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Feisty fifteen-year-old Christina's parents don't like her biker boyfriend. They think he's too old and his hair is too long. She doesn't like her epilepsy but has to deal with it. An accident leaves her in a coma for several weeks. Whilst in the coma she visits another world where she starts to understand her own awakening sexuality and her illness. She also becomes more tolerant of other people, in particular of those who wear a hijab or burka. But Jan is still waiting for her at home and her new world is getting more real by the minute. Problems abound and she feels alone. She is still in love with Jan, but can she still reach him?

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Other Ways of Being is an anthology of stories that ask us many questions about: otherness: Is a stranger a threat or is he just trying to help? It may be as clever as being a fortune-teller but is it helpful? other times: Is the wild woman really a little girl that she used to know? Will they be safe now or should they worry about the bright soldiers marching? Which horror does the deep sleeper hide? other histories: Who was that strange child? How did they manage to feed so many people? other worlds: Can a couple remain together even when their natures threaten to keep them apart? Is a seemingly incompetent wizard cleverer than he seems? What happens when an alien makes a mistake and almost gives himself away? Do animals help each other in their struggle against the damage that humans are doing? Who exactly is the lady in blue? Is Bradley's the best story ever? our near futures: Can a man survive in a dystopian future if he has no more human contact? What can ATMs do when society goes moneyless? What happens when the money runs out? Just how smart will the smartphone get? Or driverless cars for that matter? Where will we find sanctuary when the extremists start winning? What happens to the clones when the blueprint gets sick? other sexualities and genders: Will we get used to Toni? Does this collection supply the answers to those questions? That is for the reader to decide.

Renate Edler loves to visit her grandmother in the house on Schellberg Street. She often meets up with her friend Hani GOdde who lives nearby. This year, though, it is not to be. Just a few weeks after a night when synagogues are burned and businesses owned by Jews are looted, Renate finds out a terrible secret about her family. At a time when the world is at war and the horrors of the Holocaust are slowly becoming apparent, Renate has to leave behind her home and her friends, and become somebody she never thought she could be. The house on Schellberg Street needs to stay strong. Will it and those who work in it be strong enough? Will Renate ever feel at home again? And what of those left behind?

This anthology of women's fiction, this collection of very short stories, some might say a flash collection, is thought-provoking and each story is based upon a tweet. Except that each piece is 140 words long and not 140 characters. They were collected over three years and edited for another nine months.

K the wants to be a scientist. She sees herself as more than a housewife and a mother. And she is in her own eyes definitely not Jewish.Life in Nazi Germany sees it another way however. She has to give up a promising career and her national identity. She has to leave the home she has built up for her husband and daughter. But she is not afraid of challenges. She enlists the help of a respected professor to help her fulfil her ambition, she learns how to use a gun and how to drive a car. But what will she do when she finds herself fact to face with the F hrer or, indeed, with the challenges of modern life?Face to Face with the F hrer is the fourth novel in Gill James' Schellberg cycle.

Natascha is forever falling off the piano and getting sucked up by the vacuum cleaner.Natascha is the smallest of a set of Russian dolls and envies her bigger sisters as they have more detail on them.The family acquire a new vacuum cleaner and this time it takes Natascha to another world where she has an amazing adventure. But is it all a dream and related to the story the mummy is reading to young Alfred?It's up to you to decide in Natascha's intriguing story told by Gill and Ashleigh James.

What does that first picture that you see each day on social media say? Sometimes it makes you laugh and sometime it fills you with dread, all of which you must express in exactly 280 words. That was the challenge. It's up to the reader to decide if it's been met. These very short stories wander and wonder through multiple aspects of 21st century life, give a nod to the future and a glance back at the past. They pose questions and occasionally offer suggestions. Gill James offers food for thought in 280 x 70.