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Her prose style tackles these questions in spare and simple language, devoid of drama and, it would seem, ambiguity, and in that sense, she avoids echoing the richness of both Angela Carter and John Fowles, even as she appears to be paying her tribute to both of them. This is a simple yet clever tale, gently satirising literary ambition as it explores the darker sources of inspiration, and told with all the supernatural horror of the best Hammer stories..

A dark, compelling novel with strong themes of paranoia and strange eroticism throughout. The daffodils that bordered the driveway held their golden heads still. Later, a servant would perhaps bring them drinks in the drawing room, and Archie would lounge back in the velvet wing chair by the fire as he told her all about his day at work. As she waited she could hear, from the nursery, the baby crying again.

Archie had come into her life over a year ago. They had met by chance. A middle-aged man had sat down at an adjoining table, in a quick agile movement, as if on impulse. It was this apparent intuitiveness that had at first attracted her to him. She had looked up at him but he had not smiled. He had just stared at her with relentless eyes, not looking at her, but straight through to her thoughts.

At that moment, she felt she could never be anywhere else but here again. She did not add that she had recently lost them both. She tried to hold on to the details of his face but could only decipher a certain ponderousness that weighed down his symmetrical open features and clouded his dark blue eyes.

How old are you? Perhaps in one of the dress shops. Was he flirting with her? His language sounded flirtatious but he appeared serious. She noticed his nails had been bitten down to the quick and the fingertips were tobacco stained. He looked at her. Inexplicably, she knew she had to leave. Where had that brief, arbitrary exchange of words come from?

As if their thoughts had been meeting in the air between them. She felt perturbed, not quite frightened. She carefully placed her half-drunken coffee cup down on the checked tablecloth, then turned round in her seat for her wide brimmed, battered felt hat that was balancing precariously on the back of her chair.

Standing, she picked up her book from the table. Without catching his eye, she started to weave in and out of the outdoor tables back onto the pavement. As she walked around the corner and out of sight, she felt surprised by a sense of loss. How could she be experiencing such a sensation of disappointment over a stranger?

A small ivory card fell out of her book and fluttered onto the pavement. Violet picked it up to see it was a business card, printed in black ornate calligraphy, for a second-hand bookshop called Looking Glass. A Lord Archie Murray was the proprietor. He must have slipped the card inside the pages of her book when her back had been turned. It was just another man showing interest in her; it meant nothing, after all.

On her way back to the railway station, she decided to take a short cut through an arcade. There, halfway down the arcade, was a bookshop and she knew what its name would be before she could read the clear lettering on its frontage.

But what made her decide to go in? She was intrigued by his interest in her. Should that have warned her off, rather than piqued her curiosity? They all drew her to the door and placed her leather-gloved hand on the dull brass door handle. Just another unconscious decision unconcerned with its irrevocable consequences, a choice that would determine the rest of her life.

The room was dimly lit. The bookshop was divided by many rows of towering bookcases. Every shelf was laden with old books. Piles of ancient leather-bound books were also heaped up on the floor. A moss-green carpet, faded and worn, was just visible beneath the clutter. There was the overarching smell of dry must. A young man was sitting on a stool in the corner at the far end of the bookshop, reading a book. He looked a few years older than her. His eyes were very dark and his skin had a pale lustre, like mother-of-pearl.

His golden hair was curled close to his head like a cherub. He glanced up as she came in. Unsure of her next step, she decided to browse the shelves. The books were arranged miscellaneously: Botanical, Anatomical and Ornithological all propped up next to each other. She took out a book at random and opened it up at an anatomical drawing of a naked woman. Etched in fine ink-black lines, the bo dy had been stripped of skin.

The voice came from just over her shoulder. It was the low direct voice of the shop assistant. She turned to find him standing right behind her. There was a mischievous, indecent, wild look to him. She took a step back. You can see the structure but it tells you nothing about how their scales flash silver in the sun. Or how they move and jump, poised in the air like apostrophes.

