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A Hawkwood Books collaboration withartificially unintelligent small wooden people. Basedon the very real and wonderful model village in Stanley Park, Blackpool, hereare glimpses into the lives of those that thousands of visitors never get tosee. Written by various authors they show you the solitary inmate at HM Prison Porridge, the mystery of the White Horse, the lonely lighthouse keeper and many more. A light and humorous new look at a very special place. Authors include David Hogarth, Vic Peterson, Steve Hall, Sarah Coyne and Eugene O'Toole.

Lucy Miller knows a secret. She wanderedinto Daddy's garage one day to find Danie, her beautiful, great silky dog,neatly parking her bicycle, with little Pekie sitting in the basket. You see,they look to all the world like normal dogs, but they are not normal at all -they have a very special gift. They can speak to humans. Not everyone can hear them, mind you, onlychildren, and adults who are not too distracted or haven't lost the magic of childhood. We will join them now as they wake upone glorious sunny morning, for the start of many an adventure.

An addictive, hard-hitting YA thrillerfilled with poisonous twists, 'Hidden Toxins' will keep you hooked. Perfect forfans of, 'One of us is lying' and 'A good girl's guide to murder'.Six audacious teenagers. Far too manysecrets. A corrupt politician. Stalking... Murder... One thing's for sure - Cedar and Sorrel are in way too deep.Risk-taker, Cedar, and his sarcastic,introverted, female friend, Sorrel have real reasons to trust each other.Cedar's excluded from school, after being accused of hitting a homophobicbully. Now he's stuck with his dad, doing a landscaping job for a politiciancalled Charles Fenwick. Cedar witnesses a guy being viciously assaulted byFenwick. The victim claims Fenwick and his mates are psychopaths and anyone whoworks for them ends up linked to their corruption. There's no way Cedar'sletting his dad get dragged into anything suspect. Cedar's gut feeling is onhigh alert. Needing help, he tries to track down the one person Sorrel can'tcope with seeing, the enigmatic girl, Eyam, who days before, turned up at theirschool asking questions about a governor and his 'criminal associates'. Why hasEyam disappeared? Sorrel is having panicattacks, convinced that Eyam has cut off contact because she knows Sorrel has amajor crush on her. Cedar is in enough trouble and Sorrel is determined to stophim diving into any more danger. Not everyone is allowed to live.

For fans of Alice's Adventures inWonderland, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, andPiranesi - a spellbinding gothic fantasy about a boy lostbetween two worlds, and the dangerous woman who holds the map toboth.When young Pear is admitted to Kopolka'smental asylum on the very day his mother dies, he expects grief. What he doesnot expect is Mystery.Enigmatic, brilliant, and terrifyingly persuasive,Mystery is a fellow patient with a gift for philosophy and a hunger for power.Before Pear understands what has happened, he is bound to her service - taskedwith tormenting a school bully, salvaging a shipwreck for a seaside shelter,and navigating the labyrinthine rules of a world that makes no sense.But there is another world. In the depths of sleep,Pear descends into the Water - a luminous, underwater realm where he becomes awhale, befriended by the wise and erudite Mr Octaveley, an octopus philosopherwith a talent for comfort. Down here, nothing is frightening. Down here,everything makes sense.The two worlds cannot coexist forever.As Mystery's delusions grow darker and her demandson Pear more dangerous, the line between reality and fantasy begins to shake.Pear must decide: surrender to the beautiful madness around him, or find thecourage to fight his way back to himself.Godless Cosmologies is ahaunting, beautifully written debut - lush with dark humour, classical prose,and a cast of unforgettable characters. It is a novel about grief, imagination,and what it costs a quiet soul to survive in a world that refuses to staystill. Perfect for readers wholove:Gothic and literary fantasyMental asylum settings with dark humourUnreliable narrators and dreamlikefictionRichly drawn, eccentric supportingcastsClassic-feeling prose with a modernsensibility "Haunting and spellbinding... a mustread for anyone looking for a slightly darker, but no less magical, take onclassic tales like Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan." -Verified Reader "The prose is absolutely stunning andreads like a classic... Godless Cosmologies had it all!" -Verified Reader

