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We have just launched our catchy new campaign 'Take a Legend on Holiday' otherwise known as our summer sale! For a limited time only we will be offering all our titles for just £3.49 including p&p in the UK when bought directly from our online shop! This year we want everyone to take a Legend Press book on holiday, and with our great range of titles we do hope there will be something that takes your fancy! As a bonus anyone who sends us a picture of themselves reading a Legend Press book on holiday or a review to info@legend-paperbooks.co.uk will receive a free book of their choice, for all orders within the UK. Welcome to the Legend Press online shop, the best place to order all our titles with the click of a button! With a broad range of titles we hope there will be something to tempt you, so happy reading!
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New Releases
If I Never Price is used to living within the shadow of threatening friend George – forever in the fear that not to follow his lead with end with a beating. However, new developments mean his life finally seems to be moving from the dormant and gaining some positive development. Before long, though, George is back and Price finds himself following his friend once more.
But this time it is different – secrets are discovered, decisions are to be made and life and perspective will never be the same again. If I Never is a novel about asking questions but being unsure if you want to know the answers.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the breakdown of her marriage, in desperation Beth Swann uses a donor bank in her hometown of Liverpool to start her family. 18 years later, her daughter, Julia, increasingly intrigued by the identity of her biological father, goes against her mother’s wishes and returns to Liverpool to complete the jigsaw of her background. Julia finds that not only Liverpool has changed but also her character, as she is drawn into an increasingly fraught and passionate journey that will turn her life upside down.
Fragile follows the lives of Beth, Julia and Jack, Beth’s ex-husband and closest to a father figure for Julia, on a roller coaster trip search for understanding and love – but, firstly, their identity.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Us is the story of a group of friends growing up in Norfolk and the relationship between James and Alison, from being inseparable as children into the confusion, love and pain of adolescence. And as their lives start to diverge, they find their symbiotic connection strained for the first time.
Told in three parts, The History of Us, follows the two and a close friend, bonded by love, but also by a single tragic moment in their shared lives. As their story unfolds, we hear many whispers, shifting our understanding of that tragic day and how love, even when taken away, can be everlasting.
This is their story. Lord Lucan: My Story Order overseas copy - £6.99 (inc P&P):
By Gary Murning
Published on 29th August 2009
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Fragile
By Jae Watson
Published on 27th June 2009
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The History of Us
By Philip Leslie
Published on 30th May 2009
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Edited by William Coles
Published on 30th May 2009.
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On the Holloway Road
By Andrew Blackman
Published 28th February 2009
Unmotivated and dormant, Jack is drawn into the rampant whirlwind of Neil Blake, who he meets one windy night on the Holloway Road. Inspired by Jack Kerouac's famous road novel, the two young men climb aboard Jack’s Figaro and embark on a similar search for freedom and meaning in modern-day Britain.
Pulled along in Neil’s careering path, taking them from the pubs of London's Holloway Road to the fringes of the Outer Hebrides, Jack begins to ask questions of himself, his friend and what there is in life to grasp. Spiting speed cameras and CCTV, motorway riots and island detours, will their path lead to new meaning or ultimate destruction?
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8 Rooms
By Various
Published on 25th April 2009
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8 Rooms showcases a selection of sleek, thought-provoking and powerful short stories portraying thoughts and actions that take place in or around a single room. Each author’s interpretation demonstrates original and contemporary fiction that paints a realistic yet inimitable portrait of everyday life.
A host of talented writers each offer absolute beauty that is weaved into the very fabric of these short stories. Easily accessible and entertaining, you can’t help but feel moved and inspired by this collection.
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Who Goes There
By Nick Griffiths
Published 25th October
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Featured in SFX, The Doctor Who Magazine, BBC Radio and Radio 4 Show Excess Baggage.
Who Goes There is the sequel to Nick’s hugely popular Doctor Who memoir, Dalek I Loved You (Gollancz, 2007 & 2008). It’s a travel book with Doctor Who at its core. Nick travels England and Wales, seeking locations used in the show, both Classic (pre-relaunch) and New. Being an odd kind of show, its locations too are odd. This is no glamorous trip. Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, anyone? A flooded china clay pit in Cornwall? As he travels, so Nick discovers another side to our well-trodden country, which is no less evocative. Then he goes to the pub. As in Dalek I Loved You, the travel writing is backed up by Nick’s childhood reminiscences and contemporary musings.
