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  • Sawubona

    I See You

    Series Book 2 - The ICE Pack
    Sawubona, a Zulu greeting, ‘I see you and welcome your presence.' A beautiful sentiment, the embodiment of paying attention, ‘I notice you. I am with you. You are not invisible.’ Inside this book are stories by writers who have done exactly that.They have opened their eyes and hearts to people, places, objects, joys, griefs and small acts of survival. Embraced what is broken, funny, tender, nearly ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

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  • Hiraeth - Deep Longing

    Fourteen Authors in Search of Their Heartland

    Series Book 1 - The ICE Pack
    Have you ever……ached for something you couldn’t name?…imagined a different life and wondered ‘what if’?…dreamed of a place you’ve never been, but knew would be home?…yearned for a truth, a way of being?Fourteen authors from six countries, spanning five continents, take the reader into their experience of hiraeth, the longing for something more, lost, imagined, or just out of reach. Homelands left ... Read more

    $9.54 USD

  • Fleeting Encounters

    There is a subtle magic in fleeting encounters that brush against the fabric of our lives - the stranger on a train who reminds you that life is short, a country walk that evokes long-buried childhood moments, a fragment of ancient ceramic that takes you back two hundred years, a chicken flapping its wings in a forest, a strain of music that answers a question, tango dancers late at night in a ... Read more

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    Series Book 0 - Best British Short Stories
    Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2023 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2022 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.This ... Read more

    $11.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Over the Moon

    Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which ... Read more

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  • Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller

    Asham award-winning stories

    by Various ...
    Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . .Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of roads that should not have been taken; of exotic cities and shabby towns. Some are running away, and some are travelling to come ... Read more

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  • 101 Detectives

    What kind of Detective am I? Eardrum or tympanum? Gullet or oesophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A Detective needs a language almost as much as a language needs a Detective. In this new collection of stories, award-winning author Ivan Vladislavic invites readers to do some detective work of their own. Each story can be read as just that - a story - or you can dig a little deeper. Take a closer look, ... Read more

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  • I Knew the Bride

    by Hugo Williams ...
    Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' ( The Times).I Knew the Bride is Williams' eleventh collection of poems, and his first since West End Final was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new volume bears ... Read more

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  • Fresh Fields

    Settling in after the flurry of activity involved in our move to France we started to take stock of our local community discovering almost immediately that there were two distinct groups in the area, the French and the British. We were to be surprised how much amusement this engendered, particularly with regard to the curious behaviour of some of our compatriots. Visitors, entertained by our ... Read more

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  • Dear Room

    by Hugo Williams ...
    Dear Room is a worthy successor to Billy's Rain (1999), whose preoccupations and occasions it continues and ramifies, charting the 'angles, signals, orders, murmurs, sighs' of love, separation and loss. With grave good humour, ruefully exact timing and a scruple reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, these poems register the goodbye look of things, and ponder the difference between a good memory and an ... Read more

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  • Indelible Miraculous

    by Julia Darling ...
    This collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling's death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: "The poems are funny, irreverent, moving and never sentimental. You can recognise yourself in them, recognise your family. They are warm, full of compassion; [...] a shining bright light." ... Read more

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  • Notes From the Dementia Ward

    Notes from the Dementia Ward is Finuala Dowling’s third collection of verse following on the brilliant and popular I Flying and Doo-Wop Girls of the Universe. This new collection deals in part with the tragic-comic effects of the inexorable and distressing collapse into senility and the way in which memory and yearning come to the fore as a mix of poignancy and wit. The balance between the grim ... Read more

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