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  • Blondes & Blues
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    Blondes & Blues
    Mustashrik Mahbub

    In the final quarter of 2025, here in the City of London and North London, something amazing began to take place. Small increments built and built until it all became natural and right again, aiding the recovery narrative of our city environments in the post-Covid era and the financial revival of the legacy banking systems.


    Those areas were aware enough to notice and encourage the return of a much more stable, classic, and desired woman into our daily context. Strong. Charming. Independent. This woman is the blonde.


    So, within the day-to-day of what was an unpredictable maelstrom brought on by an “invasive syphon-flow colony” of crypto-criminals, who “played” twenty-four hours only the day after a good day, which has now ended this summer, 2026, I was able to finally “draw what I see” with my pen and paper, an ode to the anchoring moments that made a minute or two seem simply perfect and real again.


    So this one’s for the blondes in blue. For keeping everything sweet. A lovely thanks to you.

    £14.99
  • Strained Relations
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    Strained Relations
    Ann Yates

    Can a mistake you made at fifteen haunt you for the rest of your life?


    Can the mistake your grandmother made at fifteen really have consequences two generations later? Can a mistake you made at fifteen really have consequences three generations later?


    Polly hoped marriage would put the past behind her, but was she simply stepping out of the frying pan into the fire? Her children bring her great joy, each so different, yet so alike and all so loved. They are her reason for being. Surely nothing can change that—or can it?

    £9.99
  • A Sicilian Story
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    A Sicilian Story
    Penny Pecorelli

    What do you do when you fall in love with a man who is still in love with his dead wife? That is the dilemma facing Alice, a young teacher from England who, searching for her Italian roots, goes to live in a small village in Sicily with her grandmother’s sister and her husband, helping with their smallholding in the shadow of the menacing Mount Etna.


    She becomes a very popular teacher at the local junior school in Catania and is drawn to one of her young pupils, the effervescent Rosie, and her father, Lorenzo, a volcanologist and part of the mountain rescue team on Mount Etna, whose wife died several years previously in a tragic accident. Through Rosie and her father she meets and becomes close to their friends Elizabetta and Antonio and their children, the serious Elena and the mischievous Tommaso.


    She falls deeply in love with Lorenzo, but despite her best efforts and those of the incorrigible Rosie and her friend Elizabetta, it seems her love is destined to be unrequited. Instead, she busies herself with her teaching, the daily happenings of the village and learning as much as she can about the traditions and history of this fascinating island with its turbulent history.


    Then, when at last he unexpectedly proposes, she refuses him. Has she made the worst mistake of her life or will everything turn out for the best in the end? And can they escape the ever-present danger of the volcano which threatens to overwhelm them all?

    £9.99
  • Gods of Earth
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    Gods of Earth
    Brian Gieszler

    In a world recovering from a devastating nuclear war, two siblings find their way through a changed society. Roman and his sister Alexandria know only a rebuilding world of organised chaos that pretends to function despite limited resources.


    However, there is a poorly kept, rarely talked about secret. People throughout the world are exhibiting rare abilities—enhanced strength, telepathy, and telekinesis. Those who have them keep them hidden, and those without largely shun.


    Roman has noticed his ability growing, and others have taken notice. When a violent tragedy forces Roman to embrace these powers, the stigma starts to change. The world becomes more accepting.


    And Roman must decide how far he is willing to nurture this talent and how much he is capable of sacrificing along the way.

    £10.99
  • Christmas in Greenville
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    Christmas in Greenville
    Arlene Belmont

    This is a story about a family journeying up to the Carolinas to celebrate Christmas together. Stella, the family matriarch, wants to carry on her late husband’s tradition of taking the whole family on a destination Christmas holiday. But it is easier said than done due to individual family dynamics. Yet, Stella’s determination pays off.


    While one family travels up to Stella’s downtown condo in Greenville, South Carolina, the other two families congregate up in a spacious mountain cabin on top of Black Mountain, North Carolina. Determined to bring her family together, Stella pre-plans for a family dinner together on Christmas Eve.


    This is a love story about the benefits of taking time to really make Christmas special by sharing it with the people you love.

    £6.99
  • Oh No, Stinky Butt
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    Oh No, Stinky Butt
    Patrese Finlay

    Puppies can be fun, right? They can also be the biggest problem in the house. They make a mess of everything, and they tend to run around with some of your clothing. Here is the story of one little dog with a big problem.


    A funny tale exploring the unexpected events that happen when you have a dog join the family. Get ready for “Oh No, Stinky Butt”.

    £8.99
  • Equalization or Minoritisation: Valuing Guyanese Inclusive Education
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    Equalization or Minoritisation: Valuing Guyanese Inclusive Education
    Lidon Lashley

    Since the Salamanca Statement on Principles, Policy and Practice in Special Needs Education (1994)—to which Guyana is a signatory—and Guyana's subsequent Disability Act (2010), alongside the CARICOM treaties including the Kingston Accord (2004) and the Declaration of Petion Ville (2013), the debate around equalization versus minoritization has shaped the valuing of Guyanese Inclusive Education.