A petulant look crossed his face at her refusal to engage in his paradoxical conversation. Would you like to leave a message for him? What was it? It was sweet and flowery like honey. He seemed too vivid, like all his desires were on display. But when he had been reading, he had seemed so intact, as if he had given himself over to the interior world of the book.

The mischievousness had left him. Rose is just the name he called me. I can see by your face you have no idea. Rose is the name of his late wife. A surge of protectiveness and empathy welled up inside her; Archie had suffered such pain and survived. It explained everything, she thought, why she had felt a vague unease in his presence. He was protecting his grief, as if it were a tender bloom that needed to flower fully before he could finally pick it and appreciate its perfume and the sensuous beauty of its silky white petals.

Her heart went out to him. She would be patient. Already she was imagining how their love would grow, how they would have a different kind of bond together, indissoluble and strong. The shop assistant was looking at her. It was more to do with who she was. He was looking at Violet as if she were an object. He sounded practised. Did Archie have many women, since the death of his wife, visiting his bookshop, she wondered?

But when she got home to Camberwell, she thought of her beloved parents who were no longer with her, and she wished she did not feel so alone.

Returning to the bookshop the following day had felt like taking the same step all over again. She knew that returning had involved another self-defining act but after that she had lost all ability to choose.

A few days later, she and Archie visited an art gallery together. The paintings of contemporary significant figures in science, politics and the arts looked down at them. She caught her reflection in the glass of one of the portraits, her face superimposed onto the heavy bearded face of Edward Elgar.

Soon, though, Josie manages to make friendds with the most popular girl in the sixth grade, Vanessa. When Vanessa eventually invites Josie back to her house to hang out, Hosie doesn’t question it. Not even when Vanessa takes her into the woods, and down an old dirt road, toward the very house Grandma Jeannie had warned her about.

As Josie gets caught up in her illicit friendship with Vanessa, Annie is caught in the crossfire. What follows is a chilling tale of dark magic, friendship, and some very creepy dolls. The only thing that brings Alfred Zector joy is collecting books. And so he sets out on a mission to collect every last one, until his home on the hill is stretched at the seams with books big and small.

But what happens when the rest of the townspeople have nothing left to read? We are however totally convinced that upon trying it you’ll like it, maybe love it to bits and we know it’ll be easy for you to use it, even if you’ve never used such software before. Bottom line, if you’re looking for the best book collection software to suit you and your book collection, All My Books deserves your attention.

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Rose is the name of his late wife. A surge of protectiveness and empathy welled up inside her; Archie had suffered such pain and survived. It explained everything, she thought, why she had felt a vague unease in his presence. He was protecting his grief, as if it were a tender bloom that needed to flower fully before he could finally pick it and appreciate its perfume and the sensuous beauty of its silky white petals.

Her heart went out to him. She would be patient. Already she was imagining how their love would grow, how they would have a different kind of bond together, indissoluble and strong.

The shop assistant was looking at her. It was more to do with who she was. He was looking at Violet as if she were an object. He sounded practised. Did Archie have many women, since the death of his wife, visiting his bookshop, she wondered? But when she got home to Camberwell, she thought of her beloved parents who were no longer with her, and she wished she did not feel so alone. Returning to the bookshop the following day had felt like taking the same step all over again.

She knew that returning had involved another self-defining act but after that she had lost all ability to choose. A few days later, she and Archie visited an art gallery together. The paintings of contemporary significant figures in science, politics and the arts looked down at them. She caught her reflection in the glass of one of the portraits, her face superimposed onto the heavy bearded face of Edward Elgar.

She could make out the oval shape of her face, her large dark eyes, the narrow stubborn chin. She looked round to see Archie smiling at her, as if knowing what she was doing. She could see in his eyes that he liked what he saw. Their romance had been like a fairy tale. She felt that if only she could work out which fairy tale it was, it would somehow help her.

