Petey Punkin seems to have been born in a punkin patch, but got placed on a scarecrow's shoulders, when it lost its head. But is this where Petey and Scritchie (the scarecrow) were really born? And what about the thing-witch magic on Halloween night in the B & Brrr Haunted Hotel, and the greater magic of Autumn-Mrs.Mary-Moonlight-Moon? Journey forward and backward in Time, as Clock clicks midnight, Table endures noisy kid goblins and ghosts, and creaky-like-a rusty-barn-door Door endures until t...
David Jones was born in 1941 in the industrial north. The factories have all gone now and the trees and woodlands have been allowed to thrive, providing a home for many kinds of British wildlife. Cycle paths and nature trails now cover the neighbourhood where both red and grey squirrels can be seen to live in close proximity and they don't even squabble. We have badgers, stoats and weasels, and occasionally we will get a visit from a fox. This is the environment that provided the inspiration for...
Wuthering Heights is the only published novel by Emily Bronte, written between October 1845 and June 1846[1] and published in July of the following year. It was not printed until December 1847, after the success of her sister Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A posthumous second edition was edited by Charlotte. The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimatel...
When Italian migrant Francesco Pellegrini first arrives in London, his goal of attaining wealth and respect burns through his veins, fuelled by a desperate desire to make his mother proud. Building his life for this purpose, his goal finally seems to be within reach- that is, until he hears of his mother’s untimely death. Unable to accept the news, his grief consumes him; his life crumbles around him as he is plagued by a perpetual nightmare that haunts him day and night.With no end in sight for...
