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  Love in the Trenches: A...

  Ella Stories

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  A macho army sergeant falls in love with a gentle botanist who is researching the healing properties of plants in the war zone. The soldier must navigate his unfamiliar feelings while reconciling with his tough exterior, and the botanist, a firm pacifist, has to reconcile with the soldier's violent profession. Together, they learn new paths of communication, and in the process, discover peace in the chaos.

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  Wild Seas Wilder Cities - A...

  Helen Salsbury, Richard...

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  Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth. 
   
  Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features 50 different voices from across the Portsmouth community and beyond. Our readers range from teenagers to those in their nineties, including experienced actors, writers and volunteers from the public. 
   
  The many writers, poets and performers in this audiobook have given their work freely, so all profits are donated to the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust for their Solent Seagrass Restoration Project. 
   
  Recorded at the award-winning Casemates Studios in Portsmouth. 
   
  Find out more at pensoftheearth.co.uk/audiobook 
   
  Reviews for the paperback: 
   
  ‘Calls to us in a rousing chorus of voices … a lyrical force for change.’ Nicola Chester, award winning author of On Gallows Down and Ghosts of the Farm. 
   
  ‘Bursting with inspiring and hopeful visions’ Carys Bray, author of A Song for Issy Bradley 
   
  ‘Mixing fact, fiction and poetry is such a good idea – we bear witness to the natural world in many ways, and the pieces come in all shapes and sizes, carrying messages of determination, love for nature, positive actions and the power of community.’ Sarah Jane Butler, author of Starling 
   
  ‘Full of love, enlightenment, practicality and poetry.’ Toby Litt, author of Patience 
   
  ‘A delightfully encouraging collection of writings on the ways we can help make the world wilder again, how we can change the narrative on climate change. Vibrant and alive, these are wonderful tales told of renaturing – of striving to support life in all its glorious forms on the earth, of restoring hope for the future.’ Dr James Canton, Director of Wild Writing, University of Essex

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  The Derelict

  William Hope Hodgson

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  "The Derelict" is a maritime horror story blending science fiction and cosmic dread. The tale follows the crew of a steamship who discover an abandoned, seemingly lifeless derelict drifting in the open sea. Upon boarding, they find the ship covered in a strange, gelatinous growth that appears inert—until it begins to move. As the substance engulfs the vessel, the men realize they are trapped in a nightmarish struggle against an alien, living organism that defies natural law. The story was first published in The Red Magazine in 1912.

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  LINE THE - An Anthlogy on the...

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  The LINE gives you a quick and exciting tur around NEOM, the City of the Future and the various incidents that may soon occur in the ultra-modern metropolis that will alter all of the people who live between the two giant mirrors in the desert.

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  Turtle Doves (short story)...

  Stuart MacBride

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  Second story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season 
  When a double suicide arrives at the city morgue, Sandra thinks it’s a Christmas like any other. But she’s about to get a very nasty shock – make that two very nasty shocks… 
  Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author, weaves a tale of mystery and thrillers, where humour is as black as the night. The best of his stories, Turtle Doves is a hard-boiled detective fiction that will keep you on the edge of your seat. 
  For fans of Tg Reid (The Killing Parade), Mark Billingham (What the Night Brings), Jd Kirk (A Killer of Influence), Andrew Raymond (The Shortlist), and Ed James (Where the Bodies Lie).

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  What the Moon Brings

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Title: What the Moon Brings 
  Author: H. P. Lovecraft 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1923 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 28 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  What the Moon Brings by H. P. Lovecraft is a brief but deeply atmospheric descent into dreamlike horror — a meditation on beauty, decay, and the terrible revelations that emerge beneath moonlight. In a garden transformed by night, the narrator glimpses visions of strange waters, drifting lilies, and a ghastly secret rising from the depths. 
  Blurring the line between dream and nightmare, Lovecraft conjures an imagery of surreal dread and poetic decay, revealing horror not in what is shouted, but in what is quietly seen. This early tale exemplifies Lovecraft’s fascination with the unseen cosmos of the subconscious — where the familiar becomes alien under the moon’s cold gaze. 
  Narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the story’s nocturnal rhythm and unsettling lyricism — a whispered journey through shadow and revelation. While the text itself is in the public domain, this narration is an original performance and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series dedicated to reviving the haunting classics of horror and the uncanny, What the Moon Brings stands as a dream-fragment of cosmic dread and delicate madness — a moment where the beauty of the world turns upon itself and shows its true, terrible face. 
  Prepare for a tale of moonlit decay and spectral wonder, where night reveals more than the waking mind can endure.

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