-
My Story with Blue in Transit
Full of all kinds of beautiful romantic blues, yet it’s the unseen red passion that screams out of this sensational and sensual book! Full of love, seduction and desire. Captured and framed from our day-to-day life, making the ordinary look surreal with so much depth in it. Transforming stillness into an everlasting moving emotion, triggering every drop of living blood inside of you. Rebirth!
If you are looking to rejuvenate your life, then this book will bring the youth out of you. It displays your relationships under the microscope, discovering the wisdom behind love, highlighting the bliss of pleasure and pain and the journey of trapped souls inside an emotional and physical body. It puts light in your eyes while you are scanning the images, brings your belly’s butterflies out of their cocoon with a premature delivery and sets your heart on fire with every single word.
Gratitude…because I was born again!
£19.99 -
My Soul’s Human Experience
This book is a soul-searching journey based on the author’s personal experiences and observations. Through introspection during quiet moments, the author grapples with the complexities of the world and seeks to understand the meaning of life, our origins, and our purpose. The book features poems, including a heartfelt autobiography and a tribute to the author’s daughter written after the end of her first love. The author also tackles critical subjects such as the COVID-19 pandemic and its significance. A standout piece, “The Ultimate Journey,” invites readers to quiet the noise of their thoughts and embark on an unforgettable inner journey.
£13.99 -
My Neighbour's Song
Life has many chapters, some sweet and some sour. It is affected by the pros and cons of each choice or decisions we make. As humans, we always fall in and out of love. Heart break makes us decide never to fall in love again…
Our lifestyles bring woes and good tidings, but life goes on regardless…
There is a transitioning stage in every person’s life. Today here, tomorrow there…
Enjoy My Neighbour’s Song and unfold the various chapters of the human lifestyle.
£11.99 -
Moments of Melancholy
Silent, moonlit nights, gently drifting autumn leaves, a hint of perfume sparking a memory and the various shades of grey on a gloomy day are just some of the moments infused with the pain of an aching heart that inspired the words in Moments of Melancholy. These are poems for the tender-hearted, the sorrowful souls and the phoenixes who rise from the ashes of lost loves. This collection of 34 poems deals with the deepest of human emotions and draws examples from the greatest role model of all time: nature.
Each poem can be read as a standalone piece, or the collection can be worked through as a journey of a heart breaking, and healing, and learning to love and live again. After many years of writing and collating, these poems are being published in the hope that readers find comradeship and comfort in the words Misabel shares, as well as a genuine enjoyment and appreciation of her novice but nevertheless heartfelt poetry.
£8.99 -
Moments of Joy – Moments of Darkness
Anthony knows about depression because he lives in it; he understands about nature because he was brought up surrounded by it. His poetry is a culmination of them both. They sometimes merge perfectly in his body of work spanning nearly a decade, he writes mainly about his depression. Some capture the complexities of his life, some the simplistic nature of nature and some the joys he finds. Each poem reveals a little more of what he suffers through day to day, moment to moment. He handwrites in little pink notebooks, because he loves the colour pink and putting pencil to paper.
Moments of Joy – Moments of Darkness will enable the reader to journey with Anthony through his depression, as he battles his daily demons, most times it’s a losing battle, but sometimes there’s a crack of light and nature shines through to create a happy moment. As the book unfolds the reader will see how he learns about himself to combat his depression and sometimes how to find peace in the simplest of things: a cup of tea to a cloud in the sky.
Moments of Joy – Moments of Darkness are a culmination of his poems written over these years.
£10.99 -
Modern Iraqi Poetry
Abdulrazzaq Abdulwahid was an award-winning Iraqi poet who enjoyed worldwide recognition and translation into a number of languages.
Abdulwahid Lu'lu'a has lovingly compiled and translated this collection, Modern Iraqi Poetry: A Poet for All Seasons, where the poet espouses a great love of his Iraqi homeland, weaving in vivid imagery from the cradle of civilisation with a fierce interest in politics and pain at his country’s recent turbulent history. He also turns his attention to love, writing in a delicate style, attractive to sensitive souls.
