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Gudbjorg Thorisdottir has been hiding from the ghost of an ugly secret for most of her life. When she finally faces the truth of what happened in her childhood, the ghost floats away. Painting an evocative picture of life in Iceland, this is the story of a girl who didn't know how unnatural it was to experience heaven and hell in the same house. read more ... |
Rebecca Grey and her alcoholic mother, Bex, live in insecurity and poverty. Following a tragedy in Bex's past she made a decision which nobody must ever find out about. Will Rebecca escape from her mother's lies and make a life of her own?
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A spectre has haunted Netherton for generations. Everyone has a theory, no one has an answer. The woods that frame the housing estate uncover a series of heinous acts, drawing onlookers in to a space of clandestine, queer sexuality. Who put Bella down the Wych-Elm? read more ... |
Escaping his life of taking drugs and chasing girls in Iceland, a troubled young man finds himself in a Chinese hospital. The harsh realities of life in a south-east Asian prison and falling in love finally give him the strength to confront his disturbed past. read more ... |
DARK ANIMALS: Wild Pressed Young Poets’ Anthology features selected poems from fifteen young poets, all within the age-range of 17 to 33. They explore mental health and ways of being, by way of landscape, nature, history and their own lived experience. read more ... |
FESTIVAL IN TIME explores how home can turn out to be something different than what we imagined, how family is not always put together traditionally, and how politics can be pursued in ways other than on the Party tour bus. |
There's a hard grit to the poems in GHOSTS, which meets a fluid movement of language to create waves of recognition and understanding. Nick Conroy's paged poetry is like the written musical score of his live performance. read more ... |
Was Donald Trump able to become President because God abandoned us? Are Jews white? Does Hell have better weather than Heaven? In GIVETH AND TAKETH, Rota discusses his own experience and political theology as a Jewish person in the Trump-era while also exploring broader issues of race, mental health and grief. read more ... |
The prose poems in I CAN SEE THE LIGHTS are earthy and raw, but also incredibly sensitive. It’s pretty much guaranteed that more than one of them will bring you to tears. Told in a mesmeric, stripped-down tone, this collection is a work of understated genius. read more ... |
A woman who never wanted children finds herself reluctantly bringing up her sister’s daughter. The narrative threaded through these eighty short poems gives the reader the feeling of having watched a deeply immersive film or read an engrossing novella. read more ... |
NEW TOWNS is an anthology of place writing edited by R.M. Francis. The collection offers a diverse range of perspectives and forms from established and upcoming writers. This anthology is a glimpse at sites that all share similar histories, social and cultural make-up, and founding principles. read more ... |
When somebody sits opposite Lauren Wilson on the ferry to the Outer Hebrides, a hand pushes a mug of tea towards her. Some people believe in the existence of a parallel universe. Could it be the bearer of that scar who has the power to decide what happens to Lauren now? read more ... |
THE COCONUT GIRL is a collection of poems written from the Indian, female point of view with an insight into Punjabi culture. We are also offered an insight into the hallucinogenic state of the poet’s brain during cancer treatment, and into her experience of life in multi cultural Britain. read more ... |
A group of friends: separated by time, choices, and circumstance are reunited by their shared encounters with an uncanny presence that looms over their lives. The seeds were sewn in their childhoods, now they must try and understand what is happening, before it is too late. read more ... |
In April 1940, two British Destroyers sail into the harbour at Tórshavn. From that point onwards the lives of the Faroe Islanders are irrevocably altered. read more ... |
In a series of family upheavals, Ellie shocks everybody by selling her home and deciding to live in a converted van. Ellie can't change the past, but she hopes a trip to Iceland may enable her atone for the mistakes she made when she was a young mother. read more ... |
Respected midwife Lucie Smith is married to Jasper, the town apothecary. But 1665 is proving a troublesome year. Lucie is called to a birth at the local Manor, and Jasper is uneasy at her involvement with their former opponents in the English Civil War... read more ... |
Midwife Lucie Smith had expected to live a retired life of quiet contemplation, somewhere with a small garden to tend and room for a few hens. However, 1666 sees her with no option but to keep serving remedies in her late husband’s shop at the sign of the Three Doves, since no new apothecary can be found for the town of Tupingham. |
Born to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, Malik’s only companion is a guiding spirit no-one else can see. THE SEAGULL'S LAUGHTER is an immersive read, intertwined with the nature and magic of Greenlandic folk tales. read more ... |
When they are called to Australia to identify the body of a young man, Maya is given her son’s journal. Leaving her husband and daughters to return to the UK without her, from now on she needs to rely on her own physical and emotional strength. read more ... |
The Vagabond Seekers is the sequel to The Vagabond Mother. Volunteering in a refugee camp on a Greek island. Daisy becomes involved with a resident at the camp, and when she hears he has left the island, she rashly decides to follow him. On the border between two countries, she finds herself in trouble. What is a frightening inconvenience for her is, however, a matter of life and death for the people she leaves behind. The chapter headings in The Vagabond Seekers are real-life testimonies from refugees, who, like the third character in the book, have undertaken perilous journeys to reach a place of safety. |
THE WRENNA is a novella made up of interlinking stories set in and around a semi-rural housing estate in the Black Country. THE WRENNA echoes with its inhabitants’ voices and history. read more ... |