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100nehundred by Laura Besley Narrated by Various 100 flash fictions fantasy 978-1-913665-58-6 £15 A man carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of his shirt. During World War II, a young soldier searches the houses and barns of the families with whom he grew up. An astronaut wonders whether she can adapt to life back on earth.

In her second collection of short fiction, 100neHundred, Laura Besley explores a kaleidoscope of emotions through 100 stories of exactly 100 words.

A Voice Coming From Then Jeremy Dixon narrated by Nigel Pilkington POETRY 978-1-913665-43-2 £8 [CONTENT WARNING] Starts from Jeremy’s teenage suicide attempt and expands to encompass themes of bullying, queerphobia, acceptance and support. Includes unexpected typography, collage, humour, magic, discotheques and frequent appearances from the Victorian demon, Spring-heeled Jack.

Accidental Flowers Lily Peters Narrated by Various 978-1-913665-22-7 £15 A Novel in short stories In the north of the UK, in a near future, women march together in A twitter storm erupts in the panic of a real tempest, a beloved allotment sinks below the waterline.

Sea levels rise, toxic rain falls and the earth poisons the food that grows in it. The elite, and winners of the life lottery, are evacuated to giant towers. For many, a decision has to be made between living safe or living free.

Incorcisms by David Hartley Narrated by Various 978-1-913665-59-3 £15 Short/flash fictions “You have to understand,” says the woman, “an incorcism is nothing like its counterpart. No bells and whistles, no drama. All it takes is willingness, which you already have in spades.”

Strange stories about strange things for strange people. Tales of possession and obsession. Of destruction and restoration. Of the demons we hold inside us, and those we leave behind in others. An odd apocalypse freezes a supermarket on Mother’s Day, a vanished village holds an ancient curse, an abandoned ice cream van tears a street apart. Rival rainbow setters, the woman who sowed a crop of elephants in her garden, and what happens if you keep on turning the clocks back.

Perhaps you had a demon then lost it. Do you miss it?

Strange Waters by Jackie Taylor narrated by Sophie Aldred

Short Stories 978-1-913665-39-5 £15.00 Set in Cornwall, coastal erosion and flooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and flow with the tide. From one maritime tragedy to another, the community, and three generations of women from the same family, struggle with their over-close affinity for the sea.

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The Don’t Touch Garden by Kate Foley Narrated by the author Poetry 978-1-909208-52-0 £8.99 Born in 1938 and adopted soon after, Kate Foley grew up in London during WWII. The Don’t Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions.

Sometimes autobiographical and narrative, sometimes oblique, brought together for the first time, these poems trace a search for identity and for the meaning of family which everyone can relate to, whatever kind of family brought them up.This is NOT a misery memoir! Some terrible things happen, but the voice of Kate’s young self, deeply unimpressed by all the drama around her, holds the story together.

This Poem Here Rob Walton Narrated by Sean Patterson 978-1-913665-21-0 £8 POETRY When Rob Walton went into lockdown, he didn’t know that he would also go into mourning. Here he writes about the life and death of his dad, and how sadness seeped into various aspects of his life. He also manages to find cheap laughs, digs at the government, celebrations of the young and old, unashamed sentimentality and suddenly disarming moments of tenderness.

Where We Find Ourselves: Stories and Poems of Maps and Mapping from UK Writers of the Global Majority Narrated by Various ANTHOLOGY 978-1-913665-47-0 £15 From UK writers from African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, South American, Chinese and Malay communities, writing about maps and mapping.

Stories and poems of finding oneself and getting lost, colonialism and diaspora, childhood exploration and adult homecoming.

Words From the Brink: stories and poems from the Solstice Shorts Festival 2021 Narrated

by Sophie Aldred and Cal-I Jonel ANTHOLOGY 978-1-913665-54-8 £15 Poems and stories responding to the floods, droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief and rage. Gaia is represented in all her power and glory, butterflies and plants sow seeds of hope, while writers ask: How do we stop it? Are we heading for recovery or extinction?

Zed and the Cormorants Clare Owen Narrated by Sophie Aldred ISBN: 978-1-913665-23-4 £15 YA/CHILDREN/NOVEL Zed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother’s mental health. Gradually the family fall apart, and it is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working together to find a solution and call a truce.

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