Extracts
This Living Room: a poem by Alastair Sim
This Living Room
This living room
groans, creaks, breathes and sighs.
Its timbers, sagged and blackened
by centuries of smoke and upper stories’ burden,
still spring and flex against the weight and wind;
they reassert a power drawn from sun and soil
in a time beyond recall.
My love, my love in word,
we too have aged and darkened [...]
Pages from PJ Davy’s forthcoming ‘Nutters’
And not just forthcoming pages. Here, too, are corresponding extracts from the screenplay. It’s fascinating to compare and contrast. The screenplay came first. I’m sure Ms Davy will be pleased to answer questions if you pose them in the comments.
Preorder Nutters: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nutters-PJ-Davy/dp/190672721X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246094983&sr=1-2
The Shower Room: a poem by Alastair Sim, author of The Unbelievers
The Shower-Room
When I was little my mother bathed me.
I remember the bath in front of the fire;
the sponge, warm, soft against my skin;
the smell of soap, carbolic-clean;
the sweet abrasion of the towel
as she held me hard against her softness.
All the time she sang
in a language I couldn’t understand
but knew to talk of [...]
Bloodletting: by hand
Mike McBride writes all his novels by hand. Wow. You can see the first three pages of his most recent forthcoming novel, Bloodletting, here.
Extract: The Blue Handbag by Fiona Robyn
The Blue Handbag, chapter 1. This isn’t out in paperback until August, so enjoy it here early!
Free sample of Bike Buyer’s Guide by Peter Eland
Open publication - Free publishing - More bikes
Free sample of Bicycle Design by Mike Burrows
Open publication - Free publishing - More snowbooks
