peace, with the continent falling into an even more horrific war two decades later. In The Path of Light, Seldon walks the route from where World War I ended to Auschwitz, discovering the towns and people who resisted in the face of unbearable destruction, and ruminating on the Second World Wars legacy.

Lessons from Midwives for Pastoral Leadership We find ourselves in a moment in which the church is in great pain. Congregations are dwindling, denominations are fracturing, and church scandals have become all too common. We need a new imagination to capture the hopefulness of God birthing something new in the midst of the pain of the old creation. In The Pastor as Midwife, Shawna Songer Gaines brings her pastoral experience alongside her research on the vocation and practices of midwifery to explore a vision of pastoral leadership that is shaped by the wisdom of those who walk alongside expectant mothers. Learning to pastor like a midwife helps us embrace what God is doing in our pain and see new life in unlikely places.This book gives pastors a ministry paradigm that embraces change and pain as part of Gods salvific work in the world. Gaines helps pastors embrace a new, life-giving posture for ministry marked by advocacy, listening, and letting go of control. Like the apostle Paul in Romans 8:22, pastors who long to witness the birth of Gods new creation are invited to imagine their work like a hopeful midwife.With The Pastor as Midwife, you will: learn how the practices and wisdom of midwives offer a new way of approaching pastoral leadership, a way that begins and ends with a hopeful view of Gods work in birthing new creation; engage with thought-provoking reflection questions to explore your own leadership patterns; and reenvision ministry to see change and pain as integral to Gods life-giving work in the world. Wherever you are in your journey as a pastor, The Pastor as Midwife offers a thoughtful and hopeful perspective on ministry in a changing and often challenging world. Learn to witness and partner with God in the birth of new creation with The Pastor as Midwife, trusting in the Spirit of God who brings new life to a fallen but beautiful world.

Looking to scratch that quilting itch and looking for the perfect inspiration for your new project? Author Stephanie Soebbing is an expert at using quilting to creatively while away the hours. As founder of "Quilt Addicts Anonymous," shes helped quilters of all skill levels to learn the joy of quilting. Now, in Panel Quilting Workshop, she steers readers through 12 finished projects from beginning to end. Read along as you discover tips and ideas for selecting complementary quilting designs, find out how to handle different types of printed panels, like multi-image and framed panels, and master the basic patchwork instructions that will have you quilting like an expert. Finding the right projects for your quilting passion is no longer an excuse - with Panel Quilting Workshop, youll just wish there were more than 12 projects!

A last-chance winter road trip for a Scottish band spirals into wild chaos seagull massacres, bomb tests, and darkly funny rocknroll madness on the edge. A raw, darkly funny novel by one of Scotlands finest authors newly reissued!ANNIVERSARY EDITIONINTRODUCTION BY VAL MCDERMID____Connor is twenty-four, brilliant, broken, and out of control. Hes the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal.Desperate to make their mark, they head off on a two-week winter tour across the cities and hinterlands of Scotland a last-ditch attempt to find fame, purpose, and themselves.But the tour soon spirals into a surreal, chaotic odyssey. From seedy bars and snowbound towns to a final, defining Glasgow gig, the band hurtles through a whirlwind of seagull massacres, botched drug deals, a mysterious stalker, radioactive beaches, bomb-testing ranges, epileptic fits, riotous Russian submariners, deadly storms, epiphanies, regular beatings and random shootings.Raw, darkly funny and wild with energy, The Ossians is a gloriously anarchic story of rocknroll obsession, national identity and self-destruction, and what it means to belong in a band, in a country, in a life unravelling at speed.___

During the golden age of science, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a dedicated drive to accurately categorise nature and explain the natural world. Many enthusiastic naturalists, amateur and professional, set off to collect and classify plants and animals across the New World, and many of these finds still bear the names of those who discovered them today. The Noble Quest, previously Sightseers & Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Discovery, features a new introduction that considers the growing catastrophic trend in species extinction today. The nine important individuals featured in the book encompass early naturalists William Bartram and Alexander von Humboldt; inquisitive aristocrats Charles Waterton and Prince Maximilian of Wied; professional collectors David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend and John Richardson; and last field naturalists Henry Walter Bates and John Wesley Powell. All faced great adventures and hardship, as they undertook their groundbreaking work.

