by librarians | Oct 29, 2020 | Curated collections, Portico Prize shortlist 2019
Best known for her classic black comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Andrea Dunbar wrote three plays before dying at a tragically young age. This new literary portrayal features a cast of real and imagined characters set against the backdrop of the infamous Buttershaw...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, NW Publishers
In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the ‘eight million differently constructed hearts’ of species currently said to inhabit Earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies – loving, fraught,...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, NW Publishers
Gaia Holmes’ third collection of poetry transports us to the edge of things: to remote, treeless islands, to dark, unfathomable mines, to the gaping maw of grief. With frailty and ferocity, these poems map out the strange absences left in our lives when a rupture...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, NW Publishers
The Sea Cloak is a collection of 14 stories by the author, journalist, and women s rights campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current life in Gaza, these stories stitch together a patchwork...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, NW Publishers
Norman Bates is alive and well… He’s living just next door Behind the normal door of a normal house, in a normal street, two men are slowly driving each other insane. One of them is a psychopath. The father: Mr Todd is at his wits end. He’s been...
by librarians | Feb 7, 2020 | Curated collections, NW Publishers
After two decades spent in the US, L-J is on a flight back to his native Suffolk to visit family and his childhood coastal home. His flight is straightforward, as per design, until it hits a glitch – an unexpected and dramatic cabin decompression – which...