Their attraction operated in silence. All that existed was his desire for her. She felt consumed and overwhelmed. This feeling was new, frightening and unnatural. All she could think about was him. He attended to her every need, and anticipated her wishes as if he could read her mind. It was enchanting. A month after their first meeting he asked her to marry him; it had seemed inevitable. She had allowed him to enter her life, embraced him, without question.

And he had somehow understood her receptiveness, picked up on it by silent instinct. His need of her and her response had been a perfect match. However, she sensed an inherent danger in this equivalence, in the hidden closeness of their intimacy and understanding.

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So Viviani decides to play a harmless little prank, roping her older brothers and best friend Eva to help out. But what begins as a joke quickly gets out of hand, and soon Viviani and her friends have to solve two big mysteries: Is the Library truly haunted? And what happened to the expensive new stamp collection? It’s up to Viviani, Eva, and Merit reluctantly to find out.

But when her mother loses her job in the city and they’re forced to relocate along with Josie’s sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn’t like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules: Don’t bring any dolls into the house. And never, ever go near the house in the woods behind their yard. Soon, though, Josie manages to make friendds with the most popular girl in the sixth grade, Vanessa.

When Vanessa eventually invites Josie back to her house to hang out, Hosie doesn’t question it. Not even when Vanessa takes her into the woods, and down an old dirt road, toward the very house Grandma Jeannie had warned her about. As Josie gets caught up in her illicit friendship with Vanessa, Annie is caught in the crossfire. What follows is a chilling tale of dark magic, friendship, and some very creepy dolls. The only thing that brings Alfred Zector joy is collecting books.

And so he sets out on a mission to collect every last one, until his home on the hill is stretched at the seams with books big and small. But what happens when the rest of the townspeople have nothing left to read? In this clever rhyming story, Alfred Zector discovers what it means to find true joy in a good book.

Some people collect coins. Some people collect art. And Jerome? Jerome collected words. In this extraordinary new tale from Peter H. Reynolds, Jerome discovers the magic of the words all around him — short and sweet words, two-syllable treats, and multisyllable words that sound like little songs. Words that connect, transform, and empower. From the creator of The Dot and Happy Dreamer comes a celebration of finding your own words — and the impact you can have when you share them with the world.

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The shop assistant was looking at her. It was more to do with who she was. He was looking at Violet as if she were an object. He sounded practised. Did Archie have many women, since the death of his wife, visiting his bookshop, she wondered? But when she got home to Camberwell, she thought of her beloved parents who were no longer with her, and she wished she did not feel so alone. Returning to the bookshop the following day had felt like taking the same step all over again.

She knew that returning had involved another self-defining act but after that she had lost all ability to choose. A few days later, she and Archie visited an art gallery together. The paintings of contemporary significant figures in science, politics and the arts looked down at them.

She caught her reflection in the glass of one of the portraits, her face superimposed onto the heavy bearded face of Edward Elgar.

She could make out the oval shape of her face, her large dark eyes, the narrow stubborn chin. She looked round to see Archie smiling at her, as if knowing what she was doing. She could see in his eyes that he liked what he saw.

Their romance had been like a fairy tale. She felt that if only she could work out which fairy tale it was, it would somehow help her. Their attraction operated in silence. All that existed was his desire for her. She felt consumed and overwhelmed. This feeling was new, frightening and unnatural. All she could think about was him.

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She had allowed him to enter her life, embraced him, without question. And he had somehow understood her receptiveness, picked up on it by silent instinct. His need of her and her response had been a perfect match.

However, she sensed an inherent danger in this equivalence, in the hidden closeness of their intimacy and understanding. That what lay underneath was real, but the equally attractive surface was an illusion like a mirage of water on desert sand. She had been like a child entering a world full of wonder and awe and excitement. It was an image that presented itself to her, of beauty and security. She had not asked herself why this imagery should have such power over her. He too had lost his parents and had inherited, a couple of years ago, a small country estate just a few miles outside London.