I acquired myfirst guitar at the tender age of five. From that moment on, I knew that one dayI would become a famous ‘pop star’. I even had the name of my band, ‘Phil Starand The Falling Stars’. But… childhood dreams don’t always come true; thingsdon’t always work out as planned.In this lifelong searchfor stardom, life has taken me along many routes,every one enjoyable and each witha mass of tales worth telling. However impossible some ofthese tales may sound, I assure you that every single one of them is as true asI remember. Sometimes my chronology isn’t quite accurate; sometimes names andplaces have genuinely been forgotten and substituted, but they are all true.One of the main reasons for committing this particular period in time to paperbefore any other is that most of theguys who feature still get together and re-tell the stories over a few pints,quite a few, actually. The tears of laughter that these retellings create, decadeslater, plus the countless numberof times that someone has said, ‘You ought to writea book’, has inspired me to do just that.From the ageof thirteen I had been playing in a semi-professional band, turning ‘pro’almost as soon as I left school. This particular episode takes place between1973 and 1979, mainly in thenorth-east of England. Theshipbuilding had all but disappeared,but from Newcastle in the north to Darlington in the south, this area hadbecome the clubland entertainment capitalof the world: There were more workingmen’s clubs per squaremile here than anywhere else on the planet. During this periodI played with the two bandsthat feature in the following stories, namely, ‘Trigger’ and ‘Childs Play’.Both outfits were ‘cabaret’ bands, complete with pink catsuits, cleverly seguedmedleys of Beach-Boys hits, some slightly more than risqué stage comedy and a healthy contempt for bingo, committees,concert secretaries and anyone who didn’t thinkthat the band was wonderful.The maincharacters are Tony Grant, drums and vocals; Paul Farnell, bass guitar and vocals;Keith Andrews, keyboards and vocals plus yours truly on guitar and vocals forChilds Play. ‘Liccul’ Geoff Hayward, guitar and vocals with Tony, Paul and mefor Trigger.Link: https://youtu.be/ylIgoHM6Noo

"Jimmy Endicott was murdered."Maxwell Reid was part of something big once. At least for alittle while. As bass player for post-punk darlings La Plage, he touredthe world with their wondrous hit single (and single hit) KreuzbergWiedersehen. Great days. So he keeps getting told.Forty years on - and now a part-time lecturer, part-timeNorthern Soul DJ - Max investigates the death of his old lead singer, JimmyEndicott. Set on a journey that brings him face to face with bitterex-bandmates, post pandemic cults, corrupt council employees, conspiracytheorists and a messianic club owner - all the while helped (or hindered) byDebs Endicott, volatile adult daughter of the deceased - Max discovers that thesecret behind Jimmy's death lies in a past he has mostly managed to forget. Until now.Told over 45 tracks, and divided into Side A and Side B,"Black Vinyl" is part mystery, part alternative history, part fracturedmemorial to the ghosts of the 80s music scene, all played out as though on ascratched record that keeps skipping back to the same haunting refrain: "Jimmy Endicott was murdered."

It’s 2050and every household has an AI assistant. Araya is sent to help Ethan, a writerin a time where writing is a dying profession. When his wife is seriouslyinjured in a car crash, doctors offer one hope - an experimental transferenceof her memories into a virtual system. Zara, though, is pregnant and the babyisn’t Ethan’s. He needs access to her most secret memories to discover thetruth. Araya is a gripping, speculative exploration of the near future and itsnew moralities.

Solomon's Pond discusses life through the twists and turns of growing older, caring for sick parents and the challenges of an uninspiring career. Told through the voice of Thalia, a thirty something college teacher, who discovers all is not right within the world, or at least the world she has created, as she wonders where she is truly meant to be and if her 'chosen' career path was really her choice after all. The book is part of a trilogy which has its origins in Celtic Christianity and features the first of the three main components: Pilgrimage. The other two books in the series focus on Individuality and Freedom. The book is set out in a way that readers can dip in and out of it at any time and still follow the story. It is broken into three main parts: Body, Mind and Soul in which all these correspond to what is happening in Thalia's life, including her career which is going from bad to worse, directed by her spineless boss, Loki. This includes finding out about a secret double funding enterprise going on in her very department. Thalia experiences excruciating headaches and ill health which begin to change her views on life and death, especially when she finally discovers what she is suffering from.

