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<b>The complete collection of <i>Sunday T</i><i>imes </i>bestselling author Elsie Silver's debut series, featuring bestsellers <i>Off to the Races</i>, <i>A Photo Finish</i>, <i>The Front Runner </i>and <i>A False Start</i>. This box set includes bonus chapters and special, limited edition cover art.</b><br/><br/> Before Chestnut Springs and Rose Hill, there was Gold Rush Ranch . . .<br/><br/> Welcome to Ruby Creek, where Vaughn and Cole Harding's family ranch, Gold Rush, is the centre of high stakes horse racing - and high stakes romance.<br/><br/> In <i>Off to the Races</i>, you'll see Vaughn reluctantly fall for his new ranch employee Billie. In <i>A Photo Finish,</i> you'll see soldier Cole return to Ruby Creek, only to run straight into old acquaintance Violet. In <i>The Front Runner</i>, you'll see the Harding family's nemesis Stefan grow closer to their friend and vet, Mira. In <i>A False Start</i>, you'll see Stefan's best friend Griffin become tempted by Stefan's younger sister, Nadia.<br/><br/><b>This beloved series features four interconnected standalone novels with special illustrated cover art.</b>

Katabasis (deluxe Limited Edition) [Bok / Inbunden]

Europe stares into the abyss.<br/><br/>Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions. Only one thing is certain: the elves will come again, and they will eat everyone.<br/><br/>Sometimes, only the darkest paths lead towards the light. Paths on which the righteous will not dare to tread . . .<br/><br/>And so, buried beneath the sacred splendour of the Celestial Palace, is the secret Chapel of the Holy Expediency. For its congregation of convicted monsters there are no sins that have not been committed, no lines that will not be crossed, and no mission that cannot be turned into a disastrous bloodbath.<br/><br/>Now the hapless Brother Diaz must somehow bind the worst of the worst to a higher cause: to put a thief on the throne of Troy, and unite the sundered church against the coming apocalypse.<br/><br/>When you're headed through hell, you need the devils on your side.

Save You [Bok / Häftad]

A chaotically violent and hauntingly beautiful novel from one of the greatest American novelists, Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy.<br/><br/>CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS<br/><br/>The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.<br/><br/>Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians - collecting scalps as their bloody trophies - they too are stalked as prey.<br/><br/>Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful, it is established as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.<br/><br/>Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.

The Holy Road [Bok / Häftad]

William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances of seeing a dead or dying body on the way home from the theatre were high. It was also a time of important scientific progress. Shakespeare kept pace with anatomical and medical advances, and he included the latest scientific discoveries in his work, from blood circulation to treatments for syphilis. He certainly didn't shy away from portraying the reality of death on stage, from the brutal to the mundane, and the spectacular to the silly. <br/><br/>Elizabethan London provides the backdrop for Death by Shakespeare, as Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die. Was death by snakebite as serene as Shakespeare makes out? Could lack of sleep have killed Lady Macbeth? Can you really murder someone by pouring poison in their ear? Kathryn investigates what actual events may have inspired Shakespeare, what the accepted scientific knowledge of the time was, and how Elizabethan audiences would have responded to these death scenes. Death by Shakespeare will tell you all this and more in a rollercoaster of Elizabethan carnage, poison, swordplay and bloodshed, with an occasional death by bear-mauling for good measure.