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  Can the drama in these episodes match the real drama of 21st century life? There is a murder mystery and can we find a cue? These interlocking episodes, which form the second series based around the activities of an amateur dramatic group, first appeared on CaféLit, the e-zine to read with your afternoon cuppa. Find your copy here Prepare to suspend your disbelief, have the tissues handy and allow your imagination to run wild. This mix of stories will delight you, make you laugh, make you cry and make you cry out – not really! From a woman who finds a giraffe under the canal bridge and two cats squabbling over a pancake, to an arrogant French chef and a pair of abandoned sparkly trainers, this collection will make you laugh out loud and touch your heart. You will feel intrigued by a French ghost, visit medieval Denmark at Yul, and the war-torn Middle East. You will even find romance with a green-eyed angel. These are just some of the stories you can expect to find in this collec...

    Every year we pick a very vaguely Christmas-related theme for our annual anthology. Then we invite our writers to subvert it. In this collection, they’ve certainly done that to the extent that we almost had a picture of cream crackers for the cover. Our theme this year is “crackers”. So, we have Christmas crackers, cream crackers, cracking dresses, a cracked antique and many, many other interpretations. We hope you will find this a cracking good read. Some fantastic writing was offered and the most of it was potentially publishable. We chose the pieces in this collection because they told a good story, had a strong voice and were imaginative in their interpretation of the theme. This anthology of literary fiction is so apt for the 21st Century.   This glittery collection of glit-er-ary tales will add some sparkle to your life. You will meet all kinds of interesting characters facing all kinds of interesting dilemmas. You will learn that all that gl...

 Trigger warning: this story refers to a suicide  They knew something was wrong. But no one spoke up. When something terrible happens to fourteen-year-old Joanne Wilson, it shatters the heart of an ordinary street in an ordinary town. During the following twelve months, the residents of Station Square have their own stories and secrets to tell. Did tea-leaf-reading mystic, Maisie, see it coming? What about Joanne’s close friend, Adrian? Or her family friend, Elizabeth? Each of them faces an excruciating question: Could they have prevented this tragedy? Making Lemonade is a poignant exploration of community, loss, and the cost of silence. All profits will be donated to the charity PAPYRUS .   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 an this will also be donated to PAPYRUS .       Buy from Waterstones UK    Buy from Ba...