Featuring twenty vigorous, original stories by widely published authors and up-and-coming new talent, this impressive anthology transports readers from Birmingham to Trinidad, Colombia to Canada, and Liverpool to London Award-winning author Alan Beard expertly compiles a surprising array of contemporary voices in this engaging read. Stories include Gemma Blackshaw's spot-on portrait of an Essex girl on the verge of losing her virginity; Joel Lane’s beautiful, poetical allegory about a man’s relationship with alcohol; and Godfrey Featherstone's heartbreaking tale of an illiterate Birmingham couple, told in the form of a letter from a prison cell. Also included is a story written by Beard himself, which cuts of the quick with a painfully honest study of growing regret and acceptance after a marriage break-up through infidelity. Going the Distance is always powerful, original, and perfectly understated, with each author's voice both presented in a thoroughly strong and enticing manner. 

Going the Distance

Literature & Fiction

Alan Beard

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tindal st Pr Ltd

I live life like a candle in the wind. Whatever that means. LOL #Mwah #Mwah Marilyn! 7:09PM July 18, 1953. They Tweeted Whaaaattt? History's most famous personalities share their ridiculous, scandalous, and humorous thoughts. From the ancient tweets of at Plato and at Cleopatra to modern updates from at Gandhi, at Hitler, and at Elvis, "Historical Tweets" has all the answers to history's biggest questions: What happened to the dragons? What does "four score" mean? WWJT? For those who can handle only 140 characters' worth of history at a time (and don't mind breaking their history teachers' hearts), this is the perfect book.

Historical Tweets: The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World. Alan Beard and Alec McNayr

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Summersdale Publishers

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