Jacky in the title story of this collection is a young descendant of pioneers and is curious about her ancestors. Jacky returns to her home town and is fascinated by the mix of characters who have settled there who are outsiders like herself and like her ancestors so long ago who were uprooted from Scotland. It is inspired by the author's ......
'James Walton handles words like a jeweller handles a blue diamond. In each of his books we are transported into a linguistic heaven. Snail Mail Cursive is no exception; an eloquent gorgeous collection in which one is invited into a private world made universal. Whether the subject is life death authors songwriters landscape or ......
'Alex Hand makes the ordinary extraordinary in his latest collection penned during the pandemic. He says himself in "Self-portrait" "I find beauty in polished floorboards and in our Brown Betty teapot." With an unusual abundance of time in lockdown who hasn't found themself back in childhood with seemingly infinite time to contemplate a ......
As a child I drove my mother to distraction with my never-ending stream of 'Whys?' I knew I had reached the end of her patience when she answered with 'Why? Because.' My stream of questions has never run dry rather I have learned over long years to accept that most things have only a temporary answer because more and new information and ......
'In this fine and eclectic collection of short stories flash fiction and poetry Roland Leach explores the human condition with humour and heart. These are interior stories that often grapple with the ache and drive for connection the puzzlement and the fear. With the sublime assuredness of his writing Leach leads the reader deep into the ......
'Of course Whale-shocked is about whales the shocking history of whaling and our changing attitudes to it. Written as a remarkable long-form poem Sue Aldred uses her own family history from the 1800s when her ancestor sailed on the killer boats at a time when whales were seen only as a resource there for the plunder through to ......
My Wholefood Community Plant Based Cook Book reveals favourite recipes from the many wholefood nutrition and cooking classes I have run over the past 30 years. All recipes use plant-based vegan whole foods- whole grains legumes vegetables from land and vegetables from the sea nuts seeds and tasty condiments all super ......
This book comprises the wartime recollections of my parents Maria (née Keil) and Leon Sokulsky who lived under Nazi rule during the Second World War. Their accounts as I was growing up always fascinated me and fostered my love for history. For that reason I decided to interview my parents so that we could keep for posterity a record of their ......
Many of Schubert's six hundred songs were composed quickly and often in the midst of of a gathering of friends loudly revelling or performing other music. Sometimes that remarkable facility would be exercised while walking in company through the woods round Vienna. John Watson has composed a sequence of scenes from this prodigious working life ......
