In this first collection of her work, the poet re-visits her country childhood, the loss of innocence, love, heartbreak and death, and reflects with admirable frankness on those universal rites of passage common to us all.
"I have felt engaged with the work, and responsive to its emotional charge" :Professor Carol Rumens GUARDIAN BOOKS ONLINE 'Poem of the Week' blog.
"She lets detail speak, often exquisitely, through things as they are; there is no attempt to escape through fantasy" :Jay Ramsay, Poetry Editor, CARDUCEUS JOURNAL
Lucy Walton's interview with Mary Pargeter reveals the author's inner thoughts: FEMALE FIRST ONLINE magazine

journey in shades: poetry in light and dark

Pargeter, Mary

Parenting & Relationships

GB Publishing.org

From Earth's overcrowded megacities a new generation must rise...or die. By the 2060s – the march of megacities across the globe has finally stopped but the population must still grow. Now mankind turns its eyes to space – building the Near Earth Territories and peopling them with youngsters DNA-primed to survive there. When a planet-destroying cosmic disturbance bears down on the Earth, a team of Territories’ researchers scrambles to respond with enhanced talents and hard science. More than just science fiction DeepStorm OutTack is based on a decade of intensive research. Enjoy the story but heed the warning – mankind could go the way of the dinosaurs.

DeepStorm: OutTack

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Boughton, George S.

Science Fiction

Hands off our poo!Doogie has had enough. His band of Rollers have had their dung stolen by the thuggish Dwellers one too many times, and now he’s determined to go somewhere where they will never find him.  And so he leads his friends on a gruelling quest for a magical land of endless dung.  Along the way, crossing over and under both land and water, they face terrifying crocodiles, ferocious lions and deadly eagles.

Doogie and the Rollers

Children's Books

Islam, Sharif

Animals

A sailing classic, of real life adventure, beautifully illustrated.
TV Presenter JULIETTE FOSTER: "Captain George P Boughton's maritime career began in 1881 at the age of 12, and thanks to his grandson, the founder of GB Publishing Org, this intriguing memoir of a life at sea is now available to a new generation of readers.
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT "His book is genuine sea salt…warm colours of Mr Shoesmith’s pictures accord well with the romantic story [of days before steamships]" THE SPECTATOR: "recalls emotions [on sea-life] that have fleeted from the minds of most" First published in 1926, Seafaring - The Full Story reveals that a life on the ocean waves was anything but jolly: conditions were tough, the food was just about edible while the work was back-breaking - although the salt-of-the-earth camaraderie helped. As much a one-man reminiscence as it is an elegy for a forgotten way of life, it's not hard to imagine a gravely-voiced Boughton recalling the era of the 'large sailing ships'. and why the world stopped being a better place when they were forced off the sea. Boughton died in 1940 at the age of 71, having worked his way up to the position of Superintendent to the Shipping Federation of Britain. With the publication of these memoirs, his contribution to our understanding of this area of history will surely live on." In this edition of Seafaring, which deals with ships and life aboard ships in the days before steam had conquered sail, a Prologue is added that tells of the tragic circumstances that led up to the author going to sea when aged twelve. An Epilogue also reveals his fortunes since writing the book. The men who spent the best part of their lives on sailing vessels are now gone but fortunately Captain Boughton, as one of them, committed to writing his first hand account of what their lives aboard were really like. The salt of the sea is in these breezy pages; they reflect the virile enjoyment with which the men of whom Captain Boughton writes faced the hardships of their existence.
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The inclusion of several of the traditional sea "chanties", with the musical scores, and the end-papers that illustrate sailors' knots, add the final flavour to an inspiring and enduring book.

Seafaring - The Full Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Captain Boughton, George P.

Historical

Body Holiday (The Adventures of Milla Carter)

Literature & Fiction

Pearson, Derek E.

Erotica

Indies 2015 BOOK AWARD WINNER, HORROR. Born from humanity - destined to destroy itAllegory-laden horror-satire in which Stanley, one of the 'ordinary', is so evil his touch alone freezes girls' minds with fear; caught up in porn, in their teens, he captures and keeps them as trophies. While, the 'ordinary' feed from humanity's rot intent on bringing about the next phase for the human race. Amid this dark descent humanity's fight for survival, as with retired policeman Rob, his son Jez and girlfriend Maria, seems doomed by its own dark, arrogant dehumanising of women. FLUX magazine interview, July 10 2015: "Christopher Ritchie has marked himself out as a rising star in fiction. The ordinary, plugs straight into the zeitgeist. Indeed, with the main theme being the viral spreading of fear via the media in a world where pornography has become commonplace, it's not all that far-fetched for a horror story." "I find the real horror is there for all to see," Ritchie says. "The news now compared to five or 10 years ago is really so much more aggressive and depressing. We're fed large helpings of gruesome discovery every day and that's just not good for the mind." "That's primarily what The ordinary is about, dressed up in horror-satire as a man takes on a crusade to punish girls who willingly go into porn. My story sets up a reality not so unlike ours, where porn is becoming more acceptable and it's driving a really seedy industry where on the fringes we're seeing human trafficking, effectively sex slavery, girls being lost to the world, hooked on hard drugs... to me that's just so awful and, troublingly, so likely. Ritchie describes it as a virus and reckons it's spreading worryingly fast. "It is You've got 10-year-olds with smart phones exchanging this stuff in playgrounds. They're growing up with this mass exposure to what is essentially dehumanising women, making sex something dark rather than enjoyable, and they're indirectly feeding an industry which is purely and simply exploitative. I'm fascinated but absolutely disgusted by that world. There is some light in the darkness though. The ordinary is an allegory-laden satire, with impressive character development, twists, and a hefty dose of black comedy."

The ordinary

Ritchie, Christopher

Genre Fiction

Erin and the Mouse

Latham, Clare

The Gathering of Gods: Anubis

Kingswraith and the Vadhaka

That night for most people was of little interest. But it would turn out to be the most momentous and threatening of their lives. A mysterious meteor-like object hits the sea off Ireland, quickly followed globally by hundreds more, creating vast amounts of vapour, but little damage. The mists soon clear and people start to relax. But within weeks comes a shocking realisation. Men are suddenly and inexplicably impotent and infertile, with doctors as baffled as they are. No more babies? The devasting news dominates the media - and markets across the globe begin to collapse as the horrific economic implications of an ageing and terminally reducing world sink in. Scientific and military and space experts find evidence that now convinces sceptical world leaders that an alien force intends to take over a weakened world by the patient and devious means of destroying human reproduction. However, one brave woman puts forward a radical idea as the only possible and secret solution. But will it work?

Nightmare: The unfolding of a world crisis

O'Brien, Donough

Cowley, Liz

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