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      • Fiction

        Everything works out for us

        by Julia Coria

        Everything works out for us is an autobiographical novel where care, love and bravery come together to hold the family when Fabián is diagnosed. Julia documents every chapter of the illness, shedding light to it with happy memories: their first meeting, the declaration of love, the arrival of the children, the trips, projects, life. Is in that thorough record where she finds the strength before the crumbling of her world and before the imperative to become shelter to Cuca and Fidel, and provide them with answers she doesn’t have.Julia Coria moves us with her experience and vulnerability, but above all, with her lucidity in the face of pain, necessary to carry on.

      • Fiction

        Underwater

        by Melina Pogorelsky

        Underwater is a short-lived novel about a hinge stage in the life of Pablo, a first-time father who was widowed the same day his daughter Lola was born. After a long mourning period in which he exclusively raises her, he now finds in that half an hour in the pool time for himself, while Lola swims in the “mojarritas” lane.With an emphasis on the B side, the darker side of maternity and the politically incorrect, Underwater reflects a theme in crisis: the mandates that society imposes on each gender when, faced with an irreversible event, we feel that we can no longer stand.Absent of low blows, Melina Pogorelsky’s agile and forceful writing operates in different depths of sensitivity, where the skin of the other will be the main moving organ. Ironic dialogues and mental monologues converge towards a poetic immersion that manages to equalize us only to show the most valuable thing: our differences.

      • Fiction

        Acceleration Hours

        Stories

        by Jesse Goolsby

        From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby’s Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America’s twenty-first-century forever wars. Set across the mountain west of the United States, these fierce, original, and compelling stories illuminate the personal search for human connection and intimacy. From a stepfather’s grief to an AWOL soldier and her journey of reconciliation to a meditation on children, violence, and hope, Acceleration Hours is an intense and necessary portrayal of the many voices living in a time of perpetual war.

      • Fiction

        Paolo Lunare's Wonderful Lamp

        by Cristo'

        Is omission a lie? How many does it take not to trouble the relationships we weave with those dearest to us? Paolo and Petra live a story of love and deception, going beyond the temporal limits that mark every existence. To tell you how and why would mean to deprive you of the pleasure of facing this work, which confirms Cristò’s imaginative power: starting from Landolfi and Buzzati’s magical realism, he is creating a new literary genre book after book.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2022

        The Green Indian Problem

        by J.L. Willetts

        Set in the valleys of South Wales at the tail end of Thatcher’s Britain, The Green Indian Problem is the story of Green, a seven year-old with intelligence beyond his years – an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem: everyone thinks he’s a girl. Green sets out to try and solve the mystery of his identity, but other issues keep cropping up – God, Father Christmas, cancer – and one day his best friend goes missing, leaving a rift in the community and even more unanswered questions. Dealing with deep themes of friendship, identity, child abuse and grief, The Green Indian Problem is, at heart, an all-too-real story of a young boy trying to find out why he’s not like the other boys in his class. Longlisted for the Bridport Prize (in the Peggy Chapman-Andrews category)

      • Fiction
        June 2022

        Still Lives

        by Reshma Ruia

        The glow of my cigarette picks out a dark shape lying on the ground. I bend down to take a closer look. It’s a dead sparrow. I wondered if I had become that bird, disoriented and lost.’ Young, handsome and contemptuous of his father’s traditional ways, PK Malik leaves Bombay to start a new life in America. Stopping in Manchester to visit an old friend, he thinks he sees a business opportunity, and decides to stay on. Now fifty-five, PK has fallen out of love with life. His business is struggling and his wife Geeta is lonely, pining for the India she’s left behind. One day PK crosses the path of Esther, the wife of his business competitor, and they launch into an affair conducted in shabby hotel rooms, with the fear of discovery forever hanging in the air. Still Lives is a tightly woven, haunting work that pulls apart the threads of a family and plays with notions of identity. Shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize

      • Fiction

        Le Coquelicot - Poppy Flower

        by Pavlo Matyusha

        After the breakout of war on the East of Ukraine, a young financialmanager is getting ready to leave his country, not able to live through theloss of love of his life However, he stays to join the PresidentialAdministration on the proposal of his childhood friend, another financierwho returned from Frankfurt to support the new political leadership Ajourney begins, full of aspirations to help the country but also deliria of thepast and conspiracy on the highest level The protagonist finds himselflocked in the world where wolves in sheep’s clothing get out hunting Willhe succeed to understand who is who while reassembling himself to begina new life?

