The Naming of Bones

Kaneen, Jan

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'I was early. Maybe the trains were faster, the track smoother, the city closer. Yes, maybe the city was closer. Though it had seemed far away all my life...' A unique dystopia, a remarkable psychological fantasy, an absurdist satire, City Of O is republished for the first time since 2005 in this totally new edition. Praise for C M Taylor "Brilliant" The Sun "Taylor is clearly a very accomplished and witty prose stylist" Daily Mirror "Racy, pacy stuff" The Independent "You can't help but read it" The Guardian

City of O

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, CM

Humor & Satire

Future Shock: 20 winning stories in the 2019 Retreat West short fiction prizes

Buxton, Richard

Campbell, Joanna

Morris, Sherry

Murray, Dave

Mackintosh, Fiona J.

Nicholson, Lorri

Timson, Rhys

Koch, A.C.

Khemka, Manisha

Literary

Scratched Enamel Heart

Huggins, Amanda

England, 2073. The UK has been cut off from the rest of the world and ravaged by environmental disasters. Small pockets of survivors live in isolated communities with no electricity, communications or transportation, eating only what they can hunt and grow. Evie is a herbalist, living in a future that's more like the past, and she's fighting for her life. The young people of this post-apocalyptic world have cobbled together a new religion, based on medieval superstitions, and they are convinced she's a witch. Their leader? Evie's own grandson. Weaving between Evie's current world and her activist past, her tumultuous relationships and the terrifying events that led to the demise of civilised life, Remember Tomorrow is a beautifully written, disturbing and deeply moving portrait of an all-too-possible dystopian world, with a chilling warning at its heart.

Remember Tomorrow

Saint, Amanda

Through this anthology Retreat West Books is proud to support Hestia and the UK Says No More campaign against domestic abuse and sexual violence. A collection of 24 short stories celebrating a hundred years of women' suffrage, from both established and emerging authors, all of whom have been inspired by the suffragettes and whose stories, whether set in 1918, the current day or the future, focus on the same freedoms that those women fought for so courageously. A clerk of works at the Palace of Westminster encounters Emily Davison in a broom cupboard; a mermaid dares to tread on land to please the man she loves; a school girl friendship makes the suffragette protests relevant to the modern day; a mother leaves her child for a tree; an online troll has to face his target; and a woman caught in modern day slavery discovers a chance for freedom in a newspaper cutting. These stories and many more come together in a collection that doesn't shy away from the reality of a woman's world, which has injustices and inequalities alongside opportunities and hard-won freedoms, but always finds strength, bravery and hope.

The Word For Freedom: Short stories celebrating women's suffrage and raising money for Hestia

Hamilton, Karen

Readman, Angela

Mazzola, Anna

CLARK, ANGELA

Costello, Isabel

Young, Helen Irene

Death, motherhood, the nature of reality, and the gender expectations of cultural conditioning are woven through these biting little stories in Sandra Arnold's debut flash fiction collection. Sometimes sad, surreal and sinister, they're also shot through with love and a deep understanding of humanity. In gorgeous, spare prose that paints a very vivid picture, Sandra Arnold gives voice to characters that are often unheard. From Daisy in Fireworks Night, willing to do whatever it takes to protect her little sister; to Martha in The Girl With Green Hair who has her body in the world we live in and her mind in the one that not many people see; and Ruby in Don't Mess With Vikings who finds strength in a diagnosis of illness to stand up to bullies. With the stories in this collection, Sandra Arnold etches marks on your soul that will last.

Soul Etchings: A collection of flash fictions

Arnold, Sandra

A collection of funny, dark, mad, bad, upbeat, downbeat and fantastical short stories about living sustainably from the University of Southampton's Green Stories writing competition.From eco communities to singing buildings, and sharing economies to resetting the earth back to prehistoric times, these stories showcase a myriad of different ideas about how humans can live more harmoniously with nature, and each other."Most people find it very difficult indeed to imagine what 'living sustainably' might really mean - and neither dry facts nor hypothetical scenarios seem to help very much. The Editors of Resurrection Trust have set out to address that challenge through the power of the short story, with as diverse, surprising and hugely enjoyable a collection of entries as one might expect from an open competition of this kind." Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, author, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development

Resurrection Trust: Stories about living sustainably from the Green Stories competition

Christensen, Kimberly

Roberts, Jane.

Kole, Mica

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Weight of Feathers anthology contains the 20 shortlisted and winning flash fictions and short stories from the 2020 Retreat West Prize. The beating wings of a trapped butterfly may hold the soul of a missing boy. The shadow of an owl on glass uproots long-repressed memories. A robin pecks at the ground in an unthinkable dystopia. Let your imagination take flight as you soar through the stories in our latest prize-winning anthology, The Weight of Feathers. Wildness, wonder, freedom, family, the ways in which we are made and broken are all explored in this fascinating collection of short fiction. Featuring winning stories from Jason Jackson, Jennifer Faulkner, Holly Barratt, John Holland, E.E. Rhodes and Rebecca Netley, and a Highly Commended story from Morgan Quinn. &#65279;Shortlisted authors whose stories appear are: Peter Barnes, Rae Cowie, Jane Fraser, Emily Harrison, Henry Heffer, Jan Kaneen, Ali McGrane, Dan Micklethwaite, Corrina O'Beirne, Natasya Parker, Charlie Swailes, Rhys Timson and Sherri Turner.

The Weight of Feathers: An anthology of short stories and flash fictions

JACKSON, JASON

Holland, John.

Rhodes, E. E.

Netley, Rebecca

Falkner, Jennifer

Barratt, Holly

Quinn, Morgan

The Ten Ways The Animals Will Save Us anthology contains 33 flash fictions from friends and fans of Retreat West, in a wonderfully wordy celebration of our ten year anniversary.\nA surreal trip to the zoo rebuilds a relationship. The heartbreak that comes with growing up changes a young girl forever. A woman with an unusual appetite holds a dark secret.\nRelationships old and new, diverging choices, things left behind and things yearned for are all explored in this vibrant collection of flash fiction.\nThrough reflections on the past, or meditations on the present, lose yourself in these extraordinary and often experimental takes on the theme of ‘ten’. 
Featuring stories from Amanda Saint, Gaynor Jones, Rosie Garland, Amy Barnes, Jude Higgins, Amanda Huggins, Michael Loveday, Reshma Ruia and many more.

Ten Ways the Animals Will Save Us: An anthology of flash fictions

Hills, Sara

Garland, Rosie

O`Brien, Tom

Jones, Gaynor

Morris, F.J.

Higgins, Jude

Loveday, Michael

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