'Secrets & Wisdom' started life in 2016 as a project with a specific design. The idea was to writ...

Liam is haunted by his age and the history it forces upon him. Yet he is also plagued by the need...

By the time Ian Gouge went to university he had already lived in seventeen different places - hou...

We are all connected. There are links - like links in a chain - that join each of us, everyone to...

Oak Tree Alchemy, the title of this poetry collection brought to you by twelve members of The Poe...

We often encounter difficulty when trying to reconcile our memories of events with what actually ...

Given his profession as a Historian, it was inevitable that Mark would find himself one day writi...

Once members of a writers’ group at the University of Southampton and leading lights in the found...

Myths attach themselves to just about everything. This is certainly true in the case of English n...

These three plays, all produced by Hertfordshire-based community theatre Pins & Feathers, tell ex...

Collected together for the first time, Ian Gouge's three novellas: Losing Moby Dick, Writing to G...

Her voice is a trigger; a voice which forces Neil to relive the crises and failures of his past -...

When people escaped gravity and started to travel in space, astronauts were amazed by the view wh...

Globally the number of people being creative with language is truly extraordinary. While each of ...

Having received praise for his recent work 'Human Archaeology' - 'a compelling exploration of the...

The hill country of West Somerset is famous for its association with the Romantic poets, Coleridg...

Kathleen was brought up in rural Cumbria and now lives in North Yorkshire.She spent her working l...

Life weaves its magic of triumphs and disappointments everywhere, and often those burdened with m...

'Punctuations from History' is Ian Gouge’s latest collection of poems, a volume that in various w...

Doomed Spanish poet Federico Lorca, ill-fated Tudor battleship the Mary Rose, a Ming dynasty porc...

In many ways making the selection of pieces to include in New Contexts: 2 was a much more difficu...

This eclectic collection sings with melancholy, humour, wistful reflection and evocative insight....

Above all else, this is the story of a journey.Over the last thirty-seven years or so, across a n...

The nature of relationships dominates this international collection of contemporary short stories...

At a recent reading event, I was asked which of my collections was my 'best book'. It was an inno...

This is a story of landscape and community, a way of life descended from Anglo-Saxon and Viking f...

What lies beyond the familiar and tangible?In this collection Richard Lister explores what happen...

Welcome to the fourth edition of our New Contexts anthology. Once again we have been able to harv...

Valley of the Kings is both excavation of family history and an incantation of voices telling con...

Not the Sonnets

A group of five friends who, some thirty years after they lived and worked in the same town, come...

An Irregular Piece of Sky contains fifteen contemporary stories in which we meet characters tryin...

Take four strangers arriving in London on the same train one weekday morning, then follow them as...

Whenever I pull together an anthology such as this, I am inevitably struck by the quality and var...

In the mid-19th century, Grimsby docks was perhaps the most modern such facility in Britain, its ...

Pebbles on the Strand is an international collection of contemporary short stories which follows ...

Curating a collection such as New Contexts provides its editor with an interesting conundrum in t...

A house filled with history and secrets is more than mere bricks and mortar; not only a mirror on...

'Books talk to the inner person, the secret person; they can make direct contact with all those s...

A Picture's Worth is testimony to Friedman's eye for detail, for finding music in the minutiae, a...

In this expansive new collection, Tom Furniss lets his vivid poetic imagination roam in time and ...

The poetic monologues in Bound are the unspoken thoughts of individuals who find themselves in si...

So, you think you're a Writer? aims to help you understand yourself as 'a writer' and guide you t...

In a small pub just outside Derby, mid-December 2018, four poets met in order to see if they coul...

Lister delights in the joy of language, weaving together a selection of poems that resonate acros...

In this, the seventh edition of the New Contexts anthologies, the quality of the submissions, the...

The Deadwing Generation is a second stand-out collection from Simon French. Perceptive and emotio...

Readers of Simon French's debut collection Joyriding Down Utopia Avenue are in a for a delightful...