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- 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!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.
- Now long out of print and hard to find. Lovely condition, as new.Texas-born, Californian reared, Joan Jobe Smith has a fast-growing reputation for her narratives about her childhood, her marriages and the sisterhood of women who sustain each other through difficult times.
- 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
- 304pp'Unnerving, absorbing . . . Laurie is a miraculous creation . . . Piercingly human and darkly funny' Sunday TimesOne ordinary morning, Laurie's husband disappears, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks she tells no one, carrying on her cleaning job at the university, visiting her tricky, dementia-suffering father and holing up in her high-rise flat with a bottle to hand. When she finally reports him as missing, the police are suspicious. What took her so long?Laurie can't fully explain her behaviour even to herself, or the strange presence she senses in the flat. Only when she looks back on the ensuing wreckage does she begin to understand, and see how she might repair the damage.
- 304pp'Dark, compelling, beautifully written' Andrew Michael HurleyIn this eerie, atmospheric and mysterious tale, a woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1960s to find it falling apart, undermined by the roots of two huge sycamores. She is unaware that she has awoken the spirits of her parents, Jack and Nettie Clifford, who watch anxiously as their daughter Annette is overwhelmed by the state of the house and realise too late how far they neglected her as a child.As their memories come alive, the story unfolds of a crucial summer when Annette was 8 and Nettie became too ill to run their boarding house. The lodgers have to go - all except the newly arrived butcher's apprentice, because he seems to have miraculous healing powers and is Jack and Nettie's last, desperate hope.'A disturbing, precisely rendered tale of charisma, misplaced faith and transgenerational trauma, with a touch of the supernatural . . . [it] brings to mind the claustrophobic, suburban world of Dennis Potter's great play Brimstone and Treacle' Alex Clark, Spectator"This marvellous novel is both haunted and haunting, as Ashworth expertly blurs the boundaries between the past and the present, the homely and the uncanny, the quick and the dead. Touching on profound questions of myth, mortality and redemption, it is both sinister and beautiful - and ultimately tender' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
- 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.
- ISBN: 1902382803Genre: PoetryPublisher: Smith/ Doorstop Books
- 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!"Born with the gift of lyricism as natural speech" - Clive James"A virtuoso collection” – J.M. CoetzeeSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- ISBN: 0954791312Genre: FictionPublisher: Tindal Street Press
- 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!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!"Rough Music" is an old English custom of public scapegoating. In this book of disturbing musical echoes, brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore violence, loss and belonging.Fiona Sampson is the award-winning author of many books, including A Century of Poetry Review, Common Prayer, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2007, and Writing Poetry: The Expert Guide."a very fine poet indeed" – Adam Thorpe in The GuardianSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Edited by Jo Shapcott & Matthew Sweet"Everyone who inhabits our strange times will want to read it!" - The Guardian"An important... original anthology" - Ruth Padel, The IndependentSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- 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!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.
- ISBN: 9780571264919Genre: PoetryPublisher: Faber
- Sale!184ppThe electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under.'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller' Observer
- 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!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!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
- 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!"Marvellous and terrifying” – Sunday Times"Superb” – Daily MailSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 50% off the publisher’s RRP
- 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.
- The new novel from the twice Booker Prize-nominated Sarah Hall. An electrifying novel of passion, connection and transformation from "a writer of show-stopping genius" (The Guardian)''In many ways ... Burntcoat feels like a culmination of Hall’s work and, in my opinion, it is her finest yet" - Ruth Gilligan, The Independent"You were the last one here before I closed the door of Burntcoat, before we all shut our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days. Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world." (Excerpt)"Burntcoat is a book full of wisdom about the crisis of our times" - Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times"Burntcoat hovers somewhere between the literal truth and what, during the worst moments of the pandemic, many of us feared the truth might be" - Claire Allfree, The Times
- Sale!Illustrated by Isabelle Follath96ppThis beloved childhood classic by Lucy Maud Montgomery is now available in a stunning gift book edition with exquisite new art.The relatable mishaps and adventure of Anne are brought to life for a new generation in this enchanting abridgement by bestselling author, Katherine Woodfine, accompanied by Isabelle Follath's engaging and witty artwork.
- 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.
