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Poor George has just about had it with the publishing world: INFIGHTING, infidelities and a lifetime of a right bunch of comedian wannabes whose utter tosh he's practically (OMG, 'practically' is as bad as 'literally') had to rewrite. Perhaps he wrote his own oeuvre, perhaps it's true, and so what if he forgot where he sent the MS

Sasha, Mike and shy young Jacob have a new home with a garden. Mike plants a rose, Times Past. Sasha meets Magda and Stan, and Jacob is soon firm friends with their sons, especially Marcin. The boys delight in playing planet and alien games. There's another apparently welcoming neighbour, Debra, who makes cakes, offers help to the frazzled young parents and talks, sometimes strangely. All is well, and Times Past and new flourish. Until shortly after 23 June 2016, when paradise is interrupted by Debra's alien behaviour, and Times Past withers. A disarmingly simple and honestly told tale about two young families brought together by their children, then bound by a borderless loyalty and limitless optimism.

Roughly Oddbins O'Reilly is a Detective Inspector with the Colwyn Bay force. Dr Heinz Pumpernickel is his mysterious writing professor. Roughly produces stories for his writing course that include a description of life on a Cornish lighthouse, the truth about President Obama's dog and an alternative history of the world.The Wonderful World of Jane and Oliver Bloke is a cabinet of curiosities and a Russian doll of a novel.

Inexplicable things happen in the cloud forest - concrete or lush. Permeated with ironic humour and the melancholic absurd, these stories are fragments of lives whose characters, being ordinary - honest or decidedly not - are exceptional.

In 1935, in sleepy Cannero on Lake Maggiore, Paola and her daughter Eva - Little Spark - appear to ply a discreet living embroidering for rich tourists. Eva dreams of becoming a make-up artist in Hollywood; instead, she is to find herself on a journey into Mussolini's brutal regime.

A virus is laying London to waste. The internet is down. Animals are feral. Supplies run out. Liz decides to grab her children and drive to her childhood home in Wales. But Ben her older son is trapped. So begins a family odyssey.

BOAC FLight 480 disappears for three months. On board are Mrs Tugendhat, SiSi, Mr Tulkinghorn, 'Senator' Welles, Boris, Mr Mao and Alexa the ginger cat. What happened to them and where have they been?

1946: Britain is occupied by the Nazis. Hitler is assassinated triggering a struggle for power among the Nazis, revolt across the Occupied Continent, and schism in Washington. A thriller and literary cryptogram that numbers Princess Elizabeth, Churchill, Edward and Wallis, Roosevelt, the Kennedys and sundry Forces Chiefs in its Tolstoyan cast.

Part film-script, part novel, Driveshaft is a wry tribute to the wackier side of 70s cinema. It's a bumpy ride where the real, and the not so real, collide. So, if you like the 70s, horror movies, cars with a mind of their own, and Margot Kidder then jump in by all means, but make sure you don't belt up.

Breaking Glass follows poet Beata Duncan on her extraordinary journey from the closing poems of Berlin Blues (Green Bottle Press) to her emigration from Nazi Germany and her as a twelve-year-old refugee in England. These beguilingly arch and lyrical poems sing of the challenge of a new language and life during the London Blitz.

Funny, ironic, tender, nostalgic, speculative, absurd, entertaining and nightmarish, these elegantly rendered stories span a century of enduring Man. Once a Gatsby, Picasso or World Cup goal scorer he's suddenly inbox-fatigued, family, old...Ministry of Everyman. Now he stares down the barrel of the 21st Century. Give up? Time's up? Not yet.

Five impassioned erudite essays: the imperative of art as the current political/cultural climate suffocates consciousness: the personal odyssey of the writer, his ideas to incite artists, his guide to practice and his dream to overcome the limitations of the world we share.

Millennial snowflakes clash with baby-boomers: 19 tales of human connection & disconnection that collide & subvert the romantic contemporary, the recent rosy past, our dodgy looking promised cyberpunk utopia and our post-apocalyptic dystopian future. Provocative, wistful, & darkly funny satire, these episodes must surely play out logically. Or not.

Recently widowed Derek is directing The Merchant Of Venice with his class in the stifling atmosphere of a private school on the South coast. He takes Max, an unhappy new boy under his wing, but a treacherous act during the play's performance separates them and he is both forced from his post and to rethink his life

A sometimes dark, but mostly compassionate humorous tale for our times: In London, during the never-ending decade after the financial crash, a short time before Brexit, it rains a lot, mostly on the young as they try to shift for themselves.