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Some of our titles are for young readers AND grown-ups. Sometimes there is nothing more wonderful than reading a fantasy adventure where you can be reasonably confident from the outset that the story won't have a horrible ending - don't you agree?

The Green Wolf Rider series from G.D. Howard promises:
Wolves✔️
Adventure✔️
Magic✔️
Brave heroine Holly battling to save her village✔️

"I have a passion for the desert"

Caroline Bradley speaking to on the show on on Sunday about her lifetime of journeying.

Did you catch the interview? You can listen again on the BBC Radio Gloucestershire website - Caroline Martin's show on Sunday 21 June. Caroline Bradley is on air from about 1hr45 and you can hear how she came to earn her name as the 'globetrotting grandma'.

MAKING TRACKS by Caroline Bradley is in bookshops now, including and

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"The book's central theme is growing up in the Forest ... of talking about belonging, and growing up in spaces which have changed a lot over time"

Rose Day speaking to on about finding inspiration in the Forest of Dean.

Did you catch the interview? You can listen again on the BBC Radio Gloucestershire website - Caroline Martin's show on Sunday 7 June - Rose is on air from about 1hr20 and you can also catch her beautiful reading of poem 'Boar' from the collection.

VOREST by is in bookshops now, including

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A super review for Satya Bosman's debut poetry collection DREAM LOGIC from Nigel Kent.

'Recurring concerns—unrealised possibility, anxiety, failed agency, and grief—give Dream Logic a notable conceptual coherence. Bosman’s references to Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, and Sylvia Plath help to situate that coherence within a wider poetic lineage, though the collection does not merely imitate its forebears. One might locate Bosman between Dickinson’s inward metaphysical attentiveness, Plath’s psychological intensity, and Brontë’s emotional extremity, yet her work remains distinct in tone and method. Where those predecessors often move toward crisis, revelation, or visionary confrontation, Bosman is more interested in quieter forms of disturbance: hesitation rather than rupture'

You can read the full review on https://nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/review-of-dream-logic-by-satya-bosman/

DREAM LOGIC is in bookshops and online retailers now.
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