'Running Grave' by Richard Denham.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/post/running-grave
Jack Jones, National Treasure and the backbone of radio schedules and British resolve, has disappeared. Needless to say the powers that be are in something of a tizz, fearful of the disquiet this seems to be causing across the country. Although everyone is trying to keep calm and carry on, he really must be found.
But it is more difficult than it would at first appear. To start with, it seems that he has no fixed abode. And no one is sure quite what he looks like. To find him, the top brass in the police send a rookie and a sergeant nearing retirement.
The chase leads the policemen to the strangest corners, and oddest people, of Britain. Why has Jack Jones disappeared? Is he still alive and if so, is finding him really the best outcome for both the man and the policemen that pursue him?
#runninggrave #jackjones #bookclub #goodreads #newrelease #blkdog
'Silo Boys' by Amy-Brooke Odell.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/post/silo-boys
ONE DEAD, ONE MISSING, AND ONE WHO WAS NEVER THERE.
Nineteen-year-old Addy Marks has spent the past two years coming to grips with the tragic death of her friend Beau, the disappearance of her boyfriend, Mason, and the mistrust of their friend, Hunter.
After a local festival in their sleepy South Carolina town, three boys were seen heading toward an abandoned silo. When morning arrived, Beau’s body was discovered, Mason was missing, and Hunter, claims he never went to the silo.
Two years later everything is turned upside down when Mason unexpectedly returns, but is murdered before Addy can meet with him.
Coping with her best friend’s lies, uncovering the last standing Silo Boy’s sealed alibi, and protecting her friends from harm, Addy must figure out what happened that night at the silo before anyone else loses their life.
As she unfolds the painful mystery, she realizes that everyone holds tight to their secrets and misdeeds.
#goodreads #bookstagram #booktok #bookshelf
'Leave While You Still Can' by Julia Cowan.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/post/leave
What would you do to save your child? What sacrifices would you make?
Carrie and her daughter are trapped in a desperate situation with no obvious escape. Finally summoning up the courage to leave her abusive husband, Carrie seizes an opportunity and they flee in the middle of the night. At last, they can look forward to starting a new chapter in their lives.
Upon arrival at a new house, Carrie assumes they are finally safe. However, a series of strange occurrences cause her to doubt her sanity.
Are the events all in her mind or does someone else really want her to leave while she still can?
#juliacowan #leavewhileyoustillcan #goodreads #booklover
'Blue Crayon' by Rowen Ingrid Parker.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/blue-crayon
Blue Crayon is a collection of poetry and prose about mental health and endurance. Rowen Ingrid Parker explores the themes of love, emotional battles and survival in this moving and powerful collection of poems.
I told her that when I feel like self-harming
instead of scratching myself
with my nails or paperclips
I like to run a blue crayon across my skin
she smiled a small smile
because she thought that I had found a way to stop
but when I told her that my scars
were the crayon’s doing
she lowered her head
and cried
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #bluecrayon
'The Paranormal Investigations of Mister Balls' by Richard Denham.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/paranormal-investigations
When you fear the unknown, when the shadow descends, when the darkness envelops you - think of Balls
The book they tried to stop, mainly for the reason that they thought it was too much for the great public to handle, and an absolute load of rubbish.
I am Harry Balls, renowned paranormal investigator with a difference. I investigate those cases too complex or too vague (mainly the latter) that other paranormal investigators simply won't touch with a barge pole.
Join me and my Office of Paranormal Studies licensed team on an epic [citation needed] adventure as we travel the country uncovering the mysteries you've definitely never heard about before. Together we will lift the lid on the supernatural, and then quickly close the lid again before weird things start coming out.
These mysteries range from mysterious home-helps to dubious ball pits, farting dogs, parish council conspiracies and even evil bingo dabbers. Live and breathe my journey with me as I explore these dark forces in the ‘Tales of the Unattested’ (hence the name of the book).
One thing is for certain, you'll never think about the paranormal and supernatural in the same way again.
#goodreads #booktok #bookclub #bookstagram
'Lemonade' by Tom Ashton.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/lemonade
Peter Lemon and Aidan O’Sullivan are the proud co-owners of Grenton Groceries, a successful fruit and veg retailers in Grenton Village, Cumbria. However, commercial bliss is thrown into disarray when Aidan’s brother Norris arrives at the shop, having been recently released from prison.
Soon Norris begins to drive a rift between the men, and, following the advice of a neighbour, it becomes clear to one of them that there is only one solution.
‘Lemonade’ is a story from Ashton’s Grenton Village Collection, and has been described as ‘Cosy Crime’, a subgenre of Crime Fiction in which the crime takes place in a small, socially intimate community, often described using dark humour.
#tomashton #lemonade #goodreads #booktok #bookstagram Tom Ashton
'Citizen Survivor's Handbook' by Steve Hart and Richard Denham.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/citizen-survivors-handbook
Includes a foreword by best-selling author and TV star Cody Lundin.