Crow Dark Dawn interweaves the stories of Morrow, Ghresselle, Fenya and Binnory: vulnerable, complex and cunning, surviving in a liminal city of wind-swept wharfs and winding alleyways, stagnant canals and cold dank cellars - drawing on folklore and myth to create a distinctive dream-like atmosphere.Morrow: abandoned by Lummenmilk, his mother. He is brought up by Grob, the wizened old ratcatcher, who teaches Morrow his trade.Ghresselle: an old woman losing touch with reality, who wanders the city in search of her dead husband and a brother she never had, but who she believes is drowned.Fenya and Arrak: two street urchins, filching fruit and pickings from the market and the docks.Binnory: a young woman who arrives from the country, but quickly becomes entangled with the pickpockets and tricksters she meets on the streets.Longing and loneliness, hunger and disease live cheek by jowl with dancing and revelry, fiddle-playing and puppetry - and the haunting memory of a far-off village, lingering on in the mythic tale of a flower which bursts into flames, but never burns.DAVID GREYGOOSE dw dot windowsproject AT btinternet dot com

Back in the mid 20th century, Brian was born. There were probably many Brians born, but this one is still going, still active, still looking for love in places as far afield as The Philippines, Thailand and Crawley. Based on Facebook entries and haphazard emails, this is an attempt to document an unusual life based on wit, wisdom, energy, intelligence and chance. If you get nothing else from perusing this memoir, you might at least acknowledge that there are survival techniques for living a long life that don't involve pensions, mortgages, stable jobs and soul sapping routines - some of the time. The book is presented almost unedited to convey Brian's language, thought processes and gregarious nature. Asking him to edit it was like asking Mount Everest to shift over a couple of centimetres. It's insightful, amusing and unusual. It doesn't claim to be a new Samuel Pepys, but it does convey a rare sense of individuality in a world with systems often designed to mould us against our natures.

Pirates board a rusty boat carrying migrant children fleeing war and poverty in search of a new life across the sea. The children emerge from hiding in the hold to find their friends in the crew gone. They must assume the roles of grown-ups as a mighty storm brews. They do not know where they have come from or where they are going, although each has a moving story to tell and a dream of a better future. Binta takes the role of the captain she befriended, the old seadog Malek. Adji becomes the cook after learning about food from one-eyed Abu. Maope wants to be the navigator after Raheel, who charts the boat's course, shows her maps. Tenneh takes the role of engineer after Wang lets her sleep in the engine room. Rafi is a blind boy protected by a mute sailor, and Mona is a troubled stowaway from a war-torn city. As the storm worsens, Binta takes charge. But the engine is broken and on the horizon appears the greatest of Captain Malek's fears-the dark wave. The children make their way to the wheelhouse as the sea becomes a raging beast. Will they reach the promised land?

This is a series of intimate reflections on the human spirit. The original intention was a simple reminiscence, but it developed into an exploration of our individual and collective values, of our infinite potential for wonder and wickedness, of love (of course), the creative impulse, spiritual awareness, the US constitution, the loneliness of the long distance survivor, misinterpretation and misunderstanding, politics, Truth and Beauty, language and linguistics, music, the nature of reality, grief, despair and the possible shapes of our possible futures. All this and more from an upstairs downstairs relationship that is deeply private, deeply intimate and here, rightly or wrongly, for all to see.

This is the story of a young boy growing up in the seaside town of Blackpool. He is the youngest member of a typical loving family of four. The era is the nineteen sixties and despite having a very close bond with his mother, David has quite a job coming to terms with everything else. This includes School, God, Santa Claus and pretty much all other categories in-between.Later in life when he loses his Mum to dementia aged 81, things begin to take a downwards turn. The loss has affected him much more than he had ever expected. He loses interest in most things, until suddenly a number of unusual events begin to mysteriously point him back in the direction of all the things he loved - music, art and humour, to name but a few. Is someone somewhere trying to tell him something, and if so, who? As events begin to unfold and the universe starts to make a lot more sense, David realises that maybe he is finally moving towards happiness and his true life's purpose. Something that his mum and dad would have surely approved of. More reading and writing, and having a lot more faith.

Thirteen-year-old Evan Brown has made a confused statement about a 'blackness' coming out of the ceiling and attacking his parents. His mother is in a coma; his father, missing since the attack, is the prime suspect. The police assume it's a case of domestic violence and that Evan is traumatised. Evan certainly doesn't want to make things worse by revealing he can hear a voice inside his head - Kenji - a voice he's never wanted. When dark shadows appear in the tree outside his window and a mysterious cat begins to stalk him, Evan starts to believe he really must be losing his mind, but with no new leads and the police becoming increasingly suspicious, he is left with no choice but to follow Kenji across a bridge into an unknown and dangerous challenge. Can he undo the damage that's been done and save others, not just himself, from harm?Family secrets and cosmic forces are at work in this gripping story for young adult readers.

David Hogarth (Rise and Shine, Little Man) has created an intriguing collection of poetical peepholes into contemporary society with all its foibles, faults and frustrations. Don't look for romance, pastoral, pastoral-comical, tragical-comical or any well-trodden literary genre. These are unique, personal, intimate observations with little heed to political correctness, but nevertheless truthful, honest, fair, touching and sometimes desperate scribblings on our media-led lives.

