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      • Fiction
        December 2015

        Last Call & other short stories

        by Edited by P Comley, Contributions from: Robert Hull, Claire Lawrence, Jane Connolly, Vanessa Horn, Myra King, Carol Fenlon, Gail Landon, Gabrielle Mullarkey, Juliet Robinson, Linda Tyler

        From Swiss mountain ranges to small-town Canada, across urban and rural landscapes, local and faraway. These stories - of fictitious canines, portrayed in many different circumstances, as their 'jobs' dictate or their conditions demand - take the reader on countless memorable journeys that amazingly are also able to reflect that 'vast, often unfathomable melting-pot of human emotions and intentions'. Celebrate this compelling variety of tales written by ten different authors who were selected as the best from a large number of submissions to the 2015 Ouen Press 'working dogs' short story competition.

      • Fiction
        April 2012

        The Boy I Love

        by Marion Husband

        The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries her through a sense of loyalty. Though Adam he finds work as a schoolteacher; while setting up a home with Margot he continues to see Adam. Pat Morgan who was a sergeant in Paul’s platoon, runs a butcher’s shop in town and cares for his twin brother, Mick who lost both legs in the war. Pat yearns for the closeness he experienced with Paul in the trenches. Set in a time when homosexuality was ‘the love that dare not speak it’s name’ the story develops against the backdrop of the strict moral code of the period. Paul has to decide where his loyalty and his heart lies as all the characters search hungrily for the love and security denied them during the war. Superbly written with engaging characters that are simultaneously strong and weak, compassionate and flawed. The book is a controversial but compulsive read and readers will find their sympathies tugged in unusual directions as they engage with the lives of the characters. The Boy I Love is the first of a two book series – in the second book, based in World War 2 we following the life of Mick, now a war poet, his son and Robbie, son of Paul and Margot.

      • Fiction
        April 2012

        The Boy I Love

        by Marion Husband

        The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries her through a sense of loyalty. Though Adam he finds work as a schoolteacher; while setting up a home with Margot he continues to see Adam. Pat Morgan who was a sergeant in Paul’s platoon, runs a butcher’s shop in town and cares for his twin brother, Mick who lost both legs in the war. Pat yearns for the closeness he experienced with Paul in the trenches. Set in a time when homosexuality was ‘the love that dare not speak it’s name’ the story develops against the backdrop of the strict moral code of the period. Paul has to decide where his loyalty and his heart lies as all the characters search hungrily for the love and security denied them during the war. Superbly written with engaging characters that are simultaneously strong and weak, compassionate and flawed. The book is a controversial but compulsive read and readers will find their sympathies tugged in unusual directions as they engage with the lives of the characters. The Boy I Love is the first of a two book series – in the second book, based in World War 2 we following the life of Mick, now a war poet, his son and Robbie, son of Paul and Margot.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        April 2012

        Marion Husband Free Sampler

        by Marion Husband

        The Guardian described The Boy I Love as 'impressive...'. With this free sampler you have the opportunity to discover a wonderful new writing talent - Marion Husband. Her writing is powerful but with the pace to keep you turning the pages. Ideal for reading groups and for anyone who has enjoyed the time period, characters and conflict of Downton Abbey. The sampler includes the first three chapters of The Boy I Love and the first of All Beauty of the Sun.  

      • First World War fiction
        November 2011

        The Dead of Mametz

        by Hicks, Jonathan

        A reflection on the greed of men and women, even in a time of war._x000D_ Early July 1916, the third year of the First World War. The soldiers of the Welsh Division are poised to begin their assault on the German-held Mametz Wood._x000D_ But there is a murderer in th

      • First World War fiction
        March 2013

        Demons Walk Among Us

        by Hicks, Jonathan

        Fresh from the horrors of the Great War on the Western Front, military policeman Thomas Oscendale is enjoying leave in his south Wales hometown when he is drawn into the investigation of the savage murder of a war widow._x000D_ A cryptic note at the scene sets

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        All the Beauty of the Sun

        by Marion Husband

        Soho 1925 Two young men meet – for one of them this is love at first sight, for the other only lust and guilt… In 1925 Paul Harris returns to England from self-imposed exile in Tangiers for an exhibition of his paintings.  He leaves behind Patrick, the man he has loved since they met in the trenches in 1918, needing to discover if he has the strength to live without him and wanting to explore the kind of life he might have lived had it not been for the war.  In Bohemian Soho, Paul meets Edmund whose passionate love changes Paul’s idea of himself.  With Edmund, Paul begins to believe that he may have another life to live, free of the guilt and regrets of the past.  But the past is not so easy to escape, and when Patrick follows Paul to London a decision must be made that will affect all their lives.

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