Peter Daniels‿ new collection explores gay liaisons and relationships, as well as ageing and mortality. The title poem borrows from Yeats, “That is no country for old men. The young / In one another's arms� and explores wryly what we can hope for from love in later years.
Denis Klamm, feckless scion of two former Leaders, returns to the Island for his fatherâEUR(TM)s funeral, only to find it sinking. Or the sea rising âEUR" it depends what you believe. Either way, theyâEUR(TM)re all going to drown âEUR" unless the young, idealistic and newly-elected Leader, Jessica King, really is the saviour long foretold by Our Island Story.
The âEUR~shadow lineâEUR(TM) is a term Royle uses to describe the faint line on the top edge of the text block that allows him to see whether a book on a shelf contains an inclusion âEUR" those items inserted into books and long forgotten.
What would you do if you discovered your father is not your biological father? Or your mother is not the woman that gave birth to you?
This is what happened to author Lezlee Liljenberg. In learning her truth, she realized there were thousands of people just like her that were dealing with this new reality.
DNA testing can be helpful to find long-lost relatives and create your genealogy tree, but can also reveal family secrets that can no lon...
Sennitt Clough's twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived in deepest Cambridgshire, only to discover that the inhabitants are far more frightening than the carnival. Rich in symbolism and mythology, it's a thrilling read that will leave your mind as black as peat.
Rob A. Mackenzie's new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary ranging from the murk of political engagement in an age of offence sensibility, to the bleached-out culture of munificent late-capitalism.
Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of my Brother is haunted by loss yet these poems defy despair by stepping emphatically into the liberating realm of strangeness.
Becky Varley Winter's striking debut explores themes of daring, danger and risk in poems that are packed with imagery from the natural world. Complex, hypnotic, memorable - this collection introduces a significant new voice.
Comic, grotesque, lyrical, and immensely readable, Williams's picaresque medieval fantasy is a reader's delight. A sweeping yarn through the dark ages filled with rogues, lovers, murderers, witchcraft, failed promise, wisdom and regret.
Emma Simon‿s wide-ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems ‿ mysterious, mythic, magical ‿ remain deeply accessible, while being witty and serious. An unforgettable debut collection.
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.
