Hardback. This is a humorous novel, broadly in the Douglas Adams/Terry Pratchett vein. But not entirely. It is also a fictional soap opera, following the notion that 'life is a soap opera enacted by unwilling actors to a fickle script cobbled together by Fate'.

She is on the run, and doesn't know it She is running to a freedom she has always wanted, but does not know how to claim. Her inner wildness is finally surfacing, but she has limited time to explore it; is on unsure feet as it rears its head and surveys the territory. She only knows that she must have it, this freedom, again and again and again.

The people one loses one's head over. The faces that haunt you long after death--death of love, death of affection, cessation of passion. The countenances and spirits that occupy cherished space between heart and lung and consciousness: Niama Williams gives voice to both, puts in words the entities--water, rain, that psychiatrist who took your heart, the glen in the outback where you sought to escape him--that make us speechless. Travel with her as she puts names to the unnamable, as she affixes words to that which had struck us dumb. Find your tongue. Watch her lash out.

The women she's known and loved The women who have raised her. The Brown Women in literary works who've seared their stories into her memory. Women who have survived, women who ensure the survival of others. Women who love when love consistently threatens to walk out of the door. Women who create where only barrenness is expected to exist.

Is the drop-dead gorgeous psychiatrist in love or is some other far more nefarious plot afoot? The Journey pulls us in and leaves us wondering. Told she was schizophrenic at 19, it takes a trip to an unexpected homeland for the real truth to sink in: she is not crazy, but psychic. Raised by a degreed registered nurse and thus devoted to Western medicine, the hardest person to convince is herself, but by the end of Detective Fiction, the game between her self, her spiritual helpers, and the doppelganger who refuses to leave her alone becomes cold, calculating, and a clear risk to her survival.

Paul Maloney, a small-time private investigator from London, reluctantly accepts a case from his married ex-lover, Dominic Allen. Before he knows it, Paul finds himself embroiled in the dark dealings of big business and the sordid world of international crime. The deeper he pushes, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear. Can he solve the mystery and protect those he loves before it's too late? "Maloney's Law" was shortlisted for the Harry Bowling Novel Award (for novels set in London) and the Royal Literary Fund Awards, and longlisted for the Yeovil Prize.

Harlem River Blues features the winners from the 2007 Fish Short Story Prize, the Fish Knife Award 2007, Short Histories III, the Criminally-Short Short Histories Prize (Sarah Hilary), the 2008 One-Page Prize, and the 2008 Fish International Poetry Prize. "The Fish Short Story Prize is an open door that's inviting writers to walk through it. It has to be encouraged, celebrated, congratulated." - Roddy Doyle

Contemporaty Poetry form around the world. Poetry to make your scalp tingle. Recent review By Peter Simmons. Password Publishing. This collection of new poetry is stunning, each page contains a jewel and each one sparkles in a new light. This is a book to dip into and find a piece for whatever mood you are in - romantic, happy, sad, cynical, humorous. Eleven skilled and committed writers are represented in this collection of poems to remember. Recent review by Karin Sköld. Illustrator. I enjoyed reading this poetry book very much. It is written by different people from around the world. It is such a great collection of poetry I dip into it often. Would highly recommend! www.copelandbook.co.uk

ILLEGAL MAGIC IN OZ! What do you do when your mother is arrested for practicing witchcraft? For thirteen-year-old Buddy the answer is easy—he’s off to rescue her from imprisonment in the Emerald City of Oz! With help from friends such as the living hat stand that calls itself the Earl of Haberdashery, Buddy finds he must challenge the Wizard of Oz and Glinda the Good, the most powerful magic-workers in Oz. Illustrated by Eric Shanower.

The humor in Lysistrata is the focus of this adaptation. Playwright Edward Einhorn, known for his comic absurdist plays, translates the ancient Greek humor into something equally amusing to a modern audience, without losing the flavor of the ancient text. Complete with essays, selected music, and a second version of the play for inventive directors, this newest adaptation of Aristophanes' philosophical comedy focuses on three elements of the human condition that have not changed in nearly 2500 years: war, sex, and, most of all, laughter.