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Dicken's short story features a railway Signal-man who is haunted by a ghostly spectre that visits him each time prior to a tragic event. This is a classic ghost story that has even won favour by Doctor Who.

Well known for his short stories, critically acclaimed author Ron Carlson has been featured in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories. Carlson has also won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Here he captivates audiences with a compelling novel no listener will soon forget.

Brought to you by Penguin. One night. One fateful choice. A constellation of lives changed forever. On a summer night in 1985, the lives of three teenagers are shattered by a horrific car crash in which a young woman is killed next to the sprawling oak tree that marks the perimeter of 18...

A group of entrepreneurs brings roaring back to life a defunct turbine factory and the town around it, promising a return to the days of dignity, jobs and the good life and bright future that a manufacturing center can dispense to a small town. But is a return to the days of plenty possible? And what of the changed relationships between lovers, and within families, that have transpired in the years since that earlier time? Perišić takes us there, into the past and into the future, and watches with a bemused sad smile as the inevitable wreaks havoc with the possible. 

Sonja's over 40, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won't let her change gear. And her sister won't return her calls.

"The Signal-Man" is a first-person horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains.

NATIONAL BEST SELLER From the beloved author of Inheritance: "a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings) Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever. A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year A...

We are the North. With ground-breaking new authors, a thriving independent publishing scene and vibrant grass-roots networks, the North is driving a revolution in new literature. This anthology showcases the best of its talent, from every corner of the region and across all its vibrant genres. Some contributors are well-known established names, others are newcomers - all of them are part of the new northern writing scene.

Dein Freund stirbt, und du musst dabei zusehen! Eine grausame Mordserie erschüttert Berlin – das neueste Opfer, ein Mann, wird zerstückelt in einem Müllcontainer gefunden. Das ist selbst für die abgebrühte Kommissarin Lepper nur schwer zu ertragen. Die einzige Spur auf den Täter, ein weißer Lieferwagen, ist nicht mehr als die Nadel im Heuhaufen. Die Freunde Lev und Thomas berührt die Mordserie wenig: Der eine betreibt einen Handyshop, der andere stiehlt routiniert jungen Frauen, die er datet, die Handys, um sie zu Geld zu machen.