For
anyone who’s ever read and enjoyed Shirley Jackson’s work, this book is a
treasure. It contains previously unpublished essays, short stories, musings,
and even drawings by the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We
Have Always Lived in the Castle.
The stories are quintessential Jackson:
eerie, poignant, sometimes funny, always memorable, and each is very different
from the next. Jackson writes about her kids, her husband, her house, and the
mundane in a way that’s charming and relatable.
Her stories touch on subjects
from distrust to marital harmony (sometimes these topics are two sides of the
same coin!) to the supernatural to the game of bridge. She was a truly gifted
and extremely skilled writer—how thrilling to be able to read these pieces.
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings.
Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection…
This
book is a collection of Arabian folk tales, stories that have been told for
centuries. It hooked me from the start.
It’s told as a story within a story,
and it starts out as the doomed Scheherazade’s ruse to keep a ruthless tyrant
from marrying and then killing the women of his kingdom (including her). Every
night she builds on the previous night’s story by spinning a different tale of
intrigue and excitement, of men and women, children and adults, beggars and
royalty, and as the king is drawn into her world, so are we.
Scheherazade
is witty and wise, and her stories feature characters, especially women, who are
equally cunning and clever, touching on subjects that range from misogyny to
love to revenge. This is a must-read.
I’ve read several of Lucy Foley’s books, and this
one is excellent. She’s a master of the locked room mystery.
This story has all the earmarks of a good, twisty
tale: a group of friends with latent and simmering resentments and secrets, a
magnificent estate deep in the forested hills of Scotland, a blizzard that has
everyone on edge, a groundskeeper with a dark past, and some bizarre strangers
thrown into the mix.
This is the type of story I gravitate toward—as
backstories are revealed, the tension ramps up until there’s an explosion no
one could stop. It’s a whodunit with a twist at the end that I didn’t see
coming.
EVERYONE'S INVITED.
EVERYONE'S A SUSPECT.
AND EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT IT.
'Ripping, riveting' A. J. Finn 'Clever, twisty and sleek' Daily Mail 'Unputdownable' John Boyne 'Foley is superb' The Times 'Chilling' Adele Parks 'Terrific, riveting' Dinah Jefferies
In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year.
The beautiful one The golden couple The volatile one The new parents The quiet one The city boy The outsider
Two years have passed since Ruth Hanover
vanished without a trace, leaving behind her husband, William, and their
daughter, Sarah. William and Sarah have never stopped hoping that Ruth will
return, but their hopes are beginning to fade.
Sarah, an intelligent and curious young woman,
has questions her father refuses to answer. Why is he conducting business with
a mysterious stranger in the middle of the night? What is at the root of the
sudden increase in his income?
When the time comes for Sarah to face her
father’s secrets and discover why her mother never came home that December day
in 1712, what she learns will shock her tiny community on the New Jersey cape
and leave her fighting for her life.
