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The Faculty of Indifference
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SynopsisThis is what a bad day looks like: a day when something happens.Robert Exley works for the Faculty: he spends his life making sure that nothing ever happens. In counter-terrorism,...
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...
Billionaires’ Banquet
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Synopsis The Herald 2017 Books of the Year 1985, Edinburgh. Thatcher’s policies are biting deep – fat cats and street-kids, lovers, losers and the rest struggle to survive. Hume sets...
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...
Changing Room
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Synopsis From cramped cubicles to rented bedrooms, hallways that become highways in the sleepless hours, to the space and beauty of a shrine; Woodford’s award-winning poems revisit old rooms and...
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...
Best British Horror 2015
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Synopsis The Home of Horror British Fantasy Award winning editor Johnny Mains ferries Salt’s Best series into the dankest recesses of horror with tales written by the UK’s top ghouls....
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,...
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...
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...
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:...
Rose with Harm
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SynopsisWinner of the East Anglian Book Award for PoetryShortlisted The Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2021Heartbreaking detail permeates Hardisty's deftly musical debut. These are love poems, conjuring relationships...
The Electric Dwarf
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Synopsis A ‘Withnail’ for the twenty-first century Tim Vine’s satirical thriller appears to revolve around the dysfunctional lives of Norman and Peter – the latter becoming an accidental terrorist. Driven...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Astral Travel
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SynopsisAstral Travel, about a charismatic but troubled Irishman and his effect on his family, explores the way that the secrets forged by cultural, religious and sexual prejudice can reverberate down...
Hawthorn City
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Synopsis Gardens, grotesqueries, historical landscapes, destruction and darkness, all collide in Tony Williams’ explosive new collection Tony Williams is roaming the earth. The poems in Hawthorn City record the tales...
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...
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...
A Little Javanese
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SynopsisThis is a collection of stories about the altering landscape of the mind and the landscape of place. The stories are set in diverse locations, France, Russia, New York, Indonesia...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My Tin Watermelon
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Synopsis In this collection, Peter Daniels looks at his life as an older gay man, his London neighbourhood, his furniture, other people’s gardens and London’s creatures. His distinctive voice ranges...
Earn Your Milk
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SynopsisEarn Your Milk contains all the uncollected prose works of Tom Raworth, gathering together Letters from Yaddo, The Vein and Letter to Martin Stannard with his uncategorizable prose-work A Serial...
Then Spree
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SynopsisThe poems in Then spree take language for a ride bare-backed through fringe-worlds: through the backwoods of forgotten histories to the watery edges of landmasses, from the sunken, frayed psyche...
Milk Fever
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SynopsisMilk Fever is a prize-winning first collection from a new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poet’s former career as a television scriptwriter for young adults is evident in the...
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...
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...
Low-Tide Lottery
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SynopsisLow-Tide Lottery is an introduction to the work of upcoming poet Claire Trévien. This is an exuberant collection that rummages in the rust of the everyday in search of beauty....
Dead of Winter
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Synopsis A fast-paced, darkly funny crime novel set in Interior Alaska that follows down-on-his-luck cabbie, Mike Fisher, as he searches for his daughter. Her step-father has been shot in her...
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...
Best British Short Stories 2013
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Synopsis The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories...
Best British Short Stories 2012
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Synopsis The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2012 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2011. These...
Elephant
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Synopsis In 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...
Sunny and the Hotel Splendid
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Synopsis On the hottest day of the year, Ana Sharma and her mum check in to the Hotel Splendid, a place where bells seem to ring all by themselves, jam...
Tomorrow, We Will Live Here
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SynopsisThis is a terse, tough début by an award-winning American poet with punch in the language. What you find here is the grist of life – death, love, sex, departure...
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...
The Book of Alexander
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Synopsis A post-modern puzzle about self and identity. Alexander embarks on a remarkable experiment, the likes of which no one has attempted before, maybe that's why there is a detective...
Scarecrow
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Synopsis‘You’ve displeased me. You things always do. Now it’s time for us to part.’ He watched, expressionless, as the thing raised a feeble arm; then he released a handle on...
Deaf at Spiral Park
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SynopsisDeaf at Spiral Park is a book about a bear that shaves off his fur to join humanity. The novel uses a range of generic approaches, such as comedy and...
The Manet Girl
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Synopsis The stories in The Manet Girl explore sexual relations – from both male and female points of view – in the present, but sometimes with a backdrop of several...
Erec & Enide
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SynopsisErec & Enide is a bold and unashamedly intimate work that delights in the theatrical, communicative powers of language, and by turns gives way to a quiet sadness. Writing out...
Sweet Shop
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Synopsis Ranging over place, memory and history, Amit Chaudhuri’s new collection of poems makes a fresh, spiritual accommodation with the world. The poems often take their themes from sweets named...
Aromabingo
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Synopsis Aromabingo builds on the critical success of David Gaffney’s 2006 collection Sawn-off Tales, offering yet more of Gaffney’s weird and edgy ultra-shorts, plus several longer works, so you can...
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