£12.99 -
M.J.K’s One Hundred Talks on Mary Jane Kelly
In the late spring of 2019, I suffered an accident that put me in a deep coma for days. The details of the event are yet to be clearly explained, since I developed a retrograde amnesia, which doesn't let me remember the previous moments and thus fully recall it. However, the raw facts go like this: I woke up in the middle of the night, in the seaside house where I had travelled for the weekend, went outside and fell out of a nearby three storey balcony on the asphalt in the street. When I came out of the coma, I was diagnosed with a gash in the carotid artery on the right side of my neck.
It immediately came to my mind that what provoked Mary Jane Kelly's death, the last victim of the so-called Whitechapel murders in 1888 committed by Jack the "Ripper" (a sobriquet never mentioned across this book) was precisely the same injury as a result of aggression, although many barbaric ones had been perpetrated on her. Of all the canonical Ripper murders, Mary Jane Kelly's is considered the most gruesome, and also puzzling, of them all. During the long weeks I passed in bed following my accident, Mary Jane Kelly invaded my thoughts and gave me company, offering me talks on herself, always in the form of poems and verses. That's the genesis of this book.
£11.99 -
Love, Life and Death in a Teacup
Love, Life and Death in a Teacup is Sarah’s first collection of poems. It tells a story of hope, passion and loss, encompassing her sanctuary, the allotment, falling in love and watching the slow demise of her mother’s mind to dementia. All these moments in time have been savoured by the quintessential pastime of drinking tea.
£11.99 -
Little Heart Beats
Imagine when you first fell in love. What did it feel like?
Little Heart Beats captures a love journey stemming from when you first met your soulmate, how you reacted, how you knew you were in love, what it felt like, and what it means to not only give out love but also to be loved back.
It is subdivided into four sections that will leave you believing in love again.
£9.99 -
Light and Dark: Poems and Stories
Indulge in a captivating journey of poetry and short stories that will evoke a range of emotions from charm and sadness to shock and horror. This collection promises to keep you engaged, page after page. But it’s not just about the serious stuff; there are plenty of witty moments that will make you chuckle and have you reaching to share with friends.
Do you crave a spine-tingling ghost story? Look no further. Or perhaps you’re in the mood for some romance or political satire? This book has got you covered.
The beauty of nature is also celebrated within these pages, providing a welcome respite from the chaos of everyday life. Whether you’re seeking thrills or just a moment of tranquility, this book offers a little bit of everything. So settle in and get ready to be transported to new worlds of wonder and intrigue.
£14.99 -
Just Outside This Room
This book of poems was partially written while I was quarantined courtesy of the Covid-19 pandemic in Henan Province, China.
A stay that was prolonged to seven and a half months.
The myth and mystery of human experience evoked by being alone, finding myself on the edge of no return. The vulnerability, sudden solitude, struggles in a lifetime, consolidated in meditations, poems and reflections.
Most of the poems are spiritual in context, some just free thoughts.
My nephew’s take on this book of poetry was: ‘If you thought through the poems, then I will read them.’
I am very thankful and humble for this unexpected and unique opportunity, a journey of lifetime.
I am also looking forward to sharing this adventure in mind and spirit with you.
Michael Hovi£11.99 -
Inciting Change
Whilst being homeless for two years and living on the peripherals of society, many an hour was contemplated to realise what is paramount in one’s life. Together, with the support and help from specialised agencies, I now have been housed and working for 13 years.
Eternally grateful for prayers answered, I hope that through the sharing of my words, others can gain insight and inspiration from a different world of thought and experience. It is hoped that the reader may realise that “coupled with consistency, the right support, love, and timely opportunities, one can conquer adversity!”
To those currently struggling with adversity in their lives, whatever their circumstances may be, I sincerely pray and hope for a better tomorrow. I regained my faith in God and humanity and pray you do too. If my words have by some measure helped in the process, I am humbled.
£9.99