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Love Letters to Bookshops Love Letters to Bookshops
Love Letters to Bookshops
£10.00

This anthology brings together poetry and prose to celebrate independent bookshops. It has been specially commissioned for the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Kemptown Bookshop in Brighton, while honouring the significant impact independent bookshops have on local communities and on the arts.

Featuring winning writers and contributors including Peter James · Elly Griffiths · Roy McFarlane · Erin James · AFLO. the poet

Cover design by Alexa Vieira

Published by époque press

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The Way of the Poet [PRE-ORDER] The Way of the Poet [PRE-ORDER]
The Way of the Poet [PRE-ORDER]
£14.99

By Roy McFarlane

Part memoir, part meditation on the art of poetry and what it is to be a poet in the modern age, The Way of the Poet by Roy McFarlane is a journal following the daily life in creative practice.

 Full of guidance, encouragement and reflections on the personal, political and radical nature of the craft of writing in troubled times, this will be a ground-breaking book from one of the new millennium’s most inspiring and socially-engaged writers.

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Public Access Afterworld [PRE-ORDER] Public Access Afterworld [PRE-ORDER]
Public Access Afterworld [PRE-ORDER]
£20.00

By Jane Schoenbrun

On 12th June 2009, David Sawyer and Erin Morrison, two lonely, TV-obsessed suburban teens who might be falling in love, gather in Erin's basement to watch TV's analogue-to-digital transition. Beneath the static that follows, Erin catches a glimpse of a mysterious broadcast from a TV network called 'Public Access Afterworld'. Soon after that, she vanishes - changing the trajectory of David's life forever.

Fourteen years later, Bethany Peters toils through the night shift at megacorp GlobalVill's bleak Austin campus. A trans content moderator, she spends her evenings reviewing an endless stream of horrific videos. But gradually a pattern emerges from the ocean of digital violence in the form of a young streamer, Jules, calling out the same words: Public Access Afterworld.

When Bethany ignores the guidance of her corporate overseers and sets out to rescue Jules, she begins an epic journey that sweeps from rural Texas to the heart of American darkness in 1940s Los Alamos - and all the way back to that basement where David and Erin first encountered a world at the edges of reality itself.

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