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The Atrium Gallery: Change Is Human Work
Sustainability usually gets discussed at the altitude of policy documents and net-zero targets. LSE's Atrium Gallery has spent the summer making the opposite case, in portraits of the academics, professional services staff and students whose daily, mostly invisible labour is what sustainability actually looks like up close. It closes on 7 August.
How Kathy Taylor Turned Two Stays in Marburg Into an Autobiographical Novel
A retired professor wrote The Birthing House across two decades and two stays in the same German town. It is a novel about grief, language, and how writing returns a woman to herself.
The Compliant Cowgirl: Christa Jan Ryan's Cautionary Memoir of Love and Codependency
In her memoir The Compliant Cowgirl, Christa Jan Ryan follows a man to 1970s Wyoming, loses herself in the relationship, and writes the way back out of codependency.
Kenneth Bliss Writes Christian Fantasy Books for the Dungeons and Dragons Generation
The Michigan author maps tabletop RPG mechanics onto Christian theology across two books set in the same universe, targeting a niche that barely registers in search data.
Voyage of the Salamander: The Independent Space Opera That Just Won Three BookFest 2026 Awards
Christian Hurst writes his Lily Starling novels on evenings and weekends, between a day job in advertising and a house full of rescue beagles. This month one of them quietly took First Place in three categories at the BookFest 2026 awards, and it is one of the warmest, most character-driven space operas you will read this year.
Gripping Finale Seething Storm Concludes The Patrons of Earth Trilogy By A. N. Jones
A. N. Jones spent a decade writing her way back to the trilogy she started with her late mother. Seething Storm, the final book in The Patrons of Earth series, is words woven with love, grief and strength."
A Debut Novelist Writes a Man's Trauma to Say What Men Rarely Get to
Gabrielle Pelayo's debut psychological fiction, Fractured, Never Shattered, follows a composed man whose memories stop staying buried, built from real conversations about what men do not say out loud.
Citiscape: The Magical Realism Novel Asking Readers to See the People Cities Forget
Beverly Schloendorf's debut weaves Death, a ghost-turned-guardian and a homeless girl into eighteen interconnected tales about urban invisibility.
Katrina Bills Wrote an Award-Winning Daily Prayer Devotional That Doubles as a Spiritual Growth Manual
The Chicago-born author and publisher built Prayed Up around real seasons of loss, love, and faith, then watched it win a NYC Big Book Award.
Cindy Divine Is the Fictional Girl Holding a Mirror to Real American Politics
Shafter Bailey's debut novel follows a traumatized girl who becomes a global figure, but the real target is the political class that lets children fall through the cracks.
Author James C. Clemens Jr on the Poems That Came From Listening to God
In Echoes of Strength, James C. Clemens Jr turns real experiences of struggle, family, and faith into inspirational poetry that reads less like verse and more like testimony.
Author Karen Lawrence Delivered Babies in the NHS, Now She Delivers Bestselling Stories
Former NHS midwife Karen Lawrence began writing during the Covid pandemic. Her debut novel The Last Midwife, a dystopian thriller about state-controlled childbirth, became a bestseller.