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“nick ascroft”

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  • The Stupefying

    by Nick Ascroft ...
    It is the time of the stupefying. Just when we least expected it, when we thought the show was over, it clonked out into the limelight, and the world was split in two. The Stupefying is a bruised arm firmly removed from its sling. It isn' t funny ha-ha but funny that-can' t-be-true-but-I-know-it-is. In poems of eavesdropping and invention, deflation and elation, Nick Ascroft' s poetic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • As Long as Rain

    by Nick Ascroft ...
    Why not just kill us all? I had asked. He tried to look unmalignant: A, Libby, we have, and B, too much smell, too much of an emission all at once.The Loopies—two alien species bound to each other in a marriage of convenience—have subdued the human race. Its people sterilised, and pacified with a linguistic disease, the world is a retirement village with Comma nurses waiting on the sick of mind ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Win at 5-a-Side

    Take Your Team to the Next Level

    by Mr Nick Ascroft ...
    The culmination of years of 5-a-side football experience, this celebrated manual to 'scaled-down' soccer success covers every element of the game and features expert advice on how to organise a winning team.Written with authority, passion and a sense of fun, How to Win at 5-a-side covers all of the game's essential skills, including goalkeeping, defending, marking and shooting, as well as other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Space Between the Stars

    On love, loss and the magical power of nature to heal

    by Indira Naidoo ...
    A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts.Shortlisted for the ABIA Nonfiction Book of the Year'A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live.' David Wenham'For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year between each. Inseparable ... Read more

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  • Nagasaki

    by Eric Faye ...
    Translated by Emily Boyce ...
    In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes.Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor his home.But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared for what the camera will reveal?Based on real-life events, this prize-winning novel is a moving ... Read more

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  • The Beautiful Indifference

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    by Sarah Hall ...
    Winner of the Portico PrizeWinner of the Edge Hill University Short Story PrizeShort-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award“Every one of the seven tales here delights and disturbs in equal measure. The Beautiful Indifference illustrates that short fiction is indeed a finely wrought art form, and Hall is an artist of considerable and concise skill. Each story is a gem, but ... Read more

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  • The BBC National Short Story Award 2013

    by Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lionel Shriver, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lisa Blower ...
    Featuring:Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lisa Blower, Lavinia Greenlaw and Lionel Shriver.Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read ’in one sitting’. ‘Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect,’ he argued, once the effect has been established, of course.The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 all use ... Read more

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  • Fray

    by Chris Carse Wilson ...
    ‘Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising’ ALAN CUMMINGA MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHERI am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden.A father who is trying to rescue his lost wife.Their child, desperately searching the wild forests and dangerous mountains of the Scottish Highlands, not knowing what’s out there.An abandoned cottage in the remote wilderness, filled with thousands of ... Read more

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  • New Selected Poems

    by Philip Hodgins ...
    Series Book 124 - Untapped
    Phillip Adams wrote of the poet Philip Hodgins that his ‘poems are as urgent and accessible as headlines, though infinitely more beautiful.’ Adding, ‘And you have to love a bloke whose favourite word was ‘paddock’.’ — The Weekend AustralianSelected Poems contains 148 poems by Philip Hodgins and was first published in 1997.Philip Hodgins (1959–1995) was an Australian poet. His works include the ... Read more

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  • A Primer for Cadavers

    by Ed Atkins, Joe Luna ...
    One of the most widely celebrated artists of his generation, Ed Atkins makes videos, draws, and writes, developing a complex and deeply figured discourse around definition, wherein the impossibilities for sufficient representations of the physical, specifically corporeal, world — from computer generated imagery to bathetic poetry — are hysterically rehearsed.A Primer for Cadavers, a startlingly ... Read more

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  • Best British Short Stories 2021

    by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, A. J. Ashworth, Iphgenia Baal, Emma Bolland, Tom Bromley, Gary Budden, Jen Calleja, Robert Dewa, John Foxx, Josephine Galvin, Uschi Gatward, Meave Haughey, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Isha Karki, Yasmine Lever, Simon Okotie, Mel Pryor, Douglas Thompson, Matthew Turner ...
    Series Book 11 - Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

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