Twelve WordsExtraordinary chapters by four ordinary women. Twelve Words were the secret ingredients that unlocked truths, secrets, confessions and released trauma. Without any formal expressive writing experience, three women born in Moss side and inner city Manchester, embarked on an excavation of their lives, sculpted by Linda Brogan, that together fused into a book of self discovery and pride. It is rippled with pain, anger, violence and compensated with fun,

and grew up in Manchester

He is a different version of himself with each loved one

however briefly

With the news that Great Aunt Pearl is dead

Fortunes were won and lost through side stakes and illegal gambling

Speaking in the voice of the father and of the unknown photographer

Fadhil al-Azzawi’s novel set in an Iraqi jail

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in 1962 with her husband Tim Hartigan where they farmed and reared their six children

As Zhongfu Group enters its eighth decade

delivered in Damion Searls’ distinctive translation

Themes of mental health and memory are played out against the superstition that earwigs can burrow in through the ear and eat the brain