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Read by the author and poet, Brian Bilston. Why do we write poetry? Who should write it? And where do you even start? Well, Brian Bilston, one of the UK’s most hilarious and best-loved poets, is here to take us through the hows, whys and whats of reading, writing and enjoying poetry every day...

If only Shelly Bennett had searched for Raymond Quinn as a mortal. Before he died. Before she died. Her life begins and ends with the loss of Raymond, killed in action in Vietnam five years before her own heartbreaking decision to end her life. But the end is just the beginning as Shelly struggles to find a place to spend her immortal future. Incredibly, Shelly experiences an array of unlived lives—some parallel to Raymond's fate, like a visit to Antigua, where their unlived lives first intersected.

Mia Belhaj yearns to be free. A child of Morocco in the politically and socially turbulent 1980s, she flees her family and her homeland to seek her own place in the world. Years later, she finds it as a famous author, only for a bout with a virus to jeopardize her memory and the novel she wants to write about her past. When she’s advised to retrace her history to reclaim her present, Mia journeys around the world in search of herself, from Casablanca to Paris to New York, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, and finally back to her grandparents’ farm in Morocco.

When a homeless man’s body is found in a derelict school, Victor Mitchum knows it wasn’t an accident. He knew Sawney from his own days on the streets. Sawney was clean, scared, and being hunted by dangerous people. Working with private investigators Kasper and Zofia Dąbrowski, Victor traces the events that led to Sawney’s death. His search leads him into Manchester’s hidden places—disused buildings, private security firms, and communities forced to live in the margins.

Emotionally avoidant James Wolf has spent his life running—from his past, his pain, and most importantly, from himself. Now nearing 40 and feeling the weight of profound loneliness, James escapes his life in Chicago for the vibrant yet isolating Florida Keys. There, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that challenges the walls he's spent a lifetime constructing. When an unexpected reunion with Lily, a long-lost friend, disrupts his carefully controlled world, James must decide whether to continue living in isolation or take a chance on connection and healing.

Set in the borderlands, Nostalgias of November, Arturo Magaña Amaya’s first collection of bilingual poems, is a bridge from the struggle of our labor to the serenity of our memory, from the voices of our ancestors to the songs of the barrio, a migration from the desolation of deserts to the fertile fields of our eternal hope.

CLICK! is a series of video games rigged in life by our game-master, based not on truth but on the lie that our make-believe roles are only make-believe. Can we hack our game-master till he self-destructs, then starting from childhood have our counter-game cure our earlier mistakes, or will the TNT of repeated adolescence blow up the therpaist?

Twelve women confront the mounting existential terrors of modernity—climate change, unbridled capitalism and greed, an entertainment industry that will go to surreal lengths to stay relevant—in this debut story collection set in a slightly off-kilter version of reality. A woman's limbs...

В Японии существует многовековая и яркая традиция передачи сказок из поколения в поколение. Эти сказки ничуть не уступают сборникам в «стиле братьев Гримм», но при этом они происходят из совершенно иной культуры. Если вы новичок в японских сказках и знакомы только со сказками о принцессах, живущих в замках, и принцах, сражающихся с драконами, вас ждёт нечто новое, необычное и потрясающее.

В произведениях Кавабаты, глубоко укорененных в национальной художественной традиции Японии, глубокое значение поддается подтексту, недосказанности. Они прекрасны, меланхоличны, и наполнены безошибочным видением автором человеческой психологии.

சிறுகதை, குறுநாவல், நாவல், பயணக் கட்டுரை, வாழ்க்கைச் சரிதம், சிறுவர் கதை - என்று இலக்கியத்தின் பல பிரிவுகளிலும் பங்களிப்பு செய்துள்ள சிவசங்கரி (பிறப்பு: 14-10-1942), அமெரிக்காவிலுள்ள அயோவா மாநிலத்தில் நடைபெற்ற சர்வதேச எழுத்தாளர் முகாமில் 1986-ஆம் ஆண்டில் பங்கு பெற்றவர். இவரது படைப்புகள், எம்.ஃபில் மற்றும் பி.எச்.டி. பட்டங்களுக்காக மாணவர்களால் ஆய்வு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளதோடு, பல நூல்கள் பல்கலைக்கழகங்களில் பாடநூல்களாகவும் வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன.

It is said that the Book of Crows contains the entire history of the world—past, present, and future. Equally sought after and feared, this mysterious book touches lives both high and low, young and old, ancient and modern. In a series of narratives spanning millennia, author Sam Meekings conjures a tale both epic and intimate.

Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot resist. Chia runs one of the best restaurants in Abuja, Nigeria, and is renowned among the male clientele for her captivating beauty and delicious hot pepper soup. But her hot pepper soup has a secret ingredient, and her beauty is not what it seems.

On a brisk February morning while walking to work, Ruth Foster is stopped by the local sheriff. He insists she accompany him to a health clinic, threatening to arrest her if she doesn't undergo testing in order to preserve decency and prevent the spread of sexual disease. Though Ruth has never shared more than a kiss with a man, by day's end she is one of dozens of women held at the State Industrial Farm Colony for Women. Some are there because they were reported for promiscuity by neighbors, husbands, strangers. Some were accused of prostitution.

Guiomar’s life and love are upended when she learns her family are secret Jews living in the shadow of the Grand Inquisitor’s dungeons. The Silver Candlesticks is the story of a young woman who learns her family is Jewish just as the Spanish Inquisition grips Sevilla. A new Inquisitor, Padre Ignacio Dominguez, has come to town to ferret out the secret Jews who remain in Spain one hundred years after the Edict of Expulsion forced most to leave or convert.

Eighteen-year-old Jessie Lindsay is left at the mercy of her wicked stepmother Celia upon the death of her beloved father. Beautiful, vampish Celia can have any man she wants, and when devilishly handsome stranger Stuart Edwards turns up amongst their aristocratic Mississippi plantation society, she wants him. What Celia doesn't know is that Stuart is a con man and a fortune hunter, and when he marries her it is to gain control of the plantation, Mimosa, that Celia inherited from Jessie's father. Jessie hates Stuart on sight, but he takes pity on the hoydenish young woman and is kind to her.

In the third novel by Foreword Indies Book of the Year award-winning author, Micah Thorp, Oregon homesteader and lumberman Don Karlsson finds himself engulfed in conflict, both in his tight-knit community and within his own family, when a new, possibly endangered species of vole is discovered in his trees.

Janey Carter has a lot to be grateful for—a home by the sea in the Scottish isles, a job that she loves, two kids who have successfully launched, and a network of kind and supportive friends. But since her husband left, her confidence has taken a nosedive. And then, out of the blue, her thirty-year-old daughter Essie announces she’s moving back home. Janey loves Essie dearly, but she was never the easiest to live with, and Janie has been enjoying the empty nest life.

Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi questa morte che ci accompagna dal mattino alla sera, insonne, sorda, come un vecchio rimorso o un vizio assurdo.

Set in early 20th-century India, Nirmala tells the poignant story of a teenage girl forced into a marriage with a much older widower after her family’s financial collapse. As Nirmala adjusts to her new reality, her dignity and resilience are tested by jealousy, suspicion, and the deep emotional divides within her household.