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Hotel du Jack
Author: Dan Brotzel
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd.
Language: English
Synopsis:
A woman granted a superpower discovers it’s more trouble than it’s worth. A neighbourhood forum becomes the setting for a bizarre ghost story. A children’s entertainer wrestles with problems that are nothing to joke about. A harassed dad attempts to meet the challenge of the primary school cake competition. By turns tender and satirical, witty and bizarre, the stories in this debut collection cast a fresh eye on first-world problems. Funny and humane, they zoom in on the absurdities and poignancies in work, family, love and loss in our frenetic modern lives.
The Matter of the Vanishing Greyhound
Author: Steve Levi
Paperback: 210 pages
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Language: English
Genre: Mystery
Synopsis:
How can a Greyhound bus with four bank robbers, a dozen hostages and $10 million in cash disappear off the Golden Gate Bridge? That’s what the San Francisco Police want to know and that is what Detective Heinz Noonan has to solve – BEFORE he can catch the bank robbers and free the hostages.
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Alternative Afterlives
Author: Christopher Fielden
Paperback: 183 pages
Publisher: Victorina Press
Language: English
Synopsis:
Book of the Bloodless Volume 1: Alternative Afterlives is a collection of Chris’s short stories, many of which have won awards. Chris’s work is known for being imaginative, filled with vivid characters and twists of fantasy. Death is the common theme, explored in a dry, humorous style.
How to Write a Short Story
Author: Christopher Fielden
Paperback: 366 pages
Language: English
Synopsis:
In this book the author shares advice based on years of hands-on experience. His published short stories are used as case studies, clearly showing how the tips in the book were used in real-life to achieve publishing success.
Wicked Game
Author: Christopher Fielden
Paperback: 206 pages
Language: English
Synopsis:
Thirteen years ago, Jack Fox tried to exit the criminal organisation he worked for. Leaving proved impossible. Framed for a crime that he didn’t commit, he was imprisoned.
Now, on the day of his release, Jack finds himself drawn back to Moonlight Alley to face his past. Men in balaclavas are waiting for him in the shadows. They attack, knocking him senseless.
Waking in a derelict warehouse, Jack finds he is a hostage at the mercy of terrorists. He isn’t alone. Six other people share his predicament. The terrorists have sworn to kill one of the hostages each day until their demands are met.
As events draw to an unexpected climax, Jack discovers why the terrorists involved him in their wicked game…
To Hull and Back Short Story Anthology 2017
Author: Christopher Fielden
Paperback: 287 pages
Language: English
Synopsis:
The volume contains twenty stories from 359 entrants and seven stories by the people who made the final judgment on how those twenty stories should rank.
To Hull and Back Short Story Anthology 2019
Author: Christopher Fielden
Paperback: 277 pages
Language: English
Synopsis:
A collection of 28 short stories from the winning writers, shortlisted entrants and judges of the 2019 To Hull And Back humorous short story competition. The stories in this book are fun and quirky, written by writers with vivid imaginations. This means all the tales are highly original and entertaining to read. Each will become a fable of mirth and legend in the future.
Cheap Pencil : A Cartoon Collection
Author: Dr. Gumlat Ong Maio
Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: Notion Press
Language: English
Synopsis:
A Cartoon Collection is a compilation of hundred cartoons by cartoonist and novelist Dr. Gumlat Ong Maio. These hilarious, black-and-white cartoons gained immense popularity when uploaded by the cartoonist on his Facebook page. Among these is a series called Arnachal Mirror which depicts with tongue-in-cheek satire the daily problems of the State – political crisis, corruption, bad roads, money culture in elections, to name a few. Being a doctor, his medical cartoons provide a rare insight into the doctor-patient relationship and its misunderstandings from a doctor’s point of view.
Million Eyes
Author: CR Berry
Paperback: 355 pages
Publisher: Elsewhen Press
Language: English
Synopsis:
What if we’re living in an alternate timeline? What if the car crash that killed Princess Diana, the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower, and the shooting of King William II weren’t supposed to happen?
Ex-history teacher Gregory Ferro finds evidence that a cabal of time travellers is responsible for several key events in our history. These events all seem to hinge on a dry textbook published in 1995, referenced in a history book written in 1977 and mentioned in a letter to King Edward III in 1348.
