Genres : Literary Fiction

From loss and grief to new love, this debut poetry collection from Alba Linden revisits silences, judgements, and relationships. It spells out what it takes to put oneself back together and start anew.

Young Marty Flanagan has been at odds with his father as long as he can remember. Prominent Texas defense attorney, Joe Flanagan is a ‘hale fellow, well met’ kind of man who loves to hunt and fish and drink whiskey. And Marty’s year older brother, Pat is just like him. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and the US enters World War II, the Flanagans’ disparities become even more pronounced. While 18-year-old Pat can’t wait to ‘fight for his country,’...

In a world where a city once engineered empathy into a living network, the collapse of “perfect peace” releases consciousness into weather, oceans, and eventually the biosphere itself forcing humanity to choose between connection and control, sincerity and privacy, repair and rest. "Every ending remembers its beginning."The Solace Cycle is a speculative science-fiction novella told in movements mythic, intimate, and morally serious about what happens when empathy becomes infrastructure. The series begins with Dr. Edda Sol and the City of...

Richard and Alan had been best friends at university, inseparable comrades in arms. Then over the course of the next twenty years, they drifted apart. Richard went into journalism, with aspirations to become a novelist, whilst Alan enjoyed great success as the front man for a rock band, before retiring with his riches to the depths of the Wiltshire countryside, near to the ancient megalithic site of Avebury, in a house once owned by Dorian Slake, a notorious occultist of...