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- Sale!Gracie Fairshaw is delighted to get a sneak preview of the Children's Ballet's Christmas spectacular. But when the curtain rises, things go horribly wrong for the young dancers.'A delightfully engaging mystery.' Katherine Woodfine'A magical rollercoaster of a ride.' Marie Basting
- Sale!202ppGoing to the Moon is SO last century, so how difficult can it be-even for a ten-year-old-to follow in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and the Apollo astronauts? Meet Matilda, the girl who'll give it her best shot to learn everything she needs to learn in order to get there herself.
- Sale!419ppA life-affirming and powerful coming of age verse novel that shines a light on chronic illness, who we are and how we live.
- Sale!320ppPacked with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Fully illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton, this is perfect for readers of 9+.
- Sale!320ppHeart-achingly funny, touching and brilliantly clever, Millions is a fantastic adventure about two boys, one miracle and a million choices.'Pure gold' Scotsman
- Sale!304ppAdam has found something incredible in a rubbish dump in London.A mysterious, mythical, magical animal. A Tyger. And the tyger is in danger.
- Sale!Winner of the Costa Book Award for Best First Novel (2015)The British Book Awards Book of the Year 2016360ppThe Loney recounts the Easter of 1976 when a group of Catholic pilgrims from London journey to the wilds of Lancashire for a retreat, during which they hope to cure the narrator's mute, mentally disabled brother, Hanny.
- Sale!184ppThe electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under.'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller' Observer
- Sale!Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and the Dublin Literary Award268ppNobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the snow. But occasionally someone tries . . .Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw'Easily among the best books I have ever read' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times'A beautifully crafted novel . . . Quite simply a brilliant piece of work' Charlie Connolly, New European'A blunt, brilliant book' Tom Graham, Financial Times
- Sale!What happens to Ordinary lives when international concerns intrude? What does it mean to belong when the various strands of our identity are brought into conflict? How do we survive to re-invent ourselves when we have seen the world torn apart?Special Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"Marvellous and terrifying” – Sunday Times"Superb” – Daily MailSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Winner of the Best Translated Book Award in 2011.201ppIn the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship.'The True Deceiver is a quiet masterpiece...the novel is haunting, complex and mysterious' The Age, Melbourne'The True Deceiver glitters with the kind of sharpness that might just cut you... It is one of Jansson's most deceptively quiet, most astonishing compositions' Ali Smith
- Affectionate reminiscences of Lancaster's The Storey building. Home of Lancaster Litfest.
- Sale!SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION'A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021
- Sale!Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022240pp'An artfully plotted tale about race, privilege and guilt... careful reading proves richly rewarding' Lucy Poescu, The Observer'A compelling exploration of the fraught reality of race relations in Brazil ... there is much that English-speaking readers stand to gain from the considered, quiet fury of Paulo Scott's novel, not least the expansion of and challenge to modern-day discourses on race.' Laura Garmeson, Times Literary Supplement
- Sale!Three full collections from the very best young poets"Between the leaves of this book lies the mad boundless energy of the globe cracking-up under our very noses; it is a world which is harnessed in images of jazz, sex, drugs, aliens, abuse; in effective colloquial language and manic syntax; but the themes are always treated with gravity, unsettling candor and humor." (Text taken from Amazon).Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2010), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (2010)Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Illustrated by Jonathan GrossPhilip Gross's poems speak to all ages, and sit confidently on the bookshelf next to Philip Gross's prize-winning work for adults" - Salt PublishingSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!"Sensual and magical with the hard edges of realism” - Milner PlaceSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!A Man Booker Prize shortlisted author"heartbreaking and compelling” - The Observer"shimmers with edgy brilliance" - Sunday HeraldSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!224ppTranslated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’HoranNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English-language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.
