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	The Lost Film by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Mark West (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peel Back the Sky by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Nicholas Royle (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ill At Ease 2 by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laudanum Nights 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murmured In Dreams by Stephen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Priya Sharma (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The End of Everything

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Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4)

by Colin Dexter

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The First Pan Book of Horror Stories

by Herbert van Thal

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Stephen Bacon rated a book liked it The Secret of Shark Reef (Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, #30) by William Arden	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I first read this decades ago and could remember very little about it. This reread illustrates why that was. It's a pretty forgettable book, especially weak in comparison to the other Three Investigators, with no real set-pieces or dramatic scenes. D ...more
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Stephen Bacon rated a book it was amazing The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard by Christopher Priest	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I purchased this book as a reader who has only had brief forays into the fiction of JG Ballard, but someone with a keen willingness to find out more about the man's life and work. Science fiction literature, in general, is a genre that never much int ...more
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Stephen Bacon rated a book really liked it Nightmare Abbey 10 by Tom English (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a wonderfully entertaining oversized anthology (more like the format of a thick magazine than a softcover) with a great balance of both fiction and non-fiction. The stories are comfortably traditional in the sense that they feel rather old-sc ...more
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Stephen Bacon rated a book it was amazing Remains no. 1 by Andy Cox	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Stephen Bacon rated a book liked it Eye of the Storm (Sean Dillon, #1) by Jack Higgins	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Eye of the Storm by Jack Higgins is an hypothetical fictionalisation of what occurred when Downing Street, the home of the British Prime Minister and the country's Chanceller of the Exchequer was attacked by three mortar bombs in February 1991. The ce ...more
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Stephen Bacon rated a book liked it The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse #3) by Colin Dexter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is the third in the series of Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter. A rarity to say this but it felt not quite as accomplished as the TV adaptation starring John Thaw, perhaps because the plot point about mistaken lip-reading didn't work quite ...more
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