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The Seers — Sulaiman Addonia
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The Seers follows the first years of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are. Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the realities of the UK asylum system and its impact on young refugees. Also available as an Audiobook!
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Monstrilio — Gerardo Sámano Córdova
What is grief, if not vast quantities of love with nowhere to put it? That said— is it possible to love a monster? Especially one grown from a piece of lung from a dead child, sliced out of his chest by his very own mother, and is now terrorising Mexico City by escaping the confines of the family home and indulging in a very specific hunger for flesh...
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Kaweco Skyline Sport Fountain Pen
Compact, stylish and smooth - the Kaweco Skyline Sport is the ideal everyday fountain pen, available in a range of colours.
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Books from indie and small press publishers are often at the forefront of pushing boundaries within literature. In 2022 all of the UK's top literary prizes went to small publishers.
Everything we stock on this site is from independent publishers and small businesses. An independent publisher can be anything from those bigger guys at Faber and Bloomsbury down to ourselves at Dead Ink and even some small one-person enterprises. The variety adds to the fun.
If you want exciting, original and creative writing then don't rely on the mainstream – challenge it.
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