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An angry spat in a Cornish pub haunts two men, an activist and a politician, across decades, leading them onto an iceberg with a ravenous polar bear as their sole company. A heart-pounding tale of enduring love and tragedy against the backdrop of climate catastrophe.

"Who's afraid of a girl who shines bright?" Rosie Garland's spellbinding short story collection explores extraordinary people defying expectations. Blurring natural and supernatural, these enchanting yet disquieting stories unveil the extraordinary within ordinary people. Garland deftly unveils our deepest fears and desires, embracing transformative potential. Brace for a journey pushing imagination's limits, where the impossible becomes reality.

When Koliwe leaves England for a new job in overseas aid in Eswatini, formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, she encounters a world of clashing beliefs, wealthy ex-pats and sexual predators. As she uncovers the corruption at the heart of the aid community, she is forced to reassess her own identity and confront those who seek to undermine her.

From a futuristic colony planet where a woman named Anna dreams of building a rocket, to a drab council estate where a little girl finds magic in hardship, SJ Bradley's stories showcase remarkable range. Exploring complex emotional terrain-grief, loss, ambition, and our relationship to technology, these are inventive and experimental stories which interrogate what it means to belong.

Through visceral and vulnerable poetry, Ricky Ray meditates on the pain and powerlessness that comes with an awareness of our mortality. Finding joy through connecting with the natural world, Ricky navigates his ache of living, allowing us to accompany him and his beloved service dog, Addie.

In her second chapbook, *And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound*, Morag Anderson places centre stage an unlikely cast of neglected, exploited, and unsung characters. As 2023 Makar of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and Poet in Residence at the 2023 Birnam Book Festival, Anderson is an acclaimed poet and performer.

'The hairs are always buried much deeper than you think.'A teenage swimmer tries to remove an ingrown hair that takes on a life of its own. A town grapples with an uncontrollable growth of moss. A horror soundtrack haunts its composer. Journey to the outer limits of bodily awareness as characters dive deep to confront their truth.

On a family holiday to her dad‿s Irish homeland, Eve‿s concerns about impressing local boy Liam are confronted by the stark reality of political and personal divisions during the Troubles. Former friends have turned into enemies, and this country of childhood memory is suddenly a lot less welcoming.

Faith-healer Amber is hopeful about Lehi, the safe Mormon town to which she, her new husband and two kids have just moved. But after the sudden death of her daughter, Amber discovers the community will do anything to keep its secrets. When nothing feels certain anymore, will Amber take a leap of faith, for love?

Embark on a chilling journey through nightmarish tales that will captivate the ghoulish modern reader. Encounter landlords with sinister requests, ethereal housemates, and a glass-encased jungle built by an eccentric father.

A unique collection of interviews with contemporary poets at the height of their craft.

In Alice Fowler's debut short story collection, relationships are as delicate as newly-hatched turtle eggs and just as easily smashed. Human kindness is found across generations. We meet characters at turning points. In change, Fowler's characters find the ability to be truly free.

Albert Smith and his family live in Neo-Yuthea, divided into 'Even's and 'Odd's. All chugs along well without politics. However, one morning Mr Zand announces he is standing to be Mayor. Strange creatures cause shock deaths. Arranged marriages are forced to preserve 'peace'. The Smith's garden meetings will not be tolerated for much longer...

"I had read enough mystery stories to know that girls who went out to meet strangers at night never came to a good end..."Stirling 1877 - Glasgow 1919. 'The Unpicking' spans three generations of 'hysterical women' who take on systemic corruption and injustice, despite all odds.

Tyranny is in the air in the city of Finer Bay, and Professor Wendowleen would like to be left alone. If only these young upstarts from the government body, The Finery, would stop trying to control her every move...but Wendowleen has never been one to back down from a fight (just ask her pet wolf), and insurrection is brewing underground.

Grafton is a single dad who works in local radio, but he's always dreamt of being a 'real' journalist. When he gets a whiff of a story - a Scottish commune whose residents believe that sleep is a social construct - he decides to investigate...

Stories of myths, mothers and monsters. At dusk in a scented garden, a refugee names moths. A young mother believes the au pair has stolen her identity. A woman writes a bucket list: one plane ticket to Australia; one purchase of rope and duct-tape and a kiss for her abusive husband. Bucket lists are for the brave.

Four stories of feathers, blood and eggs. These are journeys fuelled by love, loss and self-discovery, in which characters must fight or take flight.

In Charlie Hill's satirical short story collection, people stare. Behind twitching curtains. Behind the lens of a camera. With an eye reminiscent of Samuel Beckett, Charlie Hill invites you to be privy to strange social experiments, laugh at the pomp of the privileged classes and dwell in space.

The Dictator's Wife confides this in you: her husband has blind spots. Any day now, he may be overthrown. And what of love? It is paling her, until she fears her own transparency. Who is this father of her children, this man who does not smile? Aryamati Prize winner Dybzynska paints a world of mystery, in which we are always one step behind...

Imperfect Beginnings lays its poems out to rest on uncertain terrain. Visa paperwork deadlines hang in the air. New-borns, torn too early from their mother's breast, learn to adapt to harsh guardianship.

Gardens, relationships and imaginations run wild in Katie Oliver's debut short fiction collection. The world is unpredictable and no woman is safe. Boundaries are blurred: between fantasy and reality, technology and nature, autonomy and oppression. Threat of violence simmers. Women transform into birds, converse with plants and plot their revenge.

Set in contemporary India, DISOBEDIENT WOMEN tells the interwoven stories of two families and their battle of ideologies. It is a novel of the choices women make under pressure, where to be disobedient is the only life choice that offers change.

How can we love ourselves at the climacteric of our lives; of the planet? Jo Bratten's poetry bubbles with guilt at the failures of both spirit and body and a coming to terms with the natural passing of loved ones, and the unnatural passing of our planet's ecosystems. These poems offer the simplest kind of love: the joy within nature.

Cracked Asphalt seeks to untangle the strings of guilt Sree Sen found herself wrapped in after her move from Mumbai, India to Dublin, Ireland. Born out of worn-out soles, when Sen went fundraising door-to-door in Dublin, these poems are a personal exploration of fractured identities and the essence of 'home'.