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Can some truths ever be captured, either in images or words?

The debut collection by Cat Woodward is a love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck

Change is Coming. Four generations of a Lowestoft fishing family, rise and fall, with the fortunes of their town.

When fifteen year-old Pen Flowers climbs out of her bedroom window in the middle of the night to dance in the empty streets, she ignites a flame in herself that will change everything.

Sarah Bower's brilliant novella blows the spy thriller genre to pieces and creates a feminist masterpiece from what is left of the rubble. A swirling mystery in which mathematical proof is always just out of reach.

Love Like Your Head's On Fire is the stunning sequel to Live Like Your Head's On Fire. It is a celebration of the power of dance to drive change, and a page-turning story of teenage dreams and devastation.

Alaric Mark Lewis's debut is an unforgettable epic. Bradington Bay is Homeric in scope, suffused with the adventurous energy of Jack Kerouac, and the heart of James Baldwin.

Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father's journeys in the Antarctic, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. Erebus is a visit to the frozen underworld, and an exploration of how we find a place for ourselves in this vast and often unforgiving world we call home.

Welcome to Deception Island, a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankind's greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, witness to human attentiveness and fortitude.

30 stories of lockdown, from people with experience of prison, homelessness, addiction, and families of people in the armed forces. An anthology of prose, poetry, drama, and art. Powerful, often irreverent, heartfelt: voices that history cannot forget. A chain of words, poetry and art that binds us all together.

Born in New York on the night of John Lennon's assassination Ros is a celebrated photographer who claims to have killed reclusive writer J. D. Salinger. Flowing as a torrent of stream-of-consciousness prose this story explores the vital function of art and the responsibility that ensues when art is not simply what we do but who we are

Kate and her teenage daughter return to Ireland to sort through what is left of the family farm. Can words be the way for her to unlock the past? Can they help pave the way towards reconciliation? Can they help us understand ourselves?Source is a book about beginnings and homeland and the words that accompany us on our journey

Madeleine is everything Angela is not: charismatic, lovable, certain. Madeleine is a story of two people who find and lose each other, and the ways love, loss and memory shape a life.

Luke Kierley has visited the writer and asked it to exorcise from him all memory of her. Now he has no idea who she was and he must try to find a way to live with a bleeding hole in his memory. JM Burgoyne's debut brings her virtuosic voice alive in a striking and unforgettable meditation on free-will, love, and the lengths we'll go to avoid pain.