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The Almost Exmoor – by R.S. Turner

Author: R. S. Turner
Release Date:  Aug 2019
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-913071-10-3
RRP: £8.99 

Nine-year-old Samantha has some questions.
When is an Exmoor Pony not an Exmoor Pony?
What will her twelve-year- old sister, Emily, do now she’s grown too tall for her pony? Can she deal with taunts and lies from Mia whose pony is on the same Yard? Gemma, Samantha’s friend, would love her own pony, but how can her Mum ever afford one?
Samantha finds the answers – if she can only get the adults to agree. But one plan leaves Emily just three weeks to prove she can cope with Sunny, the lively young Almost Exmoor. Then there’s another question – can the family prove Sunny is a proper Exmoor pony? But if they do, will her owner insist on taking her back?
It’s a tough time for Emily!

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The Minotaur’s Son & other wild tales by Kevin Ansbro

Author: Kevin Ansbro
Release Date:  Sept 2019
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-913071-31-8
RRP: £8.99 

“Once the evening’s entertainment was over the Minotaur, as naked as Nature intended, clumped into Pablo Zapata’s bar…”
A baby with a passion for theoretical physics…
A winged nymph who exacts terrible revenge…
A stolen coin that releases a wish-granting genie…
And where else would you see Ginger Rogers learning the Ali shuffle, or a humble fisherman making friends with Poseidon?
Charlatans and shapeshifters, lovers and leprechauns, ghosts and office creeps are just some of the characters that Kevin Ansbro brings to life in this volume of short stories. His tales span the globe and range from the wickedly funny to the sad and deeply unnerving.
“Every time Kevin writes a new book I know I have a good reason to celebrate. Totally absorbing, hilariously funny and profoundly moving – this is an author you shouldn’t miss.”

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Waking Up: Life on a small, ‘humane’ farm by Vicky Hamill

Author: Vicky Hamill
Release Date:  Dec 2019
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-913071-42-4
RRP: £5.99 

You cannot carry passengers on a smallholding. This is what I had been told. I didn’t like it but I believed it to be true. Everything has to earn its keep.
Be strong.
Onion had his head chopped off… we ate him.
Vicky Hamill’s childhood love of animals inspired her move to a smallholding in the wilds of Orkney. Initially she had some chickens and a goat but, unable to refuse any animal that needed her help, she quickly found herself tending a motley collection of sheep, cows, goats and geese on her small ‘humane’ farm.
But farm animals have a defined life cycle. In this memoir, Vicky recounts the conflict between her attachment to her animals and the demands of farming. She vividly recalls the joys of feeding newborn lambs and the despair of killing them, joyous and heart- breaking moments that eventually led her to quit the farm and become a vegan.
Exquisitely narrated and deeply moving, this is a book for anyone who questions the morality of the food on their plate. It doesn’t preach but it convincingly tells the story of one woman’s journey towards awareness.
I finally feel like I’m being true to who I am, true to the person I was born to be. I’m living my values. I can, without fear of judgement, love and respect every living thing that has evolved on this planet, living, sentient beings that are here with me, not for me.

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Stegalegs at Spinning River: A Jilly Jonah book by Katharine Ann Angel

Author: Katharine Ann Angel
Release Date:  Dec 2019
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-913071-45-5
RRP: £7.99 

Jilly Jonah is a grumpy loner who likes reading books and doing science experiments. She does not like hanging out with other children. When Jilly finds herself stranded in Whey Wood, she discovers three lost children, each trapped in a story from long ago. From badger to eagle, from She -Being to Foglings, Jilly battles to overcome her fears to coax, carry and cheer the lost children to the edge of their world. And all with the whisper of Stegalegs.

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Gilgarius by J. A. Tunningley

Author: J.A. Tunningley
Release Date:  Nov 2019
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-913071-30-1
RRP: £11.99 

Before Gilgarius came, when I was a young boy, we had year upon year of drought and many of us went hungry.’
‘Gilgarius?’
‘Yes,’ said Han. ‘Everything changed after that. If you care to sit with me awhile, I can tell you about it.’
A lone traveller makes an arduous journey to a remote land where he finds Han, an old man with a momentous story to tell.
As a boy, Han is lauded as a hero by his people after outwitting a giant child-eating creature called Gilgarius. Recognising his remarkable gift, the community elders send him to secure peace with hostile neighbours…
Thus begins an epic journey to defeat evil, both in the guise of the monstrous Gilgarius and in the hearts of men…
But has the traveller a story of his own to tell? And is he hiding his true motive for seeking out Han?

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