Item category 2: Local Authors Collection

Ashley is 16. She's lived in Medway for 15 years and 6 months. She has 2,354 leaflets on sexual health. She knows exactly how many she has, because she's counted them 1,582 times. At 7.48pm tonight, she will have been going out with Ollie for exactly 3 months, which he thinks means it's time to t...

Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea. But who is the woman who arrives in the black car most Saturdays while Gloria is at w...

This first collection of poems introduces Bridget Nolan's deeply moving, wonderfully evocative, verbally inventive and highly varied voice. From the title poem `A Walk With Charles Dickens', which makes you feel that Bridget really met him, to her beautiful ode `Romney Marsh', and dozens of poems...

A poetry collaboration between two Kent poets; Matt Chamberlain and Spreken.

15 year old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan lose their mother to an asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their own devices, to explore and to grow. That is until the day Duncan doesn't come ...

The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries. All her published poetry is now available here for the first time in over 40 years, along with a selection of her prose. This second edition has an expanded introduction and an ...