Published in a limited edition by Five Leaves Press A tender, irreverent memoir about Rod Madocks’ time as a staff member of one of Nottingham’s most famous bookshops – Sisson & Parker – a former city landmark and institution in its own right. This fabulous...
A memoir of a strange and frightening childhood in Africa in the 1960s. “A book that tips you into a dark and troubled world where memories, dreams and reflections jostle with startling confessional passages when I write about the things I have done that I’m scared of...
They crossed her face with blood, They hung her heart, They dragged her through a pit Full of quick sorrow. Yet her small feet Ran back on the morrow. -A Hope for Those Separated By War. (1942) Sidney Keyes was considered by his contemporaries to be the Rupert Brooke...
A unique new voice bringing a clever sinister novel that threads together this story of an aberrant consciousness faced with the abiding mystery of human evil. A crime novel: a story of love found and lost; a ghost story; a mystery tale about a disappeared lover; a...
A lament for the loss of a young woman and a savage critique of the institutions that failed her. Tania Blair was a young mother of two boys leading an unremarkable life in Peterlee, County Durham until social services took a hand. Once a front-line social worker...