Betrayed, deposed and presumed dead. When her father is killed in a bloody coup and her uncle seizes the city, Orsiana pleads for help with the only power still willing to listen, unaware that the gods will use her as a pawn in their own game. Thrown back on the streets of Abia, armed with the gods’… →
In the county of Wiltshire, there are thirteen white horses carved on the chalk uplands. In Her Winter Song we find ourselves transported to a Wiltshire long past, surrounded by a host of characters that are firmly interwoven into the tapestry of the land, their storylines cutting through time. A be… →
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Imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree. Thirty years later, Verity sets out to uncover the truth about her past and to confront those wh… →
Women in Translation Please find below some of the finest books by women in translation the indie press scene has to offer in 2024… Return to all books → Catherine the Great and the SmallOlja KneževićTranslated by Paula Gordon20 June 2020Istros Books£10.99BUY NOW Distant Sunflower FieldsLi Juan… →
Influential writer and humorist John Dowie has been acclaimed by some as Britain’s first alternative comedian and was an unlikely early signing to Factory Records. Born in Birmingham in 1950, he rivalled John Cooper Clarke as a literate punk poet. Feted by Tony Wilson of Factory as a new wave Lenny… →
A boat approaches; a lantern hung on its prow is the only light in this dark, cold world. The boat reaches the edge of the lake. The boatman has a kindly face. He calls out to me. “Mr Dowie?” “Yes,” I reply. “Not any more,” he says. And I step into his boat. John Dowie, proto-alternative comedian an… →
Dr Ronnie Ackerman wakes up in bed alone. Her boss, Nobel Prize-winner Professor Hasely Stone, and the man she got drunk with the night before, is downstairs in the sauna, brutally murdered. Who did this, and why? Stone had been working with total dedication on the ultimate cure for all cancers. W… →
Alvar Theo lives in Wolverhampton with a cat who doesn’t let them write and a dog who doesn’t let them do anything. They started writing at five years old, making Red Dwarf fanfiction in the form of picture books. They’ve written sketches for podcasts and have a folder full of feature screenplays un… →