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Martin Goodman

Anna Bryson Gustova

Maggie Hamand

Paul Harfleet

Kate Horsley

Kate Horsley

D.D.Johnston

Easterine Kire

Brian W. Lavery

Russ Litten

Josephine Metcalfe

Miranda Miller

Colin W. Sargent

Hana Sklenkova

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James Thornton

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Chris Westoby

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Chris Westoby’s THE FEAR TALKING is a year old t

Chris Westoby’s THE FEAR TALKING is a year old today. How time flies!

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This memoir is the compelling, heart-breaking story of a teenager, his family, and finding the courage to live with anxiety. It’s an everyday story of life, friendship, love, going to school, and terror.

Westoby delves into his teenage psyche and his life-long anxiety with great bravery, exploring his shame and the strain it put on his relationships. He investigates the patterns of his anxieties, the meanings and effects of the places that he goes to, the objects that he touches, the music that he hears and the words that he speaks. A sense of control might just be in reach, but it comes at a price that he doesn’t know he’s paying.

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The memoir has been widely praised as a ground-breaking, intimate exploration of men’s mental health.

‘Chris Westoby shows us what it is to make use of the resonant power of words to offer a portal into what it is really like. A vital touchstone for public and health professionals alike, to understand deeply, to see and to learn from first person experience.’ – Kathleen T. Galvin, Professor of Nursing Practice, University of Brighton

‘This book offers young people an insight into the range of unique ways the world can be experienced and the chance to reflect on their own struggles and know they are not alone in these…, I have recommended this book to my academic colleagues, my students and my children.’ – Dr Judith Dyson, Reader Healthcare Research, Birmingham City University

It's must read for anyone who seeks a greater understanding of their own mental health! Pick it up now if you missed it!

To read a sample or buy it from a variety of platforms, check our bio!

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Take a look at the praise for one of our 2021 titl

Take a look at the praise for one of our 2021 titles, My Brother the Messiah. It’s critically acclaimed for its ingenuity and powerful message. Swipe to read more! ➡️

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It’s 2096. Scientists work to protect a baking planet. What a drought-stricken Europe needs is rain. What it gets is a messiah.

Eli is born in a suburb of Prague. A rainstorm heralds the birth. Perhaps this messiah is for real. Marek, his older brother, guides Eli through his short and powerful life. Can tales of a messiah be enough to heal a ravaged planet in which few babies are born?

The book spans across decades of a dystopian 22nd Century, with Marek working with the zeal of a prophet. In his old age, a new follow joins his community. She forces him to question the worth of a human love when the planet is on its knees. Marek is determined to find an answer.

My Brother the Messiah is a story about daring to seed the future of our planet…

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To read a sample or buy it from a variety of platforms, check the link in our bio!

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Have you spotted this wonderful book trailer on our story? 🌸🌼🌷💐🌺🌹⁣
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It gives you a glimpse of PANSY BOY, a Polari First Book shortlisted picture book by Paul Harfleet, aka the @thepansyproject . ⁣
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PANSY BOY is a graphic novel written in rhymed couplets, in which a young boy tackles homophobia in school by planting flowers at the site of homophobic attacks.⁣
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The story comes to life in vivid graphic art. The boy takes strength from the flowers he loves. Where bullies pinned his life with their hate, he plants a pansy. The power of his actions empowers his school to value what is delicate and different.⁣
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The book comes complete with a personal field guide to the flowers that adorn and the birds that fly across its pages.⁣
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It’s a wonderful, important story with LGBTQ+ themes. A great gift for yourself or someone special. ⁣
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On Bended Knees by Martin Goodman. #barbicanpress

On Bended Knees
by Martin Goodman.
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A 30th anniversary edition of the Whitbread shortlisted novel.

1960s-England and Tomas is young. His teachers fought the Germans. His mother is German.

1975-Germany is divided and Berlin is surrounded by a wall. Tomas heads to Berlin to stay with his formidable old uncle. The uncle carries the scars of his Nazi past. On a visit to Dresden, Tomas encounters further wartime scars. What might we inherit from the wars of our elders, and how might we move on.

‘A perceptive, moving novel. Martin Goodman takes fierce delight in cutting through the easy cliches about the “new” Europe.’ ~ Christopher Hope

Publishing next year. One of the Best Books of the

Publishing next year.
One of the Best Books of the Year – a Must Read – Sunday Times
In the New Testament, we are told that Jesus resurrected a beloved friend named Lazarus from the dead. Yet the Gospel of John – which contains this episode – does not tell us how Jesus accomplished this miracle or if he had a special purpose for saving his companion.
Cover design by Jason Anscomb
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In The Gospel According to Lazarus, Richard Zimler narrates this mysterious and influential story from Lazarus’ own point of view.

