Taking The Waters
Publisher: Footsteps Press
ISBN: 9781908867339
Number of pages: 330
Language: English
Four very different people, in four different centuries, come to a thermal spring high in the Swiss Alps. They may not find the healing they or their companions seek, but all will find their lives changed dramatically and forever.
This novel tells their stories and also something of the legends or travesties that future ages will make of them.
Grandmother Wolf & Other Stories
Publisher : Footsteps Press
Language : English
Print length : 162 pages
ISBN-10 : 1908867418
ISBN-13 : 978-1908867414
Item Weight : 6.1 ounces
Frances Oliver’s new collection of ghostly and sinister tales has its share of phantoms and vampires – but never in their traditional character or guise.
A disabled, demented centagenarian longs to escape from her care home – but in the form of a creature she has not seen since her childhood long ago …
A nervous, sickly little boy sent to his uncle’s country home to recuperate wanders into the nearby forest and meets a group of friendly welcoming children, who always play the same ancient but exciting game …
In the shrunken, impoverished post-climate-change world, still run by despotic corporations, a secretary wonders why her glamorous boss has asked her, of all his staff, to accompany him for a conference on a remote private island …
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