Matt is actually looking forward to turning thirty. His career, finances and love life are finally sorted. No more dodgy flats. No more overdrawn bank balances. And no more searching for the perfect woman. But on his thirtieth birthday his girlfriend makes a shocking confession. Unable to cope Matt moves back to his Mum and Dad's in Birmingham. Only his school mates can keep him sane. But can things ever be the same again? Because when you're turning thirty nothing's as simple as it used to be.

Turning Thirty

Gayle, Mike

Flame Books

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Literature & Fiction

Mike Butscher

Short Stories & Anthologies

How We Were Lost

Megan Taylor

When his first child is stillborn, Alex Glassman, an intensive care specialist at a prestigious academic hospital, watches his seemingly perfect life crumble. He doesn t know how to console his wife, how to continue caring for critically ill patients, and how to reconcile an unsettling suspicion that he is being punished for his prior religious skepticism.    Then Alex meets new patient Esme Jeffries, a freshman at University of North Carolina with cystic fibrosis, who is listed for a lung transplant. As their relationship progresses, Alex starts to appreciate Esme as a chance for redemption. This wondrous girl may allow him to re-enter the world and, in the process, to appreciate the faith he s been mocking since becoming a doctor.    Through his narrator, Bomback blends the sharply crafted voice of a hard-working medical professional with the tender insight of genuine and touching human experience. This easeful portrayal of magnificent characters and their individual and collective journeys makes for a tragic yet heart-warming story of crises, faith, and miraculous every-day relationships.

You're Too Wonderful To Die

Andrew Bomback

Tru is the story of Gertrude Hayes, a lifelong social outcast living out her final days in a residential home. When Tru's only genuine friend gives her a journal, the restless ghosts of her past immediately close in on her, demanding that she confront the memories she so desperately wants to leave behind. Deeply afraid, Tru begins to write. Interweaving imagination and observation, Tru journeys through recollections of loss, longing, love and isolation, as she attempts to rediscover hope and forge a new sense of self. With humour and grace, her startling narratives and poignant meditations explore patterns of life and destiny, and the role of stories in our consciousness, forming an exquisite account of a unique woman's experience of the world. Skilfully written, with a language that strikes the major notes of our own timeless and wordless experiences, Tru is an utterly tragic memoir, and offers a fragile prayer for us all.

Eric Melbye

Literary

The stories in Alternative Medicine can be broadly defined as black comedy with a twist of surrealism. In the story ‘Sprout’ a woman starts sprouting feathers after purchasing a demonic duvet. The narrator of ‘The Most Ordinary Man in the World’ glimpses a life free from his sister’s tyranny only to end back firmly under her thumb. In The Killing Jar a boy’s spider spies on his adulterous father. In ‘The New Heart’ a man experiences somebody else’s memories after receiving a heart transplant. The story ‘Mandy’ features a strangely obsessed protagonist.

Alternative Medicine

Laura Solomon

Give Me a Sign

Shanta Everington

Welshman Huw Lloyd Jones' life seems idyllic: he teaches Creative Writing at a charming college in the American South, and is happy with Miranda, his beautiful wife. But then he discovers that his despotic boss, Frida Shamburger, has it in for him, and Miranda's love is more tenuous than he supposed. Huw must fight to save his job and marriage. But can a middle-aged white man survive in the woke jungle of academia? And with a manipulative psychiatrist and a women's empowerment guru encouraging Miranda to be more independent, can the couple's love prevail? 
With his debut novel, Powell proves himself a worthy successor to the masters of classic British satire. Besides being laugh-out-loud funny, it also gives the thoughtful reader much to ponder on the roles of freedom and love in the politically correct world, where speech, thought, and even the emotions are under constant surveillance - and the penalty for transgressions may be the summary loss of career, friends, love, or indeed a sanction more extreme still. 
A bold and funny satire on campus life and the perils of modern day cancel culture.

Our Parent Who Art in Heaven

Powell, Garry Craig

Humor & Satire

The Tide Also Takes

Carruthers, R P

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