Ferro teams up with down-on-her-luck graduate Jennifer Larson to get to the truth and discover the relevance of a book that seems to defy the arrow of time. But the time travellers are watching closely. Soon the duo are targeted by assassins willing to rewrite history to bury them.
Million Eyes is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller about power, corruption and destiny.
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Million Eyes: Extra Time
Author: CR Berry
Publisher: Elsewhen Press
Language: English
Synopsis:
Million Eyes: Extra Time is a compilation of short stories set in the universe of C.R. Berry’s time travel conspiracy thriller trilogy, Million Eyes.
The stories act as an introduction to the Million Eyes world, exploring themes that are central to the trilogy and offering a unique insight into its time-travelling villains. They focus on side characters who (mostly) do not appear in the trilogy while revealing clues to key storylines in all three books.
Many of these stories are inspired by conspiracy theories and urban legends you may recognise.
Think of these tales as a bit like the mini-episodes you get with TV series – Star Trek: Short Treks, Lost: Missing Pieces, and Doctor Who’s many prequels, mini-adventures and ‘Tardisodes’.
While the stories in Million Eyes: Extra Time can stand alone, you’ll notice that a number of them are strongly linked and follow a loose chronology. The author’s advice is that you read them in the order that they are presented.
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Where There Are Monsters
Author: Breanne McIvor
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Language: English
Synopsis:
Breanne Mc Ivor is a bold new voice in Caribbean fiction. The Trinidad of her stories is utterly contemporary but also a place defined by its folk mythologies and its cultural creations, its traditions of masking and disguises. Her stories confront the increasing economic and cultural divisions between rich and poor, the alarming rise in crime, murders and an alternative economy based on drug trafficking. Their daring is that they look both within the human psyche and back in time to make sense of this reality. The figure of the loup-garou, the violent rhetoric of the Midnight Robber – or even cannibalism lurking far off the beaten track – have become almost comic tropes of a dusty folklore. In Mc Ivor’s stories they become real and terrifying daylight presences, monsters who pass among us. Her great gift as a writer is to take us to unexpected places, both to seduce us into a kind of sympathy for her monsters of greater and lesser kinds, and sometimes to reveal a capacity for redemption amongst characters we are tempted to dismiss as shallow, unlikable human beings. The problem, in a world of masks and disguises, is how to tell the difference. In these carefully crafted stories, with room for humor, though of a distinctly gothic kind, Breanne Mc Ivor reaches deep into the roots of Trinidad folk narratives to present us with very modern versions of our troubled selves.
Madhupur Bohudoor and Other Stories
Author: Sheelabhadra
Translated by Jyotirmoy Prodhani
Paperback: 131 pages
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Language: English
Synopsis:
Madhupur Bohudoor is one of Sheelabhadra’s most celebrated literary works. Through the mythic rediscovery of his native homestead Madhupur, Sheelabhadra has assigned a historic-cultural legitimacy to a locale that has perpetually been in the adjunct of Assam’s narrative landscape. As a master story-teller, Sheelabhadra has been amazingly frank in delineating his characters and recreating the lost lore of the place. His stories betray a deep sense of nostalgia, yet they are never sentimental; they are urbane yet not unimpassioned; humorous but not detached. Like all other works, Madhupoor Bohudoor is elegantly intimate and abidingly universal.
How to Collect a Folk Tale
Author: Tashi Chophel
Publisher: Rachna Books
Language: English
Product description: Easterine Kire: “I love the upward movement of Tashi’s poems where mountain-scape mergers into skycape so smoothly, where mortals and immortals meet and merge with ease – stories that are told with a non-threatening masculinity that brings Sikkim home for me.” Robin S. Ngangom: ” It is Chophel’s wry, revelatory portraits that grip one’s attention. HIs exploration of his roots – by way of droll mythopoeia, a pointing up of cultural vanities where the local is refracted through migrant cultures – is accomplished. He keeps an ironic, but never supercilious, distance, and takes us to the heart of life’s in this rewarding debut.” Sumana Roy: “In Tashi Chophel’s poems one encounters a most interesting cast of characters. One, almost expectedly, breathes the mountain air. But it is these characters, with remarkable personal histories, that one remembers. So precise if Chophel’s way with words that we even remember the person whose hair sticks to their teeth. I read it like one does a novel.”