Eleven-year-old Tippys uncle and his boyfriend turn up in her small New Zealand town to look after her when his mother is away over Christmas, but when her schoolteacher is found dead and her best friend has a near-fatal accident, the trio turns detective, dubbing themselves The Nancys, and launching a chaotic, hilarious investigation.Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very quiet part of New Zealand the town her Uncle Pike escaped as a teenager, the moment he got a chance. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum is on a Christmas cruise.Tippy cant get enough of her uncles old Nancy Drew books. She wants to be Nancy and is desperate to solve a real mystery. So, when her teachers body is found beside Riverstones only traffic light, it looks like Tippys moment has arrived. She and her minders form The Nancys, a secret detective club. But what starts as a bonding and sightseeing adventure quickly morphs into something far more dangerous. A wrongful arrest, a close call with the murderer, and an intervention from Tippys mum all conspire against The Nancys. But regardless of their own safety, and despite the constant distraction of questionable fashion choices in the town that style forgot, The Nancys know only they can stop the killer from striking again. Whatever the costGripping, glorious and glittering with suspense, The Nancys is also a heartwarming, hilarious novel for anyone whos ever felt like they were on the outside, looking in, with a simmering mystery at its heart and characters you will never forget.***WINNER of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel***

Do you feel equally uncomfortable with closed-minded skepticism and closed-minded Christianity?If so, then The Myth of Certainty is the book for you. Daniel Taylor suggests a path to committed faith that is both consistent with the tradition of Christian orthodoxy and sensitive to the pluralism, relativism and complexity of our time.Taylor makes the case for the reflective, questioning Christian with both incisive analysis and lively storytelling. His brief fictional interludes provide an alternative way to explore key issues of belief and vividly depict the real-life dilemmas Christians often face.Taylor affirms a call to throw off the paralysis of uncertainty and to risk commitment to God without forfeiting the God-given gift of an inquiring mind. Throughout he demonstrates clearly how much the world and the church need people--maybe people like you--who are willing to ask tough questions.

The universe was supposed to be all there was - the whole of existence. For centuries the size of the universe and whether or not it is finite, fascinated scientists and philosophers.But however big the universe may be, there being only one gave astronomers and cosmologists a headache. Existence as we know it is contingent on so many constants in nature which, if altered only slightly, would make life impossible. This seems so unlikely to happen by chance. What if, instead, there is in fact a vast range of different universes, with many variants of the universal contents, making ours just one of many that happens to be viable for life?In this illuminating exploration, Brian Clegg delves into the endless possibilities of the multiverse. Investigating questions of expanding, parallel and communicating universes, this accessible guide takes the reader into one of the weirdest and most exciting areas of modern physics and cosmology.

Hes searching the city. Shes dangling in plain sight.In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

T is the new summer hire at Cafarelli & Sons, an iconic New York butcher, but life in a messy cutting room isnt glamorous. No-nonsense boss Paula tries to keep everyone in line, but the business is struggling: when the season ends, someones for the chop.With the American dream of a better life hanging in the balance, T and her colleagues turned competitors sweat for their jobs. Alliances form, romance sparks, and loyalties shift. But how far will they go to secure their future?The Meat King! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights carves into the dark underbelly of Americas anti-immigration policies and the brutal sacrifices that drive the pursuit of prosperity. Winner of the 2024 Papatango New Writing Prize, Hannah Dorans fierce and blisteringly funny debut play is premiered at Park Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Papatangos Artistic Director, George Turvey.

Manchester United is acknowledged as the biggest club in the world with the largest number of fans, one of the best known stadiums in Old Trafford, and a roster of legendary players that includes four of the greatest of all time in George Best, Sir Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Cristiano Ronaldo. It also had the greatest British manager of all time in Sir Alex Ferguson whose tally of 38 trophies included 13 Premier League titles and two Champions League crowns.This fully-illustrated A to Z includes all the great players from Duncan Edwards and the Busby Babes through to Ryan Giggs, the clubs longest serving player, and Wayne Rooney, the all-time leading scorer and the only player to have scored 250 goals for the Reds. The book also recalls the tragedy of the Munich air disaster in which 23 people lost their lives including eight first team players and the triumphs of the clubs first European Cup win at Wembley in 1968 and the Treble of 1999 in which they won the Premier League, the FA Cup and the Champions League.

Retired police detective inspector Thomas Maitland has rented a house in Cornwall; hes going to paint his way to recovery from the experiences of the spring. A local woman with an intriguingly expensive collection of modern art wants to put on a show of his work. But Maitlands next door neighbour, also his landlord, is unsettling, and when he finds his benefactor dead at the bottom of her garden, Thomas Maitland feels death casting its net over him again.

A pitch-black, Dexter-like comic thriller in which a Tokyo paparazzo murders in order to generate the photos his magazines readership ghoulishly demands. A razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime for fans of Bella Mackies How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan Braithwaites My Sister, The Serial Killer. Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly magazine in Tokyo. He achieved fame by taking a photograph of a boy who drowned in the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, who he could have saved had he not been more concerned with getting the right light and composition for his shot.Four years later, he has failed to repeat that success and, facing irrelevancy (and, worse, redundancy), he decides to turn serial killer to generate his own attention-grabbing pictures for which hes inevitably always first on the scene. His magazine then publishes the pictures, causing a sensation in a society where murder is almost unheard of, and tripling its sales figures.Hoping to impress his colleague Hayashis estranged wife Makoto, who he is stalking after a short affair (though she clearly sees things a little differently), Kato murders only men and women with the same name as her. Inevitably the police are suspicious of him, but can find no evidence as he is meticulous in his planning and execution. Katos editor is also suspicious, but is willing to ignore the evidence in front of him as sales boom.A pitch-dark satire on our ghoulish obsession with true crime and our fascination with morally repellent serial killers (especially if theyre good-looking and charismatic), The Makoto Murders asks plenty of uncomfortable questions of the reader while never forgetting its first and foremost a page-turning thriller.