He never spoke of his dead wife and she never asked him about her. Violet and Archie were married, without guests, at a registry office. As Josie gets caught up in her illicit friendship with Vanessa, Annie is caught in the crossfire. What follows is a chilling tale of dark magic, friendship, and some very creepy dolls. The only thing that brings Alfred Zector joy is collecting books. And so he sets out on a mission to collect every last one, until his home on the hill is stretched at the seams with books big and small.

But what happens when the rest of the townspeople have nothing left to read? In this clever rhyming story, Alfred Zector discovers what it means to find true joy in a good book. Some people collect coins. Some people collect art.

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A month after their first meeting he asked her to marry him; it had seemed inevitable. She had allowed him to enter her life, embraced him, without question. And he had somehow understood her receptiveness, picked up on it by silent instinct. His need of her and her response had been a perfect match. However, she sensed an inherent danger in this equivalence, in the hidden closeness of their intimacy and understanding. That what lay underneath was real, but the equally attractive surface was an illusion like a mirage of water on desert sand.

She had been like a child entering a world full of wonder and awe and excitement. It was an image that presented itself to her, of beauty and security.

She had not asked herself why this imagery should have such power over her. He too had lost his parents and had inherited, a couple of years ago, a small country estate just a few miles outside London. He never spoke of his dead wife and she never asked him about her.

Violet and Archie were married, without guests, at a registry office. The morning after their wedding night, she woke up in his ancestral home, to see him lying next to her in their marriage bed, rumpled, unshaven and full of need. She bent over him and kissed him full on the mouth, bringing her hand down over his body, back and forth, high and low. He groaned and turned over and without opening his eyes reached for her. She had never known such yearning and it was as if he had woken her up from slumber like Sleeping Beauty.

His elusive nature offered up promises to her that could never be fulfilled, except for that brief orgasmic moment when everything finally did make sense. He had a voice that lulled her, sustained her, with its musical indifference to anything but his own wishes and desires. She knew as lady of the house it was not where she belonged, but, when the cook and other servants were elsewhere, it was to where she always gravitated. It was a big room with a large table in the centre and a wooden dresser standing behind.

Copper saucepans hung on the white-painted walls. She looked around at all the physical things and suddenly felt scared. Scared at the contrast between her emotions and all these things.

Her emotions seemed incoherent but the physical reality of the world around her felt compact and self-contained. She picked up a plate from the dresser and deliberately let it fall from her fingers onto the tiled floor. She heard the sound of the crack, saw it break into three pieces. It was one of the ancestral plates, precious, with the crest of a lion. Was it a coincidence that she had broken one of his precious ancestral plates or was it because it was one of the precious ancestral plates that she had deliberately let i t slip from her fingers?

She bent down and picked up the pieces and wrapped them in newspaper and carefully placed them in the sink. She wondered if Archie would notice if a plate had gone missing. Or if he would be cross if she told him the truth. Material possessions meant a great deal to him. She had learnt during the short time they had been married how much physical things mattered to him.

And this plate would symbolise the most practical and simplest of losses. But she loved him, always struggled with her love for him. For if there was one defining quality about her, it was her loyalty. Later that evening, she took a luxurious bath. As she listened to some music on the gramophone she told herself how lucky she was to have her husband, her baby and this wonderful house, before retiring to bed. She pretended to be asleep, and a few moments later she could hear his deep unconscious breathing.

Many years later, looking back, she was amazed at the capacity we have for not wanting to confront the truth. As Josie gets caught up in her illicit friendship with Vanessa, Annie is caught in the crossfire. What follows is a chilling tale of dark magic, friendship, and some very creepy dolls. The only thing that brings Alfred Zector joy is collecting books. And so he sets out on a mission to collect every last one, until his home on the hill is stretched at the seams with books big and small.

But what happens when the rest of the townspeople have nothing left to read? In this clever rhyming story, Alfred Zector discovers what it means to find true joy in a good book.

