Showing results for "The Reaches" in Genre Fiction

When Belize is invaded by a powerful neighbour, it's Britain that must spring to the defence of this old outpost of empire. But intervening in distant Central America will test the limits of the former colonial power. And in the end the outcome will turn on the skill, boldness and heart-bursting bravery of a handful of British forces already in country....

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FEATURED ON BBC’S BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB Penelope Fitzgerald’s Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames, with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the...

Alice Ferguson is eight years old when a bushfire tears her family apart and she is sent to live with her aunt. Lost and lonely, Alice finds comfort in the beauty of the outback. As her confidence grows she dreams of creating her own home and of one day breeding the best wool in the country. Alice's strength and spirit take her far from her roots and the land she loves. As tragedy strikes again, Alice must summon every ounce of her will to keep her dream alive, but nothing can prepare her for the treachery of her jealous cousin or the betrayal of the only man she ever loved.

The charming vacation house on the coast of Maine was meant to be a heavenly retreat for Danica Lindsay and her husband Blake, a place where they could mend the wounds of a strained and tired marriage. Instead, she finds herself mostly there alone while Blake's political star is rapidly rising back in Boston. Were it not for the companionship of her new neighbor, gentle and caring Michael Buchanan, Danica would surely be overcome by loneliness and despair.

Felicity was never meant to end up with a money-pit farmhouse to renovate and a broken heart to heal…But when Fliss attempts to drown the sorrow of seeing her ex-fiancé and his new wife’s magazine-worthy wedding all over social media, one rash decision loses her a job and gains her a doer-upper in the blink of an eye. The only bright spot of living in the country is the very dishy and very handy loveliest-man-ever Jesse Woods. And when Fliss’s new roof has an ill-advised meeting with a tree in the middle of the night resulting in her literally seeing stars, there’s only one thing for it.

Original story published in Lariat story magazine - July 1947.

Det er vinter i Område X, det mystiske vildnis, der efter tredive års overvågning stadig ikke lader sig forklare eller kortlægge. Mens området langsomt breder sig, er efterretningsorganisationen Southern Reach ved at kollapse indefra, og i et sidste desperat forsøg sender man en ny ekspedition over grænsen. Deres mål er en fjern ø, der måske rummer de svar, de så længe har ledt efter. Men efterhånden som ekspeditionen trænger dybere ind i det ukendte, bliver truslen mod den ydre verden kun større og mere skræmmende.

Det mystiske Område X har i årevis været afskåret fra resten af kontinentet, og naturen har indtaget de sidste rester af menneskelig civilisation. Myndighederne sender løbende videnskabelige ekspeditioner ind i området, men alle er enten forsvundet eller er vendt tilbage som skygger af sig selv. Nu gør man klar til den tolvte ekspedition. Gruppen består af fire kvinder: en antropolog, en topograf, en psykolog og en biolog. Deres mission er at opmåle området, tage prøver og nedfælde deres observationer om området og om hinanden, og frem for alt undgå at blive inficeret af det mystiske område.

He's sexy and irresistible. I've done my best to ignore the magnetism that flows between us. I don't need complications in my life. I can't get wrapped up in his world, the last thing I need is to get attached to a professional athlete. I don’t have time for heartbreak.

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Light-years from home, it’s Ira’s second chance. Just another anonymous student at a space station university. Not the orphan whose Earther heritage was erased. Not some social experiment put on display by his adoptive father. Not the criminal recruited by the human rebels. But when Ira’s loyalties clash once again, two wars break out: one on the ground and one within himself. Which will Ira stand with? Which will take him down?

In this episode, a slow escape in a hot-air balloon makes the Brigadier nostalgic for his time in America; stories of rodeo clowns and super-human cyborgs spill from his past. But all this time travel is beginning to erase Munchausen's memory, and Smith fears for her friend’s sanity. Perhaps the only cure is through the help of the truly terrifying tech-guru Logan Snuff....