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  • A Wee Bump in the Road
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    A Wee Bump in the Road
    Robin MacLeod

    Seeking family connections to a past steeped in history, tragedy and sentiment is one thing; suddenly becoming a part of that life is quite another.


    Frances, a retired lawyer returning to Scotland after an absence of some years, was keen to revisit the Highlands and places of significance to her family. Travelling alone for the first time meant she had as her main travelling companion her wee rental car, which she named “Etty”.


    It was by chance she was tasked with the delivery of a book to “Young Roddy”, who had long ago left it behind in a guesthouse in Inverness. The guesthouse owner, Mrs Stewart, had no idea who “Young Roddy” was, but “he wasn’t that young even back then.”


    With no idea of a surname or address other than the Isle of Lewis, she endeavoured to duly deliver it, particularly once she began to delve into the annotations within the pages of the Robbie Burns book. It was a beautiful, leather-bound collection of poetry. What she found within those pages drove Frances to go in search of the heart of Scotland and its people. She came to an understanding of them and their aspirations.


    Was it the Highland coo? Was it the ‘wee bump in the road?’ Or was it something more that steered Frances to a place so far away that would change her life forever?

    £4.99
  • Black Room Club
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    Black Room Club
    Ayhan Gorgulu

    A world where capitalism has collapsed, nation-states have lost their meaning, and injustice has spiralled out of control…


    From the shadows, ten powerful families form a secret alliance known as the Black Room Club. Their mission: to find the final move that could save humanity.


    Everything begins with a disturbing dream seen by Mayer Rothschild.


    A message. A warning. And an unavoidable call for a new order.


    Soon, the Global Citizenship Platform is born, growing rapidly into a global movement that unites millions under a single identity.


    Free education and healthcare.


    A new constitution.


    Digital citizenship.


    And one sentence that will change the course of human history:


    “Humanity is no longer the owner of this planet… but its guardian.”

    £4.99
  • Go Going Gone
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    Go Going Gone
    Mike Rooke

    This story is about destinations. We’re often going somewhere, towards something new and undiscovered – that’s part of the thrill of being alive, but there are risks involved.


    Hinging on big decisions, ‘Go Going Gone’ charts a young Englishman’s rite of passage inextricably linked with the struggles of an Irishman and his eight children trying to cope without a wife and mother.


    Advised to ‘Go West’ in the summer of 1967, ex-school friends Simon Cooper and Ian Bradshaw end up in a coastal town. Here they meet pub singer and seaweed factory worker Joe Pierce, whose wife has recently left him for England, leaving her eight children and their ailing grandfather in the family’s small cottage. Despite much fun and entertainment, the violence and squalor in the household become too much for Ian, who hitches back home. Bound up in events beyond his wild imagining, Simon’s bold wish to get their mother back has life-changing consequences.


    Featuring priests and nuns, doctors and policemen, lawyers and courtroom drama, along with family turmoil on both sides of the Irish Sea, ‘Go Going Gone’ includes moments of craic and comedy, domestic violence and tragedy. When professional social work in rural Ireland was largely unheard of, the church had other ways of doing things.


    Full of culture shock and sudden change, this story bristles with conflict.

    £2.63
  • Michael's Story
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    Michael's Story
    Peter Skeels

    Michael’s Story tells the story of his life through his eyes. He was left at birth by both parents, raised in a succession of foster homes, and he experienced abuses of the worst kind during his formative years. When he’s reunited with his father and stepmother at five years old and finally free, he has no inclination of the emotions he should have learnt had he lived in a loving and nurturing home, and his parents never ask him about his life in the foster homes.


    Thus begins Michael’s story; does he learn to live a life free of abuse, and does he prevail?

    £3.50
  • Coercion
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    Coercion
    J A Sidgwick

    Chloe is pretty, young and single, and she has fallen in love with Justin. She just wishes that he would do things that she wants; if he wasn’t so selfish, their life together could be perfect. As Chloe learns to control the narrative of their relationship, she creates a path of despair and destruction that she had never imagined. Can she reflect on her actions and learn? Will she right the wrongs?


    Justin is determined not to repeat his past mistakes. He is sure Chloe is the one. Justin’s determination to make this work throws him from one catastrophe to the next as he tumbles through a labyrinth of manipulation and lies. His world is slipping away. He is losing everything. Most frightening, Justin is losing himself.

    £3.50
  • Determination
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    Determination
    Mary Oketcho-Dicks

    Determination, while based on the true story of a Black woman named Florence Nyachwo, is a work of fiction, with all characters being fictional. She prefers to be called Florence, which is used consistently throughout the narrative.


    Florence, initially from Uganda, relocated to the UK in July 1999. This was a significant shift in her life and a period of transition as she settled into a new country. So, her story explores the uncertainties and anxiety that surfaced when she, from a different cultural background, moved to a new country and tried to integrate into its different culture.


    Several years later in the UK, on the suggestion of her friend Gloria, Florence found a romantic partner, a white man named David. This was on her second attempt. Being a Black woman and marrying into a white family, Florence faced various challenges, including dealing with potential prejudice and microaggressions from in-laws, and experienced societal pressures and stereotypes. These challenges manifested in different ways, from subtle slights to overt hostility, but luckily, they didn’t impact her relationship with her partner, David.


    Florence’s strong determination was crucial in empowering her to conquer and manoeuvre negative attitudes directed towards her, enabling her to persist through challenging times to achieve her goal. Her story is a must-read because it’s a compelling narrative that resonates with readers due to its realistic portrayal of emotions and experiences, creating a strong desire to know what happens next.

