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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

And So I Took Their Eye by Ben C. Davies

The discovery of a body on the black-sand beaches of Guatemala sparks a chain of events that ripple across the globe.

From an Italian tailor crushed under the weight of his father’s legacy to a mother challenging local snobbery on the cricket fields of England, a vengeful Bolivian priest chasing Che Guevara’s ghost, to a Bay Area therapist blind to his own advice, the lives of a seemingly unconnected group of strangers become fatefully entangled in murder, arson, betrayal, and love. These stories examine abuses of power in a world fractured by inequalities. As their characters confront brutal truths, morality blurs, forcing them to question the meaning of belonging and the lengths they’ll go to carve out their place in an unforgiving world.

Guided by the ancient creed of ‘an eye for an eye’, Ben C. Davies’ And So I Took Their Eye is a gripping collection of interlinked stories exploring what happens when justice is taken into your own hands—and ultimately, what it means to be human.

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Impossible to put down... a treasure trove of insights that deserves slow, careful inspection... Compelling, shifting in its viewpoints and delivery, and thoroughly mind-boggling, And So I Took Their Eye defies pat categorization and rests its appeal upon the unexpected. Prepare to be amazed."
— D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

"Few short story collections have the richness and complexity of a novel. Ben Davies’ does."
— Edward Stanton, award-winning author of Wide as the Wind, Frail Blood, and VIDAS: Deep in Mexico and Spain

"Ben C. Davies writes with precision, curiosity, and a willingness to get close to the nerve... The stories are tough, honest, and threaded with grace."
— Matthew Clark Davison, author of Doubting Thomas and co-author of The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre

"Ben C. Davies’ stories are arresting: the prose sharp and unrelenting, his characters’ ‘true colours’ revealed with an arch wryness. Davies forces us to re-think all that we do not want to see—in our societies, in our cultures. Bravo!"
— Alicia J. Rouverol, author of Dry River and I Was Content and Not Content, nominated for the OHA Book Award

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Past and Present by Rosemary Johnson

We need to know about the past in order to make sense of the present.

We do this best when we laugh about it. Past and Present is a collection of twenty-one bite-sized short stories. We wander from Biblical times to the present day and visit many times and places on the way.

This collection from prolific short-story writer Rosemary Johnson will make you laugh and cry.

RRP Paperback £7.50

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Monday, March 31, 2025

Splat! by Vanessa Horn

Little Emmy Chatterbustle is frustrated by the geese who continually poo-bomb her village. Although determined to out-wit these wile birds, Emmy's attempts to thwart them are unsuccessful until she notices how spectacularly well the vegetables are growing in the village allotment ...

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