Robert Smith
1) The Annunaki
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The Annunaki are the stuff of legends. Their history and that of the earth are intertwined. The Sumerians speak of a race of aliens from the planet Niburu, other tales tell of how a wandering planet Niburu collided with a giant planet Tiamat giving rise to the Earth. Further stories tell of how Niburu is planet X; on an elliptical orbit around our sun every 3,600 years.
Legends of the Annunaki exist in the Atra-Hasis, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and in...
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In the late summer of 1834, a schooner fleeing the potato famine in Ireland beaches itself off the east coast of America, opposite the Chesapeake Bay. On board are hundreds of decomposing bodies that appear to have met their death while fighting each other. Only a malevolent spirit remains, one that reaches back in history to the bloody massacre of the Druids by the Romans under the command of Suetonius Paullinus in 60 A.D. A young girl, Mary, is...
3) Purgatory
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IT IS THE EARLY 1980'S.
Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town.
Welcomed by a brutal combination of heat, dust, isolation and primitive amenities, the new officer expects to waste years of his career in 'purgatory'.
He is greeted with warmth by the community but becomes increasingly worried by the behaviour of two delinquent teenagers, one of whose family...
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Joseph Hedley was found murdered behind a locked door in his modest cottage in 1826. The case attracted attention and notoriety for the brutality of the crime, preserving the name of this quiet man known to his neighbours for producing fine hand-stitched quilts, but it was never solved...Dr. Smith brings to life the craftspeople of Northern England, drawing on records and stories from the case, as well as a host of other sources to reveal how the...