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  It's rotten having a birthday just before Christmas.   Sometimes Toby gets just one present for both his birthday and Christmas. Sometimes people just give him money because they've run out of present ideas.   Then when he comes to spend that money there's hardly anything left in the shops. It’s the same this year. He can't find any Lego bricks he wants.   An old man who reminds him of his Grandpa Jack is sitting cold and hungry on the street. Toby thinks of another use for his birthday money.   What he does afterwards reminds his Grandpa Jack of a well-known Christmas song.    On the Feast of Stephen by Gill and Ashleigh James is a feel-good story for early readers.  When the moon starts to disappear over the horizon, the sea wants to know where it is going, and even, more importantly, will it come back? So begins an astonishing journey to the furthest corners of the earth to the darkest depths of the sea.   The finery of C...

    It's rotten having a birthday just before Christmas.   Sometimes Toby gets just one present for both his birthday and Christmas. Sometimes people just give him money because they've run out of present ideas.   Then when he comes to spend that money there's hardly anything left in the shops. It’s the same this year. He can't find any Lego bricks he wants.   An old man who reminds him of his Grandpa Jack is sitting cold and hungry on the street. Toby thinks of another use for his birthday money.   What he does afterwards reminds his Grandpa Jack of a well-known Christmas song.    On the Feast of Stephen by Gill and Ashleigh James is a feel-good story for early readers.  When the moon starts to disappear over the horizon, the sea wants to know where it is going, and even, more importantly, will it come back? So begins an astonishing journey to the furthest corners of the earth to the darkest depths of the sea.   The fi...

    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. We all inhabit multiple worlds and the real person lives in the liminal space between them. In this fascinating collection of vignettes and creative memoir, we are invited to explore several constructs of the times and places defined by the narrator, and also envisaged by those around her. These accounts have appeared in other publications, but gathered here the whole becomes greater than its parts and tells a larger story. S. Nadja Zajdman brings her rich and unique voice to this story: Between Worlds . RRP 9.00  A me...

  Babel is the second part of the Peace Child trilogy. Kaleem has found his father and soon finds the love of his life, Rozia Laurence, but he is still not comfortable with his role as Peace Child. He also has to face some of the less palatable truths about his home planet: it is blighted by the existence of the Z Zone, a place where poorer people live outside of society, and by switch-off, compulsory euthanasia for a healthy but aging population, including his mentor, Razjosh. The Babel Tower still haunts him, but it begins to make sense as he uncovers more of the truth about his past and how it is connected with the problems in the Z Zone. Kaleem knows he can and must make a difference, but at what personal cost?   Kaleem Malkendy is different – and on Terrestra, different is no way to be. Everything about Kaleem marks him out form the rest: the blond hair and dark skin, the uncomfortable cave where he lives and the fact that he doesn’t know his father. He’s ...

  What shall I do with my Creative Writing group? Here are a list of suggestions based on what you might do over a year, whether   you meet once a week or once a month. Each suggested session plan allows you to plan an interesting session with your group, and suggests what to do in the session, what you need to prepare before the session and how you might follow it up. Suggested timings are included.       Have fun with my Let's get Writing. Those creative juices will soon be flowing.    There are three prompts a day for the whole of 2023. Some are short and pithy, others are inspired by obscure days e.g. 8 January Bubble Bath Day , and some go into more detail on an aspect of writing craft. There are series that go over a number of days. A few prompts are about works in progress and several give you the choice of working with a text you have already created, creating something new or even editing a completed piece of work. But ev...

In this stunning collection, women and girls grapple with socio-economic injustices: a ten-year-old American child witnesses coercion by the Corsican gendarme; deck hands spar in the West Indies; a woman finds community through climbing a granite rockface; and an émigré mother worries and awaits settlement under tightening immigration laws in contemporary Britain.   These complex and dynamic characters reveal how place shapes us, and the various ways we search for belonging in a world in flux.  RRP £8.50   Buy from Amazon   Note, this is an affiliate link and a small portion of what you pay, at no extra cost to you,   may go to Bridge House Publishing.     Buy from us ( 1-4 books)                 Buy from us (5+ books)