Celebrate Our Independents! Indie Bookseller’s Week 2011 17 – 25 June

Join us from 6.30pm on Fri 17th June for a book launch with author and editor Liz Miles.

TRUTH & DARE  – LOVE, LIFE AND FALLING ON YOUR FACE – 20 TALES OF HEARTBREAK AND HAPPINESS.

For teen readers – and for those adults who want to recall what it was like …

Editor Liz Miles has put together a collection of edgy, quirky stories that revolve around a funny, courageous cast of characters who struggle to fit in – or struggle not to.

Girls, guys, straight or gay, striding or struggling – the characters in these tales will make you laugh and break your heart. Swinging between melting moments and dark disgrace, hilarity and tears, they bravely tryst life’s limits, search for big truths or simply seek that perfect love.

The Includes stories by Emma Donoghue (short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize); A.M. Homes (author and a writer/produce of the L-Word); Matthue Roth (New Yorker writer, Hassidic Jew and performance poet); Sarah Rees Brennan (Irish, young fantasy author); and Shelly Stoehr (award-winning YA novelist). The book is available now at the shop.

Also included are  two stories by Wivenhoe residents.

Praise For Truth & Dare

Kirkus Book Reviews: ‘Truth-telling can be dangerous, as anyone knows who’s traveled the angst-filled terrain of adolescence. With remarkably few exceptions, the short stories in this collection exemplify the best of the form, drawing readers immediately into the lives of characters who confront the hard truths of alienation, love, trauma and sex….’

TRUTH & DARE COMES WITH A PLAYLIST COMPILED BY THE AUTHORS! CHECK IT OUT HERE!

TAKE A LOOK AT LIZ MILES’ BLOG

LAUNCH PHOTOS!