Magi

 

Magi, in Christian tradition, refers to the noble pilgrims who followed the star from the east to Bethlehem.

Were there three of them or were there twelve? Did they really bring gold, frankincense and myrrh? As well as their wisdom? And other gifts? Did a careless question lead to the slaughter of the innocents?

Our writers however, have found many different interpretations of this word. Some will make you laugh and some may make you cry. They will all make you think.

Magi is the 2025 themed multi-author collection from Bridge House Publishing.

 

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280 x70 by Gill James

 

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What does that first picture that you see each day on social media say? Sometimes it makes you laugh and sometime it fills you with dread, all of which you must express in exactly 280 words. That was the challenge. It’s up to the reader to decide if it’s been met.

These very short stories wander and wonder through multiple aspects of 21st century life, give a nod to the future and a glance back at the past. They pose questions and occasionally offer suggestions.

Gill James offers food for thought in 280 x 70.

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Making Lemonade

 

They knew something was wrong. But no one spoke up.

When something terrible happens to fourteen-year-old Joanne Wilson, it shatters the heart of an ordinary street in an ordinary town. During the following twelve months, the residents of Station Square have their own stories and secrets to tell. Did tea-leaf-reading mystic, Maisie, see it coming? What about Joanne’s close friend, Adrian? Or her family friend, Elizabeth? Each of them faces an excruciating question: Could they have prevented this tragedy?

Making Lemonade is a poignant exploration of community, loss, and the cost of silence.

All profits will be donated to the charity PAPYRUS.

 

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Lancashire Writers of Today 2025

 

An anthology of the 2025 prize-winning and commended writings of the Lancashire Authors’ Association.

The LAA has been promoting the reading and writing of Lancashire literature since 1909.
Fellowship and Friendliness are prime features of our Association and new members are assured of a warm welcome.

Lancashire Writers of Today 2025 is a wealth of contemporary writing from those who cherish Lancashire.

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Horse Dreams by Karen Arnold

 

Stories that shine like tiny jewels and provide a glimpse of the magic that can be found in the ordinary and the unseen , stories that act like a shard of stained glass, letting us see the world in unexpected ways.

Some of these stories are prize winners and have been printed in other places, but many are appearing in print here for the first time. At under 500 words, but containing whole lives or sinking deep into a single moment, they are all an invitation to look for the magic in the everyday – to notice that things are not always only what they seem to be. Karen’s work has been published widely in a number of literary magazines but this is her first collection. As the title story in Horse Dreams tells us, “there are no white horses, they are all grey”.

Out on 30 September 2025

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Amelie at the Window by Penny Rogers

 

Out 31 October 2025 - available on pre-order now  

In wartime it is not only the soldiers on the front line that suffer. The families and communities left behind must try to make sense of the conflict imposed on them.

This story is set in a fictional town in France in 1914 and again in 1924. We meet Amelie, a teenage girl confined to her room by polio and her dysfunctional parents. Amelie dreams of release from the restrictions of her life in a room above a hat shop. Through her eyes we meet the townsfolk struggling through conflicts and coping with the fundamental changes that war brings.

We also meet the people that Amelie watches going about their business as the reality of war impacts upon their small town. The aspirations and fears of young and old, poor and prosperous, hard-working and indolent, are noticed by an itinerant photographer who returns in 1924 to record what has changed and what, if anything, remains of the old way of life. He sees possibilities for some and catastrophe for others; no one is the same after the war.

Penny Rogers captures the essence of small town life and the profound effects of war. We see compassion and judgment, humour and tragedy, generosity and selfishness; along with redemption in some unexpected quarters.

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A real page turner. Not my normal reading choice, but I was pleasantly surprised. The characters were well-drawn as the story unfolded. By the end, I was left feeling sad as no one found true happiness. The book still made for a great read. Go on read it for yourself, you won't be disappointed.

A chilly October evening in 1914 in the shabby little French town of Forentan, a town in which there is “no hope and no future”.  Young Amelie, disabled by polio, is at her window as usual, watching the goings-on in the street below her and dreaming of escape. Through her eyes at first we are introduced to the apparently ordinary citizens of Forentan, but as the story unfolds Penny shows us through skilful character-drawing  that there is no such thing as ‘ordinary’ ­– that the place is full of secrets, of sometimes violent passions seething just below the surface of things that the war will exacerbate and bring to a head.

In Part 2 we return to the town ten years later with Gilles, a war photographer employed by Pathe News to document on film how rural and small town France has changed, hopefully for the better, since the war. He also has unfinished personal business in Forentan. What follows is a moving testament to the struggles of those who have few advantages to carve out a decent life for themselves against the background of huge world events. A truly absorbing read.

This is a fascinating 'photo album' of a group of neighbours in a small town in rural France, between 1914 and 1924.  The stories of their lives and loves intertwine in unexpected ways, and the incidents described from assorted points of view clearly convey the judgment, kindness, or tolerance of the character concerned.  An unexpectedly intriguing read with the final few pages providing a most original conclusion.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.            L.A.Cooke