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Offers on our charity books

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  Offers on our charity books A continuing response by writers to the Covid19 pandemic in 2020 and during the ongoing aftershocks in 2021. This collection is of work by writers we have published before and whom we trust, and their trusted colleagues. When disasters strike writers respond and react in words. They share with us their hopes and fears. They describe and rationalise.  Like its companion book this volume contains pieces of fiction, flash fiction, script, poetry, memoir and some texts which cannot easily be categorised.               There is a loose chronology here – the texts are listed by the order in which they were written and / or by the times to which they refer. There are messages of hope, cries of despair and acts of kindness. This hardback book is above all a glimpse, a snapshot of some astonishing human history.      Aftermath is the second book in a series of creative responses to the 2020 pandemic and its aftermath.     RRP £13.00  Buy from Amazon RRP £13.00 A re
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  Find offers on the Schellberg Cycle books  See offers on Amazon Renate Edler loves to visit her grandmother in the house on Schellberg Street. She often meets up with her friend Hani Gödde who lives nearby. This year, though, it is not to be. Just a few weeks after a night when synagogues are burned and businesses owned by Jews are looted, Renate finds out a terrible secret about her family. See offers on Amazo n Clara will not be daunted. Her life will not end when her beloved husband dies too young. She will become a second mother to the young children who live away f

Fresh Beginnings by Leela Dutt

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  An intriguing mixture of stories, all in Leela Dutt’s inimitable style – something here for everyone, and beautifully illustrated by Kate Attfield. Some are short and funny, some poignant – widows faced with losing their grandchildren, a daughter burying her father and dealing with a domineering mother. One endearing narrator is not human at all but still strikes a chord with us. Time travellers visit Hans Andersen’s Copenhagen; a young German boy is welcomed by some but by no means all in Hertfordshire just after the war. Perilous adventures in a hire car in the south of France are described by a lad who is unaware that at the very moment he’s telling us about his family holiday, London is under attack. A young Japanese car manufacturer encounters the strange people of the South Wales Valleys – and their grandfather who was a prisoner of war in Burma. Finally the life story of a Quaker celebrating her ninetieth birthday at the end of the century. Leela Dutt’s collectio

What if .... by Anne Wilson

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    “What if?” An unanswered question. The unexplained, a mystery, a road not taken. This is a collection of dark fiction injected here and there with glimmers of humour. The author takes us on a surreal and ghostly journey from Latin America’s Day of the Dead, through the coastal towns of Lancashire, a pig farm in Denmark, a high-rise in Mallorca, a haunted vicarage at Christmas and a town centre coffee bar. The voices we hear are variously plaintive, nostalgic, and occasionally vindictive or vengeful: the testimonies and fears of the living and the dead. Anne Wilson, writes about places she knows, imbuing the natural world and the everyday with disturbing fantasy and the supernatural. RRP £7.00 Buy from Amazon Buy from The Hive (UK)    Buy from Barnes and Noble (US)  Buy from Booktopia (Australia)   Buy from us (1-4 books)   Buy from us (5+ books)    Some really effective and enjoyable stories, from the spooky to the deeply creepy, and deserving of a wide audi

The Memory Keeper by S. Nadja Zajdman

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    In these eighteen linked stories, the reader accompanies our heroine Noela (“born on Santa Clause’s Day!”) as she develops from an insecure Daddy’s Girl into a woman willing and able to stand on her own. Go on this journey with her as she meets challenge after challenge and as her relationships with all around her change. The Memory Keeper is a collection of tales about a life well learnt in S. Nadja Zajdman’s distinctive story-teller voice. RRP £9.00 Buy from Amazon   Buy from the Hive (UK)   Buy from Barnes and Noble (US)  Buy from Booktopia (Australia)      Buy from us (1-4 books)    Buy from us (5+ books)