Seven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection on literature's status as art & cultural mediator. Co-published by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts, and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK, and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and total creative freedom.

The Combination of 3: Happiness Is the Way Forward offers a revealing and powerful guide to a personal discipline that seeks to cultivate a more complete understanding of life's journeys. Joan Thomas asserts that happiness is the way forward with this transformative self-development practice. By balancing three aspects of spiritual awareness-affirmations, meditation, and prayer-we can develop higher levels of consciousness and find fulfillment and meaning in our daily experiences while also tapping in to the assistance available to each of us from our spirit guides. With detailed and insightful suggestions for daily practices in each of the three components, The Combination of 3 promises to aid readers in finding a more unified reality path with greater satisfaction and peace along the way. About the Author Joan Thomas is a native of Jamaica who was inspired to write The Combination of 3 as a result of her personal struggles and hardships in life. The author's interests in her own life journey includes writing, spiritual teacher and speaker. Joan is a qualified Reiki Master and clairvoyant.

Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba ReadsShortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and McNally Robinson Book of the YearLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardFor Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare, austere, and tucked in. She is restless -- not the daughter she feels her mother wants. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate has Lily on her way to England to care for her aging grandmother. There, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped. Thomas's prose is intimate, elegant and devastatingly funny; her engrossing story of Lily Piper tells us something about how we make sense of the future when the future is something we can hardly imagine. Reading by Lightning, Joan Thomas's long-awaited first novel, took readers by storm. A year after its publication, it had won numerous awards, found a large readership, and been selected by popular vote for On the Same Page, Manitoba's one book reading experience. Goose Lane is pleased to reissue Reading by Lightning in this reader's guide edition, complete with an afterword, an interview with the author, extended biographical notes, and more.