Bøger af Alexander Cook

Every town has that one house; the house none of the kids go to on Halloween. Stony Harlington has 'The Chapel'. In 1958 the small town of Stony Harlington was plagued by its first bout of 'the trouble', and although the locals don't like to talk about it, one man thinks it's time to tell. Thomas -now seventy-four years old and residing in a home- tells the story of 1958, the year the new girl came to town, and everyone he loved died. This is a dark tale of love, loss and depravity; she wore blue velvet and he wore a fedora. But who is he? Where did he come from, and where was he the night it all went wrong? Only one man can tell, and only one man dares to.

The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of 'humanity' through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.