This is a collection of three stunning, ethereal novellas. Karen, the adolescent protagonist in "The Talisman," is doing poorly in Catholic boarding school. Every time she attempts to memorize facts, people from her past burst into her imagination: her mother, Natalia, often appears and begs Karen to understand Mark, Natalia's boyfriend; sometimes Mark arrives smelling like alcohol and tells Karen stories which require him to feel her body; always her friends, Missouri and Nicolasa, come to comfort and advise.
In The Wet is a novel by Nevil Shute that was first published in the UK in 1953. It contains many of the typical elements of a hearty and adventurous Shute yarn such as flying, the future, mystic states, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
An Old Captivity is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in the UK in 1940. A young airman, an Oxford don and his beautiful daughter are on an expedition to the Arctic. This time-travel story tells how they are transported by explorers of another age: the Norsemen and their long ships of a thousand years before. Exhibits his talents at their provocative best New York Times Nevil Shute's books always have a real hero...intensely romantic along with the realism, intensely real along with the romanticism, and peculiarly absorbing.
Fallis is actually intent on making a serious point, or maybe a few serious points. Fallis writes in pictures and even his bit players are well-defined characters that the mind’s eye can see clearly… anyone with even a passing or cynical interest in the political process should enjoy The High Road, and after the romp be left with some food for thought, as the author clearly intends.
