The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Sundial by Shirley JacksonBefore there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jacksons stunningly creepy fourth novel, The SundialWhen the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in

Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft as well as many others

Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done

These intense

A box of 30 flash cards to introduce pre-schoolers to the English alphabet

But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit

life purpose

Teeming with lessons in self-belief and daring to take up tasks which may seem beyond your capacity and accomplishing them

Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in the north of Scotland

and transform it into art

On the morning of 2 June 1953

hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio

then insist he isn't the one for her and disappear again and again