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Words from a Glass Bubble
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SynopsisThis passionate new book gathers together for the first time many of Vanessa Gebbie’s award-winning stories. Described by Maggie Gee as ‘a prodigiously gifted new writer’, this is a natural...
The Birth Machine
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SynopsisTucked up on the ward and secure in the latest technology, Zelda is about to give birth to her baby. But things don’t go to plan, and as her labour...
Reaching for Utopia: Making Sense of An Age of Upheaval
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Synopsis Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade – from the fall of Gordon Brown, to the...
In the Land of the Giants
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SynopsisWinner of the CLPE Poetry AwardGeorge Szirtes’ children’s poems comprise riddles, mysteries and parables, strange encounters, cautionary tales, and meditations on just about everything under the sun — from the...
In the Absence of Absalon
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Synopsis Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize In the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a...
Fates of the Animals
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Synopsis Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Songs of the drowned and a dog with wings… “The world was a grey place once, concrete grey and striped...
Chicken Unga Fever
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Synopsis Is it a new strain of bird flu? A strange neurological condition characterised by an irresistible urge to eat poultry-based foods? No, Chicken Unga Fever is a collection of...
Werewolf
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SynopsisAugust 1945, Germany. The Allies have won the war. Now they have to win the peace …Silas Payne is a Scotland Yard officer seconded to Germany to help implement the...
In Their Own Words
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SynopsisIn Their Own Words is a celebration of the variousness of contemporary poets living and writing in the UK today. 56 poets talk about their own poetic voices and their...
Habit
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Synopsis Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job centre and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her ‘Uncle’ Ian, and a heavy night...
Balancing on the Edge of the World
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SynopsisThese are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it. A small boy struggles with his parents’ divorce, a doctor fails to understand the...
Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh
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Synopsis Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh is a eclectic and exciting gathering of poem and prose-poem manifestos and unmanifestos that try to understand what poetry is and who or what...
The Missing
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Synopsis Winner Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2009 Poetry Bank Choice Poetry Book Society Recommendation In...
No Traveller Returns
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SynopsisThis poetry collection includes prose. Some pieces tell stories. Others half-express, half-explain, a certain pressure of situation. Poems in a book do not sound, or signify, as do poems extracted,...
If You Could See Laughter
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SynopsisIf You Could See Laughter is Mandy Coe’s first collection of poetry for children. An award-winning poet, Mandy Coe is an educational specialist in poetry in schools and has been...
Folklore
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SynopsisStretching from Anglo-Saxon fragments, through the Shakespeare of Midsummer Night’s Dream, the ecstatic lyrics of John Clare, elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, and contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill Folklore is...
Birdhouse
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SynopsisFrom diamonds hidden in a grandmother’s pantry to a peahen’s shout of ecstasy, from the voice of a deranged bridesmaid to that of a nun teaching a sex education lesson,...
Apprenticed to Justice
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SynopsisApprenticed to Justice is a collection of vividly rendered lyrical and narrative poems that trace the complex inheritances of Indigenous America, this “strange map drawn of blood and history.” It...
Antler
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SynopsisEric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors...
A Bad Case
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Synopsis What links Clorinda to the mysterious disappearance of her new friend Theresa, in broad daylight, on the streets of New York? What is the true relationship between high-born, nine-year-old...
Too Many Magpies
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SynopsisCan we believe in magic and spells? Can we put our faith in science?A young mother married to a scientist fears for her children’s safety as the natural world around...
The White Road and Other Stories
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Synopsis What links a café in Antarctica, a factory for producing electronic tracking tags and a casino where gamblers can wager their shoes? They're among the multiple venues where award-winning...
The Crossing
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Synopsis It is a foggy day. Ruby Grummett, a railway crossing keeper, opens the gates for a council lorry, thinking that the Skegness train has been cancelled, but it comes...
Some Bright Elegance
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SynopsisSome Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning...
Project XX
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Synopsis In 2012, a deranged grad student dressed as the Joker shot and killed dozens of movie goers at a Batman film opening in Colorado. Gun violence is so out...
