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Fiction unconstrained
Fiction unconstrained
Fiction unconstrained
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Carolyn Lewis – Time, Again
Time, Again is something Elizabeth feels is her right. From humble beginnings, she has built a successful company, and she sees no reason why, at the age of seventy-three, she should not continue in her role. But what if it is her own children – her beloved daughters – who are seeking to oust her own creation? Sensitively observed and poignantly written, Time, Again explores the eternal conflict between youth and age, parents and children, enduring ambition and the passing of time, with both wit and empathy. Has Elizabeth been a good mother? Or did she sacrifice her family in the name of success? Carolyn Lewis’ new novel offers no easy answers but thoughtfully examines the choices and challenges faced by all women, at all stages of their life
‘How we age and the concerns of who we will become as the years slip by, is a central concern of this novel and touches every one of us. It’s a real joy to confront such genuine characters who we get to know rapidly through empathy and realism. A genuinely human story, beautifully written.’
– Dr. Peter Nicholls Associate Professor, Senior Teaching Fellow, Bristol University. Author of Beginning to See
Time, Again really resonated with me. Flawed but not fragile, betrayed but not beaten, in this coming of age novel, Lewis has created a character to root for in seventy-three year old entrepreneur Elizabeth as she embarks upon a journey of self-discovery to prove to herself – and the world – that she’s still in charge.
Jane Fraser, author of Advent, winner of the Society of Authors
Paul Torday Memorial Prize
Alan Bilton – At Dawn, Two Nightingales
At Dawn, Two Nightingales is rumoured to be the most dangerous poem in the world, its haunted verses said to be invested with mysterious, supernatural powers. The impoverished Count Mitrovsky believes that within the enchanted stanzas lies the key to his beautiful neighbour Mařenka’s heart, but other parties are searching for the poem too – sinister censors, dangerous criminals, bandits and brigands of all stripes.
A comic opera in novel form – part quest, part pantomime, part unexpected ghost story – At Dawn Two Nightingales is both playful and heartbreaking, an uproarious adventure that upends
the conventions of the historical novel at every turn.
‘A richly comic and darkly disturbing story of unrequited love, fantastical adventure and the quest for a mysterious poem, masterfully delivered in gloriously luscious prose.’
– Carole Hailey
The reader must ride their luck in a bone-shaking droshky. The carriage will take them through quivering landscapes by day and something peculiarly spectral by night. Bilton’s work is a Bohemian romp, an amuse-bouche which keeps on giving. Carnivalesque, metaphysical, theatrical, slapstick, lyrical, not infrequently graced by aphorisms and a wondrous wit, the novel spins out a mellifluous if bewildering poetic dream.
Julian Stannard
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Alan Bilton – The End of the Yellow House
Central Russia, 1919, a sanatorium cut off by the chaos of the Russian civil war. The murder of the chief doctor sets in motion a nightmarish series of events involving mysterious experiments, the secret police, the Tsar’s double, an enigmatic ‘visitor’, giant corpses, possessed cats, sorcery, and the overwhelming madness of war, in this fantastical and wildly exuberant historical novel.
An epic novel of considerable scope – Mark Blayney
A delicious mystery on every page – David Towsey
Carole Hailey – The Book of Jem
In the aftermath of catastrophic religious wars, God has been banned. A young woman – Jem - arrives in the isolated village of Underhill, announcing that not only does God exist, but It has sent her to deliver an apocalyptic message. Some of the villagers, convinced Jem is lying, watch in horror as others flock to join the new God's Threads religion. As the prophesied apocalypse draws near, Jem’s divisive message eventually threatens the very existence of Underhill.
Bold storytelling, with the satirical force of Naomi Alderman's The Power but its own claustrophobic sense of place – Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill
Carolyn Lewis – Some Sort of Twilight
These twelve stories are of people unsure of their place in the world – Cassie who discovers she can fly and has no-one to tell, Christine who’s been in her friend’s shadow for a long time, Bernard who loses his job through no fault of his own and Hannah who knows her father is waiting for her to sort his life out.
These stories combine pathos, humour and wisdom to explore how the ordinary can be strange, heartbreaking or comic, illuminating the inner lives of people who feel in some way they’re on the edge of their own lives.
Carolyn's stories are a joy to read. Her characters are so perfectly formed that we feel we have always known them. Of course people collect coat hangers! Who doesn't one day find they can fly? Her empathy for them all shines through and we feel in very safe hands – Sally Bramley, Winner 2021 Caledonia Novel Prize.
Edward Matthews – Border Memories
Why live one life, when you could live a thousand?
Sol works for a start-up that traffics in the underground memory trade—harvesting memories from donors in Mexico and implanting them in Americans.
Sol’s newest client is Mr. Bray—old, rich, well-connected, blind. Mr. Bray hears rumors of a graveyard where miracles occur and has tracked down a young librarian, Nora, who remembers it.
Sol’s task is simple—find Nora, extract her memory.
But when Sol befriends Nora, he begins to understand who Mr. Bray is and what he is capable of doing…
As genuine art should, Border Memories explores important and ongoing problems and confidently reimagines them for a new audience.
– Margarita Pintado, author of Una muchacha que se parece a mí
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