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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.
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There's a hard grit to the poems in GHOSTS, which meets a fluid movement of language to create waves of recognition and understanding. The topics and themes are covered honestly, and with refreshing vulnerability. Nick Conroy's paged poetry is like the written musical score of his live performance.
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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.
Characters are vividly brought to life, and stark but warm environments evoked in a down to earth, yet almost painterly manner by Russ Litten’s uncompromising voice.
Tales of home, of un-belonging, of strife at sea – of a northern city’s beating heart. Told in a mesmeric, stripped-down tone, this collection is a work of understated genius.
I Can See The Lights will be published in February 2020.
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When somebody sits opposite Lauren Wilson on the ferry to the Outer Hebrides, a hand pushes a mug of tea towards her. She recognises the scar on the back of it, releasing a flood of memories. 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?
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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.
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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.
Eighteen-year-old Kjartan blames the war for taking away the last remaining member of his family while he is struggling with intense feelings for his best friend Orri.
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In a series of family upheavals, Ellie shocks everybody by selling her home and deciding to live in a converted van. On the road she meets the mysterious Eliza who turns up in the most unexpected places. 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.
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Born to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, Malik never knew his father and with his mother and uncle dead from alcoholism, Malik’s only companion is a guiding spirit no-one else can see.
One day a white man with a nose like a beak and a shadow like a seagull appears on his doorstep and invites him to England. The Seagull’s Laughter is an immersive read, intertwined with the nature and magic of Greenlandic folk tales.
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When they are called to Australia to identify the body of a young man, Maya is given her son’s journal. After a sleepless night she makes the decision to follow in her youngest son’s footsteps and become a vagabond, 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.
The Vagabond Mother will be published in January 2020.
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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. This collection offers a glimpse into how young writers think and interact with the world, what affects them and how they express it.
Dark Animals will be published on 10th December 2019.
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