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At least you can always refrain from reading me, and in that are more fortunate than I who, following the dictates of a too exigent publisher, have no choice but to write. The draw ings were made, the plates were ready; and the only thing needed to complete the issue was a long and unprofitable text. Well, then here 1t is! But you will be disappointed if you expect to find in it one of those clever portraits to which your favorite authors have accustomed you.

If what you are seeking is an original and telling sketch of the bouquz’m’ste, the second-hand-book addict, then you need go no further. Pause here, and, following the modest advice of certain almanacs: See illustration on opposite page. The collector of books is a type which we would do well to define, since everything points to his disappearance in the very near future. The printed book has existed at the most for some four hundred years, yet books are already accumulating in some countries in a manner that threatens the very equilibrium of the globe.

Civilization has reached the most unexpected of its ages, the age of paper. Now that everyone writes books, no one Shows any particular eager ness to buy them. Besides, our young authors are well onthe way to building up whole libraries for themselves out of their own works.

They need only be left to their own devices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

Find more at www. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Inexplicably, she knew she had to leave. Where had that brief, arbitrary exchange of words come from?

As if their thoughts had been meeting in the air between them. She felt perturbed, not quite frightened. She carefully placed her half-drunken coffee cup down on the checked tablecloth, then turned round in her seat for her wide brimmed, battered felt hat that was balancing precariously on the back of her chair.

Standing, she picked up her book from the table. Without catching his eye, she started to weave in and out of the outdoor tables back onto the pavement. As she walked around the corner and out of sight, she felt surprised by a sense of loss. How could she be experiencing such a sensation of disappointment over a stranger? A small ivory card fell out of her book and fluttered onto the pavement.

Violet picked it up to see it was a business card, printed in black ornate calligraphy, for a second-hand bookshop called Looking Glass. A Lord Archie Murray was the proprietor. He must have slipped the card inside the pages of her book when her back had been turned. It was just another man showing interest in her; it meant nothing, after all. On her way back to the railway station, she decided to take a short cut through an arcade. There, halfway down the arcade, was a bookshop and she knew what its name would be before she could read the clear lettering on its frontage.

But what made her decide to go in? She was intrigued by his interest in her. Should that have warned her off, rather than piqued her curiosity?

They all drew her to the door and placed her leather-gloved hand on the dull brass door handle. Just another unconscious decision unconcerned with its irrevocable consequences, a choice that would determine the rest of her life.

The room was dimly lit. The bookshop was divided by many rows of towering bookcases. Every shelf was laden with old books. Piles of ancient leather-bound books were also heaped up on the floor. A moss-green carpet, faded and worn, was just visible beneath the clutter.

There was the overarching smell of dry must. A young man was sitting on a stool in the corner at the far end of the bookshop, reading a book. He looked a few years older than her. His eyes were very dark and his skin had a pale lustre, like mother-of-pearl. His golden hair was curled close to his head like a cherub. He glanced up as she came in.

Unsure of her next step, she decided to browse the shelves. The books were arranged miscellaneously: Botanical, Anatomical and Ornithological all propped up next to each other. She took out a book at random and opened it up at an anatomical drawing of a naked woman. Etched in fine ink-black lines, the bo dy had been stripped of skin. The voice came from just over her shoulder. It was the low direct voice of the shop assistant.

She turned to find him standing right behind her. There was a mischievous, indecent, wild look to him.

She took a step back. You can see the structure but it tells you nothing about how their scales flash silver in the sun. Or how they move and jump, poised in the air like apostrophes.

A petulant look crossed his face at her refusal to engage in his paradoxical conversation. Would you like to leave a message for him? What was it?

It was sweet and flowery like honey. He seemed too vivid, like all his desires were on display. But when he had been reading, he had seemed so intact, as if he had given himself over to the interior world of the book.

The mischievousness had left him. Rose is just the name he called me. I can see by your face you have no idea. Rose is the name of his late wife. A surge of protectiveness and empathy welled up inside her; Archie had suffered such pain and survived. It’s up to Viviani, Eva, and Merit reluctantly to find out.