Poetry Wars
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SynopsisPoetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over...
Overheard
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Synopsis Winner of the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Fiction Anthology From village storytellers to nineteenth-century serialisations, from pub anecdotes to dramatic monologues, storytelling is an enduring art form. This...
Nude
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SynopsisThe women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs...
Ghost & Other Sonnets
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SynopsisGhost & Other Sonnets will disturb and delight. Divided into three sections the sequence begins with the Ghost Sonnets. Using traditional ghost narratives Monk condenses them into the tightly controlled...
Clara’s Daughter
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Synopsis Michele is a successful business woman with a troubled private life. She has a high-powered job, a family, a husband, yet she is defined by a term of possession:...
All the Frogs
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SynopsisAll the Frogs collects together the poems John Mole has written for children since the publication of This is the Blackbird which was shortlisted for the CLPE Award. As in...
Walking with Ghosts
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SynopsisWritten from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer, and mixed-race experience, Walking with Ghosts: Poems confronts the legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal of Cherokees from their homelands while simultaneously resisting...
The Migraine Hotel
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SynopsisA combination of verse and prose poetry, ‘The Migraine Hotel’ is Luke Kennard’s third collection and very much a sequel to ‘The Harbour Beyond the Movie’. The voices continue to...
The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased)
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Synopsis The Giddy Career of Mr Gadd (deceased) explores the painful themes of having to grieve for someone who is not yet dead, and trying to find one’s identity through...
The Best British Poetry 2014
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Synopsis‘The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of...
The African Origins of UFOs
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SynopsisIn the hot and hedonistic atmosphere of Toucan Bay, a Caribbean enclave on the planet Kunu Supia, the legendary hustler of bootleg melanin Joe Sambucus Nigra returns from the desert...
Storm Warning
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Synopsis Storm Warning is the latest collection from award-winning writer Vanessa Gebbie, described as ‘prodigiously gifted’ by novelist Maggie Gee. It explores the echoes of human conflict in a series...
Sausage Hall
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Synopsis Sausage Hall is home to millionaire Kevan de Vries, grandson of a Dutch immigrant farmer. De Vries has built up a huge farming and food packing empire which extends,...
Salt ‘Book Brain’ Tote Book Bag
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100% Cotton Tote Book Bag Colour: Natural Single-Colour Print. 62 x 62 x 80 cm dimensions Salt’s ‘Book Brain’ tote bag is ideal for transporting all those unmissable Salt books (okay, and...
Looking Out Of Broken Windows
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SynopsisShortlisted for The 2013 Scott PrizeThe characters in this Scott Prize shortlisted debut collection are all a little broken. Haunted by the past, trapped in the present, and frightened of...
A Fragile Hope
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SynopsisThe short stories in ‘A Fragile Hope’ are set in different locales, from Nairobi and small villages and slums in Kenya to London and Copenhagen, from the bustling humid cities...
The Solex Brothers (Redux)
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SynopsisLike a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos,...
The Salt Book of Younger Poets
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SynopsisThe Salt Book of Younger Poets showcases a new generation of British poets born since the mid-80s. Many of these poets embrace new technologies such as blogs, social networking and...
The Half-Life of Songs
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Synopsis This is David Gaffney’s latest collection of micro stories. We see a world where thinking is illegal, belly dancers’ blood is used to fertilize tomato plants, pensioners in leather...
The Burning
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Synopsis‘The lyric poem works both to slow down our world, teasing out the many disparate elements of our experience, and to reorient it, by exposing an entire universe of instincts,...
Sunny and the Ghosts
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Synopsis Sometimes, when you open a door or lift a lid, you find exactly what you expected to find: coats in the coat cupboard, bread in the bread bin, toys...
Sins of the Leopard
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial PrizeThis remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires...
Rooted in Dishonour
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Synopsis The fifth novel in the DI Yates series Eighteen-year-old Ayesha Verma disappears from her home in Spalding just a few days after her parents have introduced her to the...
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