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  Welcome to the flash fiction library where the shelves are groaning with bitesize fiction. Libraries are quiet places, ordered places, places of intellect, culture and civilisation. But hiding inside are words that can explode like bombs, words to anger and appal, to titillate and tease, words to amuse and entertain. Which will you choose to read first? Matthew Roy Davey offers us a wealth of bijou tales in his perfectly formed Shhh! RRP Paperback £9.00 RRP Kindle £2.25 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 form Waterstones (UK   Buy from Barnes and Noble (US)   Buy from Booktopia (Australia)    Buy from us (1-4 books)        Buy from us (5+ books)        A well crafted and conceptualised experience. Troubling and traumatic though ...

  "The Macaroon Chronicles" is a romp through relationships amongst some anthropomorphic characters. It is one of those quirky books that awakes your sense of humour. Come and follow the fun.Take a tour of the exotic Isle of Macaroon with Eddie and his zany friends who will be pleased to show you the cheese mines, Meringue Mountains and the Custard River while they flee unscrupulous promoters, bandit badgers and low-flying seagulls. But a word of advice – don’t refer to Eddie as a chicken, he thinks he’s a bald eagle. And don’t mention Brian’s small stature, he’s rather sensitive about his size. Oh, and don’t call Brian a monkey, he’s actually a lemur. And finally, if Gideon takes a pen out of his pocket and you value your life – duck. A boring post box. Five knitters. Can one woman convert a post box into a work of artistic genius? Vera Twinge is a natural leader. As chairperson of the newly formed Creaping Bottom Post Box Topper Society, she’s determined to mak...

 These books wen out of print with their original publisher.  We've given them a spit and polish and  brought them back to life. But them both together for just £12.00. Lizzie lives a simple life… until Jack moves in next door! She’s badgered by the local newspaper who want to print a story about her. They challenge her to be self-sufficient for a year. Eventually she accepts – but on her terms. It’s a difficult year, but she learns what’s important to her. Could you live off the land for a year? Maybe if the consequences were important? When is a bet, not a bet? Lizzie wasn’t interested in Paul’s money. At least, until she found a cause she felt strongly about. See how this becomes An Honourable Wager in Sarah Swatridge’s intriguing novel.   Tom crashes his car and he wakes up in an unfamiliar place. He is unable to reach Amanda. They argued just before the crash. He meets cheeky but friendly Marcus, who, though younger than Tom, has more experience in t...

  Illness and violence, fair-weather friends and dysfunctional families, trauma and rapid cultural shifts – girls and women in contemporary India deal with the spectrum of life’s challenges and rewards. These fifteen   stories feature Indian women – and, occasionally, nonhuman females – as they grapple with family and friendship, miscarriages and runaway children, rapid sociocultural shifts, love and sex, work and ambition, physical and mental illness, aging and coming of age, and the struggle to make a living. Several stories feature working-class characters and examine how class shapes our psychological reality.    Amita Basu’s At Play and Other Stories examines the struggles and joys of life for women and girls in contemporary India.  RRP Paperback £11.00  Kindle £2.25  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 fro...

  A collection of stories that runs the gamut from serious to comic. Relationships, and reactions to traumatic experiences or change, all come under scrutiny. Life-changing events play out against a counterpoint of minutely observed details. Though you won't meet any bears in this volume, you will come across the real Dylan, delve into a literary feud, partake in preparations for a funeral rehearsal, share a musician's musings, find out the importance of gender-neutral watches and, perhaps, learn to stay clear of tigers, at least in the form of tattoos. L.F. Roth brings us thought-provoking stories in The Sound of Patriarchy and Other Stories .   Resilience is a single author collection from Bridge House Publishing. Jim Bates has a well-established voice and he brings us a substantial collection of emotionally-rich, thought-provoking stories. Behind the death of a person, a building or a place, life goes on. Here is a strong sense of many places: rural North W...

  Harry Burden is classically handsome, wildly eccentric and fiercely intelligent – but he is also the single biggest nitwit Charlie Bloom has ever met. And living together in moneyed London has caused Charlie to grow quite neurotic. So when Charlie is invited away for the weekend, he considers his options: Sit around insufflating hairspray with Harry, or get away for three days of peace and relaxation. Well, it’s no choice at all really. But when Charlie arrives in The Lake District, he quickly discovers that peace and relaxation are not what’s in store for him. Where Wild Birds Shriek is equal parts comedy, drama and madcap farce, featuring sword fights, car crashes, blackbirds, antique duelling pistols, several near-death experiences and a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle. Find your copy here 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 Ch...

  These stories were written one a day throughout January 2013. They were originally published on a blog called Gill’s January Stones . In fact, they were published in reverse order. The first one you read here, When Physics Got Sick , was the last one to be written and originally published on 31 January 2016. Sometimes the stories would come right at the beginning of the day. Sometimes they would take a while longer. Do they have a theme? Not really, though the idea of ‘stones’ is one of turning them over slowly on the beach until we find the right one. It’s not a bad time of year, anyway, right at the beginning in January, as the New Year starts and the days slowly become longer. There was no strict word count. Each story is as long as it needs to be. It had to be finished, though, b y midnight of that day. See on 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   A...