Ever wanted to be your idol?Fresh from university and eager for the rest of his life, Edward Gable moves to York to start a position in a graduate training scheme. And whilst real life may not meet his expectations, the building he moves into can more than compensate for the lack of excitement. Everyone is friendly and helpful, but there are secrets no one wants to talk about - and if you find yourself living in a building with Sophia Loren, you know something out of the ordinary is going to happen.

Lovers of Old Films

Literature & Fiction

Finsen, Ophelia

Contemporary

Louise Clark

"How do you want to feel today? This contemporary collection of short stories ranges from real life to the supernatural, happiness to tragedy and melodrama, told through a range of eccentric and everyday characters, all trying to get somewhere in life. Find out what happened to the chocolate boyfriend, the woman who almost went mad, or why plagiarism is a bad idea. To know where to begin, you just need to ask yourself, how do you want to feel today? "

This is Living

In a small town in the Yorkshire Dales there is a select gathering known as the Society of Lost Causes. A gathering of eccentric and unknown people; people who feel that they or their work will have no consequence for the world. Until a murder without motive is committed in their small community, and three potential witnesses are drawn together permanently through the twist and turns of a crime scene and an organisation dedicated to remembering contemporary and historical oddities. This is a tale of the joy of story-telling; of the fascination in the detail and the small curiosities of life that are there for anyone to find if they are only prepared to stop and listen.

Society of Lost Causes

Renata shrugged her shoulders. "I suddenly felt like it. I felt so tired of everything that I just had to... I just had to shake things up a bit." "Yes, but did you really have to shake them about in the centre of town?" Renata is disillusioned with her life and her office job. Elsa could use a warm, home-cooked meal. Nelly finds inspiration in an incidence of street crime. And whatever is going on, Lucinda will already have been there, done that. Jimanac is a warm and vibrant city, full of life, variety and eccentric characters muddling through the day-to-day living. Women of all ages and backgrounds looking for a little peace and a little hope. Through these twelve short stories, you are invited down to street level; to come and experience what it is to be a woman of Jimanac.

The Women of Jimanac

"The Romanian knew...The discovery of a body, unexpected, always caused problems." Andrew Parvel, a thirty-something Scot, is found outside his Edinburgh flat with an almost empty whisky bottle in one hand and a collection of prescription drugs in his stomach. A single man who worked in finance and appeared to lead a very dull existence. A clear-cut suicide that ought to have been as disinteresting to the police as his life had been. There is something about the manner of the suicide that Vincent Carmichael, Edinburgh city pathologist, cannot satisfactorily conclude in his own mind. Some unresolved glimmer about the ordinary man's passing draws him and colleague D.S. Don Mackenzie into another side of Edinburgh; a life of academia, immigrants and gothic folklore. Whilst we can only come to the best conclusion we can, based upon the evidence and the breadth of knowledge we have available to us at the time; our conclusions and assumptions can sometimes fall very wide of the mark.

The Romanian

L Clark

An abandoned collection of postcards taken from a train station and a three month stay in a Welsh tourist village might have been intended as light distraction during a break from the woes of the everyday. But aided with an over-reactive imagination and a collection of eccentric and mis-matched guests and gardening staff, Beryl Sinise finds her holiday in Wales anything but quiet and uneventful. There are tragedies and secrets to be uncovered, as well as her own fantasies and realities to set straight. In a village known for the surreal and the artistic, this may be easier said than done.

At the Upper Villa Tyde

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