A home for authors that matter. Publishing books that increase our understanding of the world and the people within it. @EyeAndLightning Group

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What does freedom look like when the world you’ve escaped into has its own walls? Recent releases: John Healy’s The Glass Cage, a fierce memoir of fame, class and reinvention, and Ecstatic, a lyrical dystopian novel about dance, resistance and a city under curfew.
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Before you return to Dorley Hall… 🖤 Catch up on Welcome to Dorley Hall before diving into Alyson Greaves’ Secrets of Dorley Hall, out 5 November. Dark academia, unsettling secrets and questions of identity, power and autonomy await. zurl.co/EW36u
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Step into the strange worlds of The Final Inoculation by C. M. Kosemen. Surreal creatures, forgotten civilisations and uncanny visions collide in a collection of weird fiction and original artwork. Science meets myth, and reality gets wonderfully strange. 📚
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A different kind of seasonal read 🎃💀 In This Party’s Dead, Erica Buist travels the world’s death festivals to explore grief, joy and how cultures celebrate the dead. Poignant, funny and full of fascinating traditions, it’s perfect for the spooky season.
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“Read and be enraptured” ⭐ Erica Wagner Coming 5 November: Unriddling the World by Hugh Lupton brings together 50 timeless myths, legends and folktales from across the globe.
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Stories of tricksters, heroes, transformations and wonder, retold by one of Britain’s celebrated storytellers. A collection to spark the imagination and remind us why stories endure. zurl.co/UZc8D #UnriddlingTheWorld #HughLupton #Folklore #Mythology #ComingSoon
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For 75 years, The Archers has done more than tell stories from Ambridge. It has reflected a changing Britain, from shifting farming practices and rural communities to growing environmental concerns.
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In Underneath the Archers, former scriptwriter Graham Harvey explores how the programme has captured these changes, and how storytelling might help shape the future of farming. How can a radio drama influence the way we think about the countryside?
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“Thoroughly enjoyable, vivid and evocative” ⭐ Margaret Drabble Adder Stone by Clare Clark is a moving novel of home, identity and belonging, inspired by the true story of a Welsh community forced from its land to make way for a reservoir.
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What does it mean to be British and who gets to decide? In Everyone Everywhere, Lucas Fothergill brings together powerful interviews and untold histories to explore the lives and experiences of Britain’s mixed-race communities and what belonging means across generations.
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How much do you really know about what goes on underneath The Archers? 🌾📻 In Underneath the Archers, Graham Harvey, one of the programme’s longest-serving scriptwriters, takes us behind the scenes of Ambridge, drawing on 30+ years and more than 600 episodes.
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From the Great Flood to the Grundy family farm, discover the stories behind some of the programme’s most memorable moments. What’s your favourite Archers storyline? zurl.co/hXCO8
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What happens when you finally escape one world, only to discover you’re trapped in another?
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In The Glass Cage, John Healy revisits the years after The Grass Arena, when literary success and fragile sobriety pull him into publishing, publicity and a world of middle-class expectations. A memoir about fame, class, reinvention and the invisible cages we carry with us.
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Moving between West Belfast, County Monaghan and San Francisco, this haunting novel explores art and war, ambition and authenticity, love and destruction. #Monaghan #TimothyOGrady #IrishFiction #LiteraryFiction
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Three men. Three very different lives. And a past that cannot be escaped. Featuring drawings by Anthony Lott. ‘Beautiful and complex’ – Annie Proulx zurl.co/HSxnf
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