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Words from a Glass Bubble
£5.99
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...
A Brief History of Time
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SynopsisA Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social...
Collected Poems
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Synopsis‘John James is one of the most highly respected poets of his generation. In this volume all his major works are gathered together from Mmm … Ah Yes (1967) to...
The Falconer
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Synopsis Award-winning writer Alice Thompson’s compelling new novel is a story of transformation; an exploration of the shifting borderlands between imagination and reality. It is 1936. Iris Tennant has applied,...
Chimera
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SynopsisAlice Thompson’s gripping, deep space novel sees scientist and dream investigator Artemis travelling to the distant moon of Oneiros. Her ship, the Chimera has been sent to look for organisms...
The Way to Work
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SynopsisHave you ever boarded your morning commute and wished you’d never arrive at your destination? That is what happens to the protagonist of The Way to Work. Having boarded what...
To An Occupier Burning Holes
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Synopsis Formally-innovative, wildly-inventive, comic, surreal and poignant – Evans’s poetry is a restless delight as he tackles almost any subject from lost invoices, hearing aids, fruit flies, migration, bin lorries,...
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,...
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,...
Ace of Spiders: Book Two: The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy
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Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Stanly is frustrated. Having set himself up as London’s protector, he’s finding that the everyday practicalities of superheroism are...
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...
Connective Tissue
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SeriesName: Salt Modern Stories Number: 2SynopsisThis collection of short fiction aims to define the sometimes indefinable and to give voice to those struggling to make sense of what life throws at...
A Place of Safety
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Synopsis A boy exiles himself from his family through a shocking act of violence. Years later, having built a new life he returns to try to understand his past. He...
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...
Nameless Lake
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SynopsisNameless Lake is about the unspoken pressures of gender and desire, told through the shifting dynamics of a lifelong friendship. Emma and Madryn grow up with dreams of escaping their...
Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother
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SynopsisJulian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In...
Sing Me Down from the Dark
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Synopsis‘Sing Me Down From the Dark explores the highs and lows of a ten-year sojourn in Japan, two international marriages, a homecoming, and the struggles of cross-cultural relationships. It is...
The Meanwhile Sites
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SynopsisWhat is a city for? How long do the vibrations persist from an economic shock wave, or a guitar chord? Is anything really permanent? The ‘meanwhile site’ is a place...
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...
The Children’s War
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SynopsisIn the first half of The Children’s War, Shaindel Beers looks at artwork done by and about child survivors of war, embodying the voices of the children, their families, and...
Eliza and the Bear
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SynopsisEleanor Rees’s first collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection...
Stanly’s Ghost: Book Three: The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy
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Synopsis The Guardian: Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his...
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...
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,...
Somewhere Else, or Even Here
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Synopsis A girl meets with danger on the beach when she is lured away by a strange boy; a bereaved wife enlists the help of a mysterious woman to perform...
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...
Arctic Journal Northeastland (Nordhauslandet) 1935–36
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SynopsisRichard Hamilton had just graduated from Oxford University with first class honours when he joined the 1935–36 Oxford University Arctic Expedition to North East Land (Nordhauslandet) in the Svalbard archipelago.As...
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...
Best British Short Stories 2011
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Synopsis 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...
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:...
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...
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...
Third Class Superhero
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SynopsisMoisture Man, the hero of “Third Class Superhero”, is tired of watching his former classmates kick ass and claim their secret hideouts while he struggles to maintain his good-guy accreditation....
Shapeshifting for Beginners
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Synopsis 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,...
White Noise Machine
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SynopsisWhere Richard Skinner’s previous pamphlets, Invisible Sun and Dream into Play, were primarily concerned with the play of light and playfulness respectively, White Noise Machine is mainly concerned with sound....
Elephant
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SynopsisIn a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he...
Effigies III
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Synopsis Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Brandy Nālani McDougall and Craig Santos Perez The Effigies series has woven a vibrant tapestry of indigenous poets from Native North America and the...
Sawn-Off Tales
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Synopsis David Gaffney’s compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory...
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...
The Method
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SynopsisWinner of the 2011 Edge Hill Readers’ PrizeThe characters in this award-winning debut collection are very good at losing things: children, lovers, hope, the plot. They discover the past is...
Feral
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SynopsisIn richly detailed poems of wolf girls and feral boys, green children, and polar explorers, mermaids, orphans, and moth collectors, Janet McAdams explores the vexed relationship between human and non-human...
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 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,...
Magnus
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Synopsis In Magnus we enter the world of heroes and villains, gods and monsters, good and evil. With a twist, of course, as one would expect from the author of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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