- Sale!A Poetry Book Society RecommendationWinner of the T.S. Eliot Prize"A zestful poet of the road... Jen Hadfield conjures poems of great spirit and imaginative daring. She is a remarkably original poet" - Andrew MotionSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!Catherine Smith's first acclaimed collection 'The Butcher's Hands' was a disturbing and exciting book. 'Lip' moves on from its grotesqueries and grand guignol to a fierce, often frantic eroticism through the language of the human body. - Google Books."A gripping collection of poems - some are moving and some are witty, but all are poems that make you think. The main theme is the relationship of women to the world and the people around them, and there's also a wonderful hint of the erotic about them too. Great stuff." ***** - Amazon"Exciting, surprising poetry - an inspiration." ***** - AmazonSpecial Offer: We are offering the title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!Jennet’s family all believe they are witches. Other folks think they are, too. But 1612 is a dangerous time to be a witch. When her family are imprisoned and put on trial in Lancaster Castle, Jennet’s evidence will help decide their fate…
- Sale!An ancient evil is waiting...Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!An anthology of stories edited by Geoff Ryman. Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence. Through the use of diverse, credible, and contemporary research areas - from Planck length to plankton and virtual conversations between Wittgenstein and Turing to future civilizations torn asunder by differences over particle physics - these stories reinstate the furnace of scientific endeavour. Text taken from Fantastic Fiction."'Highly engaging and fascinating... this thought-provoking collection reminded me why I used to like science fiction so much... Eventually, one hopes, science fiction will regain its rightful place - as once again stranger than science.'” - The GuardianSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "Remarkable” - Daily Mail"A true virtuoso" - Sunday Telegraph"a novel of extraordinary power" - GuardianSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- ISBN: 9781842993484 Genre: Fiction Publisher: Barrington Stoke
- ISBN: 9781902382784Genre: Childrens PoetryPublisher: Smith/ Doorstop Books
- ISBN 9778-1-7385714-0-622ppNature and environmentInside these pages is a text written by Claire Dean, which will take you on an historical, ecological, cartographical and fantastical journey along the River Lune in Lancashire and Cumbria, England.The text sits alongside photographs and a three metre textile (pictured in miniature in the centrefold) handmade from recycled materials by a team of activist stitchers called The Sewing Café Lancaster.
- Sale!A Story Told In Poems By Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate MilnerNominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 21, and shortlisted for CILLIP Carnegie Medal 21Intense imaginative power combines with brilliant poetic technique in a major new work by one of the leading poets writing for young people.
- Sale!Described by Anne Stevenson in Poetry Review as " a major contribution to post-war literature"Awards: Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2004"A Brilliantly virtuosic collection of deeply felt poems” - Douglas DunnSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!"Philip Gross's meditations move with subtle steps between these shifting grounds and those of the man-made world, the ageing body and that ever-present mystery, the self." - BloodaxeSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!Looking Good is Carole Coates second collection. Her first, The Goodbye Edition was published in 2005 and one of it's poems is featured in The Forward Book of Poetry, 2006. Carol Coates lives in Lancaster.Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"Sue Gee's stories are remarkable for their precision and economy - this is a lovely collection" - Penelope Lively" A consummate artist" - Shena Mackay"Poignant and haunting, immensely readable” - SaltSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"A wonderful novel... transforms the stuff of life into art" - Philippa Gregory in The Sunday TimesSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"Its emotional tenor remains buoyant and unfaltering from the first page to the last" - TLSSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"Hugely enjoyable and rewarding" - Independent"Riveting and affecting" - GuardianSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!"An authentic adult voice, tender, ironic, relaxed and highly educated... a fine collection." - Al AlvarezSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Swallowing Stones is Carole Coates third collection of poetry. Her first, The Goodbye Edition was published in 2005 and one of it's poems is featured in The Forward Book of Poetry, 2006. Carol Coates lives in Lancaster.Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Winner of the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (2000)This is the first collection from Colette Bryce, a young poet from Northern Ireland. Subjects range from a woman who feels sick as she prepares a turkey for Christmas dinner, a set of boys who sit on a wall outside the Bolger trial, and lovers' telephone calls. Text from Goodreads
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize"A remarkable novel” - The Irish Times"An unputdownable read" - The ScotsmanSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- ISBN: 0701162511Genre: PoetryPublisher: Chatto and Windus
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With their idiomatic and conversational voice, Rebecca Bilkau's poems on mortality and grief look the inevitable in the eye and manage a celebration of life even as it accommodates death. Her language is lively and engaging as she considers loss, retrieval, survival and simple speculation with compassion, wit and a grounded wisdom.
Still Life is one of three pamphlets selected for publication from the 2024 Litfest/Wayleave Pamphlet Competition, judged by Ian Duhig and Jane Routh.'In this sharply-focused sequence of vignettes, Death is omnipresent, in all its guises, from respectful guest to startling intruder. Consequently, this is a collection that reaches out its hand to loss, sadness, anger, and acceptance. Ultimately, though, what it eloquently reminds us, is that the Dance of Death is also the Dance of Life' Oz Hardwick24pp
In spare and delicately-balanced language Maria Isakova-Bennett's poems about family, loss and the effects of being silenced address her grandfather's enforced migration to England, the secrecy he lived with and its effects on subsequent generations.
“Maria Isakova-Bennett is a truly remarkable poet — she understands how in discovering the past, we discover ourselves. No matter the subject, her poetry is always a celebration of the living world. This breathtaking sequence weaves history, memory and imagination with such skill and precision that the past is given presence.” John Glenday
Subcutaneous is one of three pamphlets selected for publication from the 2024 Litfest/Wayleave Pamphlet competition, judged by Ian Duhig and Jane Routh.