      • Mystery
        June 2018

        Sondre

        by Åshild Norun

        On a quiet Thursday night, police officers arrive at Ingrid's door carrying a terrible message. Sondre is dead. Ingrid is told that her son was hit by a train after walking into an underground tunnel. The police have already decided that the young man committed suicide. He entered the tunnel of his own free will, dressed in a black suit and white shirt. Ingrid is not that easily convinced. How is it even possible, that her lively, bright and strong-willed boy could have killed himself? Why? Immediately after the funeral, she starts acting on her doubts. But her desperate search for answers is met with a wall of secrecy, lies and deception. This only makes her more adamant. She can't even grieve, until she finds out what led to her son's demise.

      • Fiction
        September 2020

        Asparagus in Africa

        by Corinna Antelmann

        Asparagus in Africa is a quiet, personal narrative between melancholy and irony, a monologue disguised as a dialogue, a wordy and at the same time speechless confrontation between a caring son and his life-weary, 90-year-old father who is in hospital and is about to die. The son senses that he too is getting older and will take his father's place in the succession of generations. During what may well be their last encounter, both touch on the theme of nourishment and being nourished as a universal human need. Memories of eating together help them to find agreement where it seems to have become impossible to express their own feelings and needs in words.

      • Fiction
        January 2016

        Bonds of Love and Blood

        by Marylee Macdonald

        Whether far from home or longing to escape, the people in these stories find themselves displaced from their normal routines. They misread the signals and wind up stranded on lonely beaches or seizing the moment before happiness flits away. "MacDonald applies insight, power, and delicacy to create characters between whom the psychic space virtually sizzles." —FOREWORD REVIEWS "engrossing"—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW "With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and/or trust abroad or at home."—KIRKUS REVIEWS "Author Marylee MacDonald has done an absolutely masterful job of presenting her readers with short stories so beautifully written that the characters will stay in your mind long after the story, and indeed the book, is done."—READERS’ FAVORITE "In her collection of twelve brilliantly-written short stories, MacDonald explores the pain and beauty of human relationships. MacDonald’s writing is raw and visceral, creating a strong emotional connection between her characters and the reader."—US REVIEW OF BOOKS "Bonds of Love and Blood is brilliantly written and nothing less than emotive."—HOLLYWOOD BOOK REVIEWS "Poignant, honest,and compelling... Highly recommended."—PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW "MacDonald dares to question which is the greater, more unsettling risk: the alluring intimacy of foreign terrains, or the intimate dangers of domesticity?" —Tara Ison, author of Reeling Through Life and Child out of Alcatraz "Her characters remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection. Savor this book. Enjoy being in the hands of a generous and visionary writer." —Eileen Favorite, author of The Heroines "These elegantly crafted stories brim with emotional wisdom and eloquence. Bearing you around the world, they will imprint themselves, deeply, indelibly, upon your heart." —Melissa Pritchard, author of Palmerino

      • Fiction
        May 2021

        My Letters To Conceição

        by Jorge Molina del Callejo

        A novel for all of us who have ever wanted to put our lost love into words. A cathartic journey into the soul of what it means to have loved and to have lost and to undertake the extremes of finding that one true someone. A travel log of emotions, people, and places that goes beyond the world of logic to immerse us in a mystical realm that turns the unimaginable into the possible.