The prepper's guide with a difference
During the 1940’s Britain suffered a national catastrophe that would become known as ‘The Great Tribulation’ by its survivors. The remnant of His Majesty’s Government formed a department known as The Ministry of Survivors, the mandate of this office being to help, guide and inform the public through the anarchy around them. During the early years they produced and issued a handbook known as ‘The Citizen Survivor’s Guidebook’.
However, as the situation became more desperate, the guidance within this book quickly became redundant. The Ministry deemed that the only remaining course of action was to produce a second edition; informing people to evacuate the chaos of the towns and cities and flee to the countryside, focusing on wilderness survival and how to be self-sufficient on the move.
UK Preppers Guide Cody Lundin #goodreads #booktok #bookstagram #prepper #prepping #wshtf
'A House Out of Time' by John Decarteret.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/a-house-out-of-time
Several people come across a house on a quiet road. They are immediately put on edge by the lady of the house who does not speak and sends them to a guest bedroom. A window dominates the setting and the view with its ever changing landscape, sends the occupants of the room into a state of fear as their lives are threatened by different dangers. They try to find a way to escape, and survive the House Out of Time.
#goodreads #booktok #bookstagram #johndecarteret #shortstory
'Robin Hood: The Legacy of a Folk Hero' by Robert White.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/robin-hood-the-legacy-of-a-folk-her
If you thought you knew about Robin Hood… then think again!
Written by Robert White, chairman of the World Wide Robin Hood Society.
Many tales have been told about Robin Hood. The traditional stories of good versus evil and his quest to regain his rightful inheritance are universally appealing. The legend has intrigued generation after generation and everyone has their own personal vision of Robin Hood - a swashbuckling hero; a romantic outlaw; a bandit thief; a fighter of injustice or a benevolent champion of the people. Numerous books have been written by historians trying to untangle the myth, establish his actual existence and speculate on just who he might have actually been. Consequently, the subject of the globally renowned hero of English folklore has become extensively complex but the observations included in this publication should provide a brief overview of some of the key facts, issues and perceptions surrounding Robin Hood.
Robin Hood: The Legacy of a Folk Hero gives a fascinating insight into the numerous aspects of one of the world’s most enduring and iconic legends. Robert White discusses interesting facts and titbits surrounding the outlaw, and then reflects on how the Sherwood Forest hero has become a global phenomenon who, over 800 years, evolved into 'the people’s champion'. Embark on an journey from the legend’s mythical roots to how, across the ages, the tales of Robin and his merry men has developed in many diverse ways that still impact us to this day.
Whatever your opinions and beliefs, this title will reveal just why Robin Hood has become so much more than simply a mythical outlaw of English folklore.
#robinhood #robinhoodsociety #therobinhoodsociety
'Diary of a Vigilante' by Shaun Curtis.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/diary-of-a-vigilante
'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves'.
One man's angel is another man's devil. One man's hero is another man's killer.
It's a blurred line between hero and villain, between vigilante and criminal, between decent citizen and maniac - and this is where Jack finds himself. Jack is a man haunted by the failures of a justice system he feels is broken and the seemingly arbitrary punishments measured out to those who have offended the state.
When his friend's family find themselves threatened by a sexual predator and let down by the police, Jack snaps, and a journey of vigilantism, anger and revenge pursues. Told from his point of view, the Diary of a Vigilante, Jack descends further into the pits of the underworld, and the man who set out to clean the streets, finds that he has become the top target of law enforcement.
What price will Jack pay for his vengeance, and in a world of eye-for-an-eye justice, what sort of man will he be at the end? Will he become the very same monster he sought to destroy?
#goodreads #bookshelf #bookstagram #booktok
'Dark and Light Tales of Ripton Town' by John Decarteret.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/dark-and-light-tales-of-ripton-town
Dark and Light Tales of Ripton Town is a collection of short stories by John Decarteret, set in a strange town where nothing, and no one, is ever quite what it seems. This collection features three titles that range from spooky to uplifting, Teddy, Was That You?; Creepy Town and Mr Nobody.
#goodreads #bookshelf #booklover
'Arthur: Shadow of a God' by Richard Denham.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/arthur-shadow-of-a-god
King Arthur has fascinated the Western world for over a thousand years and yet we still know nothing more about him now than we did then. Layer upon layer of heroics and exploits has been piled upon him to the point where history, legend and myth have become hopelessly entangled.
In recent years, there has been a sort of scholarly consensus that 'the once and future king' was clearly some sort of Romano-British warlord, heroically stemming the tide of wave after wave of Saxon invaders after the end of Roman rule. But surprisingly, and no matter how much we enjoy this narrative, there is actually next-to-nothing solid to support this theory except the wishful thinking of understandably bitter contemporaries. The sources and scholarship used to support the 'real Arthur' are as much tentative guesswork and pushing 'evidence' to the extreme to fit in with this version as anything involving magic swords, wizards and dragons. Even Archaeology refuses to speak out. Arthur is, and always has been, the square peg that refuses to fit neatly into the historians round hole.