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A Son Called Gabriel
By Damian McNicholl
Published on 25th October
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Set in the hills of Northern Ireland in the 1960’s and 70’s, A Son Called Gabriel is a deeply felt and often funny coming-of-age novel that is ultimately unforgettable. Gabriel Harkin, the eldest of four children in a working-class family, struggles through a loving yet often brutal childhood. It’s a turbulent time in Ulster, and in the staunchly Catholic community to which Gabriel belongs, the rigid code for belief and behaviour is clear. As Gabriel begins to suspect that he’s not like other boys, he tries desperately to lock away his feelings, and his fears. But secrets have a way of being discovered, and Gabriel learns that his might not be the only one in the Harkin family.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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By Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Published on 27th September
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It is the early-sixties when a young Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. In this city of dreaming spires, he finds himself among a generation high on visions of a new and better world. The whole world seems ablaze with change: independence at home, the Civil Rights movement and the first tremors of cultural and sexual revolutions. It is then that Tayo meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of an ex-colonial officer.
In Dependence is Tayo and Vanessa¹s story of a brave but bittersweet love affair. It is the story of two people struggling to find themselves and each other a story of passion and idealism, courage and betrayal, and the universal desire to fall, madly, deeply, in love.
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Waterstone's Welsh Book of the Month - August
'Silence () n. 1. complete absence of sound. 2. the fact or state of abstaining from speech. v. 1. make silent. 2. (silenced) fitted with a silencer.’ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overseas copy - £6.99 (inc P&P):
Silence
by Josie Henley-Einion
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Jackie Harris, prison counsellor and ex-drag king, kills her lover's rapist in what she insists is self-defence. A literary novel with changing narrators, strong agendas and intertextual sequences, Silence is an examination of sexual violence and its repercussions. It questions the right of the media to scrutinise and pronounce judgement on a person’s life choices. The Remarkable Everyday (New Edition)
By Various
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The Remarkable Everyday has proven extremely popular as a bridge between the novel and the short story. The book consists of eight stories by different authors, each one portraying a character for a single day, complete with an introduction by short story scholar Nena Skrbic.
This was the first book published by Legend Press and its great reception announced the arrival of a dynamic and fresh upcoming independent publisher.
**Selected for WHSmith's top ten short-story collections.**
'A book you simply have to read.' Amazon.co.uk
'Very good, very fresh.' WHSmith.co.uk
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White Summer (New edition)
by Luke Bitmead
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'Great stuff. Wonderfully witty and sexy.' Deborah Wright, bestselling author
'A sparking debut from an author with an eye for detail and wit.' Essence Magazine
NOVELS
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Fire Horses
by Mark Liam Piggott
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Nominated for 5 Live Book of the Month
Joe Noone is a degenerate and enthusiastic explorer of the gutter. Fire Horses views England over the last 25 years, from small town to grimy metropolitan underbelly, through the eyes and lens of one deeply troubled individual and his complex relationships with his childhood friend and the women in his life.
Laced with dark humour, poetic beauty and angry political asides, Fire Horses is an unflinching lesson in modern history. An epic love story about ‘ordinary’ people, the novel is an examination of the pain-inducing traps we can set for ourselves in life and how and whether we can escape them.
‘Reading Fire Horses is like riding pillion on a motorbike driven by a poet.’ Jonathan Trigell
‘Passionate, powerful, poetic – a fine debut from an original talent.’ John King
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Heading South
by Luke Bitmead and Catherine Richards
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When was life and love ever straightforward? An hilarious comedy featuring vindictive exes, posh admirers, births, deaths, three dogs, two cats, a pheasant, pony and mallard.
Cassie -- Why am I so lacking in confidence? I mean my legs aren't that fat, my hair isn't that out-of-control, I'm not hideously ugly or terribly reconstructed by cosmetic surgery. How perfect this quiet country living would be with just a tiny bit less babysitting and a smidgen more sex.
