Brown Dog: 93 books

Stonehenge is an enigma. Its secrets continue to elude modern archaeologists. However, only forty years ago the designs were almost uncovered. Scientists with impeccable credentials wrote best-selling books and made TV documentaries revealing astonishing theories. It was an astronomical observatory....

The last journey of a refugee. A novel approach to infertility. Coming of age in the 80s with the Cuban boys in town. Hopes, desires and intrigues feature in this compelling collection of the winning and shortlisted entries from the Bath Short Story Award 2016. Judged by BBC Radio 4 producer Mair Bosworth...

Crossing the high Himalayan passes in the middle of winter on horseback is not for the faint-hearted. The Victorian traveller, Maria Caroline Bolitho, although largely unknown, was cur from the same seasoned cloth as more famous women explorers of the time. Undaunted by weather, altitude sickness, lack...

Sing Us A Song Ma, Before We Say Goodbye is a lively, vividly rendered and extremely moving memoir of Johnny Slater's childhood in war-torn Liverpool. Written by his daughter Carol, it follows Johnny from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, right up until his period of National Service from...

A Brummie moves to rural Scotland and drives a taxi in a small tight-knit community. There are moments of great joy, sadness, idiocy, anger and surprise as well as foul language and bodily functions. Is he ever on time? Does he ever get punched in the face? Does anyone ever spew in his taxi? Find out in this collection of short tales covering nearly five years.

Freddie noticed something behind a large overhanging rock 'Well!' he said in amazement 'It's a boat!' Meet Freddie, Barney and all the gang, and read about their adventures... A disastrous incident at the quayside and a rescue. Find out how Betty, Wilma and Liquorice help to rescue an old boat and along...

Dafydd ap Gwilym as the finest medieval Welsh poet, producing over 150 innovative poems, encompassing themes of love and disappointment, sin and sanctity, comedy and despair, interacting with both the natural world and the transforming 'modernity' of fourteenth-century Wales. In this book, Joseph P....

Professional people should be the first to acknowledge that their writing skill can probably be improved. Grammar and style guides fall short of the answer to the problem, which is embedded in attitudes that surface as intellectual and mood faults. Professionalism on the Page reaches that very core of...

Richard Newman first made a name for himself in the mid-70s, as an interviewer on an all-night programme called Night Flight, in the early days of Capital Radio. Since then he has been one of the great animators of English acoustic and electric music, tireless in his work as a film maker,...

A funny, yet heartbreaking, tale about a teenager and her fascination with writing. A widow and her golden horse. When the names of plants disappear. Broken vases and broken hearts. A slow revelation about a marriage...These six winning stories and the twelve dazzling others in the anthology will keep you gripped.

This is the story of one person's life, my life to be exact. So let me take you on a wonderful journey whch I have a strong feeling you will enjoy. Along the way you will experience a whole lot of humour and also a touch of sadness, but most of all a huge amount of entertainment. Join me in meeting some...

This anthology is a collection of twenty stories from the winning entries of the 2014 Bath Short Story Award. From the baked bean coloured world of The Ghost Boy to the garden war-zone of No Man's Land, through the revelations in The Language of Birds and a pivotal encounter in a shoe shop in The Beautiful...

A hot, tragic summer in 1980s Belfast. The loss of love echoed through the Shipping Forecast. A woman writes 'love' letters for illiterate girls in the Far East. The Kilburnie Kings hit the town. An old lady makes final plans for 'moksha'. These winning stories and other selected ones in the 2015 collection,...

Charles Hanaway was brought up in the 1920s and 1930s in a poor area of London. On leaving school at the age of thirteen he worked in a variety of jobs until the outbreak of World War II.