    Vulnerable Guyanese with disabilities, neurodivergence, and diverse needs—especially those facing poverty, displacement, or Indigenous and migrant backgrounds—have not felt the emancipating and liberating impact of a functional inclusive education system. Belonging for minoritised and marginalised persons with disabilities is depersonalising in many instances through surveillances meant to support but ultimately subjugate them.


    These inequalities replicate poverty across generations. The "stay-in-your-lane" discourse maintains prejudice and limits access to resources, social mobility, socioeconomic participation, and justice.


    This book offers a perceptive view of Guyanese education from the voices of both educators and excluded children—showing what inclusive education really looks like and what it could become.

    £9.99
  • The Ban Affair
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    The Ban Affair
    C.K. Brown

    Set in 1972, The Ban Affair continues the story of Philip Trent. No longer a government agent, he is a private detective in the West Midlands, working with his new lady friend Christine.


    He is drawn back into his previous life to investigate his ex, Camille, in Bucharest. This leads to a world he knows—espionage, violence, intrigue, romance, and treachery.


    He tracks down the mysterious Mr Ban in Hong Kong and uncovers a plot with implications for the world.


    The book is set over 50 years ago but explores many themes relevant to today.

    £10.99
  • The Way Beyond
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    The Way Beyond
    Nicholas Johnson-Ferguson

    Nick’s first memory, at the age of three, was a feeling of absolute peace that he spent his whole life looking for.

    His life, however, turned out to be one of conflict, revenge, sadness and joy, made up of seven acts – each a victim of a small demon, forcing him to find a new and completely different path each time. A massive game of snakes and ladders.

    £17.99
  • Switching On Again
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    Switching On Again
    Gillian Clezy

    In this sequel to SWITCHBACK: An Inner and Outer Journey, Gillian Clezy continues to explore the interwoven strands of her life: personal, professional, emotional, and religious. It is a remarkable journey, both geographically (taking in England, Australia, America, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and China) and psychologically. In her 50s, she stepped back from her profession as a speech therapist (to which she had made important contributions to the theory as well as the practice) and trained in Zurich, gaining a four-year postgraduate diploma in Jungian analytical psychology.

     

    That training allows her to reflect deeply on her life experiences in a way that is both instructive and illuminating, exploring and bringing to consciousness as she does many of the unconscious motives to which we are all subject. Periods of tremendous joy and tenderness and experiences of great sorrow and struggles are unflinchingly recounted, during which we, the general reader, may find ourselves reflecting on the inner processes and meaning of our individual, unique lives. As I commented about SWITCHBACK, so too is SWITCHING ON AGAIN “a treasure of a book”.

     

    – Richard Skinner

    poet and (as R. N. F. Skinner) novelist


    Get Ready to Go!

     

    It is 1967. A young mother takes some washing to the launderette in her English village, knowing it will be the last time she does so. She, her Australian husband, and two very young children will be setting out to cross the world by sea and land in a couple of days. They are all set to go. She is looking forward to the carefully planned adventure. She is used to adventures. She spies an attractive young woman jauntily walking along the pavement between her and the laundrette. A young man is following her.

     

    Within a few minutes, that pretty young woman is lying dead, and the would-be traveller, this writer, has been the only witness. How? Why?

    £14.99
  • Beyond the Boundaries of Love, Life, Prejudice and Lies
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    Beyond the Boundaries of Love, Life, Prejudice and Lies
    Paul Grace

    This book is a life’s journey. The journey has many facets from joy to grief. A self-aware and honest account. Specific focus is adoption, life as a gay man and living with HIV, but it’s a book for all to consider. So many twists and turns, a life fully lived. A quote from LM: “I have laughed and cried and felt angry and proud, all in the pages of this book. “A powerful account of Paul’s life.” Life in the late 1970s up to recent times.


    Paul’s book is written in easy-to-read language, covering family life, relationships, community support, peer pressure, success, prejudice, and judgemental consequences. He believed in destiny and a road to a defined life, with pathway choices.


    The lovingly handwritten book was found amongst Paul’s academic work. As parents, feelings surfaced: “This book needs to be shared.” Readers will have their own interpretations, perhaps encouraging them to link to others’ life journeys.


    The book is honest and often punchy.

    £6.99
  • Extracurricular Exploits: A Continuing Education
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    Extracurricular Exploits: A Continuing Education
    Guy Newmountain

    Welcome to this third collection of larger-than-life, but nonetheless true stories guaranteed to resonate with the reader: another preposterous volume of anecdotes from the pen of established writer/illustrator Guy Newmountain, author of Please I Can to the Toilet Go? (The Memoirs of a Supply Teacher) and Funnyology (Tales Beyond Teaching). While his first work focused solely on school-based tales and the next on experiences outside that sphere, here you have the pick of both approaches: a broad mix of 70 classroom-centric and extracurricular exploits; although it's notable just how many of the non-school-based stories still link back in one way or another to Education.

    With the author more than willing to recognise his own shortcomings, within these pages can be found a rich seam of thought-provoking, heart-stopping and laugh-out-loud moments, both lesson-bound and domestic. A masterclass in eclectic, subversive storytelling, the brilliant illustrations by the artist himself perfectly complement the narrative; while the striking cover art flawlessly captures the very essence of the book. It truly is the School of Life!

    £11.99

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