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  • Solace
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    Solace
    Katherine Kennedy

    Seven-year-old Cordie Lock loves platypuses and wildflowers. When she loses her brother, Jamie, and her mother, June, on the same day, one year apart, the colours of the wildflowers fade. The adults in her life are struggling. All her dad wants to do is drink, her grandmother is worried all the time, and Pop is acting strange. Cordie seeks solace from her imaginary friend, Rich. Together they try to navigate the trauma and changes in Cordie’s life.


    Ben, Cordie’s father, blames himself for Jamie’s death. He and June had become estranged in the year following Jamie’s loss. Now he has lost June too, and his guilt is exacerbated. He knows his daughter needs him, but he just can’t get it together, turning to alcohol for solace.


    Cordie is the only family; June’s sister, Scarlett, has left. Scarlett wants to help Cordie, but her motivations are off kilter, and things don’t go well. To heal, she must find the mother who abandoned her and June when they were teenagers.


    It is Ben’s brother, Hart, that steps in to care for Cordie. Hart has been in a rut since losing his own wife and unborn child years before. Can Hart prevail and find a way forward for himself and those he loves?


    Katherine Kennedy’s debut novel is set in the beauty of the Tasmanian bush and rugged landscapes of Western Australia.


    Solace shows us how the strength and resilience of family and the love of good friends can help us overcome the worst of times.

    £10.99
  • The Existence of Amanda Blake
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    The Existence of Amanda Blake
    Rica Newbery

    It is 1957, and Amanda Blake is admitted, against her will, to Bristol Mental Hospital.


    Since her first breakdown, her parents have interpreted any step towards independence as proof of madness. They constantly invalidate, ignore, and gaslight her to the point where she can no longer distinguish her thoughts from theirs. She feels unheard and invisible, as though she does not exist.


    Although she hears the voice of her dead grandmother, a junior psychiatrist believes her distress is a reaction to her parents’ oppression rather than a primary illness. The consultant in charge, however, aligns himself with her parents and escalates her treatment.


    When her only ally, a compassionate nurse, is dismissed from the ward, Amanda is left isolated and pressured towards irreversible surgery.


    Her whole existence is under threat.

    £10.99
  • Jean
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    Jean
    Jacob Heartstone

    When Travis first meets Jean in 1925, he is immediately taken by him. Jean seems everything Travis isn’t: firm, charismatic, and sure of himself, as Travis has never been able to be. He exerts a strong pull on the younger man, and a friendship seems inevitable.

     

    This friendship will carry them through the following decade as the two men navigate the changing tides of political and social circumstances in southern Germany between the World Wars and realise the full potential of their connection… and what it will cost them.

    £8.99
  • The Nest: Where Wildflowers Grow
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    The Nest: Where Wildflowers Grow
    S. K. Fields

    After being cast out of the wasteland like many women before her, Tara, a fifty-three-year-old former psychologist, sets out on a mission to bring freedom and joy back into the lives of women. Set in an off-grid community, surrounded by trees, mountains and a vast open lake, this is an exceptional story where the beauty and deep wisdom of nature override the harshness of a concrete society that thrives on order. The Nest illustrates the coming together of those who have been treated most harshly by inhumane systems and who are now looking to Tara for guidance on the greatest question of all.


    How do we heal ourselves and the world in which we live?


    From connecting with Mother Nature, letting go of the past and dropping into the sweetness of the present moment, The Nest unearths the remarkable potential of each human being through nourishing relationships, meditation, and the connection of mind, body and soul.

    £9.99
  • The Vapour That Vanishes
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    The Vapour That Vanishes
    Kim Bluett

    It’s not easy to stand alone. But it’s harder to compromise your very essence striving for the unattainable approval and expectations of others.

    The world will threaten, mock and abuse to contain the free spirit. Yet some people will not be cancelled, cowed nor silenced. And despite their vulnerability they seek authentic and transparent honesty, whether the world likes it or not.

    Through our tears and our laughter, we each journey onward until it is over, teaching, learning from and inspiring one another by the telling of our stories.

    £9.99
  • The Wimp
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    The Wimp
    Vince Prudente

    Some seeds are cursed from the moment they sprout; Johnny was one. Born to very nice, hard-working parents whose business began to grow rapidly almost immediately after he arrived, dealing with him only became more difficult. As Johnny grew, first through school and then into young manhood, he was constantly faced with obstacles that threatened to knock the bad seed out of him.

    £9.99
  • The Confidence Club
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    The Confidence Club
    Áine Toner

    Tucked in a box room of a Dublin church hall sits The Confidence Club – and a trio who really don’t want to be there.

    Emer Malone works for one of the city’s most cut-throat entrepreneurs and is never too far from her phone or her boss’s demands. Reluctant to have another person tell her she’s ‘just not trying hard enough’, Emer’s hoping that completing the course will get everyone off her back.

    Estate agent Terry O’Neill can walk the walk when it comes to selling properties, but the thought of making that all-important father of the bride speech means he needs help to find his voice.

