A Short Book About Love

Nicholas Murray

Love in all its guises is the subject of Nick Murray’s wise and witty fiction. Woven into a comic re-telling of the classic legend of Tristan and Iseut - one of the world’s greatest love stories - is the story of Felix, growing up in post-war Liverpool and, in the wake of a father’s death, trying to come to terms with the meaning of what Philip Larkin, called ’that much-mentioned brilliance, love’ ...

The Show-Me State

Lloyd Rees

When Arthur Noone arrives at South Missouri State University to research American usage of English, words almost fail to describe the fix in which he finds himself. Bored with academe and escaping a broken marriage, the weak-willed Arthur is desperate to have a good time with American beer and women. In a fruitless wait for a new woman friend he unwittingly witnesses a gang murder of the wrong man ...

Sidereal Time

Christopher Meredith

Clint and Dustin are coconuts, 10L have turned into three-toed sloths, Gron is becoming Zero Mostel, the lower sixth is an airliner of people about to fall out of the sky, and you, you’ve turned into a three-eyed Martian who speaks a nounless language and has forgotted to pay the child minder ...

Slipping Away from Milford

Rob Watson

At the end of the Fifties the quiet fishing town of Milford haven faces the future as plans for an oil refinery are announced. Traditional values are challenged when big city corruption arrives in the shape of a dead man and a briefcase full of money ...

A Small Country

Sian James

A Small Country is the story of the Evans family, farmers in Carmarthenshire. In the summer of 1914 son Tom returns from Oxford to find the family falling apart. His handsome father has gone to live with schoolmistress Miriam Lewis, who is to have his child. His mother, broken-hearted, lies ill in bed, while his beautiful sister Catrin longs to leave for London and art college ...

Status Zero

Roger Granelli

Mark’s fifteen. His friends call him Psycho. He hates school and has a burgeoning career in house-breaking. His dad left when he was just a kid, and now he’s stuck on a mountain-top estate with the worst reputation in Wales ...

Storm at Arberth

Sian James

Marian, a doctor’s widow, has moved to a cottage in a small Pembrokeshire town. Her neighbour is the Big House, Gerald, an expert on the standing stones of the Preseli mountains, believes their power continues today ...

Strange Tunnels Disappearing

Gary Ley

Gary Ley’s second novel is a compulsive psychological exploration of two obsessional characters forced together in rural Peru. José is a politics lecturer on the theoretical wing of Sendero Luminoso, the Marxist revolutionary group in Peru. Hugo is a Brit, an aeroplane salesman with a deal to tie up in Brazil ...

A Stranger at Home

Denis F. Ratcliffe

An extraordinary epic about the insanity of war and the lengths men will go to for those they love, A Stranger at Home follows a member of the German SS who, through a remarkable series of events, finds himself fighting for the Russians in the hell of Stalingrad ...

Taking Ronnie to the Pictures

Gary Ley

Fire brings death to a ranch in Texas. The only survivor is eight-year-old Ronnie, saved by Francis from the blaze which killed her family. Yet, as the smell of smoke fades, a hint of something...