Every hardcover on the concept shelf. Open a cover to read the first page.
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The Road to Marrow Bay
Ines Valdry
A widow sells her house, packs one suitcase and walks the old coast road to the town where her sister disappeared in 1962.
The Road to Marrow Bay
Nine Lamps
Corwen Faye
Nine windows are lit in a tower that has been empty for years. Tonight a tenth one joins them.
Nine Lamps
The Orchard Rules
Odile Marchetti
Every apple farm has rules. The new owner of Pell Orchard breaks them one by one, and the neighbours start to talk.
The Orchard Rules
Hello, Static
Bram Ostrow
A night-shift radio operator picks up a voice that knows tomorrow's weather, and then tomorrow's news.
Hello, Static
Glasshouse for Two
Nell Aurelio
Two rival gardeners share one greenhouse for a single, very long summer.
Glasshouse for Two
Hollow Hall
Mirabel Crake
The house has forty rooms and the new governess is told, kindly, to stay out of the fortieth.
Hollow Hall
Seventeen Ferries
Tomasz Veel
A town where every ferry arrives a day before it leaves, and nobody thinks that is odd.
Seventeen Ferries
Ember and Oar
Saskia Brandt
A ferrywoman on a river of slow fire agrees to carry one passenger she should have refused.
Ember and Oar
Small Hours
Halla Brisk and friends
Eleven short stories for the time between midnight and the first bus. Only in the box, never in a shop.
Small Hours
The Weather Inside
Perrin Haldane
Three flatmates, one leaking roof and a winter that will not end.
The Weather Inside
Quiet Engines
Lio Marsh
The last ship in the fleet runs silent so that something behind it keeps following.
Quiet Engines
A Borrowed Summer
Wynn Calloway
A house swap that was supposed to last two weeks and lasts the whole season.
A Borrowed Summer
Third Floor Moon
Ada Kestrel
Every night the moon rises over the third floor and only the tenants who stay up can see it.
Third Floor Moon
Salt and Wire
Dov Lennart
A cable engineer on a North Sea rig finds a message in a place no one has been.
Salt and Wire
Fen House
Rosalind Pike-Orme
The water in the fen rises a little every night, and the house is the only dry thing for miles.
Fen House
Everything on the Stove
Teo Marlowe
A family cooks one dinner for forty people and tells the truth for the first time in years.
Everything on the Stove
Ten Thousand Doorbells
Imre Valdes
A postman in a city of doors learns that one of them has never been opened.
Ten Thousand Doorbells
The Unlit Season
Edda Hartnell
A lighthouse keeper's daughter keeps the lamp burning through the winter the sea went quiet.
The Unlit Season
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