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Run for Home
1985: a man runs for his life ndash;wounded, exhausted, hunted remorselessly by a woman assassin known only as The Headhunter. 2001: sixteen-year-old Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain. She runs to win and she runs to forget. When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate, Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate. But then a more urgent case lands on her desk when Kerry's sister, Claire, is violently kidnapped. Headstrong, willful, and wary of the police, Kerry sets out on a frantic search for Claire. But her hunt takes her to a violent underworld, a sixteen-year-old murder and, finally, to secrets about her own past her mother hoped she'd never have to face. And all the time, for Claire, the clock is ticking ... 'A convincing portrayal of a violent underworld' Independent 'Fast-paced' Telegraph Magazine 'A rattling good plot ... it doesn't stop running until the final page by which time you will be breathless' Newcastle Upon Tyne Journal Fiction ISBN 0099465744 ISBN 9780099465744 www.randomhouse.co.uk pound;6.99
The Road to Hell
Murder, mystery and suspense in Houghton-le-Spring as DI Lorraine Hunt is back. 'The Road To Hell' gives insight and back story to established characters in the latest story in this series.
The Duchess Hunt
One of Amazon’s Best Romances for October 2021 New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath continues her Once Upon a Dukedom series with this lush love story of a duke who discovers what he desires in a wife may not be what he needs… Hugh Brinsley-Norton, the Duke of Kingsland, is in need of a duchess. However, restoring the dukedom—left in ruins by his father—to its former glory demands all his time, with little room for sentiment. He places an advert encouraging the single ladies of the ton to write why they should be the one chosen, and leaves it to his efficient secretary to select his future wife. If there exists a more unpleasant task in the world than deciding who is to m...
Jane Eyre
Historical Fiction author Lorraine Hunt Lynn and Hoi Polloi Classics bring you the classics ready for the 21st Century. Retaining the author's original words, the manuscript has been edited to be read today - and to engage even more fans of the literary greats.Life for an orphaned girl in the English Midlands in the late 17th and early 18th century was hard regardless of class. Jane Eyre is one such girl, raised by an aunt for whom cruelty is second nature, and destined to become a teacher in an austere environment. Always seeking independence and freedom, Jane falls in love with her employer - Mr. Rochester, who has a dark secret. As Jane's life is thrown into hearbreaking turmoil, near death and a series of events that threatens to deliver nothing but a hopeless future, fate again threatens. One of the greatest books of its time, Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë at her very best.
Seiobo There Below
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Lszl Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess Seiobo returning to mortal realms in search of perfection. An ancient Buddha being restored; the Italian renaissance painter Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan's most sacred shrine; a heron as it gracefully hunts its prey. Told in chapters that sweep us across the world and through time, covering the furthest reaches of human experience, Krasznahorkai demands that we pause and ask ourselves these questions: What is sacred? How do we define beauty? What makes great art endure? Melancholic and mesmerisingly beautiful, this latest novel by the author of Satantango shows us how to glimpse the divine through extraordinary art and human endeavour. Winner of Best Translated Book of the Year Award 2014 Translated by Ottilie Mulzet
Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las tells the remarkable story of Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951), a controversial Kwakwaka’wakw leader and activist who lived during a period of enormous colonial upheaval. Working collaboratively, Robertson and Cook’s descendants draw on oral histories and textual records to create a nuanced portrait of a high-ranked woman, a cultural mediator, devout Christian, and aboriginal rights activist who criticized potlatch practices for surprising reasons. This powerful meditation on memory and cultural renewal documents how the Kwagu’l Gixsam have revived their long-dormant clan in the hopes of forging a positive cultural identity for future generations through feasting and potlatching.
Creatures of Cain
How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed man’s evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this “killer ape” theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanity’s problems, even to answer the most ...
Every Breath You Take
A thrilling novel from the best-selling author of Run for Home and Bad Moon Rising. He hates them, but he loves them too. Those gorgeous, cruel young girls. That s why he worships them from afar: sending flowers, following their every move, discovering their secrets. And that s why, when it all goes wrong, when they fall, inevitably, from the pedestal he s erected for them, he kills them, cutting out their hearts and leaving, in its place, a single, perfect white rose. Everything is getting too close for comfort for Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt. A killer is stalking the streets of Houghton-le-Spring, targeting young women and killing them brutally, and without mercy. Selina, the daughte...
Verity
BOOK ONE - MELBOURNE, 1878 Verity Rainsburg is a widowed lady detective. Mindful of her impoverished childhood in an orphanage, she is shocked when Christopher Downham arrives unannounced at her office and demands rent arrears for properties she believes she owns. She and the handsome detective initially clash, but when she discovers that her late husband is alive, she finds solace in Christopher Downham's arms, and heartbreak at the realisation that they must part. This sets in motion a chain of events neither could have imagined, and hurtles them towards an inevitable, final confrontation that threatens to destroy everybody they know and love. THE FIVE VIRTUES ANTHOLOGY is the story of five orphaned girls, all former inmates of the Verwood House Orphanage in Melbourne. When another inmate is drowned, all five stand accused of murder, and they flee for their lives. Over a decade later, each girl is now a young woman, but each finds herself with yet another battle to fight, and with her survival again in jeopardy.