      • Crime & mystery
        December 2016

        Scared to Death

        A Detective Kay Hunter murder mystery

        by Rachel Amphlett

        "If you want to see your daughter alive again, listen carefully."   When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong.   But Detective Kay Hunter isn’t convinced, especially when a man is found dead with the ransom money still in his possession. When a second schoolgirl is taken, Kay’s worst fears are realised.   With her career in jeopardy and desperate to conceal a disturbing secret, Kay’s hunt for the killer becomes a race against time before he claims another life.   For the killer, the game has only just begun…   Scared to Death is a gripping fast paced murder mystery from author Rachel Amphlett, in a series introducing Kay Hunter – a detective with a hidden past and an uncertain future...   Read an extract here: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/books/kay-hunter-series/scared-to-death/

      • Fiction
        October 2018

        Kintsugi

        by María José Navia

        How can a family be told? What are the pieces that make up your memory? What do we know about someone, beyond what they decide to show us? In Kintsugi, a family breaks down and those who make it up look for ways -sometimes subtle, sometimes extreme- to repair it. Characters who take refuge in their jobs or in caring for others, who need technology as a way to organize their affections, to perform small gestures of vigilance or even to survive in a precarious world. In the manner of the Japanese art that gives this book its title, María José Navia recomposes in this novel-in-stories the broken lives of its characters, beautifully highlighting the scars of those who leave and those who remain.

      • Fiction

        BLUE HEART

        by Costas Zapas

        Poseidon, an alcoholic teenager working as underpaid transporter at the harbor, meets his girlfriend Lydia and his best friend Fotis, a young male whore, in a no-name fast food in the poor suburbs of Athens. Lydia met an Arab full of cocaine in his villa and Fotis is trying to convince them to steal the stuff and set up a business. They will hire young Greek-Russian emigrant women to sell the stuff. The discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Poseidon’s mother and his autistic sister in her wheelchair. His mother has to go to work and he has to take care of his over-aged grandmother and his autistic sister at home. They decide to hit the Arab. Lydia will date the Arab in his villa and Poseidon and Fotis will organize to hit him. But when things go wrong, everything around them changes. To survive they have to live beyond any rules and regulations. Rough heroes living on the edge. Life is recorded as it is, funny and tragic.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2020

        The Mushroom Effect

        by Michael Connor

        From the food and travel writer, Michael Connor, author of the much acclaimed The Soho Don, May All Your Names Be Forgotten and The Cleansing comes this powerful portrayal of egos, betrayal, torment, resilience & resolution.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2006

        Marisa

        by Peter Cowlam

        The book’s central time frame is the 1970s, when Bruce takes over a financial consultancy firm founded by his father, and Marisa inherits property. Love, lust and money are what drive them both, until their relationship meets its first challenge. Bruce retreats further into the world of commerce. Marisa’s interests are social and political.   Twenty-five years on from their affair, a chance entry in one of Bruce’s business listings shows that Marisa is now boss of the Rae Agency – a media PR concern. Bruce, as he recollects their tumultuous relationship, is torn between his harmonious family life, and renewing contact with Marisa. Finally, when he does decide on a course of action, he has to face the truth of not having grasped the cultural separation their two different views of the world have wrought over the last quarter century.   Available at Amazon and other online retailers.

      • Fiction
        September 2022

        This is Where We Talk Things Out

        by Caitlin Marceau

        This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror, follows the gut-wrenching journey of Miller and her estranged mother, Sylvie, who have always had a tense relationship. After Miller's father dies, she agrees to a girls' vacation away from the city to reconnect with the only family she has left. Although she’s eager to make things work, Miller can’t help but worry that her mother is seeing their countryside retreat as a fun weekend getaway instead of what it really is: a last-ditch effort to repair their relationship. Unfortunately, that quickly becomes the least of Miller’s problems. Sylvie's trapped in the past and if Miller's not careful, she will be too. A cross between Stephen King's Misery and Stephanie Wrobel's Darling Rose Gold, This Is Where We Talk Things Out explores the horror of familial trauma, mother-daughter relationships, and what happens when we don't let go.

