Welcome to the Members’ Bookshelf, where you can discover more about publications by our very own NWS members. If you are a member and would like to see your work ‘on the bookshelf’, please do get in contact with us at nottinghamwritersstudio@gmail.com.
The Day Chuck Berry Died
by Ian Inglis
A collection of twenty-two short stories, exploring the contradictions and consequences of everyday behaviour – some previously published, some newly-written, and some completed during lockdown.
Available at Bridgetown Café Book Shop
Hues of Blackness: A Jamaican Saga
By Rosey Thomas Palmer
In the jewel of the Caribbean, against a rich canvas of history and myth, comes a story of one woman’s determination to reclaim her beloved land.
Available at Amazon
That Boy of Yours Wants Looking At
By Simon Smalley
Simon Smalley was a child with a wild imagination and a desire for glamour who tried to survive being gay and disabled on a Nottingham council estate in the sixties and seventies. His humorous, riotously colourful memoir is a poignant account of what it takes to live authentically.
Available at Simon’s website, Five Leaves, or Amazon
Chosen
By Brey Willows
In a dystopian world where scientists are being kidnapped, will they face an uncertain future together, or will the cost be too high?
Available at Amazon
Lines of Love
By Brey Willows
When gods and mortals become neighbors and boundaries get blurry, the lines of love have been drawn. Who will cross them first?
Available at Amazon
Spinning Tales
By Brey Willows
It’s up to New Yorker Maggie McShay, her grumpy, shape-shifting cat, a dwarf hell-bent on finding romance, and Kody the Shepherd, to set the fairy tale world to rights. The big bad wolf has nothing on Maggie McShay.
Available at Amazon
“The Employer” – in Public Sector Poetry Journal
By Gail Webb
Gail’s poem “ The Employer” is included in Issue 3 of this journal, along with 19 current or ex-public sector workers / poets, guest editor Hannah Lowe.
Available at Public Sector Poetry
The Thrill of Jumping In
By Gail Webb
Poems that celebrate friendship, address loss and grief but still hold on to the joys in life.
Available at Big White Shed
“Harvesting the Light” – in Hot Poets – Sparks
By Gail Webb
Gail’s poem “Harvest the Light” is included in this anthology inspired by climate change. Here are 44 poems about saving the world!
Available at Liv Torc
The Infinity Trap
By Ian C Douglas
Zeke Hailey went to Mars seeking his missing father. But he found a monster from the dawn of time.
Available at Amazon
The Particle Beast
By Ian C Douglas
A hideous creature lurks in an alien ghost town. Can Zeke Hailey save the universe from unravelling?
Available at Amazon
Electron’s Blade
By Ian C Douglas
War breaks out on Mars and only Zeke Hailey can stop the bloodshed.
Available at Amazon
The Clock Museum
By Frances Thimann
A collection of short stories about words and
meanings, signs and symbols, communication and its difficulties.
Available at Five Leaves
Definition
By Frances Thimann
A booklet of two short stories set in Nottingham.
Available at Five Leaves
Kings of a Dead World
Jamie Mollart
The Earth’s resources are dwindling. The solution is the Sleep. Inside a hibernating city, Ben struggles with his limited waking time and the disease stealing his wife from him. Watching over the sleepers, lonely Peruzzi craves the family he never knew.
Everywhere, dissatisfaction is growing. The city is about to wake.
The Zoo
Jamie Mollart
James Marlowe has a gift for selling people things they don’t need. As he strives to meet the demands of rival colleagues, amoral clients and his young family, James has to raise his game. A cocktail of cocaine and alcohol fuels his ambition, but when body and mind can’t take any more, he plunges into a surreal world darker than the one he’s fallen from.
Available at Amazon
Warrior Wisdom Sun
Sarah Elliott
A journey through the hard times and challenges that teach us valuable life lessons – if we choose to listen. Lessons that help us to remember who we are.
