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Blue Skies Over Berlin by John Steinberg

Author: John Steinberg
Release Date:  Nov 2019
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-913071-38-7
RRP: £9.99 

A young German woman, thinking she can escape her memories of wartime Berlin, moves to London in 1954 under her new name of Charlotte Brown. The offer of a prestigious job at the National Gallery leads her to believe that she can establish a new life in a city itself emerging from the ruins of war.
With her new identity, Charlotte hopes she has left Eva Schlessinger far behind . . . but when her job brings her into contact with a ruthless set of art dealers with dubious wartime connections, she fears they can see behind her facade. Priceless masterpieces start appearing at auction, stolen from murdered Jewish families by the Nazis, and she herself is implicated. At this point, Charlotte makes a solemn promise – one that will take her a lifetime to fulfil.
Blue Skies Over Berlin is a novel about secrets and guilt in an uncertain time, balanced by friendship and enduring love – and ultimately the need to make amends for just standing by.

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The Big U – realising the potential of your life by Laurence Udell & Tom Evans

Author: Laurence Udell & Tom Evans 
Release Date:  Aug 2018 
Format: Paperback 
ISBN: 978-1-912014-44-6
RRP: £9.99 

If you feel you are pushing water uphill, going round in circles or perhaps going backwards, this book is for you.
Just imagine a successful and fulfilled life where you step into your full power, where you not only perform to your best but also where your talents are truly appreciated and cherished.
Imagine a world when you continually land on your feet, where opportunity lies around every corner and serendipity turns up at your door.
To some, the thought of becoming the biggest and best version of themselves might fill them with dread. Why put your head above the parapet only for people to take a pot shot?
Well just imagine that finding your Big Ü leads you to a place of freedom and unconditional love where others want to join you up on that parapet.

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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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