After he is awakened from death, Lazarus has difficulties regaining his previous identity and confidence. His experience of death has left him fragile and disoriented, and his newfound fame is a burden he does not want. Worse, his faith has been shattered because he remembers nothing of any afterlife.

In compelling flashbacks, we learn of Lazarus’ initial meeting with Jesus – during their boyhood in Nazareth – and discover how he came to earn his friend’s trust and gratitude. Back in the present time – during the Passion Week – Jesus tells him, however, that their meeting as young boys was no accident and offers a surprising explanation for why he brought them together.

After Jesus’s arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, Lazarus concludes that his whole life may have been a test for this chance to save his beloved friend from crucifixion. But will Jesus accept Lazarus’ final sacrifice?

In Zimler’s impeccably researched and highly moving novel, Jesus is presented as a mystical healer within the context of ancient Jewish practice and tradition. Indeed, one of the objectives of this novel was to restore to him and the other characters their Judaism.

Cover design for @thepansyproject by Paul Harfleet

Cover design for @thepansyproject by Paul Harfleet.
A graphic novel in rhymed couplets, in which a young boy tackles homophobia in school by planting flowers at the site of homophobic attacks.

Out in the natural world, a boy is in awe of its beauty. Birds in flight amaze him. School squats at the end of summer. He is fey, and bullies aren’t comfortable with that. They attack him. How can he defend himself?

In a rhyming poem, the story comes to life in vivid graphic art. The boy takes strength from the flowers he loves. Where bullies pinned his life with their hate, he plants a pansy. The power of his actions empowers his school to value what is delicate and different.

The book comes complete with a personal field guide to the flowers that adorn and the birds that fly across its pages.
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I’ve had a severe anxiety disorder for my whole

I’ve had a severe anxiety disorder for my whole life. Growing up, I kept my illness secret, even from my parents. Partly through the shame of the things I thought, the things I was afraid of, my hidden behaviours, but also because it was the 00s and nobody seemed to talk about these things – I had no idea what was up with me. That secrecy, confusion, isolation, avoidance, is what The Fear Talking is all about.

I know there are others out there who feel as isolated as I did, so I wrote the book I always wish someone had handed me. This is not a book about getting better, or turning my experiences into something positive. Sometimes, a reader needs a sense of camaraderie above self-help. There are enough success stories out there about an author having a mental illness and then either getting better or turning their experiences into something positive. Not everyone does recover, and I want that position to be better represented.

The Fear Talking is written in the confused and terrified voice of the sixteen-year-old me who didn’t know what the hell was wrong with him. It’s a book about breaking through that wall, someone learning about anxiety from the very bottom, learning to communicate it. It’s about the damage it causes to others, but also the moments of real connection that come from finally understanding each other.

Cover design by Jason Anscomb

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It’s 2096. Scientists work to protect a baking p

It’s 2096. Scientists work to protect a baking planet. What a drought-stricken Europe needs is rain. What it gets is a messiah.

Eli is born in a suburb of Prague. A rainstorm heralds the birth. Perhaps this messiah is for real. Eli’s father abandons the family to become the dictator’s right-hand man. Eli’s elder brother Marek guides Eli through his short and powerful life.

Can tales of a messiah be enough to heal a ravaged planet in which few babies are born? If so, Marek works with the zeal of a prophet. Aged 72, he’s still going strong. A new follower joins Marek’s community, young Natalia. She awakens the old man to the joys of the body. But what’s the worth of a human love when the environment is collapsing? Marek sets out to find his answer.

My Brother the Messiah is a story about daring to seed the future of our planet.

Book jacket by Jason Anscomb
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Exiled from America to be free to live with the ma

Exiled from America to be free to live with the man he loves, the Irish-American poet James Thornton returns to the same French Pyrenean village every Spring. Over 25 years he has settled at his desk, the flanks of hillsides beyond his window, and captured in verse the life and nature of this mountain community. James’s poetry conjures the lives of villagers. snakes, turtles, fish, birds, flowers, crops, insects, and hogs who make this valley their home.

‘James Thornton speaks as both a poet who has colonised science and a scientist who speaks a poetic tongue.’ – E.O.Wilson, double Pulitzer prizewinner.

Book jacket by Jason Anscomb
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