‘The Ice-Floe Girl’ is a delightful, beautifully-written and wonderfully observed true story about a nineteen-year-old boy who meets an innocent, angelic Swedish au pair and then hitch-hikes across Europe to join her in Sweden, where she lives at the top of a forbidding villa. She proceeds to take him along with her as an unwitting spectator to her mysterious life in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki. If good writing is about capturing an inexpressible paradox in words - here it is. This account of an ephemeral beauty presents in precise photographic details a remarkable true tale of people and places, retrieves eternall meaningful passing moments that would otherwise have been lost forever and fixes them to the banner of eternal love. The Ice-Floe Girl is an unforgettable, enigmatic quest stretching from a north London suburb to a small wooden town on the shores of the Baltic.
Powerful first novel by Hannah Glickstein, a sharp nightmare-like arrow fired at the alienation we feel from our children as we witness the increasingly pressing demands power and society makes upon them. This story is about a woman's fight to retrieve a child from the orderly abyss the future threatens to become.
The poems and paintings of the author behind the Wicker Man film. Both paintings and poems show great skill and imagination, and are an effective combination of his talents, aside form his better known work as a novelist and playwright
Can you imagine a life with no ideas to hide behind? You are not a daring mutineer, you are one of the prisoners who most willingly collaborates with the guards. Gregory Motton's plays have been performed widely in Britain and abroad, including at the Royal Court Theatre, La Comédie Française and L'Odéon Théâtre de L'Europe. He has translated several volumes of Strindberg's plays, for which he was given the Göran O Eriksson Award by the Swedish Writers' Guild. He is also known for his polemic about the arts and politics, most noticeably his books Helping Themselves – The Left Wing Middle Classes In Theatre And The Arts, and for A Working Class Alternative To Labour. He has written over sixty plays and books, published by Penguin, Methuen, Oberon Books, Bloomsbury, Teatrales, Christian Bourgois, Det Norska Samlaget, Levellers Press and others. He has made five films.
Montezuma and Cortés is a historical fiction novel, whose subject matter concerns momentous events that took place in 16th century Mexico. It features many enigmatic characters, including Balam, the narrator, a man of mixed white and Native Indian blood. Balam relates the story of how his master enables Hernando Cortés to gather a crew, and how they all sail away from Cuba, landing in Mexico. Cortés and his fellow Spaniards, seeking gold, aim to move inland. But the King of the Mexica, Montezuma, as well as his tribe and others, stand in the way of Cortés and his band of ruthless followers. Balam’s personal challenge concerns his relationship with an Indian girl who is fatally tied to both Cortés and an Indian prince. Balam suffers the dilemma of whether to help the Indians or whether to play a part in bringing about their doom
Death Dealers -Mysterious, barbaric, bold and bloody. Just as the future of an outlaw is always uncertain, so is the unpredictable return of the past. The Death Dealers are a notorious late nineteenth-century American gang of outlaws that have evaded, fought and killed those who have tried to bring them to justice. In this riveting novel, the Death Dealers find themselves pitted against a terrifying new enemy who has resurfaced from the past. Though their own pasts have given them little but misery, death and loss, they have formed a strong family bond which has made them a formidable force to be reckoned with. As the story unfolds, the reader is confronted with fascinating mysteries and deep dark hidden secrets that make the reader inevitably question what kind of a family the Death Dealers really are. Inspired since he was a child by his love of Westerns and other genres of film and television dramas, because of the unique stories, characters and styles they bring to life, Sam Wheatley has ventured into book writing to make unique stories, characters and styles of his own. Sam lives in Oxfordshire, England. He enjoys exploring the natural world and discovering other countries and cultures. In between work and travelling, he has helped on movie sets and volunteered as a football coach in his local area, football being another passion of his. Death Dealers is his debut novel.
Daniel’s Uncle is the story of a 13-year-old boy whose parents are sadly killed in a skiing accident. Daniel starts to come to terms with his grief at the loss of his parents and finds himself thrown headlong into another mad adventure. Deep in the Amazon jungle, he finds strange windows to other times, the lost body of a famous solo pilot and learns more about how his brain is changing. The interactions between Daniel and his uncle are touching and playful, drawing readers into their evolving relationship. The author has created a colourful world that readers will enjoy exploring alongside Daniel. In this second book by author Martin Smith, the characters have evolved, and the author has shown how simple acts of kindness can make the world a better place.
The Last Mystic Apostle
The Merovingian Cult is based on the belief in the descent of the French line of kings from Mary Magdelen and Jesus.
The largely false suggestions were what was behind the popular books that presented them, but they had another deeper truth in them;
That truth was about secret strivings for congress between mortal and immortal beings.
It was the dark path taken by an actual Merovingian, a Swedish direct descendant of Blanche of Castille, who is supposed to have posessed and hidden, the Holy Grail. The stories of the Swedish woman's exploits are revealed in annoymous diaries from two seperate sources, one set are in English, one originally in Canadian French, by two people who knew her and witnessed her activities.
The first volume is one of those accounts, held back for many years on the request of the woman who was their subject, it appears here for the first time in The Last Mystic Apostle.
Review
My favourite book of the year. If youre interested in the da vinci code theories, and the holy blood holy grail conspiracy theory, you will be outraged by this book that rejects them, or you will be pretty excited, because this book seems to go one step further, it rejects those theories but the things described here are like a sort of real version of whats in those books. I have to say this is much more interesting than those other books which I loved but still, this is about a woman who actually lives out the whole thing about well, not to put too fine a point on it, having intercourse with supernatural forces, lets say. And she tries all sorts of wild things, ritual sex, sex with a horse (which is an amazing scene of oddly enough, great mysticism, and then she goes further. And she is a Merovingian,(you’ll know what that means if you’ve read the others) a descendant of Clovis, on top of that, this is very funny and witty and its about real people which with the best will in the world you cant say about the da vinci code book. This is like reading literature. Its amazing, 10/10. Annie F.
