Eva Matson was born in 1900 to a rural family in Dorset, England. It was the Victorian age. An age when women needed to use actions to have their voices heard. An age of ancient plumbing, gas lighting, and where unmentionables were never mentioned.Through wars, through extreme shifts in public attitude, especially towards the roles of women, Eva experienced many changes in society and extreme changes in living conditions.Eva was a somewhat unconventional wo...

From story-telling author and poet, S.B. Borgersen, come three novellas in one volume. Three stories. With diverse characters, strong and unique even in their flaws. With settings that'll make you want to visit Dorset England in Victorian times, or Cyprus under threat in the seventies, or a small coastal community today in Nova Scotia.But that is where the differences end. These stories embrace the human spirit in all its forms, the fight for equality, fall-outs from unwanted pregn...

Kicked from one orphanage to another, Lenny's had a raw deal from his first breath…until the rebel in him finds a way through."Fishermen's Fingers" peeks into the underbelly of a remote coastal community, revealing how poverty, an unwanted pregnancy, and a bad start in life can lead to a precarious adulthood for those who are different, like Lenny.There are no real worries in small communities where houses are not locked and children are sent alone to the store for a loaf of ...

WHILE THE KETTLE BOILS is a economical and diving collection 150 micro-fictions by S.B. Borgersen.

"We never quite know what is on the other side of life. When Gordon Drummond opens an old suitcase after his father's funeral, he becomes an archaeologist of sorts, sifting through his own pre-history. Suspecting his father may have led a double life, Gordon, a homebody who takes comfort in the familiar, decides to take the trip of a lifetime.Brilliantly paced, Passport to Perdita takes us from the cool grey of Nova Scotia to the verdant green of the Chilean coast. It begi...

The Sequence Dance is a collection that brings together forty award-winning works in one volume. Written over fifteen years, the stories take the reader on a tango around the globe to settings and eras they can smell, they can taste. These are stories filled with human behaviour, intrigue, familiar and yet strange relationships, life's conflicts and joys, and situations with which a reader may question or connect.The book takes it...

Following on from Sticks and Stones, the May break your bones anthology is a collection of fifty powerful stories from all around the world. In under 1000 words, they have the power to transport you, to make you laugh, cry, and everything in between.AuthorsAbigail Williams, Adam Brannigan, Alison Wassell, Andy Kind, Anna Hopwood, Carey Camburn, C. Finity, Denise Bayes, Denny Jace, Donna L. Greenwood, Eleanor Luke, Emily Midgley, Emily Ives-Keeler, Felicity Lucas, Finley Hopm...

A fascinating prize-winning novel about a house with a fanciful little turret, built by a river. Unfolding within its rooms are lives of event and emotional upheaval. A lot happens. And the tumultuous events of the twentieth century also leave their mark, from war to economic collapse, the deaths of presidents and princesses to new waves of music, art, architecture and political ideas. Meanwhile, a few metres away in the river, another creature follows a d...

THE IMMERSIVE AND HEARTFELT EXPLORATION OF FAMILY AND LOVE'A beautiful bittersweet story of love, loss and families. Tears were shed!' GRAHAM NORTON'A moving and powerful novel' JOHN BOYNE'Human, graceful and healing, a true gift of a novel' SEBASTIAN BARRY'A beautiful story' SARAH WINMAN'Lyrical, optimistic and redemptive' CLARE CHAMBERS'Just lov...

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new anthology includes stories by: Charles Boyle, Reg...

Brilliantly observed as always, family, teachers, pupils and the dreaded school inspector all leap to life in this wonderfully warm and witty, brand new, poetry collection from bestseller Gervase Phinn.New kids, disobedient deputy heads, school reports and fireworks, daydreamers and embarrassing mums all make an appearance. And if read on you might even just discover the whereabouts of Colin's confiscated conkers...just don't tell the teacher!

‘A natural storyteller with a Sedaris-like eye for black humour. There are sharp splinters of comic relief … compelling and nuanced.” Edel Coffey, Irish TimesQuick-witted, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in pubs all over Cork City, Noelle McCarthy's mother Carol rages against her life and everything she has lost. Soon after leaving college, in the early years of the millennium, Noelle flees. Even on the other side of the world, with fame...