      • Fiction
        December 2014

        THE HIDDEN HATRED

        by J. MAIRY DIETCH'

        ? THE HIDDEN HATRED is the story of homosexuality as a phenomenon that appears to be universal, while social pressure, combined with a specific perception of traditional values, can lead a young man to the extreme: a plot full of the unexpected.Two African parents discover the homosexuality of 3 of their 4 boys the hardest way: they are watching the news on TV when the latters, who have immigrated in Europe some few years ago without notice, pop up on their screen kissing other men during a gay parade. This creates a dreadful and devastating  storm in their lives, taking in account the fact that in their context, homosexuality is so condemned that it is compared to curse. They are excluded from everything, living isolated, and their last son, Jean-Noël, twenty years and only heterosexual of the brotherhood is forced to leave his school, being also abandoned by Noemie, his longtime girl friend. Months later, the same parents learn that their only girl, married, with 2 daughters, is having an affair with a woman who is none other than their country's minister of social affairs. The social comdemnation grows even higher and harsher. They are accused of having not educated their children properly and the retaliation attitudes are terrible, coming from the less expected people. This is a little too much for them, the poor parents commit suicide, taking their lives simultaneously. Remained orphan, Jean-Noël blames his family's tragedy on the media which programs, according to him, caused his siblings to turn homosexual and for this reason, he starts hating them with all his heart. Yet, realizing that he can't live with such destroying feeling, he battles it déterminingly. Unfortunately, when he thinks he has found peace of mind, Rocky Butten, an Hollywood filmmaker, comes to the natural reserve where he works as a tour guide, supposedly for vacations; supposedly for Rocky will fall in love with Félicité, the manager of the natural reserve; they will marry and give birth to triplets, three boys. The encounter with this ultimate representative of the abhorred professional category awakes the young boy's hatred again, revealing it even stronger, deeper than ever. And here is the beginning of a "sui generis" development of the complexity of the human psyche, which strange and incredible manifestations will lead Jean-Noel to crime. Though Rocky only shows him trust and friendship, the latter will kill him in a very ingenious way. Afterwards, with  a similar creative manner, he will kill his entire family. But the only thing his evil genius hadn't planned is that Dylan, one of Rocky's son will survive. But he will survive, to only discover years later, when they already have two kids, that Alicia, his sweet wife, is the very niece of Jean-Noël, the man who decimated all his beloved ones! How will Dylan live with that discovery? What will he decide? Abandoning her? show understanding? Whatever he decides will his psyche allow him true peace of mind?

      • Fiction
        June 2015

        The Sender

        by Toni Jenkins

        The Sender follows the journey of a mysterious and inspiring unsigned card, interconnecting the lives of four women from different backgrounds and cities who are all facing unique adversities. The card instructs each woman to hold it in their possession for six months before choosing another woman in need of its empowering quality to send it to, and invites them all to meet in Edinburgh two years from the date of its inception. The story takes place mainly in Edinburgh, Glasgow, York and Cambridge with brief departures to Russia and The Netherlands. The card seems to hold an extraordinary quality that helps the women face their challenges head-on, though none of them can imagine who the anonymous sender is or why they were the chosen ones. The Sender is based on the ideas of altruism, The Butterfly Effect and 'paying it forward', and shows how one seemingly small, kind act can connect unlikely characters and have a powerful, positive ripple effect. The Sender is available in paperback, hardback and eBook formats.

      • Fiction

        Pathological States - a novel

        by Daniel Melnick

        Dr. Morris Weisberg is a distinguished sixty-year-old pathologist as well as an amateur violinist and classical music lover. The quixotic and troubled doctor discovers a disastrous instance of malpractice and a cover-up reaching to the office of the Director of his California hospital. During this year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eichmann’s execution, and above-ground nuclear testing, Doctor Weisberg struggles to find a way to confront his own crisis. Morris and his wife, Sandra, were born in Europe near the start of the twentieth century, and each was brought to America at an early age. In 1962, the couple is living in suburbia, in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. They have two sons. Both are aspiring artists in their twenties, and one is straight, the other gay. As they test limits and act out their resentments, the household begins to fill with excesses, revelations, and rebellion. At work and at home, communication fails, brutal buried truths erupt, and Morris begins to descend into maddening depression. He seeks refuge in his love of classical music and in his California garden. His glassed-in lanai there offers him solace, a place – like Los Angeles itself – of pleasure and escape, which ends up being a haunted, alienated space. As Morris plummets, his struggle to keep affirming his faith in both science and music wavers. Dr. Weisberg becomes a powerfully moving, larger-than-life character – noble, destructive, and terrifying.

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