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  • 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.

    £3.50
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

     


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  • 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.

    £3.50
  • Coins
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    Coins
    Colin Graham

    Late in his life and over a period of several months, Frank Ross places six coins under a rock on the slopes of a mountain in Scotland called Ben y Vrackie. Both the coins and the mountain have resonance and significance for Frank, as well as, in due course, for six other people. The book follows his life from his childhood into his early sixties. During this time he encounters twelve people who are to have a profound effect on him. Six are kind; six are not. The narrative examines the ancestry of all the characters and the consequent effect on their personality and behaviour, and thus how they interact with Frank.


    Frank Ross is essentially a decent man who reacts in a singular manner to events and actions that he sees as either good or bad. This is a novel about retribution and love, but mainly about love.

     

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  • The Orphan's Goddaughter
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    The Orphan's Goddaughter
    Asher Krause

    Ian Lombard is no-one’s idea of a vigilante. A career truck driver, on the wrong side of sixty and recently forced into retirement, he accepts that the good life is not something he can aspire to. Dying well is about the best he can hope for.


    Then a chance encounter shocks him out of his gloomy self-absorption. A goddaughter he never knew he had was fatally injured when she tried to intervene between a drug dealer and a vulnerable friend. Lombard—who wasn’t always a truck driver—has a history and a talent that very few people know about and decides that karma needs a hand.


    Detective Superintendent Davina Blackley looks exactly what she is: an experienced, diligent and competent high-ranking police officer. She is tasked by the Commissioner to do something about the Cadre, a shadowy organisation that is behind most of the drug deals in Perth. She is determined to bring the people responsible for the young girl’s death to justice, but she is hamstrung by the lack of evidence and the absence of any real intelligence about the cadre and makes a critical mistake.


    Lombard has no access to the little information the police have about the Cadre. He has no-one to help him and no authority to do anything. But balancing this is the fact that he is unencumbered by the constraints of the Criminal Investigation Act. He doesn’t have to worry about procedural fairness, rules, regulations or even personal scruples, so he sets out to do something and, in the process, creates havoc.

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  • AfterGate
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    AfterGate
    Bryan Mitchell

    Two alien black obsidian pyramids sat on a ringworld deep in unknown space in the centre of a human city. With a large obsidian circle between them.


    Five hundred years ago, it was a gate that connected Mars and Earth, but it has since fallen silent.


    On the eve of Princess Alina’s wedding, she will find that the ringworld is home to more than just humanity.


    Will she be able to uncover the secrets hidden within the ringworld’s wall that holds the key to saving humanity and maybe even a way to reactivate the ancient gates?

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  • Smiling Through Tears
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    Smiling Through Tears
    Jay Jolliffe

    Smiling Through Tears is a tale of two friends who are facing difficult situations. Reverend Alasdair Sommersby is losing his fight with cancer. Frances Campbell lives with the threat of violence.


    The setting of Smiling Through Tears is what drives this novel. Such a tale of domestic abuse, violence and suffering seems out of place amidst the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales, tea-room gentility, the febrile atmosphere of the race course, and garden fête geniality, but that, of course, is the point.

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  • Defiance – Cold Fiery Trepidation
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    Defiance – Cold Fiery Trepidation
    Belinda Bridge

    Last call,

    dinner bells, slow dance, an evening shimmer, she sets sail, long tall flute glass, crystal hands hold champagne bubbles; timber walls louden to shake and rock power and full potential, lives ride and sail the tumultuous wave that calls to bellow his name, he is still and walls will hear his voice through fire and fury; he has spoken, Mujer Military Naval ship off the coast of Cuba en route, when fiery fury erupts in burn.

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  • Musician’s Tales
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    Musician’s Tales
    Vince Prudente

    This book of short stories tells of experiences jazz musicians had during their lives, whether while living and playing in New York, traveling in the United States, or around the world so that people could hear their music and so the musician could make a living playing it.


    They tell about the problems Black musicians and a white musician had playing in a Black-led band and of the dues several Black musicians had to pay playing in a white-led band, especially when traveling in parts of the United States in the nineteen sixties, none of which in either scenario were from anybody in those bands.


    They also tell about the joys they had sharing the love they had for their music with audiences regardless of where they were playing and the appreciation they received from those audiences during their performances and sometimes afterwards.


    Several of the stories that happened in New York also illustrate the hard work these musicians had to do and the sacrifice all of these musicians had to make, none of which could dent the joy they gained by playing this great music.

    £3.50
  • Letters to Anonymous
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    Letters to Anonymous
    Guy Moore

    A chaotic, funny, and provocative dive into the lives of two lost souls as they explore spirituality, online connections, and sexual chemistry.

    Through witty conversations, they navigate lust, ego, and the bizarre quirks of modern romance.

    Insightful and amusing, this unconventional tale will keep you hooked.

    £3.50

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