Why do we tell stories?There is a myriad of reasons. Stories can be a way to gain some control over the world. It shows us patterns in chaos and meaning in randomness. Stories allow you to peek into someone else's head to see how they think. Stories affirm what we believe but also challenge us. Stories entertain and can make us cry.In Historic tales, the editor took the technology of creative storytelling seriously to give us a basis to do better as a nation. These writers ...

Free Spirit is a book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2018.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.freespiritpublisher.com . Books can also be ordered directly from our website.Now, video and audio reviews can be sent across to...

Wounded soldier Adam is literally the man of Alyssa's dreams!AdamI found the perfect angel in my dreams. But she’s nowhere to be found when I wake up in the hospital. I know our love is real, but I don’t know how to find her… or even where to start looking.AlyssaWas it fate that brought Adam to my dreams just before Halloween? Or maybe I’m going crazy and my subconscious decided a sexy military guy ...

What do we choose when the world burns—silence, spectacle, or something stranger?In Forbidden Fruit, speculative and literary voices gather at the edge of the unspeakable. These are stories of trespass and transformation, mystery and myth, curated by Newton Press.Inside you'll find:Hidden histories and surreal futuresSecret societies, spiritual schisms, and soft apocalypseQueer hauntings, monstrous tenderness, and things that were never mea...

Classic Ranch and Range Life Realism: 4 Classic Western Fiction Novels invites readers to traverse the expansive landscapes of the American frontier through narratives steeped in realism. This anthology assembles four seminal works that epitomize the essence of Western fiction, offering a tapestry of life on the range that is as diverse as it is profound. Intricate depictions of rugged landscapes and the intrepid characters who inhabit them punctuate these tales, each exploring themes of s...

Twelfth Night, first performed around 1600, probably at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, is the tale of separated brother and sister twins Sebastian and Viola and their love entanglements. It also offers the rich comic colours of Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Twelfth Night is part of Naxos AudioBooks’ exciting new series of complete dramatisations of the works of Shakespeare, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. It uses the New Cambridge Shakespeare text, as ...

A critical introduction to key debates about race and racism, this new addition to the Reshaping Social Work series examines race as a social construct. It addresses the origins of anti-racist practice and analyses practical issues to provide a blueprint for anti-racist practice within social work.

The 100 Greatest Westerns of All Time is a monumental anthology that captures the essence of the American frontier through a dazzling array of literary styles and narratives. Spanning the days of rugged pioneers to the twilight of cowboys, this collection unveils the vast tapestry of Western literature with tales of adventure, heroism, romance, and moral conflict. With standout pieces that underscore universal themes such as survival, justice, and identity, this anthology does not just cel...

On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that's where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story between men, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.

For reporter Harry Sinclair small towns spell trouble. This time, in Eden Springs for a funeral, things would prove no different. The widow, a woman who hated his guts for the better part of twenty years, asks Sinclair for help in finding her husband's killer. He'd prefer to remember the bad old times and get out of town, but instead he listens to her story.The widow tells Sinclair that she'd seen her husband with a filmmaker called Laura Wells who was asking a lot of questions abo...

Reporter Harry Sinclair is suspicious of money and especially of those who have a lot of it. Assigned a story in the exclusive neighbourhood of Wychwood Sinclair expects to be bored and wishes he was home instead of working on a dark autumn night. He gets over his boredom pretty quickly once he discovers the body of lawyer, Edward Weston. The police rule his death a suicide, but Sinclair is not so sure. When the lawyer's neighbour Patricia Highcross goes missing Sinclair wants to know if s...

The people of Mill Grove have money in their pockets again, thanks to the shale gas boom and the fracking technology that makes it all possible. Nobody here wants trouble for Nimbus Energy, the saviour of their town.When a gas well explodes reporter Harry Sinclair comes to Mill Gove to investigate and soon suspects the explosion was no accident. There are rumours that the ground water has been contaminated, and he suspects that Nimbus Energy is at fault, but can he prove it?