All we need is love… but it’s not that simple, is it? Human love takes many forms - spiritual, passionate, unconditional, obsessive, destructive, friendly, controlling, sexual - and rarely shapes up in the ways we hope for. Most of us spend our lives searching for love. Some are lucky enough to find it, only to discover that it changes over time. Those who learn the true secrets of love are few. These stories are at the dark edges of those shapes. Here you will find - and probably identify...

The summer of 1968. Having just left school, Roy knows little about the world, less about girls. But then he falls in love with Eva, a Czech whose homeland is invaded by the Warsaw Pact. Growing up just got a lot harder for both of them. This is a story of the struggle for identity: a newly democratic nation is not tolerated by its neighbours while a young couple’s love struggles against the intolerance of the whole world.

The I Ching is a source of practical and spiritual guidance for everyone. This companion book offers clear and down-to-earth advice in everyday language , with many true examples, on how to consult the oracle and understand its responses.

This is an account of incredible yet documented precognitive dreams and synchronicities. They show that our minds are far more powerful than we thought and that we can access true and detailed information without using our normal senses and even of the future.These experiences offer us genuine spiritual guidance in our everyday lives and have profound implications for our understanding of consciousness.Endorsed by the world-renouned scientist Rupert Sheldrake as "vivid and fascinating... p...

There are many alternative worlds within the mind, and Eva has no idea which one she's in. Still, borders have never troubled her before, and she has to find Roy to make good her mistakes of the past. This is an adventure story, one of deep and unbroken human love. Time and place shift with mystifying turns until, at last, Eva realises the shocking truth of what has really happened. There is only one way to put everything right. But it's incredibly dangerous and she will be risking their v...

The Dead Queen of Bohemia is a journey through a life lived on the edge. With a poetic style influenced by Gertrude Stein and William Burroughs, this collection is woven with surrealistic imagery that is both unflinching and dislocating.Fagan's poetry is raw and tough yet beautiful and tender and with themes of loss and recovery, hope and defiance, represents a clarion call from a self-taught poet who started writing at the age of seven and so far has not stopped. The ...

This anthology of thirty-four short stories by twenty-five writers from thirteen countries reflects its title, ‘Pangea’, meaning ‘all lands’ or ‘all earth’. The writers featured include journalists, scientists, a lawyer, a costume designer, a magazine editor, a crofter in the Scottish highlands, a bookseller, and a writer-in-residence at a young offenders’ prison, and their stories are as different and as interesting as their occupations. Their narratives are equally diverse and distinctiv...

**The SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of STILL LIFE'Thronging with incident and wonder' Guardian'Beautifully true . . . superb' The Times'Captivating' Observer'Beguiling . . . You can't get the voice out of your head' Daily Mail**This is a book about a brother and sister.It's a book about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy and everything in between.More than...

'Dazzling.' The Times'Exceptional.' Guardian'Brilliant.' Observer'Extraordinary.' Financial Times'A miracle.' Wall Street Journal*Winner of the RSL Encore Award****Longlisted for the Booker Prize*November 1944.** A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant.

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT ⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize ⭐ Longlisted for the Folio Prize ⭐ Winner of the World Fantasy Award'A triumph'GUARDIAN'Epic'EVENING STANDARD'Mind-spinning'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'Dazzling'NEW YORK TIMESRun away, one ...

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021WINNER OF DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022A No.1 BESTSELLER IN THE TIMES'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' Observer**'Hands-down the best debut I've read in years' The Times'A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEE...

An astonishingly inventive, playful, witty, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers.Shortlisted for THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR and THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE in 2023.Margaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days she spends time with her daughters - Eva in Madrid, and Rachel and her family in Melbourne - and her estranged husband, Henry, in Aberdeen. M...