Where the Air is Rarefied & A Small Life

Both these books are richly illustrated throughout, large format, beautifully produced and with material that challenges.

In Where the Air is Rarefied Susan Richardson pushes the boundaries of poetry with rich and vivid pieces in response to Pat Gregory’s evocative and moving prints. Where the Air is Rarefied explores environmental and mythological themes relating to the Far North. The collection has toured galleries in Wales and the UK and the book brings together two extraordinary artists.

With images from over 60 life painters, ranging from emerging artists to the highly acclaimed, the prose and poetry of Suki’s A Small Life bring true life to the world of the model: her secret longings and sad delusions vividly told; her awareness of the physical discomforts and trials of arresting a moment in time; her stilled life in the constant flux of life around.Normally £11.99 each this offer brings you both stunning titles for only £10 (UK)

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Can we ever escape from our past or ourselves?  - read The Icarus Diaries set in Asia by Kate Hoyland, former producer for BBC World Service. Immerse yourself in 1860s London – rigid social hierarchies in time of discovery and competing ideas is the backdrop for a darkly comic, tense novel about two characters who collide with extraordinary impact – The Milliner and the Phrenologist by Kay Syrad. In The Horses Jo and his family miss the end of the world while on holiday, but perhaps it’s not quite the end – a magical realist take on a coming of age story that is powerful and accomplished, by Elaine Walker. Not Tonight Neil is a darkly comic literary thriller set on a 1970s Manchester council estate – a funny, unsettling novel by Ian Gregson. Truth Games is our all-time best-seller – Bobbie Darbyshire’s sizzling story of open marriages, secrets and lies in 70s London. Set on a fictionalised version of St Kildare at the turn of the century Marianne Jones beautifully written coming of age novella, Ring of Stones, explores conflicts between tradition and progress, identity and language in a mesmerising story. Bethan writes a letter to her missing daughter Ceridwen while Caro constructs a very different version of what happened at the Bristol small community riven by child abuse allegations. Dear Ceridwen is a story of truth and lies, the tricks of memory, betrayal and trust by Cinnamon editor, Jan Fortune. Winner of the Cinnamon Novel Award, Glenis Stott’s Brother ‘Lijah Built the Ark is a brilliantly observed, wry and unsettling account of a closed religious community where all is not well – grateful to be taken in, Liam becomes a core member, but his questions are not only about the disquieting leader, Elijah – does Liam have his own demons? Thinner than a Hair is is an extraordinary book describing the experiences of a young woman coming of age during the conflict in the Balkans. Written by Adnan Mahumtovic, himself a Bosnian refugee, it paints a raw, intimate portrait of Bosnian village life and of the seething ethnic tensions that tore it apart.  Singing a Man to Death by Matthew Francis ranges from England to Pacific islands to semi-mythical territories;  from the contemporary to early medieval. Full of linguistic richness and characters who are stranded in or confronted by disorientating contexts it is a delight to read.

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Rich with the life of the body, linguistically astute and attuned to hidden places, From the Dark Room is an accomplished collection by Sue Rose. Unfolding like short stories told by moonlight, Missing the Eclipse by Joan Hewitt is one of the few poetry collections that has required a second print – not to be missed. Jean Harrison’s second collection, Terrain, was recently described by a reader as the best collection he’d read in years – a poet who senses the smallest disturbances in things. From one of the finest poets writing today, The Skin of Mercy by Dana Littlepage Smith combines extraordinary imagery with quiet precision to produce poetry that is both bold and delicate. Life. death, transience and a sense of an eternal presence are finely balanced in Anne Cluysenaar’s Migrations, in which mater becomes thought – moving and highly accomplished. A Quechua Confession Manual by Sheila Hillier is a debut full of surprises and marvels – cleverly observed and utterly original- a captivating collection.From Forward Prize short listed poet, Bill Greenwell’s second collection, Ringers is shapr tongued, abounding in wit and deep feeling. Notable for both their range and linguistic inventiveness the poems in Ringers sing off the page. Judy Kendall’s third collection, Climbing Postcards takes us not only literally into the world of the climber, but metaphorically onto a journey where risks and connections are vital. Formally brilliant, full of linguistic dexterity, the musical precision of these poems is perfect. Packed with description, wit and characters who leap off the page, Gail Ashton’s second collection, The Other Side of Glass is assured and enagaging. Edited by Jane Monson, This Line is Not For Turning is a unique anthology of the best prose poetry in the UK. With writers like George Szirtes, Pascale Petite, Robert Vas Dias, Richard Gwyn, Carrie Etter and Luke Kennard alongside the most convincing emerging voices in prose poetry this is a book to savour and come back to.

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Washing the Dead with Up Close

Shelagh Weeks debut short story collection is a fantastic successor to her novel, Up Close. Precise prose, prefect observation and characters we take into our lives unite these books. In Up Close life unravels for Jan and Owen on a holiday in North Wales, but the story doesn’t end there. In Washing the Dead the poignant, richly detailed stories move us from 1921 to the present day as time loops and characters disappear and emerge, taking the reader on a journey through time and narratives that intersect. Described by Tessa Hadley as, ‘Gripping, alive and persuasive’, these stories are by turns raw, poignant and funny; mindful of the ironies and paradoxes of life.

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The translation of the anthology ‘Poets from Romagna’ is part of a larger and innovative project conceived by the translators to present ‘Italian authors who do not speak/write/dream only in Italian but in regional languages, to reach the world in English’. In the second in this unique series Guiseppe Bellosi presents parallel texts in Romagnolo and English from nine post-war poets writing lyrical and narrative poetry that takes us to another world. The anthology follows on from the first in the series – Poets from Sardinia, a volume in which the language question runs through the poems, but so too does a love for the country, for its traditions and a particular perspective on looking outward to the Italian peninsula and to the world.

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