This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

'A perfect "lights off, punch the air" kinda read' - Loaded'Perfection from T.F. Muir' - reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐______________Glasgow, Scotland: When a man's body is pulled from the River Clyde, Strathclyde Police initiate a murder investigation that exposes deadly links to organised crime gangs. And when the matriarch of the notorious Shepherd family disappears, DCI Andy Gilchrist of St Andrews...

'All the makings of a classic series' - Mick Herron, author of the bestselling Slough House thrillers'DCI Andy Gilchrist is a real copper, flaws an' all... I read it one sitting' - Amazon reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐----------St Andrews, Scotland: When a woman's eviscerated body is found on the golf course close to the Fairmont Hotel, DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate DS Jessie Janes are assigned the investigation. Bu...

The dead as folklore has them - where they go, what they want, why they return, and what the living do about it. Thiselton-Dyer collected across Europe and the book is arranged by what the ghost is doing rather than by country. This edition is bound with a gallery of 58 plates of painting, among them works by Rubens, Conca and Antonello da Messina, dating from 1471 to 1778.

What plants have meant - the rowan against witches, the mandrake's scream, the funeral herbs, the flowers that must not come indoors. Thiselton-Dyer worked through the whole calendar of British plant belief. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of painting, 1780–1920, by Alfred Sisley, Edward Robert Smythe, Richard Wane and others, on spring, orchards and gardens.

The curses, omens and legends of great families: the screaming skull that will not stay buried, the room nobody may open, the blood stain that cannot be scrubbed out, the pact with the devil, the death omen that appears before an heir dies, the romance of disguise and the disappearance nobody explained. Thiselton-Dyer gathered them from family histories and county records, and tells each without pretending to decide how much of it is true. Sixty plates of painting, from Raeburn to Turner, ...

In a re-imagining of popular teen movies, Lance is the new boy in school. Shy and aloof, his handheld video game is his only companion. Zoey is the most popular girl in school. But her popularity is threatened when her longtime boyfriend dumps her for the head cheerleader. Still reeling from the breakup, Zoey makes a seemingly impossible bet - that she can turn anyone into prom queen. That unsuspecting anyone is Lance. And Zoey never backs down from a bet.

Can Two Worlds Survive an Augury?Releasing a Chandarion's god-like magic into the world isn't what sixteen-year-old Aunia, the village's outcast, intends. She only wants to impress Mathias, a visiting seventeen-year-old pegasus flyer, who fiercely believes the choice—either Faery or Mortal world surviving—has come.Her action calls forth the Boggleman, a soul-sucking ghoul, who abducts her dad, eats her faery friends, and sets Dagel demons on her isolated village. And worse....

Mid-winter, St. Andrews, Scotland: When a university lecturer fails to turn up for class, he is found dead at home, with evidence of having committed suicide. A female student reports to the police that she was having an affair with him and knows he would never commit suicide. Toxicology results turn up Class A drugs in his system, and DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate, DS Jessie Janes, are called in to investigate.The initial enquiry soon turns into a murder in...

Rebecca Stone a twenty-something amateur sleuth lives in a trailer park ( in Ocean Beach Ca) with a bunch of off-the-wall characters. She wants to broaden her life, Becky has always wanted to be a professional singer. She's done her share of backyard concerts with the local bands but now yearns for the legit spot-lite. At the suggestion of a neighbor an old rock and roller. Becky starts voice lessons with Cat a voice teacher in San Diego Ca. Little does she know that the teacher has an age...

How well do you know the person you love?A woman's body is washed up on the rocks by the castle ruins in St Andrews with evidence of strangulation, and no ID. Two days into the case, a call from another woman claiming to be the victim's friend could be DCI Andy Gilchrist's first solid lead. But when she fails to turn up for an interview, Gilchrist fears the worst. The next day, they find her battered body.Gilchrist's focus centres on his prime suspect, a lo...

The last dragon shifter. A shadow assassin. Fated mates.As the last dragon shifter, a target had been painted on Fallen long ago. But after being captured and magically tethered to an assassin who can kill her in an instant, time is running out. With the fate of an entire world at stake if she doesn't find her fated mate, Fallen must find a way to get out alive, with or without her unwanted companion...her incredibly sexy unwanted companion.Exiled from the ...