Arthur: Shadow of a God gives a fascinating overview of Britain's lost hero and casts a light over an often-overlooked and somewhat inconvenient truth; Arthur was almost certainly not a man at all, but a god. He is linked inextricably to the world of Celtic folklore and Druidic traditions. Whereas tyrants like Nero and Caligula were men who fancied themselves gods; is it not possible that Arthur was a god we have turned into a man? Perhaps then there is a truth here. Arthur, 'The King under the Mountain'; sleeping until his return will never return, after all, because he doesn't need to. Arthur the god never left in the first place and remains as popular today as he ever was. His legend echoes in stories, films and games that are every bit as imaginative and fanciful as that which the minds of talented b
'I Am This Girl: Tales of Youth' by Samantha Benjamin.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/i-am-this-girl
I Am This Girl: Tales of Youth is a charming and moving story of a young woman's journey through the trials and tribulations of growing up. When Phil and Natalie first reveal that they want to move to Morpington, their daughter Tammy isn’t thrilled - It’s up North - Tammy hates up North. Her new life begins as a struggle, her new friendships at school are strained and she lives with the daily fear of bumping into her nemesis, Lorraine, in the corridors.
Though perhaps things aren't that bad after all. Tammy discovers up North isn’t in fact as terrible as she feared and a fresh start may have been just what she needed. Somewhere no-one knows her and she can be whoever she wants to be.
#reading #bookstagram #books
'Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes' by Teresa Fowler.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/mixed-rhythms-and-shady-rhymes
Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes is a collection of poems about growing up in a world you do not fit into. The poetry is literal, intimate, and often humorous. The author shares her unique perspectives on sex and race and her experiences of prejudice from what are often the least expected places.
Diaspora Dysphoria and Miss Appropriation speak of what it is like to be ethnically homeless in a world where it matters more than ever to feel like you belong. Uncivil Service, Nobody Gets A Pass, and Soul-Mush convey the despair of realising that the prejudice that scarred many young lives often doesn’t end just because our school days are over. Mixed/Other, Flat-Pack Diversity, and Woke Bloke poke gentle fun at a world that isn’t as unbiased as it likes to think it is. The Song Of The Pugilist Tree, Twisted Sister and The Life She Should Have Had are deeply personal odes about the challenges the author’s family have faced and the impact it has had on her life.
The poems in this collection are revealing and honest but ultimately hopeful, and may make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about those who are Mixed/Other.
#poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrylovers #teresafowler
'Click Bait' by Gillian Philip.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/click-bait
A funny joke’s a funny joke. Eddie Doolan doesn’t think twice about adapting it to fit a tragic local news story and posting it on social media.
It’s less of a joke when his drunken post goes viral. It stops being funny altogether when Eddie ends up jobless, friendless and ostracised by the whole town of Langburn. This isn’t how he wanted to achieve fame.
Eddie knows he’s blown his relationship with rich girl Lily Cumnock. It’s Lily’s possessive and controlling father Brodie who fires him from his job - and makes sure he won’t find another decent one in Langburn. And Eddie doesn’t even have Flo to fall back on - his old nan died some six months ago, and Eddie is still recovering from the death of the woman who raised him and who loved him unconditionally.
Under siege from the press, and facing charges not just for the joke but for a history of abusive behaviour on the internet, Eddie grows increasingly paranoid and desperate. The only people still speaking to him are Crow, a neglected kid who relies on Eddie for food and company, and Sid, the local gamekeeper’s granddaughter. It’s Sid who offers Eddie a refuge and an understanding ear.
But she also offers him an illegal shotgun - and as Eddie’s life spirals downwards, and his efforts at redemption are thwarted at every turn, the gun starts to look like the answer to all his problems.
#clickbait #gillianphilip #booktok #bookstagram #goodreads Gillian Philip
'A Storm of Magic' by Ashley Laino.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/a-storm-of-magic
Being brought back from the dead is an impressive trick, even for magician Darien Burron. Now he must try and use his sleight of hand to swindle modern-day witch, Mirah, to sign her power away, or end up a tormented demon in the afterlife.
Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Mirah is starting to lose control of her powers. After an incident at her aunt’s Witchery store, Mirah is sent to a secret coven to learn to control her abilities. While away, Mirah meets up with a soft-spoken clairvoyant, a brazen storm witch, and the creator of dark magic itself. The young woman must learn to trust in herself before she loses herself entirely to the darkness that hunts her.
#goodreads #booktok #bookstagram Ashley Laino
'Burning Bridges' by Chris Bedell.
https://www.blkdogpublishing.com/burning-bridges
They've always said that three's a crowd...
24-year-old Sasha didn’t anticipate her identical twin Riley killing herself upon their reconciliation after years of estrangement. But Sasha senses an opportunity and assumes Riley’s identity so she can escape her old life.
Playing Riley isn’t without complications, though. Riley’s had a strained relationship with her wife and stepson so Sasha must do whatever she can to make her newfound family love and accept her. If Sasha’s arrangement ends, then she’ll have nothing protecting her from her past. However, when one of Sasha’s former clients tracks her down, Sasha must choose between her new life and the only person who cared about her.
But things are about to become even more complicated, as a third sister, Katrina, enters the scene...
#goodreads #bookstagram #booktok #chrisbedell