But when her mother loses her job in the city and they’re forced to relocate along with Josie’s sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn’t like the country that much.

Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules: Don’t bring any dolls into the house. And never, ever go near the house in the woods behind their yard. Soon, though, Josie manages to make friendds with the most popular girl in the sixth grade, Vanessa. When Vanessa eventually invites Josie back to her house to hang out, Hosie doesn’t question it.

Not even when Vanessa takes her into the woods, and down an old dirt road, toward the very house Grandma Jeannie had warned her about. As Josie gets caught up in her illicit friendship with Vanessa, Annie is caught in the crossfire. What follows is a chilling tale of dark magic, friendship, and some very creepy dolls.

The only thing that brings Alfred Zector joy is collecting books.

The collector of books is a type which we would do well to define, since everything points to his disappearance in the very near future. The printed book has existed at the most for some four hundred years, yet books are already accumulating in some countries in a manner that threatens the very equilibrium of the replace.me: Charles Nodier. The Book Collector Alice Thompson’s new novel is a Gothic story of book collecting, mutilation and madness. Violet is obsessed with the books of fairy tales her husband acquires, but her growing. Try our free service – convert any of your text to speech! More than 10 english voices!4/5(32). Claim the “The replace.me”. Email. I have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

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They need only be left to their own devices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Explore together: Save with group virtual tours. A middle-aged man had sat down at an adjoining table, in a quick agile movement, as if on impulse. It was this apparent intuitiveness that had at first attracted her to him. She had looked up at him but he had not smiled.

He had just stared at her with relentless eyes, not looking at her, but straight through to her thoughts. At that moment, she felt she could never be anywhere else but here again. She did not add that she had recently lost them both. She tried to hold on to the details of his face but could only decipher a certain ponderousness that weighed down his symmetrical open features and clouded his dark blue eyes.

How old are you? Perhaps in one of the dress shops. Was he flirting with her? His language sounded flirtatious but he appeared serious.

She noticed his nails had been bitten down to the quick and the fingertips were tobacco stained. He looked at her. Inexplicably, she knew she had to leave. Where had that brief, arbitrary exchange of words come from?

As if their thoughts had been meeting in the air between them. She felt perturbed, not quite frightened. She carefully placed her half-drunken coffee cup down on the checked tablecloth, then turned round in her seat for her wide brimmed, battered felt hat that was balancing precariously on the back of her chair. Standing, she picked up her book from the table.

Without catching his eye, she started to weave in and out of the outdoor tables back onto the pavement. As she walked around the corner and out of sight, she felt surprised by a sense of loss. How could she be experiencing such a sensation of disappointment over a stranger? A small ivory card fell out of her book and fluttered onto the pavement. Violet picked it up to see it was a business card, printed in black ornate calligraphy, for a second-hand bookshop called Looking Glass.

A Lord Archie Murray was the proprietor. He must have slipped the card inside the pages of her book when her back had been turned. It was just another man showing interest in her; it meant nothing, after all.

On her way back to the railway station, she decided to take a short cut through an arcade. There, halfway down the arcade, was a bookshop and she knew what its name would be before she could read the clear lettering on its frontage. But what made her decide to go in? She was intrigued by his interest in her. Should that have warned her off, rather than piqued her curiosity? They all drew her to the door and placed her leather-gloved hand on the dull brass door handle.

Just another unconscious decision unconcerned with its irrevocable consequences, a choice that would determine the rest of her life. The room was dimly lit. The bookshop was divided by many rows of towering bookcases. Every shelf was laden with old books. Piles of ancient leather-bound books were also heaped up on the floor. A moss-green carpet, faded and worn, was just visible beneath the clutter.

There was the overarching smell of dry must. A young man was sitting on a stool in the corner at the far end of the bookshop, reading a book.