    Careers teacher Sarah Watson is lying to her less than perfect boyfriend, and sees the course as a lifeline to building a new life. If only she has the courage to do so.

    This unlikely threesome needs each other in order to make their confidence leap of faith: and it’s more than visualisation and breathing techniques can offer.

     

    £12.99
  • Parvon Zin's Universe: Gimaldreys
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    Parvon Zin's Universe: Gimaldreys
    William C. Young

    Did you ever wonder how Gimaldreys got its name? Wonder no longer. The tale of Gimaldreys is blood-soaked and hard. From its humble beginnings as a Randorian Tiban Crystal mine to its present-day finery.

     

    Hooki’s bar. Leeken’s Gun Shop. All started small. Tentatively feeling their way in a raw, outer-rim frontier station where ‘rule of law’ is a mere hopeful suggestion. There are dangers in the outer rim. Cot-Fee pirates, the Koban, the Anunnaki. Not to mention the usual hostile takeover threats from various Boldonian merchant guilds eyeing up each other’s territory. Gimaldreys is a wild frontier station where no being goes about their business unarmed or unshielded… The denizens of Gimaldreys would not have it any other way.

    £7.99
  • The Homecoming
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    The Homecoming
    Janice Cairns

    Selling Larkdale Hall seemed the right remedy for the escalating troubles of the Heriots. However, stepping towards their independent lives, not knowing what was going to happen, seemed only to exacerbate tensions amongst them. Their initial troubles intensified, their woes worsened, causing them to fall into deeper and more serious difficulties. Charles Heriot, once a pillar of society, becomes unrecognisable to all who knew him. This respectable and revered man turns into a low-down drunken adulterer. And, only a miracle could patch up his awkward estrangement from the lovely Clarinda, who is dumbstruck and bewildered by his behaviour.


    Then, Haydon. He imagined he had found some paradise with Rowena, only to find he had married a woman with a trail of debts following her. Now he truly knows the meaning of money worries. He is at the end of his tether not only for himself and Rowena but also for Bertie, Betsy and their newborn baby. Their lives are an utter shambles.


    It is not plain sailing for Matilda and Leyton either. She does love Leyton but finds him extremely insensitive at times. Her feelings get hurt; she becomes exasperated by things he says. At times being with him is something of a labour. Then he loses his job at Larkdale Hall, where he had been retained, when Richard Heriot sold the house. To make matters worse, Matilda must come to terms with not being a mother. She had not bargained on not getting pregnant.


    All in all, the Heriots were going through hell. Now this family is not only fragmented and fragile but also a family on the cusp of destruction.


    However, Richard Heriot did have a plan. He believed his wonderful plan could be the magic key to saving his family. But would his fantastic idea be the final solution for his beloved family? Only time would tell.

    £10.99
  • A Smattering of Applause
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    A Smattering of Applause
    Maggie Mortimer

    These disparate short stories form a cohesive whole in the lives and tales of a starving artist, a war correspondent, a shelter survivor and other vivid characters.


    Their struggles and at times inept counsel lead to a resolve that surpasses the reader with redeemed prophecy like life itself; the examples of the underclass narrate the troubling complexities of class and hypocrisy. With humour and dignity, the lesser self is elevated to a higher truth and a greater communal understanding.

    £6.99
  • حفلة انتحار
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    حفلة انتحار
    Mohamed Omar Moussa


    "حفلة انتحار" مجموعة قصصيَّة تضمُّ ثماني عشرة قصَّة تستمدُّ أحداثها مِن الواقع المؤلم الَّذي تعيشه طائفة كبيرة مِن المهمَّشين والمضطهَدين، مِمَّن رماهم القدَر بسهام الحرمان، أو اليُتم، أو الجوع، أو التَّسلُّط، أو التَّهميش.

    رُوِيَت هذه القصص في معظمها بأسلوب ساخر، يمزج بين التِّراجيديا والكوميديا السَّوداء، وينتهي معظمها بنهايات قد لا تُرضِي أبطالها ولا تشفي غليل قُرَّائها، ولكنَّها قد تدفعهم إلى التَّساؤل عمَّا يمكن أن يَحدث لو أنَّ القدَر وقف إلى جانب أبطالها، وكادَ لهم بدلًا مِن أن يكيد عليهم.

     


    £9.99
  • The Ghost of Benediction
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    The Ghost of Benediction
    Leonard Varden

    What begins as a quiet digital exchange evolves into an unexpected emotional reckoning. When a woman who has been heartbroken by a past covenant becomes the catalyst for a profound inner awakening, the narrator is drawn into a love both sacred and what seemed to be doomed. Through heartbreak, spiritual longing, and fragile reconnection, this expedition traces the haunting beauty of a bond that transcends reason—and the cost of surrendering to love’s most complex forms.


    A lyrical meditation on connection, grief, and redemption, this is a story for anyone who has ever loved deeply, lost irrevocably, and still dared to hope.

    £6.99

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