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Poetry

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Waymarks

James Thornton

Petrarch’s Canzoniere: Scattered Rhymes in a New Verse Translation

Peter Thornton

Hope Walks By Me

Russ Litten

Pansy Boy

Paul Harfleet

Dante’s Inferno

Peter Thornton

The Feynman Challenge – a debut collection of eco poetry

James Thornton

Notes from a Mountain Village

James Thornton

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Happy Publication to James Thornton’s new poetry Happy Publication to James Thornton’s new poetry collection WAYMARKS! This collection tracks one man through significant encounters with the natural world, around the globe. An Ethiopian lake, an Australian rainforest, an American desert, an English beach: the stage keeps changing, but the intent stays the same. A poet enters a deep dialogue with birds, animals, people, plants, seas, and all the forces that threaten and churn this mix of life. James Thornton is a zen priest, and WAYMARKS sits alongside other classics of metaphysical writing in which poets bare their soul. Teachings from great figures along the way permeate the collection: a West Coast poet, a Japanese Zen Master, a spiritual leader, and the Dalai Lama. OUT NOW! Link in bio. #bookstagram #books #booklover #bookworm #bookish #bookstagramuk #readersofinstagram #booksofinstagram #booksandflowers #prettybook #bookcoverlove #booktok #trendingbooks #BarbicanPress #JamesThornton #Waymarks #IndiePublisher #reading #currentlyreading #buddhism #author #poetry #nature
As THE SILK PAVILION blog tour winds down, we thou As THE SILK PAVILION blog tour winds down, we thought it’d be good to introduce you to the wonderful @drsarahwalton . Tomorrow she speaks at the online launch for her book. Swipe ➡️➡️ for details, link in bio! #BarbicanPress #SarahWalton #TheSilkPavilion #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram #thriller #psychologicalthriller #romancelit #Mallorca #beachreads #author #trendingbooks
Celebrating 10 Years of BARBICAN PRESS! This anniv Celebrating 10 Years of BARBICAN PRESS! This anniversary has crept up on us but it’s certainly worth commemorating. Thanks to all our great colleagues, authors and readers! 📙🧡 #BarbicanPress #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram
It’s publication day for THE SILK PAVILION by th It’s publication day for THE SILK PAVILION by the wonderful @drsarahwalton ! ✨📘 This steamy psychological thriller is an absolute triumph. THE SILK PAVILION is a book to be devoured. Synopsis ✨📘 Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. She wants his life story. He wants her everything. A whirlwind romance takes them to the highs and lows of Deià. But beneath them lie the bodies of a generation and as Lucy unearths Spain’s darkness, her own skeletons begin to rattle the closet. Is she doomed to repeat the past? Can narcissists change their ways? And what is that tapping on Villa Rosa’s pipes? AVAILABLE NOW! LINK IN BIO. #BarbicanPress #SarahWalton #TheSilkPavilion #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram #thriller #psychologicalthriller #romancelit #Mallorca #beachreads #author #publicationday
Three days until @drsarahwalton’s THE SILK PAVIL Three days until @drsarahwalton’s THE SILK PAVILION comes out! Today her blog tour launches and the positive reviews are already rolling in! Swipe for the blurb… intriguing indeed we’d say 👀 #BarbicanPress #SarahWalton #TheSilkPavilion #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram #thriller #psychologicalthriller #romancelit #Mallorca #beachreads #author
Swipe to learn some more about THE HEADSCARF REVOL Swipe to learn some more about THE HEADSCARF REVOLUTIONARIES. This is an exceptional history of seafaring, powerful women and 1960s fishing communities. Published in 2015, this book has had a remarkable cultural impact in Hull and the UK at large. Author @brianwlaveryauthor tells a vivid tale that’s an absolute jewel in our booklist. Grab a copy now! Link in bio. #BarbicanPress #BrianWLavery #HeadscraftRevolutionaries #LillianBilocca #Hull #History #UKhistory #fishing #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram #author #historical
📙✨Introducing DISENAELAND by D.D Johnston ✨ 📙✨Introducing DISENAELAND by D.D Johnston ✨📙⁣ ⁣ On JULY 7th this powerful Scottish utopia novel will go out into the world! DISNAELAND follows a community rebuilding itself after disaster and poses a simple question: what if the end of the world is the best thing that’s never happened to us?⁣ ⁣ 📙✨ Synopsis ⁣ ⁣ In the central Scottish town of Dundule, residents of the Busy Bee Flats – Donna and her eight-year old daughter, dour ex-miner Douglas, big Giorgio the chip shop fryer, young Tam and Mac in their drug dreams – struggle like everyone else. Then the lights go out. Winter, and it’s a global blackout. Now’s the choice. Go wild and raid the streets, or come together.⁣ ⁣ Mixing tenderness and broad comedy, Disnaeland draws us deep inside a community as it fights to build a new world in the ruins of the old. Starting with the deeply personal, Disnaeland goes on to shift to the visionary.⁣ ⁣ But there’s no paradise yet. Botched deals, armed survivalists and raids threaten to destroy progress. And the occasional screech of a fighter jet reminds them that the nuclear threat still looms…⁣ ⁣ 📙✨⁣ How does that sound for a cutting edge sci-fi? Watch this space and PRE ORDER NOW (link in bio)⁣ ⁣ #BarbicanPress #DDJohnston #Disnaeland⁣ #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram⁣ #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram #scottish #scotland #sci-fi⁣ #author
@martinjgoodman ‘s debut novel, reissued for a 3 @martinjgoodman ‘s debut novel, reissued for a 30th Anniversary Edition, has received high praise since its original release. ON BENDED KNEES was shortlisted for a WHITBREAD BOOK AWARD (now called the Costa Book Award). Swipe to read the praise, read below for a synopsis. Purchase link in our bio! 📓✨ The Second World War is over, but the Europe's wounds have not yet healed. Tomas is half-German, he is taught by English war veterans. He walks the ruins of Coventry with his English Gran, the city still crumbling from the blitz. When he nears adulthood, Tomas goes to Germany to stay with his blind uncle. The enigmatic old man was once a German soldier. They explore the drastically changed Berlin, leading one another to places new. Out in Dresden, a city decimated by Allied firebombs, Tomas has more family still. What might a young man make of all this? ON BENDED KNEES explores the inheritance of war guilt in a post-war Europe. It considers how the next generation can reconcile the sins of the last; a timeless dynamic in the modern world.  What might we inherit from the wars of our elders, and how might we move on? ORDER NOW! LINK IN BIO! #BarbicanPress #MartinGoodman #OnBendedKnees #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram #currentlyreading #booksofinstagram #WW2 #author #historicalfiction
Join @Drsarahwalton and Barbican Press for the Onl Join @Drsarahwalton and Barbican Press for the Online Book Launch of THE SILK PAVILION! Sarah will read an enticing passage from the novel and tell all about her steamy psychological thriller in a Q&A. All welcome! Thursday 16th June. Find the register link on our story or in our bio! #SarahWalton #TheSilkPavilion #BeachReads #books #bookstagram #IndiePublisher #books #reading #Bookstagram #currentlyreading #zoom #onlineevent
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