Alison: 1980 books

Magic invites . . . Curses and blessing, sorcerous time travel, shape-shifters, hidden enchantment and corrupted blood. Magic demands . . . Saving those you love, courage, betrayal and fights against unspeakable forces. Magic promises . . . Last best hopes, reluctant...

Yolande DesPrez and her two younger sisters are the wards of a dark and remote guardian whom they must obey without question. Morrain DesPrez is a powerful man, controlling a trading and military empire, but he has never been a public figure and very few people know him. Since they became his responsibility,...

The psychological drama, The Door at the Top of the Stairs, tells of the trauma suffered by police detective Jesse Shaunessy, who is kidnapped and tortured, then thrown away by her department as damaged goods. Pulitzer nominated poet Harvey Stanbrough, who wrote about his own traumatic experiences...

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. In his enormous corpus of work he engaged with literature, history, historiography, politics, theology and ethics, while debating 'truth' and ethical solutions to life in the face of...

Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood...

Lizzie and her beautiful sister Ninna are forced to work in a huge Manor and on a steamship to support their family. They are caught up in several mysteries: The squire’s oldest son cannot leave the attic An old typewriter seems to move time and space A passenger hides in a secret...

Scent from Heaven begins the second trilogy and time has passed yet the arrowhead remains, buried beneath the Jasmine vine, until the spring rains thirty years later. Rodeo fever is the backdrop to the latest seductive tale of the fated Adams boys. Evan Jnr sets off on the trail of his ancestors....

Searra just wants to play her harp, and use her powers over the wind to turn away suitors she doesn't really care for. But the other witches on Crescent Island keep trying to drag her into an ancient feud. Now she must not only seek help from workers of the water, earth, and fire, but she must...

New from Alison Pace, the author of Pug Hill. After her divorce, Amy Dodge thought she?d finally write the next Great American Novel. Instead she?s written a bestselling children?s book series, Run, Carlie, Run! starring her adorable and spirited West Highland White terrier and a dashing (but...

For always and EVER, Molly Gumley has wanted to be on stage, has imagined and dreamed of life as an actor. That’s because Grand, her grandmother, filled Molly with colourful stories of theatre life, and with her faith in what she saw as Molly’s destiny. But as Molly enters high school, Grand is...

Grandpa takes care of the garden, kneads bread, and makes music on the piano. Everyone in Callie's family helps out around the house, now that Grandpa, who has Alzheimer's, lives with them. The family becomes Grandpa's "home team," and Callie loves spending time with them. As months go by,...

Equally Painful Consequences follows on from where Painful Consequences left off, the second collection of erotic spanking stories from Alison North chronicling various tales of painful erotic correction.

An erotic adventure inspired by fairy tales. Princess Elena has been raised to be the perfect bride. The Palace Guard has vowed to serve the King. But when they succumb to temptation, both their futures are put in jeopardy. This book is only suitable for adults. It contains many explicit sex scenes and may shock!

‘I’ve left you a list on my desk,’ Rick said . . . The house fell silent and I wandered into the study to collect my instructions. There was only one scrawled piece of paper on the desk so there was no mistaking the single command. It said: organize Christmas. Helen is finally finding...