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When the darkness rises again, the light will return wherever
people stand their ground. Two years after the events of The
Standing Ground, the tiny outpost of Y Tir in North Wales becomes a
refuge for those who want to live without implants-permanent links
to government surveillance that are threatening to dominate
people's lives again. But can Alys, Luke and Emrys thwart the
growing threats of the new tech-giants whose offers of enhanced
memories and virtual lives mask the erosion of privacy and even
humanity? As new enemies threaten Y Tir's existence, and old
enemies emerge to sew seeds of destruction, Alys' and Luke's lives
are put under increasing pressure. But there are also allies, not
least Alys' and Luke's daughter, Iris, who appears to have fallen
out of the mists of Greek legend and into Celtic myth. Can Iris,
more strange and powerful even than Myrddin Emrys, also known as
Merlin, save the day for Y Tir? Skilfully combining near-future
technologies of surveillance and immersive media with Arthurian
legend and Greek mythology, this story of suspense is full of
convincing and extraordinary characters. A breath-taking conclusion
to The Standing Ground trilogy. But does this story ever end?
In a near-future world without privacy or freedom, life is
unravelling for Luke, a teenager whose questions and individuality
have no place in surveilled society. A virtual encounter with a
girl who claims to live beyond the all-controlling grip of
E-Government sets him on a quest not only for answers, but for
escape. But is Alys real? Why are there echoes of her world in his
father, Nazir Malik's home, especially since Nazir is a celebrity
artist trusted by E-Government? And what role can characters from
Celtic Arthurian legend possibly play in saving the future? Most
urgently, can Luke overcome the threats that surround him and find
the Standing Ground? The Standing Ground weaves together Arthurian
legend and near-future dystopia in a this gripping novel about what
it means to remain human.
Saoirse grows up hearing the extraordinary stories of family
members who died before her birth or in early childhood. Her aunt
Miriam, who believed she had lived across a thousand years to be
with her lover in each generation, the Moorish Princess Casilda.
Her grandmother, Daireann. more than a healer and wise woman, and
her father, Oisin, an alchemist and magician. But who is Saoirse? I
was Casilda's mother more than a thousand years ago, she tells her
mother, Sarah. Tucked away under a mountain in Roscommon in Oisin's
family home, Saoirse meets Faolan, a local boy lost in their garden
maze. As they play out stories from myth, Faolan's loyalty and love
grows, but Saoirse craves adventure and is not easily won. As their
paths diverge, one momentous event threatens everything, leading
Saoirse into a maze from which she might never emerge and taking
Faolan on a quest on which their lives depend. Spanning back into
the mists of pre-history; travelling from Roscommon to Paris,
Prague to Brittany, Budapest to Nice, Zaragoza to Tromso, and
bringing together Celtic mythology from Ireland and Brittany,
Saoirse's Crossing asks questions of identity as contemporary as
they are ancient, exploring the lengths we will go to for love.
Belief is Cassie's gift, so much so that she believes herself to be
whoever those in her life tell her she is - Cassie, Kat, Kitty,
even Casilda, as Miriam insists, an 11th century Muslim princess
from Toledo who later became a Catholic saint. Bound together by
Miriam's extraordinary internal world, Cassie's belief and a
traumatic incident on a beach, Cassie's loyalty only strains when
an act of betrayal propels her towards Liam, also waiting to tell
Cassie who she really is. But Cassie may be more resourceful than
either Miriam or Liam imagine and when she eventually visits
Toledo, tracking down places where Casilda might have walked, is
this the end of the story? Exploring how one person might support
the fantasy life of another, in Quixotic tradition, This is the End
of the Story raises questions about perception and identity, about
friendship, love, loyalty and the stories we tell ourselves or
allow others to tell about us. This is the End of the Story is the
first book in the Casilda Trilogy and is followed by A Remedy for
All Things and For Hope Is Always Born.
What is the connection between the tenth century Moorish princess,
Casilda, and a young Jewish woman, Miriam, completing a Masters
degree in contemporary Toledo? What links both to the Spanish
singer, Casilda Faertes and to her mother, another Miriam, born in
Budapest and raised in Nice? Spanning a thousand years and bringing
together the stories of three generations of women in North-east
England, Budapest and Spain, For Hope is Always Born, follows on
from This is the End of the Story and A Remedy for All Things to
ask huge questions about identity and the nature of love and loss.
