This exciting book is the first anthology of the writing of the 12 students on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln 2012 to 2013. The students are a mixture of ages and nationalities and they have all worked well together to produce this interesting mixture of flash fiction, short stories, poetry and extracts from novels. The anthology also includes collaborative pieces by all of the group. The anthology contains a mixture of the dark, the comic, the moving and the challenging. Overall it offers a fascinating and rewarding read. The Black Path 2 will be appearing in December 2013. Contributors: Shirley Bell, Stephen Blessett, Cassandra Cash, Laura Clipson, Tina Daley, Matt Ellis, Muayyad Elwaheidi, Jennifer Fytelson, Joel Leverton, Ian Neville, Stewart Norvill, Rosemary Temple. Compiled and edited by Shirley Bell, redplantpress.

A thoughtful, well-written and entertaining discussion of the often speculative background to Dan Brown's best-selling novel. The intriguing backdrop to the The Da Vinci Code has proved even more interesting to many than the modern thriller that plays out against a canvas of history, interpretations of archaeological findings, ancient documents discovered in the Middle East, and speculations about the life and relationships of Jesus Christ. This fascinating book offers the questing mind an opportunity to look behind the story at the unfolding possibilities of its compelling background. Dan Brown's book would hardly have caused such a stir were readers not already questioning some of the dogma of their own belief systems. The author has written several books on a variety of subjects and is the former head of a university Department of English and the retired director of its publishing division.