The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild is a powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an 1100-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again.
In the chill autumn of 1144, rising flood waters endanger the sacred remains of St. Winifred, the abbey's most cherished possession. When the bones disappear and a corpse is found, Brother Cadfael needs his prayers answered to catch a killer.
At Larwood House, a school for witch-orphans, witchcraft is utterly forbidden. So when a note is found declaring that someone in class 2Y is a witch the rumour-mill goes into overdrive. So, when the son of history teacher Mr. Wentworth disappears and a note is found signed by the mysterious Witch of 2Y, the dreaded Inquistors are called to investigate.
