Norrie J, The Magic Carpet, (Indie:2019)

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London, 2016, and a community primary school sets its eight-year olds a project: to adapt a traditional fairy tale for the school festival. But this is not a united community. Adults and children with different ethnicities and backgrounds are struggling with all the problems with family life in an England that seems to be becoming increasingly hostile to anything they define as “foreign” (be they born in England or not.) Will the story of The Magic Carpet draw these families together or will the strands fall apart?

Maristed K, Broken Ground, Literary Fiction (Shoemaker & Horn 2003)

Out of print

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Kaethe, half German and half American, returns to modern Berlin to find her estranged adult daughter. She has no clues, no friends, no means to be certain her daughter wants to be found. As her quest flounders and her money runs out, she finds herself lost in memories of divided Germany and a betrayed marriage

SKY P.J., A Girl Called Ari, Science Fiction (Indie:2020)

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Starla lives a privileged life as the mayor’s daughter in the city, an enormous walled community protected from the wasteland and pestilence outside – and from which, once exiled, you may never return. A botched kidnapping attempt leaves her lost in the desert, where she is reluctantly rescued by Ari, a tough young woman who has been surviving alone since childhood. They agree that Ari will guide Starla back to the city if Starla guarantees Ari will be allowed entry. But the journey is long, hard, fraught with danger, and neither can predict how it will change them.

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