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    The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club: Stoat Hall
    The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club: Stoat Hall
    The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club: Stoat Hall
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    The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club: Stoat Hall

    By em thompson

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    When W.C. Lumin, an author of best-selling bodice-busters, historical potboilers, romantic tear-jerkers, crime thrillers and fantasy fiction summons his family, literary agent and publisher to his remote Gothic mansion, they are shocked to hear that he is suffering from a terminal wasting disease. But as they rub their hands at the prospect of inheriting his fortune, he drops a bombshell – a dramatic advance in medical science offers the hope of a cure. However, despite his failing health, he must continue to publish novels to finance the operation. And so he makes his guests an offer they cannot refuse . . . each must write a short story as the basis of a new W.C. Lumin blockbuster. If they agree, they will be rewarded with a share of his fortune. If not, he will cut them out of his will without a penny.

     

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEccentric Directions Limited
    Release dateJan 7, 2024
    ISBN9798224392322
    The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club: Stoat Hall
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      The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club - em thompson

      The Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club

      Stoat Hall

      em thompson

      Published by Eccentric Directions Limited, 2024.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      THE STOAT HALL LEGACY BOOK CLUB

      First edition. January 7, 2024.

      Copyright © 2024 em thompson.

      ISBN: 979-8224392322

      Written by em thompson.

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      THE CHRONICLE OF STOAT HALL | by W.C. Lumin

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      THE CHRONICLE OF STOAT HALL

      by W.C. Lumin

      George Aarbuthnot was the first to arrive. He always was. He was not known as Mister Early Bird for nothing. Or was it Mister Squirmy Worm? Early or squirmy, it was taken as a given that he would be standing on the doorstep with a bottle before anyone else turned up. It was said that if George wasn’t on his third gin and tonic by the time the other guests arrived, he must have gone to the wrong address.

      A bon viveur of some standing, George was legendary in literary circles as the man who told J.K. Rowling to stick to knitting as she would never make it as a writer, an opinion that he doggedly stands by to this day. A flash in the pan, he calls her. A passing fad. An unattractive man of limited ability and no great

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