Book Award 2022

Emulating a classroom scenario, the idea is to awaken the aesthetic sense and the creative muse who lurks within us all. The method is multi-sensory, interdisciplinary and holistic. Philosophy, art, music and linguistics are some of the disciplines used. The goal is to have the reader recognize and

A young man discovers a catalyst that could brighten the future or ignite a dictatorship in the Antares solar system.

Brought together during the worst global disaster of the century, Karly and Clay are part of the final defense that stands between life and death. As doctors in the COVID Intensive Care Unit, lives hang in the balance, including their own. However, an ominous presence overshadows their every move.

A young woman is drawn into the world of 'shifters', humans that can shape-shift into animals, and unexpectedly becomes a trophy in an arena battle.

A young woman is drawn into the world of 'shifters', humans that can shape-shift into animals, and unexpectedly becomes a trophy in an arena battle.

When a sailing ship is wrecked on the lawless coast of 1700s England, three young people from very different backgrounds are caught up in a race against time. Solomon must flee his bondage as an American slave and his two friends, Robin and Sophie, are desperate to help him. Escape is never certain.

Cutie's parents settled in Bristol in the 1950s. The family suffers racism and human excrement is posted through their letterbox. They move to Easton and she finds happiness with her friends. Her loyalties are tested when she is forced to keep a secret and her own demons of abuse resurface.

Judas transforms before our eyes into a hardened survivor in a desperate struggle to find his brother and rescue the woman he loves. Innocent cunning triumph over the ancient orders of absolute faith.

One woman, five husbands and a weary rabbi at the well who knows everything she ever did.
The day after they bury her husband Leah Marcellus loses her baby. A widow and childless, what man will want her now?

Kris continues to transform through a new understanding of herself while uncovering clues to her role in an uncertain future. Facing being hunted, the complexities of new love, and the dangers hidden within untreated PTSD, will Kris be destroyed by the buried anger of her past or learn to use it as

In a world where real superheroes are rare, Transgender firebrand Kris Medford uncovers dark secrets about her past and discovers her strength and power. Will she come to accept her fate, becoming the savior an ancient alien race destined her to be, or risk losing it all?

In a world where Demons run wild and the People's temples reign supreme, a young scholar dares to challenge the high priest. Declared a heretic, she escapes the temples' clutches and runs, until she is found by a curious Demon who takes her to their crystal city on the plains.

A humorous, raunchy novel about a sexually
diverse group of sassy women playing rugby

She is a prisoner who can alter reality. He is a dead soldier brought back to life as a sentient machine. A forbidden love affair that transcends time, the end of the world, and what it means to be human.

The Shadows We Cast is a dark novel about consent and control that unsettles ideas about victims and villains. It follows the aftermath of a sexual assault from the point of view of both the victim and the perpetrator.