Nick -- I don't know what made me ask her out. Well I do actually: she's jaw-droppingly fit. Listen to me; I sound like a dirty old man. I suppose that's what several months of celibacy does for you. Or perhaps it's all this fresh country air. Though do you know what made me ask her out, even more than the flirty eyes and curvy bum? It's this nagging feeling that I've seen her before somewhere...
'A great romantic comedy that will appeal to both sexes.' Closer Magazine
'I love the idea of books written by a man and woman together and I never would have guessed that each character had been written by the author of the opposite sex.' Trashionista
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Here or There
by Rebecca Strong
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Eleven seemingly unconnected characters are linked together by a chain of choices, irreversible decisions and far-reaching consequences. **Shortlisted for Five Live Book of the Month** Do you ever get the impression that things weren't meant to be as they are? That at some point along the way you took a wrong turning and ended up down a completely different path? Eleven seemingly unconnected characters are captured at points in their everyday lives when they are plagued by uncertainty, nostalgia, insecurity and, above all, a persistent longing for a different life. As these characters' lives begin to touch, often without their knowledge, far-reaching consequences prevail, leading some ultimately to commit murder. Yet - even after this potent search for better, more fulfilling lives - has each person ended up where they really want to be? 'A good story with a twist in the tail...a very good read.' Woman's Own 'An excellent read and a treat for book lovers.' Amazon.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overseas copy - £6.99 (inc P&P):
In the Footsteps of Harrison Dextrose
by Nick Griffiths
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No.1 Amazon Bestseller
‘It was my 18th birthday when I chanced upon Harrison Dextrose’s The Lost Incompetent: a Bible for the Inept Traveller, little knowing that it would one day lead me to kill a man with a dead penguin…’
Inspired by explorer Harrison Dextrose’s book – a curmudgeonly account of travels through unfashionable lands in search of a lost drinking partner – and Suzy Goodenough’s carnal delights as the prize, Alexander Grey rolls off his sofa to follow in the acclaimed man’s footsteps.
This is no usual travel text, involving poodle-farming, the Frihedhag sisters, wilful consumerism, an unwanted but undaunted sidekick, one too many rodents and the 24-hour Iditamush sled race, starring a sausage dog. And along the way, Alexander may, or may not, help to save the world. It’s that kind of a trip.
‘This book is cooler that David Hasselhoff in a room full of otters.’ Popbitch.com
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Journey
by Jae Watson
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Fast-paced and full of twists and turns this is beautifully written and a perfect companion to take travelling, back-packing or on holiday.
Following the break-up of her relationship and unsure of her life's direction, Marianne leaves a London still reverberating from the terrorist bombings to travel for a year with the mysterious and beautiful Sara. However, deep into the chaotic and mystical heart of India, events take a dramatic turn and, in the Holy City of Varanasi, Sara's body is discovered floating in the Ganges.
As the investigation ensues, unexpected and shocking revelations cast a new light on Sara and take Marianne on a painful but vital journey to uncover the truth about her friend and also her own life.
'Journey was a fascinating read that kept me intrigued to the end. It is a novel that defies expectation and provides no cosy solutions.' Writewords
'Ambitious and bold...this is a book which ventures off the beaten track in more ways than one; its strength lies in its intoxicating evocation of the traveller's colourful world.' Roundtable Review
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Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room
by Lee Henshaw
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'I wrote this book to ask a girl to marry me. It contains instructions on how to build a blackcurrant bath bong, and features a talking fanny and she still said yes.'
Set in and around the cities of New York, Mexico and Caracas, Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room is a cautionary tale for elder brothers and their new girlfriends. A pacey trail illustrating the value of revelry, relationships and having a repertoire of unbeatable stories to tell, this is a classically written, often surreal, always brilliant comedy.‘
Like a stoned new Kerouac... simply brilliant’ Dom Joly
‘Distinctive and engaging’ The Guardian
‘Hysterically funny, brought me to tears’ Writewords
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Salt & Honey
by Candi Miller
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**Salt & Honey in World Book Day's top 10 'Books to Talk About'**
Offering a rare glimpse into an endangered culture, Salt Honey is set in southern Africa during Apartheid and depicts a young Bushgirl displaced from her Kalahari desert-tribe. It is an epic, stirring story championing the power of human endurance and understanding.
