#Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media

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THE LAND BEFORE SNOW

IF TIME STANDS STILL ANYWHERE, IT’S AT BEDE. IF GHOSTS HAUNT ANYWHERE, IT’S IN BEDE HALL. But ghosts are nothing compared to the challenges haunting a curmudgeonly building with a desire for eternal life. BEDE HALL WAS ALIVE BUT EVEN IN BEDE, IMMORTALITY WON’T LAST FOREVER! History comes and goes. Empires rise and fall, civilizations flourish and cultures collide. The laws of probability…

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THE POWER OF SNOW

There are three generations of Stratford-Smyths ‘living’ in Bede Hall. THE FOURTH IS THE GHOST OF A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL, WHICH MAKES THEM FOUR GENERATIONS SPANNING FOUR DIMENSIONS. Bede Hall is old. The word ageless barely covers it, and the word timeless is an outright lie. Older than time is closest to the truth. But even then, strictly speaking, the Hall is older than history. The Hall hovers…

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A FORECAST OF SNOW

Prologue for book one of the Bede Series THE DISTANCE FROM BEDE TO LONDON IS 300 MILES NORTH AS THE CROW FLIES AND 30,000 YEARS AS TIME FLIES. Sarah Goodman’s kitchen in the village of Bede radiated with spectral light that emanated from a small square hole in the back door – a rotating cat flap called ‘The Royal Opening of the Way’ that permitted entry for time traveling cats from the temple…

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FRESHLY FALLEN SNOW

PAGE ONE OF ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’ My new name is Snow – a name that suits me even though there are days I wish it didn’t. I died a very long time ago or was it yesterday? …I think maybe both. Apart from a few self-possessed phantoms, I live alone in a house of shadows. My father said they were memories of the past and foreshadows of things that might have been. But that was in the ‘high…