Basil: 239 books

The rules of a duel between gentlemen are quite different from the rules of war between nations. Is it because gentlemen do not fight wars or is it that men in war cease to be gentlemen?

King began writing in 1900 after he was forced to retire from the clergy due to loss of eyesight and thyroid disease. His anonymously published novel The Inner Shrine, about a French Irish girl whose husband is killed in a duel, became very popular when published in 1909. King subsequently published...

A compendium of interviews and poetry examining paths of recovery for those affected by traumatic experiences, be they scars of war, loss, addiction, illness, or other tragic events. Features over 100 examples of subjective inner-wounding battles with which people have dealt.

Artist Aristide Smedhurst lives in a small cottage in Dorset. Until recently he has lived a contented life, but the strange voices, heavy footsteps, ghostly tappings and ghastly faces at the window have changed him. He feels his sanity is unravelling fast, and, worst of all, he fears his fiancée...

Gus Robinson is washed up on Spanish Cay in the Bahamas after his sloop sinks and is taken in by a lovely widow. It isn't long before the widow, Clare Loomis, realizes that the shipwrecked sailor is the perfect candidate to carry out the murder of the one person standing between her and an inherited...

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Extrait : "Diverses circonstances concoururent à me donner de très bonne heure ce qu'on appelle « le goût de la mer ». En premier lieu, ma mère me mit au monde au bruit d"une tempête. Telle était la violence du vent, la pluie battait les murailles et le toit avec une telle force, qu'on se préparait...

In sending this book to press I have only two remarks to make by way of preface.

Brad Stone could not escape the image of his first wife’s mangled body in the opening days of the invasion. Now he cannot escape the image of seeing her alive two years later, and in the company of General Zhang. Youngmi has physically recovered from the attempt on her and General Zhang’s lives,...

God forgives when we ask sincerely. Men, not so much. Self, even less. And the Dead....never. Pastor Mike loves his family, and loves his flock. Life is good, but to get there he had to traverse a trail of blood. The faces that haunt his nightmares are no longer just specters, and a long thought dead enemy is about to unleash a very real hell.

They should've let him go. They should've let him retire in peace. They should've left his woman out of it. Kharzai Ghiassi has served the US Government his entire adult life. The best infiltration agent they've ever had. Death is not just his business, death is his life. He's gone off the...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.