Set in 1612 in the aftermath of the Pendle Witch Trials, Jennet and Jimmy Demdike are forced to leave their home in Barley and travel with the Egyptians. A chance encounter with bear baiting at an inn leads them to a terrifying adventure where they must fulfill a prophecy in the Faery Realms.

Frankie and Shaun are troubled brothers, brought up on a poor London council estate where they don't aim to spend the rest of their lives. Told in flashbacks, 9000 Miles of Sky is a novel of our time by a young person of our time about ambition, obsession and addiction.

Flash Fiction : a dream noir, a fractured narrative of grey twilight where half-glimpsed figures flicker through a deserted city-scape. Connection is everything, but nobody connects.

Fourth in the series of unusual adventures set on the London Underground, known to the souris who live there as Tubeworld. Dodie finds a `Gift' from the Tunnellers. What is it, why have they left it and what should the souris do with it?

Emma is one of the rare few who can see their spiritual guardian, known as a SCAR. Suraya, just like others of her kind, takes the physical form of a rat as she watches over her fourteen-year-old charge who, used to being alone, is flattered and confused when the school heartthrob, shows her unforeseen attention.

What to do with Jack? He delights in fighting and causinghavoc. He won't listen to anyone, especially his parents. But one day he goestoo far. He sneaks into a wizard's room to steal a look at a magic book. Whenthe wizard catches him in the act, Jack refuses to surrender and fights evenharder! Exasperated, the wizard places a curse on young Jack: if he thinks he'ssuch a great warrior, let him be cursed to fight a dragon. And not just anydragon: the dragon Doom.But Jack was such a reckless boy, a hopeless questfilled him with joy."Hooray!" he cried. "I'll leave tonight. The soonerthere, the sooner to fight!"Off Jack goes on his quest. He soon realises thatbeing on his own in the Wild isn't quite the same as causing mayhem in apeaceful village. But he rediscovers his fortitude when he is joined by Tark, atalking raven on a quest of his own. They strike a pact, and together theyclimb into the mountains in search of glory and gold.Mountain paths are fraught with peril, the likes of whichJack has never encountered: goblins, ghosts, and, of course, the dragon. Evenif the weather doesn't kill him, his ignorance might. The Raven, the Goblin,and even the Dragon, all have tales that could help Jack survive - if he'lllisten. But in these mountains, nothing is as it seems. And thoughJack doesn't succeed in quite the way he thought he would, he succeeds in doinghis best. And sometimes that's enough, when put to test.The Tale of Jack, told in a mixture of rhyme andprose, makes even the lengthiest quest fly by. A timeless tale, for readers of all ages everywhere.

The famous and infamous seaside town of Blackpool is not just the Golden Mile and Tower Ballroom where strictly stars shine. It is a historic place with a fascinating history and much to offer including a surprising, thriving culture of Art and music. Here are over twenty local writers and poets who will reveal things you never dreamed about this unique resort, investing it with moods of love, loss, joy, sadness and intriguing memories which will glow lighter than the annual Illuminations.

John Clare's and Robert's Lowell's incarcerations in theNorthampton Lunatic Asylum unfold in alternate chapters that track theirattempts to navigate confinement, forge alliances, and understand the dangersaround them. Clare petitions for release while pretending to be various boxers.His secret memoir falls into Lowell's hands and Lowell understands the natureof the evil Clare faced, and which has resurfaced in his own time. With fellowpatient Sarah Baxter he gathers evidence against a violent nurse whose actionsecho events from Clare's era. Clare dies, finding a final moment of peace;Lowell is discharged to face an uncertain future.

Can anyone come back from devastatingrejection, loss and betrayal? When your back is against the wall and your worldis falling apart, what would you do? Grace Vincent grows up believing sheis unworthy of love. After her mother’s death, she’s passed between households,learning to survive without roots, safety or trust. As an adult, her yearningfor connection pulls her towards the wrong man, a choice that shatterseverything, where the cost is the loss of her three precious daughters. After her disastrous marriagedisintegrates in post-war Guernsey, Grace spirals into a world of prisons andthe uncertain, seductive streets of Soho. But in the depths of despair, shefinds friends and humour in unexpected places. As her mind fractures, everystep drags her closer to collapse. Can Grace Vincent find the inner strength torebuild her life and reunite her family? The odds are stacked against her. Inspired by a true story, this novelexplores loss, betrayal, revenge, motherhood and the courage it takes torebuild a life from the ruins of trauma.