In these darkly comic supernatural stories, horror and wonder bleed into everyday life.A forest witch haunts a golf course, while Annie defends her vegetable patch from dark forces. A would-be detective falls for a femme fatale in a seaside town, and a lonely Victorian girl makes a startling new friend.In twenty bittersweet, uncanny stories, Sarah Jackson explores love and loneliness, trauma and transformation, solidarity and greed.

Feathers fly when the president of the district poultry club and his prize-winning rooster are brutally murdered just days before the district agricultural show.Senior Constable Ivy Driscoll has been transferred to the rural police station of Donnywell following a scandal at her city precinct. But no sooner has she arrived than crimes start being committed. Even though she is the granddaughter of the Country Women’s Association royalty, Ivy is quintessentially a ci...

Serayah's Imagination is a book based on an African American eight-year-old little girl who is being raised by her grandmother. Her friends of whom some are of different cultures will be exploring life with her as Anna is Hispanic, Chris is Caucasian, and Kiara is African American as well. Serayah's Imagination is the first of a series that contains five books that teach children about the beauty of being kind and helpful all while learning life lessons at the same time. Serayah's Imaginat...

"5 Sing and Play Baby Songs" is a compilation of five songs to sing to your little one. The songs are interactive, allowing you to involve your baby with some gentle actions. Singing the songs offers a great chance to have face-to-face time with your baby, whilst teaching them about various parts of their body and yours. Plus you get a chance to be silly together which is always lots of fun.

Lets be honest, as much as we would love them to, we are going to be hard pressed getting our partners to read a whole book on becoming a Dad. So instead we have come up with the perfect solution, a short, simple E-book on how guys can help out their partners after the birth of a child.Even better still it's available on the devices that they spend most of their time on anyway, their computer, tablet or phone.Finally men can get some direction as to what they can do to help...

For fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complexity of friendships, the agony of insecurity, and the beautiful and embarrassing nature of loving someone.Alice is twenty-four and falling apart. She’s lost her job, her appetite, her ability to sleep. And now she’s worried she’s going to lose Mia, her closest friend, who’s being treated for a serious illness. On the days Alice can get herself out of bed, she ...

A CUTE and FUNNY celebration of capybaras – the PERFECT GIFT for fans of these quirky giant guinea pigs! Everyday life can be stressful at the best of times. Sometimes, you just have to look on the bright side – like capybaras do. In Don't Worry, Be Capy, you'll learn all about these adorable, characterful creatures and their approach to life. From hanging out with their friends to eating their fruit and veg – or rather berries, grasses and reeds – they know how to live well. Packed with c...

Travelling from one place to another is never as simple as getting from A to B. Whether you're sailing in a stately cruise liner or running for a grimy commuter train, your mode of transport affects the way you look at the things around you. Travel can even make us question who we are at home: will we be the same person at the other end of the journey?The poems in this anthology look at the ways in which travelling can change us, whether we enjoy or endure it. They take in not only...

In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London – but Sylvia refused. Besides campaigning for women to have an equal right to vote from their headquarters in Bow, the ELFS worked on a range of equality issues which mattered to local women: they built a toy factory, providing work and a living wage ...

2021 Christian Book Award Finalist"Jackson's visionary account is a beautiful model of sacrificial love." -- Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewThe House That Love Built is the quintessential story of one woman's questioning what it means to be an American--and a Christian--in light of a broken immigration system. Through tender stories of opening her heart and home to immigrants, Sarah Jackson shines...

Sarah Jackson explores the edges of writing in this uncanny book of touch. Tender, haunting, and yet beautifully poised, the poems in Pelt get right under your skin. The collection takes you on an unsettling journey between infancy and adulthood. Slipping from birds to blindness, from hides to hiding, Pelt uncovers the unfamiliar in the everyday. Pelt is written in the dark. It asks to be read through your fingertips. Striking and elegant, subtle and yet full of desire, this is a brilliant...

A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theoryWhile the field of haptic aesthetics has received significant critical interest in recent years, the intimate connection between touching and writing remains neglected. Contributing to current debates in deconstruction and psychoanalysis, Tactile Poetics: Touch and Contemporary Writing offers a new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact. Through close ...