The seven basic plots Author Surname:Booker

The seven basic plots Author Surname:BookerIn this work, the author proposes his thesis about the nature of storytelling, showing that there are a number of basic themes which continually reappear in the storytelling of mankind, shaping tales of very different kinds.

Why would someone want to steal porcelain dessert plates

For decades

As suspects accumulate and fall under police scrutiny

doesn't mean they stop committing crime

This is soon revealed to be a prophecy of sorts

drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country

charismatic

is unsettling

Blind Man's Bluff

acclaimed historian Andrew Pettegree traces the surprising ways in which written culture - from travel guides and scientific papers to Biggles and Anne Frank - has shaped

At the same time

As she secretly starts to map his movements she unearths a string of dead women