Bron - Part I: Daughter of Prophecy

From the darkest depths of the woods appears Umbella, an ancient clairvoyant. For Trifena and her husband, Hestig, and their pagan Atrebate tribe, the hag predicts a terrifying future:

“Folk will curse the day you returned to Byden, bearing your mongrel child and unleashing sword, fire and total destruction!”
But will the prophecy be fulfilled?
Part I tells the story of Bron as her parents, aided by Veneta, priestess and friend, struggle to shield their young daughter from High Priest, Vortin, whose powerful determination to have Bron as his High Priestess becomes an unhealthy obsession…
All this against the background of a changing Britain, as a new religion challenges Ashuba, their sun god, and the Roman empire falls apart.

The authenticity brought by Iris Lloyd to this poignant novel makes it a fascinating read.

Bron - Daughter of Prophecy
Iris Lloyd
ISBN 1-906206-07-4 UK £7.99
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Bron - Part II: Flames of Prophecy

Flames of Prophecy continues the story of Bron and the people of Byden as they begin to doubt their ancient beliefs and question their sun god, Ashuba.

But will they be able to free themselves from the evil grip of the Temple? Will High Priest, Vortin, at last fulfill his desire and make Bron his High Priestess? Or will the settlement be totally destroyed by sword and flame, as Umbella, the witch, predicts?

Revenge, murder, kidnap, lust and love – Iris Lloyd provides another fabulous read that will leave you eager for the next instalment.

Bron - Part II: Daughter of Prophecy
Iris Lloyd
ISBN 978-1906206-23-9 UK £7.99
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Amaryllis Iden

It is 1880, and in the Wiltshire village of Coate and neighbouring market town of Swindon, a deepening agricultural recession and the coming of the railway causes a social upheaval that touches the lives of everyone, from George Iden, a small farmer besieged by debt, to the Pammant family, the largest landowners in the area.

Though Iden's sensitive, artistic daughter Amaryllis is only too aware that salvation for her family lies in her marrying into money, she shuns the advances of her mother's choice, the stolid but prospering farmer John Duck. Now old enough to take trips alone into town, with her ripening beauty she innocently excites the interest of other young men, including the dashing aristocrat Ralph Pammant, and, most dangerously, the irresistible philanderer Ned Marks. Enchanted by the strange new pleasure of such flattering male attention, and unaware that a dark secret lurks at the centre of her world, in her naivety Amaryllis is woefully unprepared for betrayal and its bitter aftermath...

Amaryllis Iden
John Pounder
ISBN 1-905621-65-5 UK £7.99
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A Time to Tell

Set between the 1950s and the late 1990s, "A Time to Tell" is the poignant story of Cara, from her dramatic attempted suicide to her roles as a smitten eighteen-year-old, unmarried mother, wife, widow and grandmother, and her final, passionate reunion with the man she has always loved. It is also the parallel tale of Cara's prodigal son Benjamin and his daughter Penelope, whose unhappy relationship with her father has led her into marriage with a man whose own dysfunctional family have turned him into a person who at first seems strangely attractive, but turns out to have a dark and terrifying side...

Rich in colourful characters and pertinent social themes, "A Time to Tell" is an eventful and often disturbing tale of the pain and pleasures of family relationships.

A Time to Tell
Maria Savva
ISBN 1-905621-27-2 UK £7.99
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Ladder in the Moon Light

Ben, a great painter and an irresistible charmer, turns his tragic end into a master work and charms everybody in the small Cornish town including his estranged wife who is on the brink of a new relationship.
The novel written with humour and great emotional intensity, highlights the power of art and irreversible love.
“I love you. Forgive me that I never told you this before.” And as she bent over him, still crying, something miraculous happened. His eyelids parted slowly and his head moved towards her. His faded eyes searched for her. Then, for a split second, they looked into each other’s eyes. It was their closest meeting ever.

‘A brilliant writer and important voice of our time.’
Gordon McGill author of 'Little Buddha'

‘Her prose is concrete, picturesque and poetic.’
Radio Free Berlin

‘She presents vividly the tensions and emotions of alienation, the experience of not belonging to any one society.’
World Literature Today, USA

Ladder in the Moon Light
Ana Ingham
ISBN 1-90620-635-X UK £6.99
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Scrap

Phil Johnson is on the brink of personal turmoil. His marriage of twenty-five years to Julie, the mother of his two children, has come to an end. He is being set-up for hitting evil Iqbal at St Elphics School where he teaches history and he has not spoken to Dave his little brother, for two years, since their mother, and last remaining relative, died.

Then Phil inherits a scrap-yard bequeathed to him by his uncle Ted. Ted's legacy presents a 'series of unfamiliar events' that test all of Phil's wits as his transition from academia to scrap-dealing brings skeletons out of the closet, a new relationship, danger and a proposition that ultimately revives the leadership qualities old Ted recognised in his nephew as a child.

Scrap examines the human instinct to surmount today's obstacles. Written from the soul with humour, passion and courage it is a real page-turner that will leave you wanting more.

Scrap
Pat Robotham
ISBN 1-905621-25-6 UK £5.99
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Voyages

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the middle classes, the rich and the famous travelled as much on ocean liners, as we would airliners or the Eurostar today. The Billingtons, together with their close friends and associates, the Sayers were two such families.

Ocean travel could not only be bathed in luxury - for first class passengers that is - but also be fraught with unforeseen dangers. These two families were to find this out in no small way, when they made their first ever Atlantic crossing on the ill-fated Titanic. Undaunted, the surviving members of this ever-expanding family continued to cross the Atlantic in order to visit both family and friends, or conduct business on those, otherwise, unreachable shores.

Voyages paints vivid seascapes, allowing us to delve beneath the decks and peer through the portholes, so that we may travel with this engaging and endearing family group, over a number of successive generations.

Voyages
Rildie Light
ISBN 1-905621-52-3 UK £5.99
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