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In the Cinnamon Corners (Paperback)
Mick Evans, Liz Hayward, Sharon Larkin, Vivienne Tregenza, and others; Edited by …
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Four emerging poets namely Mick Evans, Liz Hayward, Sharon Larkin
and Vivienne Tregenza present ten poems each, and come together
with a range of fifteen other individual new voices from the
Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Competition. -- Cyngor
Llyfrau Cymru
In this prequel to The Standing Ground, we travel back two
generations to the origins of the oppressive E-Government state
that gradually infiltrates every aspect of people's lives in the
decade following Brexit and global pandemic. But as the darkness
overtakes Britain and other areas of Europe, the light of residence
wakes in a community that spans the Celtic outposts of Brittany and
North Wales. And in a strange child, Myrddin Emrys, who has also
been known as Merlin. Weaving together Arthurian legend and
exploratory fiction of the near future, The Roots of the Ground
explores the human cost of monocultures that trample freedom and
privacy and asserts with Carl Jung that: 'As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the
darkness of mere being.' The Roots of the Ground is Book 2 of The
Standing Ground Trilogy,
In the dream she is not herself. Belief is Catherine's gift, or it
was once, growing up in the shadow of an extraordinary friendship
amongst a cacophony of voices trying to tell her who to be. Now, in
her thirties, Catherine knows what she has lost and what she has
survived. Her professional life is on course and she has a new
relationship with Simon, a writer who shares her imaginative and
creative worlds. But when Catherine arrives in Budapest in winter
1993 to begin researching a novel based on the poet, Attila Jozsef,
she starts dreaming the life of a young woman imprisoned after the
1956 Uprising. More disconcertingly, by day this woman, Selene
Virag, is with her, dreaming Catherine's life just as she dreams
Selene's. Obsessed with uncovering the facts, Catherine discovers
that Selene was a real person who lived through the persecution of
Jews in Hungary during WW2, but what is most disorienting is that
Selene believed Attila Jozsef to be the father of her daughter,
Miriam, despite the fact that Jozsef committed suicide in December
1937, eighteen years before Miriam was born. How do the three lives
of Catherine, Selene and Attila fit together? Densely layered,
constantly challenging the boundaries between fact and fiction, A
Remedy for All Things is a disquieting and compelling exploration
of what we mean by identity and of how the personal and the
political collide. Spare, subtle prose and an innovative, original
narrative combine with an accessible, moving story; an
extraordinary follow-up to This is the End of the Story, the first
book in the Casilda Trilogy. The final part For Hope is Always
Born, is also published by Cinnamon Press.
How do we come home in a strange land? Moving to a remote forest
hamlet in a new country in the midst of a pandemic, the only way to
connect is to take the time to linger, listen and observe-to be
with the land that is becoming home. From this observations a
series of haiku arise, following the Japanese system of 24 seasons
divided into 72 micro-seasons and interspersed with eight lyric
poems that travel around the Celtic wheel of the year. And so a
forest garden and its surrounding Finistere woodland slowly reveals
itself, weaving together the lunar and solar, melding the Celtic
shape of the year with the increments of the Japanese solar terms,
each one unveiling a new aspect of change. Charting a life unmoored
from the familiar, but permeable to the new the poems find their
place at 'the end of the world', as the Romans called Finistere,
but also in Penn-ar-Bed, the Breton name which is both the end and
start of the world. Most endings are also beginnings and here in
these precise, exquisitely observed poems, we find ourselves both
unsettled and settling, exploring what it means to hold together
being adrift and belonging; cycles and transformation and how we
find a beginning at the end of the world.
Writing Down Deep; an Alchemy of the Writing Life, has been a huge
labour of love over the last three years. Many of the ideas have
been trialed in blog articles and in online courses, and have been
honed and rewritten for the book. There's also a huge amount of new
material, reflections and writing prompts to help you become the
writer you want to be with your own story and values. Writing Down
Deep; an Alchemy of the Writing Life is a book for writers who want
to dive deeply into their creative flow and into the extraordinary
power of writing to affect individuals and the world. Whether you
are a blogger writing articles, a memoirist, poet or novelist,
writing is magical, it offers perspective shifts, leaps of
imagination and connections that are vital to how we live at every
level. The world is storied and those who tell stories of every
kind, have a unique role and responsibility. The premise is that
story (including poetry, fiction and nonfiction) is vital to human
survival. It is so important that storytellers do well to become
congruent with their tales. This book is for the wild idealists and
alchemists of the imagination who believe that writing is so
powerful that it should change us as we push the boundaries of our
craft. This book is for those who see writing as an act of radical
spirituality, in the broadest sense of 'spiritual' as the antonym
of egotistical hubris, rather than as the opposite of 'material'.
The book is a companion on the quest and, as such, you can read it
straight through or slowly; make the rhythm suit you. It has five
main sections that are interspersed around shorter, seasonal
sections. The book is packed with prompts, inspiration and writing
exercises. These are not mechanical or 'how to' exercises but aimed
at challenging us to dig deeply into our writing processes and
writing lives. Woven throughout are seasonal pauses to help you
design your own writing retreats.
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