    £3.50
  • Season of the Sardine
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    Season of the Sardine
    Tevfik Aytekin

    If a woman’s life could be gathered into four seasons, her true season would be the Season of the Sardine. It is the moment when even hope seems lost, when branches fall silent, when all roots appear dry, yet from the smallest crack in the earth a woman rises again.


    Season of the Sardine tells the story of all women through Buket, Şoger and Sevda. In the nature of existence, one strikes like lightning, another chills like deep winter, and another blooms like spring in the heart. Love sinks from the heart into the stomach. Workers leave for distant lands. Two angels choose human form. Four generations grow up without a mother. Humi and Buket cross into the hidden realms of being.


    When the Season of the Sardine arrives, a woman is no longer who she once was. She becomes everything she has endured and everything she has transformed into. Women cling to young branches. They bow before the fire. They rise like flame. They melt the frost with the sun. They slip into the hair of the world like a quiet rebellion.


    Humanity begins to see that life is not long enough to hide our true feelings. Since the first stories of the earth, women have given birth to a new identity for humankind. If the Season of the Sardine had a lens, it would show the lamps that unite every root between East and West.


    Souls are blessed with incense. Songs rise from the dust of death. Violins bloom from graves. Clarinets sprout from pots. The sixth season, the Season of the Sardine, stands outside all calendars and belongs only to itself.

    £3.50
  • A Game for Spoilers
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    A Game for Spoilers
    N Whitefield Smith

    Don’t be fooled! The ‘sedate and genteel’ game of croquet so often considered a dumb pastime for retired vicars and old ladies is, at the ‘association’ level, both demanding and as tactical as chess. They even play international test matches!


    That’s how Compton Abdale sees it. But soon, encouraged by the enthusiasm of Hong Kong actor Danny Chang, Compton, a successful publisher from an aristocratic family, finds himself juggling preparations for an ‘international’ croquet event in Hong Kong with plans for his upcoming wedding to the beautiful Lucinda. At the same time he is becoming increasingly attracted to Calmsden, the fashion editor of a glossy magazine with whom his best friend Willy Fleming has also fallen hopelessly in love.


    Meanwhile, the manipulative Bryan Barton Kinnerton is looking for ways to make trouble on and off the lawns. He has already antagonised Compton into nearly killing him, but will the Hong Kong event create more problems, putting Compton’s life and his game under such pressure that things could explode into something far from either ‘sedate’ or ‘genteel’?


    It’s a game for spoilers where savage competition can lead to almost anyone breaking all the rules.

    £3.50
  • For Each a Road
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    For Each a Road
    Paul Kavanagh

    Follow the lives of JP, Jamie, Anto, and Deco, four young friends growing up in the working-class neighbourhood of Tallaght, Dublin. This coming-of-age story traces their journey from the age of twelve into their twenties, navigating a world where life is far from easy.

    For Jamie, childhood was marked by tragedy. When he was just four years old, his father was murdered on a cold winter’s night while walking home from the pub. The trauma lingered, but having JP by his side gave him a sense of safety and belonging that helped soften the harshness of life.

    As the boys grow up, they face the weight of a world that demands too much, too soon. Drink and drugs become part of their daily lives as they try to cope with the chaos around them. Along the way, they experience the pain of losing loved ones, the intensity of first sexual encounters, and the violent realities that shape the roads they walk.

    £3.50
  • Restored - Book 2
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    Restored - Book 2
    Stella Jackson

    Josie had been punished for being naïve. The horrific events of the recent past still plagued her mind, and the lurking fear that she may never lay eyes on her baby girl, snatched away from her at birth, was almost impossible to push aside. But now she was faced with the bitter pain of betrayal and alienation by those she trusted and held so dear.


    Like a rollercoaster with a few ups and many downs, the twists and turns of Josie’s tangled web become even more complicated as she tries to protect her ‘secret’.


    Tired of watching others’ control of her life, Josie decides to take matters into her own hands, making instinctive, self-preserving and life-defining decisions that open her eyes to a whole new world. The question is, “Has she got what it takes to see her decisions through?”


    £3.50
  • Glass Roots
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    Glass Roots
    Alexander Matthews

    What would you do – how would you behave if you were being bullied and powerless to fight back? Could you survive with your psychology intact, or is the damage permanent? Some of you may have been bullied at school or online. Sadjit and Thila, who run a good Indian restaurant, are faced with this problem. Their restaurant is attacked by racist thugs. They are forced to work through this nightmare. They do survive, which is a triumph for them and euphoric for the audience. Read this play and think for yourself what you would do. Those who saw its London production were terrified but happy with the ending.

    £3.50
  • His Brother's Keeper
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    His Brother's Keeper
    Dr. Zidane Salmon

    His Brother’s Keeper is a sweeping romance-drama set against the vivid backdrop of Jamaica, where the clash between rural traditions and urban ambitions reshapes lives and relationships.At its heart is a love story tested by more than desire, shaped by questions of gender expectations, the pull of migration, the ache of fertility struggles, and the unyielding weight of religion. Families fracture and loyalties are tested as dreams of modernity collide with the stubborn roots of rural life.Tender, raw, and deeply human, His Brother’s Keeper explores what it means to belong, to hope, and to love in a society caught between the old ways and the new. It is a story not only of romance but of resilience, sacrifice, and the choices that echo across generations.

    £3.50

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