An unusual blend of sun, sea and humanity is brought together in this collection
of short stories. The author carries his
readers to far-flung islands where they might be in for a culture shock. Here we
see relationships without pretentions.
ISBN 9781852001346/ 217x140mm / hardback / 192pp / £16.95
Guardian Fiction Award winner Carol Lake’s latest novel centres on a girl’s coming of age in the innocent days of the 1950s.
Wendy’s family move to Lancashire and there follows a year of discovery and mystery
amid new experiences and relationships.
ISBN 9781852001339/ 217x140mm / hardback / 168pp / £15.95
This could be a satire on every Aga saga ever written. For the literal-minded it
is a salacious story of sin, crime, death and
disaster over the century from Waterloo to the First World War.
ISBN 9781852001308/ 217x140mm / hardback / 296pp / £17.95
An ingenious anthology of short stories with varied themes to suit every reader.
There are a number of stories using clever
anthropomorphic twists, producing nostalgic memories; sometimes with humour and
occasionally with sadness.
ISBN 9781852001322 / 217x140mm / hardback / 192pp / £16.95
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With dramatic settings stretching from the moors and mills of Yorkshire, England
to the heat and velds surrounding
Johannesburg, South Africa, all against the backdrop of the Second World War,
this is a story of love conquering evil.
ISBN 9781852001384 / 217x140mm / hardback / 283pp / £17.95
Madelaine and Bronwen meet for the first time at their new office employment in
London during the late 1930s. With Madelaine
coming from a well-off background, her father 25 years older than her mother,
and most of her life spent enjoying herself. . .
ISBN 9781852001391/ 217x140mm / hardback / 170pp approx / £16.95
The year is 1794 and Jason Bradley is ordered to join the British Navy on a
sloop-of-war to fight the
French during the Napoleonic Wars.
ISBN 9781852001407/ 217x140mm / hardback / 280pp approx / £17.95
When Rex leaves Hazel in 1960, Peter and Margaret find her an abandoned old
farmhouse and she and her children move in.
This is about their plans, their ideals, about the compromises they make with
reality, and what happens as they live. . .
ISBN 9781852001414/ 217x140mm / hardback / 175pp approx / £16.95
Pamela Hill has put flesh on the bones of the assumption that Shakespeare went
to Scotland. The acceptance of this fact,
presumed not least by the information in Macbeth, together with the matter of the cryptic messages in his plays, has been ...
ISBN 9781852001131 / 217x140mm / hardback / 155pp / £15.95
A story of love and passion, laced with humour and intrigue.
Stella Ridgeford is a young woman from Devon who already has a feeling that her
life is not quite as she would wish it to be.
ISBN 9781852001070 / 217x140mm / hardback / 229pp / £16.95
