Girl in a Smart Uniform by Gill James

 

 

Gisela adores her brother Bear, her gorgeous BDM uniform and her little half-brother Jens. She does her best to be a good German citizen and is keen to help restore Germany to its former glory. She becomes a competent and respected BDM leader.

But life begins to turn sour. Her oldest brother Kurt can be violent, she soon realises that she is different from other girls, she feels uncomfortable around her mother’s new lover and there is something not quite right about Jens.  It becomes more and more difficult to be the perfect German young woman.          

Girl in a Smart Uniform is the third book in the Schellberg Cycle, a collection of novels inspired by a bunch of photocopied letters that arrived at a small cottage in Wales in 1979.

The letters give us some insights into what life was like growing up in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

This novel explores what may have motivated young women growing up in Nazi Germany and offers an explanation as to how a school for disabled children was allowed to carry on functioning throughout World War II.    

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Charlotte and the Monster by Wendy Beasley, illustrated by Hugh Gatenby

 

Marty is a monster who's scared when he should be the scary one 

Charlotte is a little girl who cares about others. Will she and her friends, the fairies, be able to help Marty? And what about the boy who is spoiling Mr Clarke's Garden? Why is he doing that? There's a lot for Charlotte to sort. 

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Where the Heart is by Jim Bates

 

The uneventful lives of everyday people?

Look again. Captivating characters entertain and delight us as we read their stories that are deep, rich and interesting. The reader is introduced to everyday people whose lives are seemingly uneventful on the outside but are captivating and colourful nevertheless.

You will certainly find the heart in Jim Bates’ uplifting collection, Where the Heart Is.

Many of the stories in this collection have appeared before in CafeLit, the Pure Slush Lifetime Anthologies, Periodic Stories volumes Two and IV, and various Bridge House Anthologies.

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Shhh! by Matthew Roy Davey

 

Welcome to the flash fiction library where the shelves are groaning with bitesize fiction.

Libraries are quiet places, ordered places, places of intellect, culture and civilisation. But hiding inside are words that can explode like bombs, words to anger and appal, to titillate and tease, words to amuse and entertain. Which will you choose to read first?

Matthew Roy Davey offers us a wealth of bijou tales in his perfectly formed Shhh!

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A well crafted and conceptualised experience. Troubling and traumatic though it often is.

 

I was eagerly awaiting Davey’s next book, and this brilliant compilation of short stories did not disappoint. A wild array of beautifully realised tales, told in Davey’s own distinctive style. I cannot recommend this book enough!

Davey has transformed the tranquil setting of a library into a playground for explosive storytelling. Each tale, though small in word count, contains wit, surprise, and emotional punch.

The Best of CafeLit 14

 

This year, one of our experienced editors, Amanda Jones, selected the stories. We aimed to find between 3000 and 4000 words for each month. Sometimes we had one long story, other times several shorter ones. As with the e-zine for these, we look for a combination of shorter and longer stories, darker and more humorous ones, a few uplifting tales, and others that make you think, and we also like to showcase a variety of authors, including old friends and newcomers.

Each story in this little volume is the right length and quality for enjoying as you sip the assigned drink in your favourite Creative Café. You need never feel alone again in a café. So what’s the mood today? Espresso? Earl Grey tea? Hot chocolate with marshmallows? You'll find most drinks in our drinks index.

 

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Contributors: 

Katherine Abbott, Justin Aylward, Michael Barrington, Stephen Bridger, Lynn Clement, Niall  Crowley, Kate Durant, Steve Gerson, Elsie Glassman, Monica Goertzen Hertlein, Sandra Horn, Claire Jaggard, Gill James, Maria Kinnersley, Olaf Laaman, Mike Lee, Henry Lewi, Peter Lingard, Clare Martin, Madelein McDonald, Mia McNamara, Rob Molan, Jane Mooney, Linda Morse, Dana G Nadeau, Hannah Retallick, Judith Skilleter,Sally Storr, Laura Sukonik, Rick Vick,Frank Zahn,