Books

Harry and Xavier

Five Summers to Fall

Teenager Harry Dixon is feeling ill, desperate and lonely as the last summer term at his dreadful high school grinds on – until his quirky Parisian friend Xavier comes to visit. Mischievous, amiable, distracting… and attractive, Xavier might be just the medicine Harry needs...

As time passes and the two boys grow up, their childhood problems...

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Green Twining: Sometimes, love needs a little untangling...

Following an unfortunate incident 90 years earlier, life at Green Twining Farm seems terminally blighted. But, by the summer of 1985, Joe – the farmer’s son – has secretly fallen in love with David, his handsome work friend at the town hall. And Joe wonders if David feels the same way about him. Then – when Tim, Joe’s former musical friend,...

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The House with the round window

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In 'The House With The Round Window' Andrew Cheffings explores how subgroups can form within society which become coercive and create intense power structures, difficult to escape from.

John is a young middle-aged man working at a Community Music Centre in the small town of St Herefriths on the edge of the Lincolnshire Marsh. In many...

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Harp Wood

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In the 1980s, following decades of agricultural and the resulting cultural decline on the Lincolnshire Marsh, there was a sudden and unexpected springing of optimism. People opened odd businesses in remote houses far along marsh lanes. They were getting crafty, making strange objects from wood, taking moody photographs of collapsed...

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Muddy Lane

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Anthony is running away from the mess he has made of his life... again... But this time he is determined to do things differently. And instead of moving to another old industrial midland city, he chooses a remote cottage down a muddy lane right out in the middle of nowhere, not far from the North Lincolnshire Coast, where he has...

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