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Josh reluctantly goes to spend part of the summer in a remote area of Wales, where his dad is working. He expects boredom, but by the sea and in the shadow of the ancient village church, he ends up discovering a mystery that he's determined to solve before time runs out. A frightening farmer, a long-lost tunnel, glimpses of mysterious barrels floating out to sea and reports of a ghost ship, are all part of the puzzle and Josh has to work out i...

Fourteen year-old Sophie Gordon's life changes forever when her mentally frail mother loses her fight with depression and takes her own life. Her father seeks solace in alcohol, and Sophie finds comfort in food which transitions into compulsive dieting. The Diet rapidly takes over her mind and body until it becomes life-threatening. Will Sophie break free from her obsession with losing, or will it overcome her? A novel of secrets and loss, rea...

It's the end of the Swinging Sixties: a hedonistic time of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll - and violence. At the opening night of the brand new million-pound music club The Lexxicon, coloured spotlights slice through the atmospheric haze, enveloping the three figures standing centre stage: multi-millionaire club owner Gerry Fortuna, his wife Janine, and rock star Pete Peterson. All three, harbouring secrets they know must never be revealed. Gerry ...

From enlistment in Lord Kitchener's army, through the great set-piece battles in Flanders, two northern lads struggle to survive through the long years of static warfare and the advent of the tank until the armistice of November 1918. Heroism and abject fear - the lives of the Tommies in the trenches of Flanders fighting the Hun brought graphically to life in the story of Matti and Enrico.

Sixteen year old Callie Crossan is a harvester, left on Earth and forced to support those who fled to EarthMoon. When her illegal relationship with Ben Rhea is discovered, to avoid punishment they must undertake a mission deep into the Wilds to find Dealga, the cure, because the medication mankind now relies upon is failing and the final eradication of the species is at hand. A dystopian romantic adventure for young adults about a future in wh...

The Mute Swan - a giant star-ship setting off on a long, one-way voyage. On board a new, young, maintenance engineer, Pen Pleasant, about to find his contract for thirty hours of duty over a two year period superseded by events beyond his control turning a routine job into the adventure of a lifetime.

An anthology of short fiction themed around Birmingham written by authors attending the Author City 2023 event at the Council House Birmingham on 15th July 2023. Stories by Lee Benson, Jill Griffin, TG Campbell, Andrew Sparke, Pat Spence, Dawn Torrens, Martin Tracey, Punam Farnah, Mike Chinn, Maggie Fogarty, Jane Andrews, Catherine Hytner and Darren De Toni.

When Buster eats his Grandma's Christmas Cake, it's the final straw - he's banished to live with his Mum, Kitty, a teacher in an English boarding school. A fateful meeting with a school bully turns Buster's life upside down. He goes from a happy gregarious life to the misery of bullying, loneliness and separation anxiety and the differing attentions of the vet and the Headmaster. Salvation comes when he befriends Leon, the President of America...

On the eve of the Royal Navy's Zeebrugge Raid of 23rd April 1918, Chief Inspector Knocker Harris is hunting a vicious murderer of young women. And where better for a murderer to hide than in plain sight where his peculiar talents would be readily concealed and most highly prized … in His Majesty's armed forces.

This book tells the story of Sutton Coldfield between 1800 and 1914. With a focus on the struggles to bring to an end the self-appointed corporation, the arrival of the railway, shops, schools, law and order and leisure, it is a work of social history. During the period that this book covers, Sutton was transformed beyond any origins asa mere suburb of Birmingham. It could fairly be said that more of consequence happened in Sutton in the ninet...

The discography for the recording career of Florida rock musician Tom Petty with The Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, The Travelling Wilburys and Bob Dylan.,

I'll turn into f…. Houdini and disappear. When the woman he loves says that she no longer wants to see him, M÷ doesn't know what to do, what to say. Instead of pleading, he walks away while trying to keep the pieces of his broken heart together. Around him, the world is spinning out of control. A new war has started, the Queen has died, Elon has bought Twitter, Tate is trying to escape the agents of the Matrix, while the mysterious Invisible H...

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.' Keith Jarrett All here - the hundreds of recordings in which the American piano genius perfectly captured the groove (solo, in his own bands, with Charles Lloyd, Miles Davis and others) as well as all the albums on which he brilliantly encapsulated the compositional intentions of Bach, Handel, Mozart and Shostakovich…

The year is 2021. A recently divorced, conspiracy-theorist, paranoid, down on his luck author makes his way through his own Dark Night of the Soul while writing a record of the world around him, especially of a powerful group of people called the Invisible Hand, a cabal that control everything, including the media. But is everything he sees and writes actually happening, or is it all in his head? The new novel by the author of dUst is a trip...

Dub poetry from Birmingham performance artist Kokumo Noxid.

A young Jamaican immigrant arrives in England to study law but needing money is drawn into the criminal margins until forced to chauffeur a mysterious passenger to Berlin he finds his freedom and his very life endangered.

Three girls going into the world … Anna, Sian and Pearl. Three friends who believe themselves inseparable … Three lives taking them away from a shared Welsh childhood … and from each other. A saga of love and loss, of abuse and rediscovery and, above all else, of the bonds of friendship! "Reads like an enthralling memoir instead of the stunning novel it really is...

The NHS, nurse training and hospital life were vastly different in the 1960s when the author qualified as a nurse. Her autobiography covers the pressured years full of incident and humour in which Elizabeth proved she was competent enough to be let loose on the patients of Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Selly Oak and other prominent West Midlands institutions.

Stories founded in the unhallowed states of those who can never rest and those who see the dead The one subject writers of all genres like to tackle is a ghost story…or something involving supernatural horror. This is what fourteen different authors decided to do in these nineteen short stories. It appears that several are based on entirely true stories. It's for you, the reader, to work out which are and which might not be…

In the age of Trump, May, Brexit, Kanye and Kim, and Fake News, a depressed bisexual poet makes her way through threesomes, golden showers, heartbreak, and suicidal thoughts while making notes of the craziness around her and in her head. And as she forgets one woman and starts a relationship with another, she goes from being slave to being master. But is that what she really wants? This book contains strong sexual content.