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The Tide – Mark Tuohy

Author: Mark Tuohy
Release Date:  November 2021
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-914083-37-2
RRP: £9.99 

When Michael jumps into the Thames it is only the beginning of his story. He is about to embark on an journey that will take him from London to the west of Ireland. The people he meets and the discoveries he makes along the way will help him turn his life around.

Michael is nineteen and lives with his grandmother Margaret, but when she dies his fragile world falls apart. After a stay in a hostel he sets off or Ireland determined to find Margaret’s old house in Connemara. The house is a place he associates with happy childhood holidays before his mother left.

Narrated in Michael’s highly individual voice The Tide is the story of a young man making sense of the world, coming back from the brink and embracing life again.

About the Author

Mark Tuohy is an award-winning playwright (Bush Theatre New Playwright Award) and an established writer of radio drama for the BBC. His work includes Supermarket Kisses, The Lights, This Is My Car Park, The Milk Race and Westway a continuing drama series on the World Service. He has more recently focused on writing novels. The Tide is his first novel and his second, Tiny Stars, is due to be published in 2022. He is also a musician and lives in Cumbria.

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Ernest Shearman: Ecclesiastical Architect – Diana Beckett

Author: Diana Beckett
Release Date:  October 2021
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-914083-21-1
RRP: £15.99 


“Ernest Shearman was one of the best exponents of creating monumental spaces out of simple materials.” English Heritage.

Architect of six early twentieth century London churches, Ernest Shearman’s distinctive and personal design reflects both the Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts movements, although his main influence was the simple red brick mendicant Gothic churches of northern Italy. His Winchester house was the background to the writer’s life for sixty years.

In this book, the author follows his career as an articled clerk to eminent architect, Charles Barry Jr., studying under two icons of the late nineteenth century, George Edmund Street and Norman Shaw, through to his travels in Italy: all of which culminated in his austere yet majestic churches that stand proud today as beacons in their neighbourhoods.

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The Hoax – Paul Clayton

Author: Paul Clayton
Release Date:  April 2021
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-914083-05-1
RRP: £10.99 


Meet Frankie Baxter. She’s trying to make ends meet and keep the boat afloat for her three kids. She’s harassed, sometimes impatient, but she’s a fabulous mum. So imagine her distress when Henry, her youngest child, goes missing… Henry returns safely accompanied by a stranger, Cora, a fairy godmother who starts to change the Baxter family’s lives in the best of ways. So why do things suddenly start going wrong? Is Cora fulfilling their dreams – or is she the start of a nightmare? Funny, terrifying and a real page-turner, The Hoax puts a whole new slant on psychological thrillers…

About the Author

Paul Clayton is best known to television audiences for five series of the award-winning sitcom Peep Show. Other appearances include Him and Her, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Doctor Who, The Crown, Shakespeare and Hathaway and This Time with Alan Partridge. This is his second novel. He is a regular columnist in The Stage and patron of the children’s literacy charity Grimm and Co.

He hopes the finished product may aid others too.

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If only he’d told her – Katherine Markland

Author: Katherine Markland
Release Date:  Aug 2021
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1914083-1-98
RRP: £9.99

If only he’d told her is the story of Emma, who at the age of 32, loses her boyfriend to cancer. Their relationship before his death, though, was difficult, and Emma is left with one important unanswered question – did he really love her?

Beginning at the funeral, the story moves forwards in time as she comes to terms with her loss, and backwards in time as she untangles a complex relationship overshadowed by a terminal illness. Tested to breaking point, they demonstrate the courage and kindness they have for each other, but also the courage and kindness that they both need. Finally, recognizing a tenderness in him, she finds the strength she needs to move forward.

This is a story of the strength and tenderness in us all, but the need for strength and tenderness too.

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The Settlement – Ruth Kirby-Smith

Author: Ruth Kirby-Smith
Release Date:  February 2021
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-913071-99-8
RRP: £9.99 

Olivia returns home to Ireland for her grandmother Sarah’s funeral in 1984. Sarah was a loving matriarch in the village of Lindara. So why would someone spit at her coffin?
In 1910 Sarah marries Theo, a widower deeply involved in the anti-home rule movement. She promises to keep her personal views private. One night in 1914 Sarah and her stepson Samuel are unintentionally drawn into gunrunning, which compromises her principles.
Theo slides into dementia but pesters Sarah constantly about something called the settlement. She is mystified until one morning in 1919, when she opens a letter and gets the biggest shock of her life. As the truth unfolds events occur to change her life forever, and she is torn between protecting Samuel and her unborn child.
After the funeral Olivia finds a red leather notebook to discover that Sarah has taken the secret of that fateful night in 1919 to her grave.

About the Author

Ruth Kirby-Smith grew up in Northern Ireland and studied
politics at Queen’s University, Belfast during the civil
rights era. She completed a Masters in City Planning and
worked in Stormont and London. In 1978 she joined a team
at Cambridge University undertaking research into the regeneration
of the inner city. When her children were born, she
took time out and set up a business, designing and selling baby
products, which she ran successfully for the next thirty years.
Now retired, she lives in Leeds with her husband and enjoys
travelling, reading, writing, golf, tennis and spending time with
her grandchildren.

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