Zingers: Five Novellas Blowing like Dust on the Desert Wind
Author: John C. Krieg
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Language: English
Product description: While all readers want to be entertained and captivated by stories that sing, this collection of five novellas, all set in the deserts of the American Southwest, are stories that zing. A zinger is an amusing remark, and even more than that, refers to an outstanding person or thing. Come on this journey that stretches from the shores of the ill-fated Salton Sea of Southern California, all the way to greed riddled Las Vegas, Nevada, and every arid region in between. This cast of characters that ranges from the lowly and destitute to the richest of the rich real estate developers also includes guerilla marijuana growers, star crossed lovers, and professional gamblers. Whether the conniving or the innocent, all are weaved together by one thread of commonality: they are subject to the whims of a harsh desert environment that paradoxically torments and nourishes them at every turn.
These novellas are entitled:
When the Well Goes Bust
Dance Halls and Fast Girlfriends
Myopia
21: Acquired Instincts
Old Leather Lungs
Praise for: Dance Halls and Fast Girlfriends
Reminiscent of Bukowski, Dance Halls and Fast Girlfriends is a tall tale of the old west – Phoenix of forty years ago – laced with nostalgia, laughter, and testosterone. It’s a story of outrageous bachelorhood, where nothing beats booze, brawls, and broads. Those who remember such wild times are grateful that they had such fun, and even more grateful that they survived to tell the tale.
John M. Daniel, Author of The Poet’s Funeral
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Twilight in a Knotted World
Author: Siddhartha Sarma
Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster India
Language: English
Product description: The soil of central India hides more than the bones of long-dead giants. The East India Company is master of almost the entire subcontinent, but real power is now with the Crown. Far from the great games of the empire, Captain William Henry Sleeman is content to administer Jabalpur district and dig for remnants of petrified bones with his charming and knowledgeable wife. Until he is tasked with investigating the activities of an obscure group of criminals who are said to strangle their victims.
As Sleeman uncovers the many layers of the Phansigar problem, he finds a language unlike any other, and a set of beliefs, lore and superstitions seemingly drawn from the soul of the countryside. He finds orchards of corpses, and a hierarchy of stranglers, but also ordinary men driven to murder. He hears subtle murmurs of discontentment at the changes which have come to a land believed by some to be unchanging. He finds auguries of a conflict to come. And behind it all, the legend of a mysterious, beautiful man, whose capture might be the key to understanding the Phansigars.
Sleeman’s inquiries will make him confront the nature of his beloved adopted homeland and of the mighty people in Calcutta who he serves. Through the prism of caste, the consequent web of intricate social and cultural relationships, and the nature of travel in the hinterland, he will see the real face of India and come across its uncomfortable, bleak truths.
But to unravel such truths is not easy…
About the author: Siddhartha Sarma is a journalist and historian. He has reported on insurgency, crime, law and foreign affairs in New Delhi, Mumbai and India’s Northeast, for national newspapers and magazines including The Indian Express and Mint, and was till recently assistant editor, The Times of India. He is guest faculty for history at the University of Delhi, where he teaches late medieval European, colonial and world history. He has an M Litt in War Studies from the University of Glasgow, where he specialised in the later Crusades. Siddhartha has written several books in the last ten years. His latest book, Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India (2019), is the first complete history of the arrival of Western Christianity in India. His first book for young adults, The Grasshopper’s Run (2009) won the Crossword Book Award 2010 and Sahitya Akademi Award for Children’s Literature in English 2011.
Author interview on Youtube: Book Launch
A Plethora of Dead Ends: A Collection of Short Stories from Trinidad and Tobago
Author: Lance Dowrich
Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Notion Press
Language: English
Product description: A Plethora of Dead Ends is a collection of short stories based in Trinidad and Tobago. The book draws its name from Samson Street which is a street with two dead ends. The main character on the street is Ethelbert G Sandiford who navigates through his dead-end life with a mixture of luck and ingenuity. His family also displays similar traits making for several comical scenarios.