In addition to being beautifully written and deeply moving , it is a ground-breaking novel, which offers a fresh and original angle on issues that have divided a continent for the last century.
'Candi Miller's achievement is to have written a small book with truly big themes. It's an ambitious novel with impressive range and a very authentic feel.' Barbara Trapido
'Salt & Honey is a heartfelt novel that is beautifully written and deals sensitively with big themes. Bookgroup.info
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The Well-Tempered Clavier
by William Coles
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An ardent, intensely passionate love story set in one of the world's most traditional institutions, Eton College. Click here to see author's video.
Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kimâs life is destined never to be the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love.
Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. The Well-Tempered Clavier is the bittersweet story of a life-changing love.
In Heat Magazine top 10 UK books
'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this?' The Wall Street Journal
'It's an elegantly structured, tinglingly evocative of the passion and brutality of first love - a wonderful read.' Louise Candlish, author of the recent bestseller Since I Don't Have You
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White Summer
by Luke Bitmead
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Six o'clock is the watershed, isn't it? It's the time we can crack open a beer in the sure knowledge we're not alcoholics.
Guy Chamberlain is getting drunk while waiting for life to happen. Then summer arrives and everything takes off. The breath-taking Daisy appears out of nowhere, his sensitive sister starts dating his best friend, his motherâs health takes a turn for the worse, and the exuberant 'Kathy' makes it clear she has marriage on her mind. Guy finds that once life starts, it's not so easy to stop!
White Summer is a fast-paced and vibrant comedy that offers an hilarious insight into infatuation, sex, hangovers, dead-end jobs and making ill-advised decisions that come back to hurt. This is a story for those who have lived but won't learn.
'Great stuff. Wonderfully witty and sexy.' Deborah Wright, bestselling author
'A sparking debut from an author with an eye for detail and wit.' Essence Magazine
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SHORT FICTION COLLECTIONS by various authors
Eight Hours
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The third in the 'Short Story Reinvented' series.
By eight exciting and talented authors.
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‘A snatched lunch-hour or daily commute doesn’t have to be spent wasted, bored or uninspired.’
A continuation of the successful ‘Short Story Reinvented’ series, Eight Hours is a dynamic cross between the novel and the short-story, showcasing new writing from eight talented authors. Each story follows a different main character for a single hour and, from a fifteen year old girl who is so tormented she can’t sleep, to a man who experiences counselling for the first time, the collection reveals an intriguing mix of powerful snapshots. Modern-day fiction at its immediate and vigorous best.
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Seven Days
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The second in Legend Press' unique Short Story Reinvented Series.
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In today's world we want everything in a quick and compact form, and today's reader is no different. Seven Days consists of easily accessible yet powerful snapshots of life from seven very different angles. A unique cross between the novel and the short story, seven intriguing authors each delve into the consciousness of a character depicted on a single day.
Named after the day described, each of the seven stories offers an insight from an individual cultural perspective and together they weave a powerful and gritty portrait of human experience. This collection is designed for the busy modern-day reader and is an illustration of the unexpected wealth that the repackaged short story can offer
'The collection touches on a wealth of human experiences and has something to which every reader can relate.' Western Mail
‘The stories offer a surprising range of cultural perspectives… the writing feel[s] very fresh off the press, full of energy and exuberance.’ Pulp.Net
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The Remarkable Everyday (First edition)
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The original Legend Press publication and the first in the 'Short Story Reinvented' series - where it all started!! The Remarkable Everyday will be re-published on 30th August with a brand new cover.
Overseas copy - £6.99 (inc P&P):The Remarkable Everyday has proven extremely popular as a bridge between the novel and the short story. The book consists of eight stories by different authors, each one portraying a character for a single day, complete with an introduction by short story scholar Nena Skrbic.
This was the first book published by Legend Press and its great reception announced the arrival of a dynamic and fresh upcoming independent publisher.
**Selected for WHSmith's top ten short-story collections.**
'A book you simply have to read.' Amazon.co.uk
'Very good, very fresh.' WHSmith.co.uk
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