Showing results for "Tuck" in Literature & Fiction

When Eddie Brock becomes biologically linked to a bizarre alien symbiote, the two share a common goal. At first, they seek to squash their arch-foe Spider-Man. But after repeated attempts, Venom reaches an uneasy truce with the web-spinner. Brock leaves New York and heads west to San Francisco, the city of his birth, eager to put trouble behind him, but trouble has different ideas. Brock commits himself to becoming a defender of the innocent, but he's a six-foot-three-inch, 260 lb. figure with bulging muscles and fangs like a shark. Venom quickly draws attention.

As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who resides in New York, Liliane's life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World Wars and across continents.

Lizzie's life is pretty damn perfect, until she realises she's about to hit the dreaded 4¿0. But losing her job to a younger journalist is not the only ingrown pube in the bikini wax of Lizzie's life. Her surgeon husband, Hugo, unexpectedly falls for an actress who keeps fit doing step-aerobics off her own ego. Lizzie has always believed brains to be more important than beauty, but up against a sex goddess, principles and profundity are about as useful as a eunuch at a whipped-cream orgy.

Leeward Podcast Productions proudly presents Tuck in With MacTavish. However, we need to level with you folks. We signed the renowned reclusive ghost writer, J.B. MacTavish to present his favorite spine-tingling tales and scary short stories for your bedtime pleasure. Unfortunately, right before the show was about to start recording, the man has gone missing and it seems something evil is afoot. Rest assured, we will keep you updated and will not rest until our man is safely back in the studio. In the meantime, the show must go on. So join our temporary host, Nathaniel, every Saturday as he ...

Is something rotten in the hamlet of Nottlikely? The rustic charm of a quaint village somewhere in England (or maybe Wales) belies a dark secret. All the men have suddenly disappeared! Not that the women are terribly distressed, each of them having led singular lives before settling in the countryside. If anyone is equipped to solve a mystery it’s Nigella, Lily, Courtney, Hillary, Plod and local amateur sleuth Mother Theresa, if they can spare the time that is. The Tuck Shop Murders is an episodic black comedy best enjoyed with a glass of Chateau Mouton Rothschild and a terrine of something ...

In the novella, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a single photograph illuminates the intricate web of connections between friends at an Italian cafe; a forgotten act of violence in New York's Carl Schurz Park returns to haunt the present; and a woman is prompted by a flurry of mysterious emails to recall her time as a member of the infamous Rajneesh cult.

Tuck's unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife - known only as she. Obsessed with her, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal she intellectually or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her husband and she, from which the narrator is excluded?

Eight swashbuckling tales about the eccentric members of Victorian Britain's greatest aristocratic family Based on their critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows Aeneas Faversham, Aeneas Faversham Returns and Aeneas Faversham Forever, these action-packed romps chronicle the lives of...