Venice Requiem is a translated novel by Khalid Lyamlahy that refuses spectacle in favour of witness. In a city built on myth and tourism, the book asks what remains when ...
As the fields are stripped bare, a family faces what’s left after the season ends. “Harvest” folds weather, work and memory together in a quiet reckoning with rural life, inheritance ...
Stranded on the Adriatic with more dreams than money, a traveller in Bari learns what you can and can’t barter when everything runs out. A story of hunger, small hustles ...
A walk into the trees becomes something stranger: a pull towards the dark centre of the forest where old stories still breathe. Part myth, part psychological thriller, this tale follows ...
In the third part of George Cox’s The Last Time-Traveller, Reverend Gregory Green agrees to help the woman who claims to have been born five centuries in the future. But ...
A dinner meant to save a marriage becomes a quiet reckoning. In Fine Dining (Aubade), every gesture — a sip, a silence, a final drive — cuts deeper than words. ...
A night in 1990s Plymouth unravels into violence and consequence. Feral traces the line between fear and guilt in a world of rain-slick streets, cheap lager, and moral drift. A ...
A young Scottish football fan brings his French girlfriend to a match, hoping to bond — but obsession, masculinity, and cultural fault lines unravel everything.
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When Tiara returns to Lagos, the city of her childhood, she is drawn back into a house heavy with memory, grief, and unspoken family truths. In The House on Campos ...
“The stranger appeared in the mist — and nothing has been the same since.”
From Part One of The Last Time-Traveller by Sir George Cox
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A fallen footballer, community service, and the struggle to find redemption. The Baller is gritty, funny, and tragic.
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A young undocumented woman trapped in modern slavery cleans hospital corridors at night. When a “doctor with the brown eyes” notices her, Ana must choose whether to trust a stranger’s ...
On a hunting trip, a boy and his father stumble into tragedy. Ricky Olson’s haunting story asks: after loss and secrecy, who decides what makes us good—or guilty?
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We’re half a mile out from the White Cliffs in my Grandad’s boat. Me, Smeg, and Den, with our fishing rods and a cooler of Heineken. Refreshes the parts other ...
A granddaughter takes a forbidden drug from the dark web to give her grandmother one last taste of life. Julia Fausing’s story explores love, risk, and the price of mortality.
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A Nigerian woman in Paris stakes everything on an Olympic obsession—blurring the line between devotion and delusion.
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A meditation on perception and perseverance. A woman, confronted with a fallen ant, observes its relentless effort—and sees herself drawing parallels between form, willpower, and womanhood.
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HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA flips the traditional stalker narrative into a biting satire of fear, desensitization, and performance. As our unnamed narrator turns dread into dinner-party anecdotes—and eventually stand-up ...
Dinosaurs. Poets. A care home field trip to hell. ‘Triassic Abbey’ is what happens when satire out-evolves extinction.
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She forgot something—was it a grocery item or her old life?
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