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And the Swans Began to Sing










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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Another Rebecca
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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Bella
 









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?

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Burning Karma










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.  

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Dark Animals










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. 
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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. Nick Conroy's paged poetry is like the written musical score of his live performance.

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Giveth and Taketh










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.

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I Can See The Lights










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.

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I Left the Room Burning











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.

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New Towns










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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.

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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.  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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The Coconut Girl

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​​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.

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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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The Eagle and the Oystercatcher










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.

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The Eliza Doll










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.

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The Gossips' Choice











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...  

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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. 

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The Vagabond Mother










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.

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