Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of my Brother is haunted by loss yet these poems defy despair by stepping emphatically into the liberating realm of strangeness.
Becky Varley-Winter’s striking debut explores themes of daring, danger and risk in poems that are packed with imagery from the natural world. Complex, hypnotic, memorable – this collection introduces a significant new voice.
Comic, grotesque, lyrical, and immensely readable, Williams’s picaresque medieval fantasy is a reader’s delight. A sweeping yarn through the dark ages filled with rogues, lovers, murderers, witchcraft, failed promise, wisdom and regret.
A strikingly beautiful collection from poet and writer Richard Skinner. Haunting lyrics of great formal skills, packed with poignancy and elegance. A book to be read, and memorised, that will delight this author’s extensive readership.
A hot summer. The countryside around Manchester is ablaze. Ethan Mallam is fresh out of prison and finds his old gang locked in a brutal civil war. Against his wishes, he is quickly drawn... Læs mere
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 stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.
Robbergirls is a Sapphic retelling of Hans Christian Andersn’s fairy tale, The Snow Queen. It was inspired by a childhood fear of, and desire for, the character of the Robbergirl who both taunts and aids Gerda in her search for her missing playmate, Kay.
Denis Klamm, feckless scion of two former Leaders, returns to the Island for his father’s funeral, only to find it sinking. Or the sea rising – it depends what you believe. Either way,... Læs mere
The ‘shadow line’ is a term Royle uses to describe the faint line on the top edge of the text block that allows him to see whether a book on a shelf contains an inclusion – those items inserted into books and long forgotten.
Peter Daniels’ new collection explores gay liaisons and relationships, as well as ageing and mortality. The title poem borrows from Yeats, “That is no country for old men. The young / In one another's arms” and explores wryly what we can hope for from love in later years.
Birdeye is a novel which shows us what the hippy dream looks like fifty years on, when the secrets which were masked by free spirit and a determined nonconformism force their way to the surface.
A major work of historical and political fiction exploring the birth of the Independent Labour Party, its development in the early twentieth century and its fortunes in the interwar... Læs mere