Raised in a Yorkshire coal-mining town, Jeremy Granthams iconoclastic investment career was launched into the stratosphere by a few simple ideas: buy cheap, watch for bubbles, and stick to your guns when you know youre right.Grantham created one of the first index funds in the 1970s, pioneered quantitative investment in the 1980s, and embraced emerging markets before other firms saw their potential. He became famous when he accurately predicted and sidestepped a series of bubbles, and his firm skyrocketed to a peak of $155 billion in assets under management. But as his wealth grew, so did his concerns about the deficiencies of capitalism and the unfolding climate crisis. He decided - at the top of his game - to donate nearly all his wealth to environmental protection.With wit thats as cutting against himself as his critics, Grantham reveals how hunting for bargains requires understanding the inefficiencies of the market and the human behaviour that drives it. Ultimately, Grantham offers a deeply human, often heretical and quietly profound lens on investing today.

Have you ever wondered how magical it would be if you could really communicate with animals? Charlie reluctantly goes to stay with some old family friends he has never met in rural Kenya, while his mother is seriously ill. He gradually discovers that a bronze wrist band, given to him by his grandfather, allows him to communicate with animals in the most extraordinary way. Together with a new friend Lily, who has a passion for wildlife, they find that some of the last remaining rainforest in the country, and the animals that live there, are in great danger from greedy and corrupt neighbours. After meeting up with Marian, another amazing young person, they learn of even greater powers that they might be able to use to save everything they love and value.

Lovecraftian horror meets the wildly inventive mind of Shirley Jackson award-winning author Nathan Ballingrud, in this cosmic horror sequel to Crypt of the Moon Spider, perfect for fans of T. KingfisherThere are two halves of Charlie Duchamp. One is a brain in a jar, stranded on Jupiters jungle moon, Io, who just wants to go home. The other is hanging on the wall of Barrowfield Home on Earths own moon, host to the eggs of the Moon Spider and filled with a murderous rage.On Io, deep in the flooded remains of a crashed cathedral ship, lives a giant centipede called The Bishop, who has taken control of the drowned astronauts inside. Both Charlies converge here, stalking each other in the haunted ruins, while a new Moon Spider prepares to hatch.

County Wicklows landscape is dotted with pre-Christian sites Baltinglass is known as the Hillfort Capital of Ireland. Saint Patrick landed here in 432 AD and the county also boasts ecclesiastical sites, the most impressive being Glendalough. Following the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169-70, Normans occupied the lowlands, but native Irish inhabited the uplands, leading to conflict throughout the Middle Ages. Wicklow became the last county to be shired in 1606. However, Wicklow witnessed more violence through the seventeenth century and it was only after 1700 that the elite felt safe enough to build great houses such as Powerscourt and Russborough. Wicklow was in turmoil during the 1798 rebellion. Economic recovery was halted by the tragedy of Famine. Later in the nineteenth century, the Parnells led the Home Rule movement, the Land League and the Ladies Land League. The twentieth century saw war, revolution and hardship before better times arrived after 1960. This rich history is all covered in this accessible little book.

From prehistory to present times, Nottinghamshire has been shaped by Romans, marauding Danes, Norman barons, rebel armies, radicals and industrialists. The medieval wool trade was superseded by coal and textiles, while John Players tobacco, Raleigh bicycles and Boots pharmaceuticals have also played their part in the regions economy. The county boasts Sherwood Forest, monastic houses, a medieval dance of death, castles, workhouses and pumping stations, as well as its industrial heritage. Robin Hood and his merry men, the mad, bad and dangerous to know poet Lord Byron, the Pilgrim Fathers and D.H. Lawrence are all part of Nottinghamshires unique legacy. It is a place where freedom of speech and the right to vote have been fought for across the centuries; where innovation and technology helped to forge the modern world; and where people come to explore a legendary past.

The brutal clearances which changed the face of much of rural Scotland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are most often associated with the Highlands. However, one of the most dramatic conflicts between tenant and landowner took place on the small Orcadian island of Rousay. When members of the Royal Commission tasked with assessing the conditions of tenant crofters arrived there, the islands owner, General William Frederick Traill-Burroughs, threatened to evict any islander who gave evidence. As tension mounted, a gunboat arrived to keep the peace, and it was only the belated passing of the Crofters Act of 1886 and a special Act of Parliament directed specifically against the general that saved the islands. This is the dramatic story of these events. At the end of it, Burroughs, once lauded as a national hero who had seen military action in Crimea and India, emerges as a much more complex and human figure that history has previously painted him.