Wow. this is probably the sexiest book i have ever read. its incredible. this chick must be some phenomenon. its like a pornographic version of Jane Austen or something like that. I mean its on so many levels. Genre busting, disturbing and funny.
Gary Drew.
I heard about this because I'm into mysticism and it was recommended by a friend. I was impressed, its a serious book, and has wisdom and knowledge behind it.I'd say its a major work. has many insights and ideas all hidden in the subtle characterisation and strange events. Recommended to any serious student of mysticism/occult.
Madison R.
Excellently written, makes the Da vinci code look like a teen novel. This is the real thing. Recommended
Rupe Baines.
I saw it advertised on a bus of all places. People are raving about it. Now i see why. its unique. in a class of its own. A great literary novel, stands alone as that, and yet has those other strange ingredients.i just wish it was longer.
Laz.
I struggled first time round, found it a bit unnerving, but i went back and read bits, its addictive. a tour de force, thats for sure.
CP.Kemperad
The Wicca Woman is the explosive sequel. to "Ritual" which was was the inspiration for the towering cult-movie, The Wicker Man. "Ritual" was set in a Cornish village in 1957, and "The Wicca Woman" takes place in the same Cornish village 32 years later. The village children, in "Ritual", who were ‘the light in the growing occult-darkness’, have now become as disturbed, frenzied, and often as dangerous, as their deceased parents. The novel opens on a momentous Midsummer Day in 1999. Into the village comes the lithesome, Lulu, who may or may not be a man-destroying Succubus, and death, mayhem and terror follow in her wake. So naturally – or unnaturally - on Millennium Eve, The Wicca Woman comes to its ritualistic and sacrificial climax. But is this only the horrific beginning of what is yet to come…? ‘David Pinner is the father of ‘Folk Horror’; his novel, Ritual, published 50 years ago, introduces the theme of the Puritan outsider encountering a rural cult and their rites, ushering in the age of Folk Horror films.’ Dr David Annwn Jones.
How random are acts of kindness? What memory triggers that generous action on the particular day? Three men, comrades in arms at the end of WW1, return to the Lowlands of Scotland, a farm in Cornwall and the East End of London to lives unrecognisable from those they had left, harbouring a secret that it is imperative that they conceal and which is only discovered in a diary entry one hundred years later. They were not to meet again. Over the years and spanning five generations one member of each family is prompted to an impulsive charitable act at a critical moment in their lives and the three families are eventually drawn together by one final act of kindness.
These are the shocking memoirs of a quiet, withdrawn, shy, beautiful Swedish au-pair, in London to learn English. This witty, self-effacing account of astonishing events is a minor occult masterpiece. Cleverly observed characters and everyday life, funny and true-to-life-dialogue, all bearing the unmistakable hallmark of absolute authenticity, combined with a deceptively light start, lead the reader into a genuinely shocking tale with a devastating climax – These memoirs are both an entertaining and disturbing read. A diffidently presented, briskly told account- its sheer quality makes it inadvertently a fleeting work of literature. From an innocent language school, to night-time encounters in Highgate Cemetery, disturbing events in a gothic house in North London, to the sarcophagae in the British Museum, and the Saxon burial grounds of Kent, this is a fast-moving tale of innocence in pursuit of perversity. With 16 illustrations. All illustrations feature the author
The first Levellers Press collection of David Pinners Poems
Euphemia by Romilly Turton
Euphemia Lamb’s story is the extraordinary history of a woman born in 1887 into a family without money, education or status, yet she managed to break through class barriers by the sheer force of her charisma and beauty. Her iconoclastic, trailblazing life was a quixotic adventure of courage and bravado; carpe diem was the maxim she lived by. With a sequence of lovers and husbands, and a gregarious appetite for living, the choices Euphemia made were a sustained, authentic and ultimately profoundly moving rejection of the strictures and constraints others sought to impose on her. Euphemia was one of the most famous artists’ models of the early 1900s. She was a muse to Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, and James Dickson Innes. In Paris she became the lover of Henri-Pierre Roché, the author of Jules et Jim, and she was the inspiration for Catherine, the woman at the centre of the passionate menage à trois depicted in both the novel and Francois Truffaut’s film. Romilly Turton is Euphemia's grandson. This biography is based on archival research and uses unpublished private papers.
A Worthless Man
The latest play by the internationally renowned anti-establishment playwright Gregory Motton. Six characters on their way to bed. Two parallel families. class war.
The Rape of Europe
The fifth in the Gengis series of satires- this one, taking the form of a Hammer Style Dracula yarn, including a Romanian Palace of Lightbulbs, is about the capitalist tyranny that swallows up the whole of Europe making slaves of its low-paid workers- yes you guessed it, the European Union, and its barefaced mechanism that replace democracy with unelected government by appointment. This is one play you can definately guarrantee you wont be seeing anytime soon at the Royal Court. In fact they did have a reading, right there in the belly of the beast, upstairs at the Royal Court, and it was popular with most of the audience but not of course with the management whose conventional bourgeoise views upon the subject were suitably outraged. This play was actually commissioned by a Belgian theatre company, of all things, and was found to be too much for their delecate nationalist sensibilities and dreams of Belgian aggrandisement, and was not performed.
Petrol by Gregory Motton
A comedy by one of the most original British playwrights. Accountants stranded in their car the snow. A man called Nob mends it, so does a man called Jesus, miraculously using an elastic band, Rachel nearly dies laughing. But all is not what it seems, something has happened but what is it? See if you can gues before the curtain calls. Motton meets Ayckbourn and Zip Nolan.