An Air that Kills

Author: Francis King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934555279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Mark Langworthy has just returned home after a stint as a colonial administrator in India. Once a promising writer, his dreams and idealism have been extinguished, and he returns stricken with malaria and fatigued in both body and spirit. When he meets his nephew, Paul, an ingenuous orphan of eighteen and an aspiring writer, Mark sees in the boy a chance for redemption. Over the course of an English summer they form a close though sometimes difficult friendship, but when Paul begins a love affair with one of his uncle's former acquaintances, Anne, things begin to unravel. A series of circumstances threatens the bond they have developed, and when Anne suggests that Mark's interest in Paul may not be what it seems, both Mark and Paul will have to come to terms with their feelings and discover the true nature of love and friendship. Published in 1948, An Air That Kills is the third of Francis King's more than thirty novels. Widely acclaimed as one of the finest novelists of his generation, King displays in this early work all the imaginative energy and ardour of a young writer dealing with a theme which he clearly felt profoundly. This 60th anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author.

An Air That Kills

Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444716778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and Fire of Court, this is the first instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series Workmen in the small market town of Lydmouth are demolishing an old cottage. A sledgehammer smashes into what looks like a solid wall. Instead, layers of wallpaper conceal the door of a locked cupboard which holds a box - and in the box is the skeleton of a young baby. Items within the box suggest that the baby was entombed early in the nineteenth century, but when another man is also found dead, the evidence suggests that the baby's death is more recent and that a killer is on the loose. For Journalist Jill Francis, newly arrived from London, this looks like her first story to chase ... 'The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today' Val McDermid 'Captures perfectly the drab atmosphere and cloying morality of the 1950s . . . Taylor is an excellent writer. He plots with care and intelligence and the solution to the mystery is satisfyingly chilling'The Times 'There is no denying Taylor's talent, his prose exudes a quality uncommon among his contemporaries' Time Out 'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph

An Air That Kills

Author: Margaret Millar
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 168199013X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
From the Edgar-Award winning author of Beast in View, this landmark novel of domestic suspense is a gripping tale of ordinary lives ripped apart by lust, deceit, adultery, conspiracy and betrayal. On a Saturday night in April, Ron Galloway's friends have all arrived at his Ontario lakeside vacation lodge for a boys' weekend without their wives. But as the night wears on and the host himself doesn't arrive, the party turns sour. Then Ron Galloway's suspicious wife, convinced he is having an affair and trying to track him down, arrives on the scene, followed by the police. It is clear something is very wrong. In the hours and days that follow Ron Galloway's disappearance, the secret of an ugly infidelity comes to light, tearing apart Galloway's circle of friends and destroying two marriages. Did Ron Galloway commit suicide to escape his own unforgivable betrayals? What sinister set of circumstances brought him to his desperate end, and how will his survivors cope with the truth without tearing one another apart?

An Air that Kills

Author: Andrew Schneider
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780425200094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Schneider and McCumber reveal how the asbestos poisoning of Libby, Montana, uncovered a national scandal.

An Air that Kills

Author: Andrew Schneider
Publisher: Putnam Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
"The story is told through the eyes of the men and women who fought back - among them, Gayla Benefield, a bartender who watched more than forty members of her family die or become sickened from asbestos; Les Skramstad, a miner and cowboy who worked on the mountain and carried the poison home; and Paul Peronard, a courageous EPA investigator who battled not only one of the world's most powerful corporations, but his superiors in Washington. This is the first book to reveal how deeply the fibers of asbestos have embedded themselves into the texture of America: how many people have died or are dying of preventable exposure, how the industry and government repeatedly ignored and concealed the danger, and how, for many Americans, the dying is not over."--BOOK JACKET.

A Shropshire Lad

Author: Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

An Air that Kills

Author: Francis King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imprisonment
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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An Air That Kills

Author: Christine Poulson
Publisher: Lion Fiction
ISBN: 9781782642831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Katie Flanagan goes undercover at a lab: the scientists prove as dangerous as the diseases

Housman Country

Author: Peter Parker
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374709351
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 616

Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English coun - tryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has never been out of print. In Housman Country, Peter Parker explores the lives of A. E. Housman and his most famous book, and in doing so shows how A Shropshire Lad has permeated English life and culture since its publication. The poems were taken to war by soldiers who wanted to carry England in their pockets, were adapted by composers trying to create a new kind of English music, and have influ - enced poetry, fiction, music, and drama right up to the present day. Everyone has a personal “land of lost content” with “blue remembered hills,” and Housman has been a tangible and far-reaching presence in a startling range of work, from the war poets and Ralph Vaughan Williams to Inspector Morse and Morrissey. Housman Country is a vivid exploration of England and Englishness, in which Parker maps out terrain that is as historical and emotional as it is topographical.