The Constable of the Tower

The Constable of the Tower
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434494446

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English historical novelist. His notable works include "The Lancashire Witches," Rookwood," and "The Star Chamber."

The White Tower

The White Tower
Author: Cathryn Constable
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338157469

From the author of The Wolf Princess comes a thrilling story of magic and mystery about a girl who dreams she can fly--and the ancient school where that dream might just become reality. When Livy's accepted at Temple College, an exclusive school for the most gifted students, no one is more surprised than her. After all, she doesn't think she's very smart at all! But she does have a secret that sets her apart from everyone else...Recently, Livy can't take her eyes off the sky nor stop her heels rising off the ground. And once at Temple, though busy with new friends and classes, she can't resist climbing out onto the roof. For next to the ancient statue that guards the mysterious white tower, Livy starts to have the strangest dream that she can fly.But her dreams are more real than she thinks. And her behavior has been noticed by others, for whom the ability to defy gravity is a possible reality... one that they'll stop at nothing to use for their own ends. It's a race against time to discover that most dangerous of secrets -- will Livy survive it?

The Tower

The Tower
Author: Kate London
Publisher: Corvus
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781838955885

An intricate, gritty and believable crime novel from a serving detective in the Met's murder squad - an explosive debut.

The Tower

The Tower
Author: Kate London
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1782396144

She closed her eyes and saw, as if on a loop, a repeating backdrop of square windows, blue sky and concrete spinning and passing, passing, passing. She could not escape the horror of it: falling unstoppably, irretrievably until the hard concrete reaches up. That last glimpse of them at the edge. A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London's East End. Left alive on the roof are a five year old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths. Within hours, Lizzie Griffiths has disappeared, and DPS officer Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths, in an investigation which takes her into the dark heart of policing in London. Grounded in the terrifying realities of policing a city where the affluent middle-classes live cheek-by-jowl with the poorest immigrants, this is a complex, intelligent, thrilling crime novel by an author who has walked the beat.

Constable & Toop

Constable & Toop
Author: Gareth P. Jones
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471400123

A darkly comic Dickensian ghost story from Blue Peter Award winner Gareth P. Jones: it's not the dead you'll need to worry about! Sam Toop lives in a funeral parlour, blessed (or cursed) with an unusual gift. While his father buries the dead, Sam is haunted by their constant demands for attention. Trouble is afoot on the 'other side' - there is a horrible disease that is mysteriously imprisoning ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living. And Sam is caught in the middle - will he be able to bring himself to help? Blue Peter Award winner Gareth P. Jones has woven a darkly comic story, a wonderfully funny adventure that roams the grimy streets of Victorian London.

The Wolf Princess

The Wolf Princess
Author: Cathryn Constable
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545528402

A captivating, atmospheric mystery set in the crystalline winterland of Russia. Abandoned in a blinding blizzard in the wintry wilds of Russia, Sophie Smith fears for her life. But just like in a fairy tale, a princess comes to her rescue: the beautiful, exotic Anna Volkonskaya. Over a river of ice in a horse-drawn sleigh, she brings Sophie and her friends to a magnificent, if weathered, winter palace. At first, Sophie is enchanted by Princess Anna's stories of long-ago royalty, of white wolves and gray diamonds. But when the princess takes a particular interest in her, Sophie grows concerned. What is her place in the sinister mystery that surrounds her? Even as the wind and wolves howl outside, is she more in danger now, a prisoner of the palace, than she ever was lost in the snow?

In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn

In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn
Author: Sarah Morris
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2013-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1445635364

The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's infamous wife.