Participatory Arts. Writing Projects. Mantle Lane Press.
A Painting for a Blind Man Valentine Williams has written a collection of subtle and clever stories which focus on relationships, and characters reaching the tipping point. The lover scared to enter the water with his younger girlfriend. The dominatrix who Read More …
A small book bundle. An ideal present for the reader in your life. If your reader likes strange stories that take you off-piste try our Strange Tales bundle, including: Submerged – One man’s bizarre journey in search of his famiily, Read More …
Always Another Twist After plotting revenge for a betrayal at work, Julie has to deal with some even more unexpected circumstances. “It can’t be!” Julie closes her eyes, then looks again at the pregnancy strip. A blue line. She shakes the Read More …
The Music Maker Who or what is Kai, the mysterious stranger with the beautiful voice, who inveigles his way into a choir during rehearsals for Elgar’s The Music Makers? And what does he really want from shy, timid Stella, an Read More …
Kaleidoscope Claire relives her past but her memories are fragmented, shattered like the remains of a toy kaleidoscope. A troubled childhood, the loss of her baby, and the end of her marriage are seen through a distorting lens, twisted and Read More …
A Far Cry A Maori granddaughter safeguards her strange legacy, transsexuals beguile tourists in a Cuban park, a migrant Romanian family finds an unexpected new home. In this collection of short stories change occurs in far-away communities, with consequences that Read More …
Nightswimming A collection of dark, urban tales: the pros and cons of stealing a pensioner, a mothers prison visit, incipient love and roller skating, the guilt of a brothers death, and a past love burnt out by rioting. Stories that Read More …
Behind a Wardrobe in Atlantis Emma J. Lannie explores extraordinary moments within ordinary lives, that are evocative of fairy tale and myth. A magical collection of short fiction. “Lannie explores the subtle dislocations that occur within relationships in a clear-eyed Read More …
The Geometry of Distance. Katie Daniels book is about separation from those we love. In this sequence of poems, she explores the distances and bonds between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers. The surreal nature of Read More …
A grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund is making it possible to preserve a series of unique audio recordings, which document the lives of ordinary people in the former mining and quarrying area of N.W. Leicestershire. In the 1980s and Read More …