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Delve into our short story collections with 20% off. Just use code ADVENT11. Here's just a few of our recommendations. Offer ends at midnight next Sunday, 21/12/25.    Untethered - Philippa Holloway  Dead birds fall from the sky, an octopus lies stranded on a beach, and a lost shoe becomes a public shrine ... Untethered, Philippa Holloway’s first collection of short stories, provides an unflinching glimpse of daily life interrupted by unexpected events. Small intrusions into familiar spaces reveal nothing is as it seems. Sometimes it demands a change of viewpoint, sometimes a cutting loose to find freedom.        Local Fires -...

Listen to Angela V. John speak on bout her book Behind the Scenes: The Dramatic Lives of Philip Burton at the Oldie Literary Lunch.  Philip Burton is best remembered as the schoolmaster responsible for training and transforming his pupil Richard Jenkins into Richard Burton, world-famous star of stage and screen. Together they produced a remarkable symbiosis. The stage-struck Philip Burton was present behind the scenes for the rest of the actor’s life, intervening at crucial moments to ensure consummate stage performances in, for example, Coriolanus, Hamlet and Camelot. This biography, drawing upon a number of previously unseen sources, provides a fresh angle on this compelling...

Read Imogen Davies' interview with Elin Gruffydd on the release of Sweet Melancholy.

Read Peter Finch's introduction to The Literary Business. 

Sort your reading for the new year and get 10% off all our pre-orders. Just use code ADVENTSEVEN at the checkout, offer ends at midnight this New Year's Eve.  There's a little bit of something for everyone, have a browse of our upcoming titles.