In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed ...

In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed ...

With its flighty parables and skewed morality tales, The Wilderness Party is an unforgettable record of turbulent times. These are poems of finely-wrought musicality, bristling energy and playful excess. From cream cakes on Shetland to Camberwick Green, from Lyuba the Siberian mammoth to the madness of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, A.B. Jackson approaches personal and historical events with a mixture of wit and wonder. Included in the opening section of individual lyrics is ‘Treasure Island’,...

Alexander Morgan stands at the pinnacle of pop superstardom—desired by millions, envied by all.But behind the dazzling lights and deafening applause lies a man haunted by secrets. To the world, he's flawless, untouchable. In truth, he's barely holding on.Christopher Foster, back in London for his sister's wedding, has his own ghosts to bury. He never expected to collide with Alexander's turbulent orbit—nor to stir something in the superstar that refuses to ...

Following an explosive revelation, Alexander Morgan's world is spiraling.His career is faltering, his relationship with Christopher lies in ruins, and he's trapped in a fabricated relationship designed to protect a dangerous lie and what's left of his reputation.Christopher Foster is still reeling. From grief, betrayal, and the wreckage Alexander left behind. Determined to rebuild his life and career, he finds himself unwillingly dragged back into Alexander...

Two months after a leaked video shattered his relationship and nearly ended his career, Alexander Morgan is teetering on the edge of self-destruction.Simultaneously shooting his Hollywood debut, whilst keeping up with the demands of being the world's biggest poster, Alexander seeks solace in familiar coping strategies, whilst trying to outrun the demons of his past, grapple with the guilt and love he was forced to deny.Christopher Foster's life and career b...

Gain more control over your time, tasks, and priorities than you ever thought possible!If you need to get more done in less time, recognize your real priorities, keep track of several projects, or establish and meet deadlines, this program is for you. Learn how you can easily handle the most impossible priorities and demands without long work days, stress-filled schedules, chaos, and panic.Learn how to: maintain your confidence and make sound decisions unde...

Stolen Nights is A Stolen Romance Series prequel novella, set two-and-a-half years before the first book (Stolen Moments) in the trilogy. A MM, forbidden love, forced-proximity, workplace, rockstar-romance, full of spice and dramaFame demanded a secret. Fate demanded a price.Pop star Alexander Morgan's 21st birthday was meant to mark a new beginning, a chance to shed his "caged animal" celebrity life and finally so...

A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" ( The Guardian)The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize–winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book, The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems to the weather, and poems of poli...

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular praise. Her first book, Almana, was a traveller's litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. Nigh-No-Place is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world.Hadfield began her new book on the hoof, travelling across Canada, hungry for new landscapes. She took epic routes: the railway from Halifax to Vancouver and the Dempster Highway's 740 km of ...

On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fifth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Hard Light features a new Introduction by Lisa Moore, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First published in 1998, Hard Light retells and reimagines his father’s and others’ stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery. These deeply felt poems a...

“Because of the scarcity of cod in Conception Bay in the early 1920s, my father decided to go to the Labrador coast and try his luck as hundreds of others were doing. He went as a skipper with his own fishing crew. Mother used to go along to save the expense of a cook so, at an early age I was taken along with the family. By the time I was married, I had spent sixteen summers on the coast. Fifteen of those were spent at Batteau and the other one at Five Islands, a distance of five or six m...