He looked a few years older than her. His eyes were very dark and his skin had a pale lustre, like mother-of-pearl. His golden hair was curled close to his head like a cherub. He glanced up as she came in. Unsure of her next step, she decided to browse the shelves. The books were arranged miscellaneously: Botanical, Anatomical and Ornithological all propped up next to each other.

She took out a book at random and opened it up at an anatomical drawing of a naked woman. Etched in fine ink-black lines, the bo dy had been stripped of skin. The voice came from just over her shoulder. It was the low direct voice of the shop assistant. She turned to find him standing right behind her.

There was a mischievous, indecent, wild look to him. She took a step back.

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She took out a book at random and opened it up at an anatomical drawing of a naked woman. Etched in fine ink-black lines, the bo dy had been stripped of skin. The voice came from just over her shoulder.

It was the low direct voice of the shop assistant. She turned to find him standing right behind her. There was a mischievous, indecent, wild look to him. She took a step back. You can see the structure but it tells you nothing about how their scales flash silver in the sun. Or how they move and jump, poised in the air like apostrophes.

A petulant look crossed his face at her refusal to engage in his paradoxical conversation. Would you like to leave a message for him? What was it? It was sweet and flowery like honey. He seemed too vivid, like all his desires were on display.

But when he had been reading, he had seemed so intact, as if he had given himself over to the interior world of the book. The mischievousness had left him. Rose is just the name he called me. I can see by your face you have no idea. Rose is the name of his late wife.

A surge of protectiveness and empathy welled up inside her; Archie had suffered such pain and survived. It explained everything, she thought, why she had felt a vague unease in his presence. He was protecting his grief, as if it were a tender bloom that needed to flower fully before he could finally pick it and appreciate its perfume and the sensuous beauty of its silky white petals. Her heart went out to him.

She would be patient. Already she was imagining how their love would grow, how they would have a different kind of bond together, indissoluble and strong. The shop assistant was looking at her.

It was more to do with who she was. He was looking at Violet as if she were an object. He sounded practised. Did Archie have many women, since the death of his wife, visiting his bookshop, she wondered? But when she got home to Camberwell, she thought of her beloved parents who were no longer with her, and she wished she did not feel so alone. Returning to the bookshop the following day had felt like taking the same step all over again.

She knew that returning had involved another self-defining act but after that she had lost all ability to choose. A few days later, she and Archie visited an art gallery together. The paintings of contemporary significant figures in science, politics and the arts looked down at them.

She caught her reflection in the glass of one of the portraits, her face superimposed onto the heavy bearded face of Edward Elgar. She could make out the oval shape of her face, her large dark eyes, the narrow stubborn chin. She looked round to see Archie smiling at her, as if knowing what she was doing. She could see in his eyes that he liked what he saw. Their romance had been like a fairy tale. She felt that if only she could work out which fairy tale it was, it would somehow help her. Their attraction operated in silence.

All that existed was his desire for her. She felt consumed and overwhelmed. This feeling was new, frightening and unnatural. All she could think about was him. He attended to her every need, and anticipated her wishes as if he could read her mind. It was enchanting. A month after their first meeting he asked her to marry him; it had seemed inevitable. She had allowed him to enter her life, embraced him, without question.

And he had somehow understood her receptiveness, picked up on it by silent instinct. His need of her and her response had been a perfect match. However, she sensed an inherent danger in this equivalence, in the hidden closeness of their intimacy and understanding. Not even when Vanessa takes her into the woods, and down an old dirt road, toward the very house Grandma Jeannie had warned her about. As Josie gets caught up in her illicit friendship with Vanessa, Annie is caught in the crossfire.

What follows is a chilling tale of dark magic, friendship, and some very creepy dolls. The only thing that brings Alfred Zector joy is collecting books. And so he sets out on a mission to collect every last one, until his home on the hill is stretched at the seams with books big and small. But what happens when the rest of the townspeople have nothing left to read? In this clever rhyming story, Alfred Zector discovers what it means to find true joy in a good book.

Some people collect coins. Some people collect art. And Jerome?

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