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Serpent Child is the autobiography of Patricia Riley. It describes the life of a child of seperated parents in post war Britain at a time when children were still 'seen but not heard' and when even for married parents children were preferably seen somewhere else.Many children were hurried off to boarding schools, even at a very tender age, and, if they were noticed at all, children could become pawns in harmful, even dangerous parental war gam...

This collection of poetry springs primarily from Greg Quiery's experience of life in Liverpool, where he has lived since coming to Britain in the 1970s. Much of the work takes the form of short stories or glimpses into a life. Contemporary Britain and its past are explored with realism and affection, sometimes with humour, occasionally with anger.Having been brought up in Ireland, Greg also provides impressions, by turns nostalgic and critical...

These poems navigate a human life and cross the Earth, touching on love, loss of love, warzones, motherhood, art, nature, ageing, forgiveness: images both tender and sharp, and grounded in the everyday:Smallbluemobilephone rings its dinky tune.But it never rings. Where is it? Who can it be?I scrabble in the bottom of my bag, I fumble with the somany buttonsDazzling sunny days, hot desert sands, the cool damp of ancient churches, a sterile hosp...

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Virginia is an actor, she does not want this ordinary mess: she wants things formed in rehearsal, choreographed, with all the rough contingency of the everyday made good, no nagging doubt that we, our performance, could have been better. It is, in the end, performance: the love affair, the joke in the pub, the final, cutting, remark in an argument.Dan upends it by dying inconveniently. She wants Dan to be dead and she wants him back. What shou...

Finally, a book on climate & societal change that isn't about the coming chaos, but about how we learn to live with the future. This is for people who love these kinds of books but even more, for people who hate them. The system will not be overthrown: it will be overgrown. Here's how.The safest way to protect Nature is to return her to the Commons. Wherever people have lived in harmony with the land, at whatever time in history, it has been w...

This charming sequel to PJ Quinn's first DI Ambrose Mystery, Poison Pen, takes DI Ambrose under cover at a writers' retreat in Chalk Heath, to determine the circumstances leading to a suspicious death on an Indian railway train. This retreat is not only a challenge to Ambrose's investigative skills but to his culinary and writing skills too, Ambrose is also kept busy avoiding low beams and unwanted amorous attention.

A landscape of myth and mystery is interwoven with rural life in South West Scotland in 1928-1942. Helena Hailstanes is sick of the secluded life her father, Sam, forces her to live on the shores of Loch Duie. She runs away and encounters Megan, who as a muddled and meddling young Sea Witch cursed Helena and Sam, creatures of an ancient race of shape-shifting otters, to remain in human form. Now she's in the Women's Land Army with Megan in her...

When a famous close harmony choir visits Chalk Heath, tensions are rife. DI Paul Ambrose feels a sense of foreboding, but is powerless to prevent the murder of one of the singers. Does the choir include a murderer, or is the death connected to the recent thefts in town? And is there a thief at the hotel where the choir is staying? DI Ambrose's colleagues make his job even harder. WPC Pauline Meadows has been singing with the choir and PC Sutto...