Arachne: 16 books

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Lovers' Lies

Short Stories from Liars' League

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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013

Arachne Press’ second collaboration with Liars’ League bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love for romantic cynics and cynical romantics.
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by Katy Darby, Joan Taylor-Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

A showcase for authors Arachne Press has published previously in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. The collection as a whole has tendency towards fantasy and magical realism, with Cassandra Passarelli’s (Liberty Tales) Guatemalan stories taking on a more gritty reality, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

Short Stories & Poems Inspired by the 800th Anniversary of the Signing of Magna Carta. Arachne Press brings us a celebration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, in the form of poetry and short stories. This wide ranging collection of fictional and poetic tales responds to the subject of Liberty....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

There’s something about Liars’ League that brings out the wildness in the writers’ imaginations. Here we explore myth, fantasy, science fiction, and the indefinable what the – that makes up Weird. In true Liars’ League fashion there is as much humour as there is darkness and poignancy.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018

The Solstice Shorts Festival celebrates the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year with time themed stories poems and songs. 2017 saw the festival go UK wide, with 12 sites taking part at DUSK, in a wave of words across the UK from Ellon in Aberdeenshire to Redruth in Cornwall. These are the chosen stories and poems from the festival.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

Stories and poems from the Solstice Festivals 2015 & 2016. Featuring work from Abby Beckel, Bob Beagrie, Cherry Potts, David Mathews, David McVey, Frances Gapper, Neil Brosnan, Pauline Walker, Sarah Evans, Sarah James and Wendy Gill with themes as various as friendships betrayed, birth, atheism,...
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Outcome

LGBT Portraits

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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016

Photographer Tom Dingley started his #Outcome project a couple of years ago, in response to his concern at the lack of positive role models for young people on the cusp of coming out. He decided to photograph LGBT people with the attributes of their everyday life – their work, or their interests;...
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Stations

Short Stories Inspired by the Overground Line

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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

Twentyfour new short stories in homage to the East and South London section of the Overground Line: a story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the line, all the way to Highbury & Islington.
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London Lies

Urban Tales from Liars' League

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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012

A celebration in short stories of what makes London the city it is: the landmarks are there but it is the people who make the city, and the stories, work.
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by Liam Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

Liam Hogan‘s collection of eerie, darkly unsettling and frequently funny, fantasy stories. In the realms of fantasy, it is foolish to upset the wee folk. Downright dangerous to incur the curse of a witch. And above all, it is perilous to ignore a warning. Happy Ending Not Guaranteed contains 27...
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Mosaic of Air

short stories

by Cherry Potts
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Originally published twenty years ago, the sixteen short stories in Mosaic of Air reflect and explore Lesbian life in the 1990s through myth, mystery, history, fantasy and science fiction.
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by Cherry Potts
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016

Nine years after the loss of her sister, and near obliteration of her clan in an ill conceived raid, Brede, a plains’ nomad, is living unwillingly in the marshes. The sudden ending of a decade long drought, brings with it many changes; rumour has it that the rain was bought at the price of a King’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018

November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of WWI. After all the commemorative works of art over the past four years, we felt it was important to reflect on what comes after - an outbreak of peace, and what that means to the combatants and those left at home. This wide ranging collection brings...
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Noon

Stories and poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2018

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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019

Everyone thinks of noon as being a split second as the clock's hands draw together, the bell tolls twelve times - but there is so much more to it than that - Solar noon happens as much as half an hour either side of what the clock tells you, deadlines are met, or passed, shadows vanish, vampires hide...
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