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There's nothing like the creative process of sequencing an issue of Dream Catcher to send me down all sorts of rabbit holes - and, a bit like any burrowing animal, I emerge after an hour or so in a completely different part of the warren from where I entered. I start with a cup of coffee, take it into the garden where I get snagged on bindweed, and sniffed at by dogs, I wait for my lover to discover how beautiful the constellations of my moles...

Poems to ponder and proclaim.' Grieve over our planet's problems. Be amazed at Nature's beauty and resilience. Firmly grounded in F. Mary Callan's home city of York, and her family's history in Yorkshire, the poems brood over financial as well as environmental upheaval. While honest about the challenges we face, mary still offers hope for the future.

Accessible lyrical poetry reflecting on the thoughts, people, memories and mysteries that lie beneath the surface and haunt the margins of our lives. Doreen Hinchliffe's technical mastery makes her sound contemporary while using traditional forms. ''What Hinchliffe discovers in the margins are the things we've neglected or forgotten. She finds her subjects in edgelands, in shadows, and brings them into the light with a painter's precision for ...

What's an inner city kid like Dante doing in a posh old mansion house in the country? Having ADHD and dyslexia has 'won' him a place in a free summer school - so he can feel extra stupid, get into fights and be accused of stuff he didn't do. Finding an old journal changes everything. Written by a girl who lived in Candlesham Hall a centuary ago it's really hard to read. Yet Dante has to keep reading - because Bea's journal is filled with clues...

It's March 1984 and the miners' strike has just started. By exploring both famous and previously unseen photographs through the lens of poetry, STRIKE captures the turbulence of one of the longest industrial disputes in British history, and the spirit of a marginalised community on the verge of profound change. In STRIKE we journey from the North East which inspires Billy Elliot, to Wivenhoe Docks where flying pickets attempt to stop coal impo...

DI Ambrose The DI Ambrose Mysteries are set in the late 1950s and early '60s, a period of great change that seems like an era ago. Skull Days Newly promoted to Detective Chief Inspector, Ambrose leads a serious crime team, with officers including reader's favourites, DI Winters, WPC Meadows, PC Sutton, and PC Green, a rookie from London, learning country policing. When a girl goes missing from an expensive boarding school and a teacher dro...

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Red Tower: A Mouse's Tail tells the story of a family of mice who have lived in and around the tower since it was built. Brieanna, a young mouse, travels back in time to witness some of the most important times in the tower's history. This short book is designed to give younger residents and visitors some idea of the historical background to a well loved feature of the city walls. It is an illustrated history of the strange brick bastion which...

A new century dawns, and Rome's frontiers are again in turmoil. The Year is A.D. 105. The Emperor Trajan is calling in troops from around the empire to secure Dacia's rich mines of iron, copper, and gold. Britannia's forts are left under strength and the north is once more in flames as the tribesmen sense weakness in Rome's armies. The Ninth Legion, based at Eboracvm, must once more bear the brunt of the rebellion when, as the ageing Cethan La...

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In her debut collection In|Between Angela Arnold examines our internal states, the landscapes of minds both 'normal' and unusual - while in the second part of the book she looks at how these disparate minds relate to each other, (mis)understand each other, are close or distant, loving or abusive, from the private sphere to the wider social context. The author has lived in seven different European countries, including all parts of the UK, and h...

A survey vessel trawls up a man's body in the Outer Hebrides and ship's engineer Helen finds a compelling green stone in his pocket. On Rannoch Moor, her cousin Malcolm, a local ranger, is visited by a strange woman. She goes missing, and he too finds a green stone. The cousins have stumbled upon a multi-faceted conspiracy involving the high-tech company Fundamantal Forces who are promising limitless green energy from under the moor. It's soon...

William Dickenson, man of business to the earl of Shrewsbury, knows that raising the rents on farmholds will ease his master's cash-flow problem. But Lord Shrewsbury imposes such huge increases on one manor, Glossopdale in the Derbyshire Peak District, that none of the tenants can pay. "Black Harry" Botham, of Storth Farm in the Glossopdale hamlet of Simmondley, knows the courts won't oppose those rent increases, Lord Shrewsbury is too powerf...

Injured Ethelred the Unready is one of only three elite carrier pigeons trained to undertake two-way flights. Konstantin von Essen is the traumatized 14-year-old son of Generalfeldmarschall Dieter von Essen, the Commander for Operations in the North Zone of Occupied France. Eleven-year-old Dottie Latymer is evacuated from London to Surrey where her Anglo-American identity, together with her affected American accent, makes her a target for bull...

Joe thinks the dog next door is trying to kill him. Willow didn't mean to nearly kill him. She just needs to tell Joe about three important things. But how can you make your brother understand important things when you live with the neighbour these days... and you are a labradoodle? Only once Joe believes that Willow is his reincarnated sister Emily can he get to grips with some big problems in his life... AND go on a dangerous rescue mission ...

2022 brought us the mad hubris and economically catastrophic fallout of the 50 day British prime minister, the monstrosities of Putin, climate catastrophe, a new pandemic of infection predominantly affecting school children, poverty, cold, inflation, be-leagured public sector workers forced after more than a decade of austerity to impoverish themselves further by withdrawing their labour, grief 'tap-tap-tapping/on your window' and (as I write)...

Clint's poetry uses geology, landscape and family history to weave together an emotional response to the places he knows and loves in the East Riding and North Yorkshire. Walking the coastline is a cathartic experience. Here you'll explore beautiful paces with hidden histories and legends, find wrecks on the beach or catch a glimpse of student life as a geologist. Published for the first time are sequences of poems about the River Hull and fou...

Dream Catcher 45. Literary Arts Magazine featuring poetry, prose, reviews and the art of ...

New schoolteacher Jenny Threadneedle has lived for almost as long as she can remember in High Hants, an enclosed idealised Little England. Founded by wealthy white English businessmen and Red Top journalists, aghast at immigration and climate catastrophe, life in High Hants is just perfect - unless you ask questions, or begin to doubt this "1950s paradise" is as wonderful as claimed. A dystopian satire of tiny minds and limited outlook. Is it ...

Well known in his native Tyneside, Harry's best selling Northern Lights, the most borrowed book in Middlesborough Library, took aim at the appalling treatment of the North East. there is an england [note the lack of capitals] widens the scope of Harry's pen to the current state of the country. In his own words: "A country with a parliament dating back over 800 years: a country which boasts a long line of engineers, inventors and pioneers who b...