HeyJaredBy the Book: Jamie McGarry at Valley Press
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Outside in the Night (opens the original)
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Hi!September has passed by in a whirl, so I apologise for not finding my way into your inbox for a couple of weeks, but here I am with our latest offering, Outside in the Night, and I’m really happy to share it with you.This is Gina Challen’s second short story collection with Valley Press, following Chalk Tracks in 2019, and once again the stories are rooted in landscape, ordinary lives and the more compl
How do you say goodbye after fifteen years? (opens the original)
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Hi, I hope you’re keeping well. It’s the weekend again already! I honestly don’t know where the time goes.Which, as it happens, is rather appropriate for this week’s newsletter, because I’ve been thinking about time – and what happens when you spend a very long time with a character of your own creation.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rri_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubli
Can love survive Antarctica? (opens the original)
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Hi,I hope you’re keeping well. This week I wanted to introduce you to Ice Shock: A Love Story by Elleke Boehmer.Sometimes a book takes a while to draw you in. Ice Shock wasn’t one of those.Within the first couple of pages, I was already invested in Leah and Niall and wanted to know what was going to happen to them.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i3td!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubsta
The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens… intrigued? (opens the original)
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Okay, so we had Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country. Now we’ve got The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens!!Before you get the wrong idea… VP has not embarked on a new marketing strategy based entirely on suggestive book titles. 😬 😂
Matchsticks in Berlin (opens the original)
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This week, we’re heading to Berlin.Berlin has meant different things to Rosie Driffill at different stages of her life: freedom and recklessness in her twenties; reflection, political uncertainty and the unmistakable passage of time in the years that followed.In her new poetry pamphlet, Matchsticks in Berlin, Rosie returns to the city’s museums, boulevards, clubs, cafés and cemeteries – but also to earlier versions of herself. These are poems about travel and memory, illness and ageing, humour a
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