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  Poets & Their Afflictions –...

  John Keats, Kahlil Gibran, Paul...

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  The stereotypical image of a poet is one of unknown talent starving in a garret and who’s faithfulness and legacy to the art is discovered only after their death. 
  In some cases this is undoubtedly true, but Poets being human and with the same building blocks of physical and mental health as the rest of us, also had the same afflictions and problems as the rest of us.   
  The long roll call of names and the truncated legacies that were left behind is filled with these lost talents. 
  In this volume we bring together the poems and verse of those wordsmiths whose lives were blighted by tuberculosis, then more commonly known as consumption, and its debilitating and usually terminal effects.   
  The long roll call and the truncated legacies that were left behind are filled with the names of these lost talents.

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  Metamorphosis

  Vincetta

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  Metamorphosis explores generational trauma, heartbreak, shadow work, and ultimately coming to truth, self-love, and wholeness. 
  Metamorphosis is divided into three chapters, each diving deeper into a different phase of the metamorphosis. As you listen, you will go through the journey of healing with me—bearing witness to my state of mind, thoughts, and feelings. You will be submerged into my world as I transform from a caterpillar to butterfly, experiencing pain, healing, death, and rebirth. 
  My hope is that Metamorphosis can serve as a healing tool for you, as a catalyst guiding you to explore your own depths honestly and bravely so that you too can emerge anew.

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  I know something you don't know

  Amy LeBlanc

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  Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, resides in the intersection of folklore and femininity. With fairy-tale lucidity and fluid voice, the poems in this collection weave through the seams between story and fact. This debut collection is alluring and noxious like hemlock, foxglove, and blooming wildflowers.

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  The Bounds

  Stewart Pringle

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  The year is 1553, the true Golden Age of English football. It's the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today.
  This is the big game, and it's been raging for hours. Percy and Rowan are out in the middle of nowhere, miles from the action, when a stranger joins them. A stranger with tidings that will blow their world apart.
  Time passes. Night falls. The great chain of being collapses. And they're losing the bloody football...
  Stewart Pringle's play The Bounds is a darkly comedic tale of national divides, folk horror and the end of the world as we know it. It was first co-produced by Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Royal Court Theatre, London, and performed at both theatres in 2024, directed by Jack McNamara.

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  You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next)

  Keron Day, Alex Howarth

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  'It's not your job to help me, Keron. It's literally the other way round.'
  Keron Day is disabled. Dani is his newly appointed Personal Assistant (not as fancy as it sounds). She is the latest of many, and Keron, longing for stability, needs this to work.
  But as their working relationship becomes a friendship and Dani's life outside of Keron threatens to harm them both, the boundaries of caring become increasingly blurred.
  Inspired by real events, You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) is a touching and funny exploration of how care goes both ways. Keron Day and Alex Howarth's play, written with Helen Chong, won the Mary Dick Award, and premiered at Summerhall during the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by Patch of Blue and 3 hearts canvas.

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  Feng Menglong's Judge Bao: the...

  Feng Menglong, Michael Henrik Wynn

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  The emergence of crime fiction was closely connected to the development of a modern legal system. In Germany there were the true crime stories August Gottlieb Meißner (1753-1804), in Britain The Newgate Calendar (1774) and in France the romanticized publications of Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857), the first chief of the Sûreté.  
  China has one of the oldest bureaucracies on earth. A real life judge from the early Middle Ages became their Sherlock Holmes, and was transformed into one of the most beloved Chinese literary characters. In this audiobook Michael Henrik Wynn, the editor of the educational net radio stream Historyradio.org, retells a classic gong’an legend about the iconic Judge Bao. The original story was published by Feng Menglong (1574–1646), but this is not a direct translation.

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