Spring is here and in addition to wonderful new books we also have a flowering of lovely special offers in poetry and prose.
Novels on offer include Jean Harrison's On a Wandering Planet, an exploratory, ecological novel that is as compelling as it is humane; Bobbie Darbyshire's OZ, tightly paced and full of stand-out characters; Hazel Manuel's Kanyakumari, set in India and full of rich sense of pace and exploration of how we make interior journeys as we travel, and Ian Gregson's The Crocodile Princess, witty, clever, gripping, exploring a universe that might not be quite the one we think it is and the boundaries of comedy.
Short story collections on offer are Swimming with Diana Dors, Jeremy Worman's evocative, character-centred pieces bursting from the page; Matthew Francis's Singing a Man to Death, full of elegant prose, subtle humour and accessible sophistication; and Vanessa Gebbie's Ed's Wife and Other Creatures, a quirky, thought-provoking collection of micro-fictions, illustrated by Lynn Roberts.
Or choose one of our poetry offers from Judy Kendall's Insatiable carrot, quirky, intelligent, structurally extraordinary; David Olsen's Unfolding Origami, humane. mature and elegant; Bonnie Thurston's A Place to Pay Attention, alive with sense of place, calm reflection quiet joy; A Screen of Brightness by Meredith Andrea and Fiona Owen, a conversation across disparate places that speak to us with clarity and eloquence; Mavis Gulliver's Waymarks, beautiful in sound and form, rotted in intense observation; Jan Fortune's prose poetry collection, Stale Bread & Miracles, charting a life journey, now in it's third printing; and Nicola Warwick's Groundings, elliptical, original and lyrical:
Novels on offer include Jean Harrison's On a Wandering Planet, an exploratory, ecological novel that is as compelling as it is humane; Bobbie Darbyshire's OZ, tightly paced and full of stand-out characters; Hazel Manuel's Kanyakumari, set in India and full of rich sense of pace and exploration of how we make interior journeys as we travel, and Ian Gregson's The Crocodile Princess, witty, clever, gripping, exploring a universe that might not be quite the one we think it is and the boundaries of comedy.
Short story collections on offer are Swimming with Diana Dors, Jeremy Worman's evocative, character-centred pieces bursting from the page; Matthew Francis's Singing a Man to Death, full of elegant prose, subtle humour and accessible sophistication; and Vanessa Gebbie's Ed's Wife and Other Creatures, a quirky, thought-provoking collection of micro-fictions, illustrated by Lynn Roberts.
Or choose one of our poetry offers from Judy Kendall's Insatiable carrot, quirky, intelligent, structurally extraordinary; David Olsen's Unfolding Origami, humane. mature and elegant; Bonnie Thurston's A Place to Pay Attention, alive with sense of place, calm reflection quiet joy; A Screen of Brightness by Meredith Andrea and Fiona Owen, a conversation across disparate places that speak to us with clarity and eloquence; Mavis Gulliver's Waymarks, beautiful in sound and form, rotted in intense observation; Jan Fortune's prose poetry collection, Stale Bread & Miracles, charting a life journey, now in it's third printing; and Nicola Warwick's Groundings, elliptical, original and lyrical: