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When a student makes a profit from selling a Great War medal, he learns far more about the war than he wanted to.A boy foolishly summons a dead businessman from the grave, and is drawn into an industrial dispute.Two maiden aunts return from the dead to chastise their nephew for wasting his talents, with disastrous results.A man's exhumation of his family history reveals a deadly secret.
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Enjoy these four great English ghost stories: an Earl's decision to build a theme park around his family mausoleum leads to a shocking discovery; a cheating academic, who can't choose between his wife and lover, is haunted by grief; a landlady's decision to invent a ghost for her pub sparks off a disastrous chain of events; and a young couple's ardour for social advancement puts their son in supernatural danger.
Farce meets satire in this comedy of science and politics, sex and religion, set in the UK. A top Home Office official dies suddenly on a train home, and his body is stolen from his own funeral by men in boiler suits. The outraged widow, rector and undertaker set off on a ruthless quest to retrieve the man's corpse. The three friends soon find themselves caught up in a complex web of bizarre, vicious and delusional plots. In the middle of the worst economic crisis the country has known, they knot these threads together - with terrible consequences for the Home Secretary's trousers and the whole Government. But they do get the body back. This is a tale of ambition, desire, delusion and chaos.
A priest and a republican vigneron are caught up in a ghostly drama in the South of France in 1885; two men discover a potent object in a Cambridge college as they investigate the death of a man in 1728; two brothers on leave from the Army in World War II have a strange encounter; the new chief executive of a city council discovers that the world is not as easily managed as he imagined; and a student struggling with Greek over a Cambridge summer is distracted by a girl in a graveyard.
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Enter the magical, colourful, poignant world of Bracken and Rebecca, Mandrake the tyrant, Boswell the Scribe, Hulver, Comfrey ... and all the other moles of Duncton Wood. Set deep in the English countryside this enchanting story tells of an ancient community losing its soul - but saved by courage and love.