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Right from the start Pacific Hale is in love with her best friend Dorothy Shu. Pacific is about to discover that love is a battlefield, and to survive she will have to become something new, something terrible and born of fire.

Every week Robin''s Halflings do table top battle. And every week he loses. But when the twin who collects Elves announces the club where they play is closing and their weekly games night is on the verge of being lost forever, the seven friends decide to enter the National Masters Tournament and so immortalise the club name in the national rankings. Will Robin overcome his lifelong losing streak and how much is he prepared to risk to lead his Halfling army to victory?

Thirty-five, P is a woman caught between commitment and chaos; about to upend her current stable life to invoke the tumult of her former, addicted one. Or perhaps just walk into the sea. Good Choices explores the ways in which we try to impose narrative on our lives, for the implied audience always judging.

Will Ashon spent the day of Tuesday May 21st 2019 hitching around the motorways and ''A'' roads of England, chatting to whoever picked him up about their lives, dreams, aspirations, fears and favourite foods. The resulting transcripts, presented here edited and cross-cut through one another into a collage of voices, form a work in which generosity plays a far greater role than hate, reminding us of our nation''s better self. Sitting somewhere between Svetlana Alexievich and Rachel Cusk, NOT FAR FROM THE JUNCTION is a fresh, funny, moving and quietly radical work of non-fiction, exploring who we are and how we see the world.

Holly Watson tells the tale of a young girl's experience growing up in Coventry in the 1990's. But Nanny Pam's fallen out with Grandad, mum and dad are skint, and Tom, with his beautifully pointy-spike gelled hair, doesn't seem to notice our girl at all.

Tadhg Muller is the ultimate unreliable narrator. This dark take on autofiction spirals towards madness with the inconsistencies of Muller's plot, whilst maintaining the gravity of what London life is like for an immigrant with no money, no prospects, and never quite enough sense to abandon hope.

Caught in a rip-tide while on holiday with his girlfriend, Will has the fortunate misfortune of having his life saved by Roland, a man who turns into his nightmare. Falling into a guilty friendship with his rescuer, Will is consumed by how irritating and fascinating he finds Roland. At the cost of everything and everyone else in his life Will is hellbent on finding out what makes someone not just a prick, but The Prick.

Novelette. Literary fiction.

A novelette chronicling one online fallout after another. Comic satire with political and sociological undertones.